Another pointless thread

Last time I used a pressure cooker was with a long length of plastic tube fixed to the nozzle thingie on the lid and coiled up in the sink with a cold tap running over it. The cooker was full of home made 'wine' and the stuff that came out of the end nearly blew your head off ! (That was 50 odd years ago and I have grown up since - though some would dispute that).

We've bought on of those 15 in 1 Ninja Foodie's. Been using it a lot, so much faster and cheaper than using the oven and it's surprising what you can make in it. It can air fry, roast, steam roast, pressure cooker etc. So far we've made bread, cooked a chicken in it, made a beef bourguignon, did a joint of beef as well as crispy chicken etc. Has a probe so you set the meat and how you want it cooked and off you go.

Just saying in case you want to reinvest in a pressure cooker then these can do that and a whole lot more and are cheap to run.

Sorry to hear about your pressure cooker, maybe now's the time to invest in something 'modern'.

Like a wood burner with a hotplate.....

..and some solid casserole pans...

HG

I had a full front page image published in a national paper two weeks ago.
The bad news is, was taken on my Sony a 7iii

John

Weather forecast has wiped out going to Whitby this NYE. Whole area is just under cloud & rain.

May just have a snifters instead.....

Ended up going!

Happy New Year to everyone, let's hope it's a good one.

and to you HG. Mind it's got off to a bad start, with the sitting room door falling apart today

Mine started off bad too
The garage alarm playing up
Now the cctv dvr gone on the blink
Neil
Ps happy new year

Sorry to hear your year started with problems guys, but on the bright side things can only get better.

We discovered a firm that does eal spice ,its, just search for spicery, this is the latest meal, and very tasty it was too.






HG

For an exciting moment I thought you'd misspelled the long, thin, wiggly fish. Thoughts of spiced eel ... YES!!!! Then I looked at the pictures. Still looks good though .

Not sure that things are getting better. On the plus side, my optician has confirmed that the odd vision in my left eye is - as I was hoping - nothing worse than a cataract . On the minus side, he told me that there was one in the right eye, too - which I wasn't expecting . Being a glass half full type of person, I'm just happy that the better eye is my viewfinder eye .

Steve

My cheery wife bought a book of jokes from a charity stall. Trouble is, she keeps trying to read the really funny ones out to us. But just before she gets to reading out the punch-line she becomes completely inarticulate with helpless laughter.
The only thing we can do, in frustration, is to take the book off her and read it ourselves

Hi yourself. Tell us some more about yourself, your camera and your photography.

Decades ago, I left a tin of baked beans heating in a pan of water but forgot what I had done - took quite a time to clean the beans off the kitchen ceiling

OTOH, 2-3 yrs ago, we were sitting in the lounge and heard a bang from the kitchen, went out there but could see nothing that would have accounted for it.

Couple of weeks later I was looking for something in a kitchen cupboard, and noticed some brown stains on the inside walls thereof, and tracked the source down to a small can of Tesco own-brand baked beans. Turned out that it had had a pinprick hole in one end, and, as a result, the contents had rotted and caused a build-up of gas inside the can. The pressure from that eventually led to part of the end opening "explosively" and the rotted beans to "vacate the premises" very rapidly. Took a LOT of time to clean the cupboard, and I never really got rid of every stain.

Took the can, in a plastic bag!, back to Tesco customer services but the assistant was not all "impressed" by the sight or smell in the bag - we then got a quite generous TESCO Gift voucher and a couple of other freebies, but that didn't totally compensate for all that cleaning work