quote:Originally posted by dang65: Recent quote from Ringo
FFS I haven't even said anything!!
I think there's a difference between saying you've got confidence in your own abilities to do something that you've made a point of getting good at, and boastfully claiming to be brilliant at something. I never claim to be an amazing driver. I know amazing drivers and I know that no matter how much I practice, I'll never be as good as them. That's not to say I'm not proud of what I've accomplished and rightly so.
The difference is, however, that I don't look sneeringly at people who I don't think are as good as me, and I certainly don't suggest someone is culturally or socially deficient simply because they're not into the same things as me.
That's just arrogance and that's probably what really rubs about people who go on about cooking as if they've achieved some kind of kitchen Nirvana, exclusive only to those who follow some kind of arduous path to enlightenment.
That's the vibe I've picked up anyway. I'm not really interested in arguing about it so if you think differently, whatever.
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You came to us with an idea of an electric light on a pepper pot [snigger... refers to hastily-scribbled notes] that wasn't very BRIGHT, now was it!!?? eh!?
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Our budding entrepreneur is hoping to shed some light on their product, in an effort to grind down the dragons' objections, who are seasoned pros and will be looking to pepper our applicant with incisive questions. Will our hopeful be able to get them on side with a spicy condiment of bottom-line reasoning, or will they simply offer a sprinkling of half-cooked ideas?
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Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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quote:Originally posted by missgolightly: However, you wouldn't talk to me last night so fuck off Louche.
I was being annoyed about something trivial. You wouldn't have liked talking to me last night. I'd have whinged. It wouldn't have been a good start to our affair. I want to woo you with textual brilliance. Not meh at you.
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: I was being annoyed about something trivial. You wouldn't have liked talking to me last night. I'd have whinged. It wouldn't have been a good start to our affair. I want to woo you with textual brilliance. Not meh at you.
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Do you think they have factories where they have to make that dusty pepper? Imagine the staff turnover in a place like that.
If I was thinking of opening a landmine factory then I'd make sure I located it in a town where there was a dusty pepper making factory. No matter what people's moral views were on making landmines for a living, there'd still be a queue round the block for any jobs there if the only alternative was a dusty pepper making factory. Or an onion peeling factory. I bet some poor bastard has to peel onions all day for a living.
I read a story - no, scratch that - several stories about people who worked gathering/preparing food in various places, including someone who sorted milk cartons, somone who made cornish pasties, someone who prepared fish and some poor sod who harvested garlic.
He said he had this utopian image before his first day on the job of gathering pungent bulbs in the sunshine ready to be plaited into strings, feeling dead trendy ('cos garlic woz in then, wonnit?) and settling down at the end of the work day with a glass of red wine (French, of course).
Nope. After a few weeks of sweating like a bastard in steaming hot fields, the smell of garlic permeated his skin, hair, clothes... He lost several friends, it would appear.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm just asking why Mikee doesn't have any. [Cooking equipment]
For the same reason as he, like everybody else, doesn't have bundles of carrots with their stalks and leaves still attached, wholesomely, to the root, in his fridge. And exquisitely designed interior decorating.
You intend to do these things when you move into your own place, but you soon realise that it's not practical.
I'm still bitter that I've never had intact carrots in my fridge. I've had that fridge for 4 1/2 years now. I should have had carrots.
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A list of loads of people who delivery seasonal organic locally grown vegetables directly to your doorstep if you're in the Brighton area.
Not only will you get carrots when they're in season, but you'll also get a range of vegetables you probably wouldn't use which will increase your cooking skill as much as a "Chef's knife of slicing +2"
You'll also be saving the planet as you won't be getting vegetables flown in from Brazil. If you do this I guarantee Louche will think you are ace.
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quote:Originally posted by SilverGinger5: On the pepper front, I don't own a pepper grinder so I'm not sure how this is going to make Louche feel. That said, I made steak with a pepper sauce last night and I crushed the pepper up in one of these.
On reflection, this pretty much shoots down Nathan Bleak's arguments in a blizzard of spunk and agony. If kitchen gear and c21 cookery is about practicality rather than posing why the heck do people think its cool to use a - a fucking - a fucking STONE AGE IMPLEMENT to do a simple task that an inexpensive grinder will do it in a couple of flicks of the wrist.
This gay quest for authenticity! It isn't going to happen if you spend your whole working day in front of an lcd then an devote hour or so making peasant food of an evening. You'd be better off becoming a tree surgeon or something, surely.
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H1ppychick
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I love you, ben.
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But I use the pestle and mortar for crushing numerous other things and I don't really want to have loads of other grinders for putting other things in. Cumin Grinder? Coriander Grinder? Pink Peppercorn grinder?
Also, with a pestle and mortar you can choose whether you just want to crack the pepper or grind it into a powder and different dishes require a different level of crushedness of the pepper.
So although it might be a slightly more labour intensive way of grinding pepper than an actual grinder, it gives much more beyond simple grinding to a powder.
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my mum bought a pestle and mortar that is about two foot wide and weighs, at a guess, almost as much as i do. i honestly believe that driving it home from whichever wanky home counties anteekee shop she bought it from was the death of the family volvo (with every sentence, this post is becoming more gruelling for ben to read, i can just tell) and it has never once been used for any purpose more culinary than the recepticle in which the fruit is kept before it is peeled and eaten/ goes off. sometimes, we keep a pineapple in it.
quote:Originally posted by ben: This gay quest for authenticity! It isn't going to happen if you spend your whole working day in front of an lcd then an devote hour or so making peasant food of an evening. You'd be better off becoming a tree surgeon or something, surely.
B-but so much, so, so much of what you write on here is about some TV programme or other you watched. How can you lay into people for spending their leisure time cooking when you watch so much, so, so much television? I mean, you were even providing updates on dreck like Celebrity Love Island for christ's sake. Is that more authentic, somehow? Or... what?
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I'm prepared to admit that there is an element of the poseur about having a fuck off granite mortar and pestle. I like the way mine looks in my kitchen. But then I use a cheap pepper grinder for the everyday stuff, over salad, or pizza for example.
But, to continue the quality hi-fi analogy, it also works well. A proper heavy granite mortar and pestle like that makes dust out of tough seed spices with a tiny amount of effort. Which is nice.
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ben have you been watching heston blumenthal? i started talking like you after watching heston blumenthal too many times. all that 'we're gonna take spaghetti bolognese to ANOTHER LEVEL!' cockwash. unbearable. wouldnt it be great, i sometimes think, if one were to take creme brulee to another level by covering heston blumenthal's face in cream and sugar and then blowtorching it?
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H1ppychick
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Nathan, I don't think ben was making any claims for himself, more pointing out what he saw as the contradictory choices made by other people.
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which reminds me: i like cooking as much as the next normal person (ie, sometimes a lot, sometimes not at all, which is why god invented crumpets) but if you have a blowtorch in your kitchen, and you are not generally employed in a welding- based industry, you are a **** . end. of.
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Is enjoying cooking a contradictory choice, though? Because you sit at a desk for work... it's illogical to enjoy cooking, to get caught up in the paraphanelia of a hobby that's different in every way to what you do during the daytime? That's not really contradictory is it? It's quite plausible.
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My housemates have agreed that your mum can come to my flat for the weekend to stay and cook for us if she wants H1ppy. There's no telly and the pestle and mortar is one of those cheap ones from Ikea. She can burst into tears at the horror of it all too, if she wants.
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If she wants to cook something simple, then we have three tin openers. They're all pretty knackered though. I don't think it would cost too much to buy a new one though, in hindsight.
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