OT; Arfa's Burger Joint...

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My reaction to cola of any stripe.

[dennis]

The fish shop in the Black country museum cooks in beef dripping, they always have a queue of people waiting.

[Huge]

My dentist drives a Prius.

[Owain]

More like general mankyness.

Owain

[Nick Odell]

I use a cast-iron skillet for my pancakes. It makes perfect pancakes every time and I never have any problem with sticking. Lard of course.

Nick

[John Williamson]

My other problem at the moment is an electric cooker as I can't afford to get gas connected. This will be rectified when I move.

[Bob Martin]

Don't forget to cater for those who prefer wholemeal buns ;-)

[Dave Liquorice]

Bottled gas, propane from a large orange cylinder or perhaps an induction hob?

If the move is very soon not worth changing but if it's only a "when we find somewhere we like" hasten the moving process by doing one of the above. Induction being the simplest but more expensive will hasten it more than propane... B-)

[Tim Lamb]

I haven't been following so this may not be relevant. Some years ago a works supper evening waited over an hour before being served with some very under done vegetables.

Cooking was apparently by propane from a permanent tank farm. Prolonged cold weather may have led to poor vaporisation.

regards

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[John Williamson]

No external space to store bottled gas, and about a grand to run mains gas in from the street last time I checked. I do have a couple of camping stoves, but no room in the kitchen to use them. I've been tempted a couple of times by proper French crepe makers, though I've never got round to buying one.

Within a couple of months, with a modicum of luck in finding a place I can afford. I've seen a few that look interesting. The sale's already been agreed on where I live, with exchange due within a week or so.

When I move, I may be asking a few questions.....

[John Williamson]

Not if it was actually Propane, that will vapourise down to well below any temperature I've ever been in. Some gas is sold as a mix of butane and propane, and that would stop working after long enough below freezing, as the propane would vapourise, leaving the butane behind.

Cold weather *can* affect the regulators if they're too small for the job being done. Thank a couple of decades of living in caravans and boats for knowing that.

[Huge]

Naah. Our hob runs on propane from big orange bottles outside. It continued to work fine even when it was -15 deg C last winter.

[Dave Liquorice]

Peanut oil might go hot enough, olive ceratinly won't, sunflower isn't bad.

Aye, I think its partly having the oil and pan seriously hot and the heatsource being able to replace that heat quickly. Electric hobs are pathetic with only a couple of kw and horrendous thermal inertia. A heavy skillet and steady heat (which you don't really get from the PW on/off control of most electric hobs) will help. But a thin pan and a nice 3 or 4 kw gas burner is much better...

[Dave Liquorice]

It would have to be a very strict vegetarian who would starve themselves to death rather than eat meat... I don't eat meat but if push came to shove I'll would go out and kill, gut and prepare what ever I could catch.

Had to kill this morning, a young stoat that the cat had brought in. She'd got it by the neck and obviously done its spinal cord in somewhere after the connections to the front legs leave.

[Clive George]

Since you're moving, this isn't a helpful comment, but I don't want to pay the large sum to get mains gas connected, and still have a gas hob. Bottled gas is the way forwards here - especially with the small amount of gas a hob uses. Our 13kg cylinders seem to last for ages.

[Clive George]

Maybe an issue for large scale commercial cooking, but our hob worked entirely happily this winter, even on the stupidly cold nights.

Butane is a different matter. Boiling an electric kettle and pouring the water on the tank helped a lot ISTR. If I'd been in that kitchen with stoves failing something like that might have happened :-)

[Clive George]

Ah - not much then. I'd pay that if it was that cheap for us :-)

[Jonathan]

I paid about =A3550 to Centrica last year to get two new gas connections to holiday lets we have. Despite their pipes going in the same trench they would have done it as two separate jobs if I hadn't pointed out to them how daft it was.

Jonathan

[Tim Lamb]

As it was the plant dept. outing you can imagine the backchat just in earshot of mine host.

regards

[Andy Champ]

I'll be surprised if they don't. Give them enough time, and a growth-limiting but non-lethal dose, and they'll be away. Such conditions will be found in the local drains if nowhere else.

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