Quote from: trucker5774 on November 17, 2010, 04:32 PM
I have just been to Morrisons. I read the label on every tin of tomatoes I could find. In the ingredients only the tins with whole plum tomatoes said plum tomatoes. All the others just said tomatoes

Ah, you see, that's what you get for going to Morrisons.  Now had you gone to Waitrose, every tin would have said "Hand-picked, vine-ripened, finest Sicilian plum tomatoes, gently marinaded in the finest Sicilian tomato sauce, then drizzled with Extra Virgin Olive Oil to bring you that "Buon Giorno" moment with every mouthful"  ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: two-sheds on November 17, 2010, 03:28 PM
Try panpot's Ashoka pre-cooked chicken you will never look back.

Having trouble locating this one, 2-Sheds : any chance of a link, please

** Phil

Quote from: Vindaloo-crazy on November 17, 2010, 12:17 PM
I'm in hobart; they've only just found kebabs here (usually by the side of the road with a few empty tins of Victoria Bitter)...

Oh.  If Hobart has just discovered kebabs, I fear that McDonald's can't be far off : then you'll really need to get stuck into the Victoria Bitter !

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D (but meanwhile, seven members leave the forum in disgust, unable to believe the depths we are now plumbing).

Quote from: Domi on November 17, 2010, 03:01 PM
Please form an orderly queue....

No way !  I remember only too clearly how you said that the thought of chopping, boiling and stuffing plums into cans was whetting the parts that other messages could not reach; how could we be sure that what you call "a pair of callipers" isn't an elastrator in disguise ?

Quote from: Axe on November 17, 2010, 02:40 PM
Are you saying that your plums are not round ?

Well, Victoria's aren't, and plums don't come any better than Victoria's !

** Phil.

Quote from: Cory Ander on November 17, 2010, 01:39 PM
Incidentally, I notice that you joined the forum around 2006, made a few posts, then stopped posting, for around 3 years, until recently?  Why was that, if I can ask?

What usually happens is that something crops up which requires 100% of my attention, either at work (until I retired) or in my private life.  At that point, I more-or-less retreat from all of my other activities (such as participating in this forum) and concentrate solely on the task in hand.  When that task is complete, I tend to find that I have moved on (figuratively speaking) from whatever I was doing previously, and start afresh with something new.  But of course my other interests continue to lie dormant, and something usually arises to trigger them off again at some point in the future.  So you might see messages from me on fora devoted to cycling, satellite television, equitation, linguistics, gardening or whatever; but just as here, you will also see that at some point I just disappear off the horizon completely, only to return a few years later when something has happened to re-awaken my interest.  Does this strike a chord with anyone else, or am I a bit odd in this cyclic change-of-focus behaviour ?

** Phil.

Here is my "below" part, based on my answer "Some or all of the above".

My original reasons are lost in the mists of time, but it is 99.9% certain that I was searching for something curry-related using Google and landed on the site.  Once my interest was piqued, I felt motivated to join.  Now I enjoy participating in the discussions, seeking advice, and occasionally offering advice where I feel that it could be helpful.  Although I have tried very very few of the total number of recipes posted, Peterandjen's Pilau Rice stands out in my memory as being as important (to me) as Kris Dhillon.  Before Peterandjen, my pilau rice was rubbish; post Peterandjen, it is occasionally indistinguishable from the real thing    Now if only I could find as reliable a recipe for chapatti, so I could stop relying on Elephant Atta Chapatti and make my own, I would be in Heaven  !

Quote from: Vindaloo-crazy on November 17, 2010, 12:40 PM
Sorry, I realise that I'm talking about using a sink and hot water and you're talking about a dishwasher.

Well, not only a dishwasher : I have used the DFF to heat itself, but containing water + detergent rather than oil; I have washed it in the DW at the most powerful setting; and I have washed it in a sink.  Anyhow, it's now as clean as it's ever likely to be, so with sincere thanks to all I think we might let this thread die a natural death 

Quote from: Mikka1 on November 15, 2010, 07:35 PM
Fill it with water, add washing detergent, and bring it to the boil. Works a treat. Hope this helps.

Yep, that's what I did : made a great improvement, but multiple applications of the fingernail were still needed subsequently to pick the gunge off the sieve part.

VC : I boiled it -- water doesn't get any hotter than that !