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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Stephen Lindsay on August 18, 2013, 09:26 PM
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Well tonight I made a double batch (2kg onions) of Taz base. All well, bubbling on top of the cooker. Left to "cool". Blitzed said base, getting around 20 portions. My Lidl's finest liquidiser doing the business as usual. It has served me well the last couple of years. Until...
The last batch being liquidised came away in my hand like some sort of explosion, sending a vomit like substance all over the kitchen worktop, base units, floor, me and my partner's brand new, white Converse trainers (
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A pic would have been nice Stephen :)
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Therein lies the moral... Don't blitz base with brand new trainers.
Your apodosis does not follow from your protasis. I would suggest that the real moral is "Don't pay
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Lol Garp and Phil.
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My sides are still aching SL ;D ;D ;D . I must confess i'm very careful of the footware i have on when i'm doing anything connected with curry.
Curry splashed converse :o You never know, you may start a trend ::) ;)
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:-)
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Actually Stephen, I was thinking today about posting something along a similar vein and maybe one for JerryM, our resident cooking scientist to fathom out. Why is it in all my years of cooking, whenever anything splashes it lands on my top. I take a lid of a pan of something 'tomatoeee' cooking and a big volcanic bubble erupts and splatters my top. Whilst cooking curry at work in a large pan, I go to stir it and as soon as I insert the spoon, brrrloop, landing conveniently on my shirt. I've also had a life long habit of managing to slop what ever I'm eating down the front of my shirt. I gave up spending decent money on clothes many years ago when a curry I was eating somehow jumped of my fork and landed down the front of my first time on, hard earned,
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As an artist Stephen, I might suggest you get yourself a black indelible marker and trace around the outlines of all the splatters on your trainers, it should end up looking kinda funky and will dismiss any ideas that it might have been an accident in the bog department ;)
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Make up a turmeric solution and soak the converse for 24 hours to even up the stain. Voila - yellow converse, perfectly acceptable.
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According to the chef I know splattering base gravy all over the place is an old school technique. He reckons you can always spot a good old school chef because at the end of the night he'll have splattered gravy all over himself, including his shoes. ;D
Sorry to hear about your accident though Stephen. Trashing the wife's new trainers is one thing, but losing a batch of gravy is a more serious matter. :o
Rob :)
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Nightmare, Stephen! ;D
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Hi SL
Been there done that! ;) Making a mess and cleaning down, all part of the curry magic.
I've always had a habit of pebble dashing the kitchen with hot garabi, with various brands of stick blender. ::)
Still sorry to here about your mishap, but on the plus side, you need a new blender, retail therapy. :)
White Converse, Crikey, memories flooding back of paying 90 quid for a pair in the 80's, loved them.
cheers Chewy
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Still sorry to here about your mishap, but on the plus side, you need a new blender, retail therapy. :)
Another one to avoid (bought to replace the dead Lidl goblet blender, for which a full refund was willinglhg given). This one (https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sunday-specialbuys-18th-august/product-detail/ps/p/stainless-steel-blender/?pk_campaign=uk_product_newsletter&pk_kwd=2013-08-16_16-42), at GBP 17-99 from Aldi, has (a) feet that are not suction cups, so the whole blender rotates when in action; (b) a goblet that does not sit 100% firmly on the base (won't fall off, but very unnerving); and (c) a central cap that is oddly shaped and slips out of one's grasp when wet with (e.g.,) joghurt. Bought three, returning two, and will be writing to Aldi with a negative product review.
** Phil.
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Oh dear! :(
I'll tell you something else never to do....
Never, ever, open a pressure cooker lid before the pressure has dropped!
That would be stupid!
::)
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Oh dear! :(
I'll tell you something else never to do....
Never, ever, open a pressure cooker lid before the pressure has dropped!
That would be stupid!
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A pretty impossible feat, something I'd like to see - from a distance of course. ;D
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Thank you for your replies folks. They really made me laugh out loud. The latest is that said Converses have been subject to a stint in the washing machine, spot treated with bold which turned the stains pink and partner's father taking a toothbrush and bleach to them. Am awaiting the outcome once they have been dried.
I too am a bugger for dribbling curry (any anything else I eat) down my shirt and I consider it a minor miracle not to do so on any given meal. I have often thought that a pelican bib would be just the thing.
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Never, ever, open a pressure cooker lid before the pressure has dropped! That would be stupid!
A pretty impossible feat ...
Someone is shewing his (lack of) age, methinks. While it is indeed virtually impossible to open a modern pressure cooker, with its many Health and Safety interlocks, the old-fashioned one that we had in my family home had no interlocks whatsoever, and opening it while still pressurised (if one was stupid enough) was but the work of a moment ...
** Phil.
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It was (still is!) an old prestige aluminium twist lid one. I thought the hissing has reduced enough for me to twist.....It's amazing how much can come out and spew over the cooker and floor!
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What a nightmare Stephen? I don't think I, or my missus would have taken it quiote as well as you seem to have.
On the other subject, we had a domestic pressure cooker that blew the rubber seal out the side of the pan. The noise and mess was unbelievable. Lucky it was at the shop and NOT at home.
Domestic pressure cookers are definitely not made to be used on a commercial stove on full whack!!