"Air Fryers"

Or ham sandwiches, with English mustard, obvs :-)

I find the area the animal was raised in is the main determinent of flavour. There are some parts of Scotland where the finest beef in NW Europe comes from. It's all to do with what the animal was able to eat in its locality. Western Poland grassland is also very good in this respect.

Utter BS. In 2008 when oil hit $140 and on other occasions since it will have cost far more.

What you forget to mention (as usual) is the fact that your property is fairly new and well insulated, including from the *ground* with a separate heating system.

Most agas are in old, poorly insulated properties and therefore have to use a lot more oil to maintain temperature.

You clearly don't know any farmers.

Sadly, it seems to be a medical fact that eating less red meat will (statistically) allow you to live longer.

Breville advertised as 'Fits Warburton's Toastie Bread'.

Best toaster we have ever had. Browns evenly & completely over 4 sides. Adjustment works as it should. So good there are another 3 or 4 throughout the family after our recommendation.

We still have lots of meat but it's done in the slow cooker. Since getting an air fryer we have roast potatoes as well.

As an aside, my wife works at the local primary school as a lunchtime supervisor & the kid's favourite meal is the Wednesday roast - mainly because they don't get one at home.

The Russell Hobbs toaster I recently bought has slots that are a decent length and depth. At least 1.5 cm longer than the Dualit toaster next to it on the dealers shelf.

I ate wild piglet in Sardinia. I thought it had been marinated in herbs,. "No" the man cooking it said "He eat herbs all day"..

And if you have been to Sardinia, it's probably true. Hot Mediterranean Maquis. Mint, bay, sage, myrtle...rosemary...

Sigh. My Aga is 22 years old, it doesn't heat the whole house. It simply maintains its temperature using around 600W.

And that 600w is a valuable *contributor* to house heating except in the height of summer, when I switch it off and cool on a barbecue.

Most if the 600W goes into the room. The flue is not massively hot.

At current oil prices that is 600w of heating at around 7p - a unit - say 10c. US. Even at double that its only 20c US.

Multiply that by 6,000 annual hours and its around 3600 units. At 7p that's around £250

At 10 cents $360

At most it would be $720 per annum.

The cost of doing that with electricity is around 3 times that.

Currently in the UK oil is by far and away the cheapest energy source at around 7p per kWh.

OFGEM has capped gas prices at =7.5p /KWh

I live surrounded by them ducky.

But you have completely missed the point, which was that for a given, admittedly low, heat output, an oil Aga is up there with the best of the sources. Its a very efficient kitchen heater and its possible to cook on it without incurring much additional expense. Its way cheaper than an air fryer for example. And a two oven Aga will do all that on a couple of hundred quid a year.

What it wont do, is heat a thwacking great house. Or even its hot water. Then you need to spend more. My heating bill is around £3500 a year, of which ~£2200 is spent between November and March.

It is ten times more than the Aga.

I've even done the calculations on how much oil goes to heat the domestic hot water, and its negligible.

In short in my setup the Aga is no more expensive at heating *part of the house most of the year than anything else, AND I can cook on it. And for the times when it is on, it doesn't f****ng MATTER if its leaking a bit more heat, because I need that heat anyway!

As soon as the kitchen get unbearably hot in summer, I *switch it off.* The figures are borne out by spring and autumn consumption of oil, when the central heating is off, and all that is on is the Aga.

It barely uses 500 litres in that time. Compared with the 3000 litres of winter consumption by the central heating.

Stop thinking of it as a cooker, and think of it as a room heater, that can also cook.

It's very economical at that.

Obviously if you live in the tropics and don't need a heated kitchen its a stupidly expensive way to cook food.

But in temperate climates, its efficient and cost effective at heating

Well that's bullshit, too. And you can roast chicken and pork

All toasters are irremediably s**te, but better than an Aga and cheaper than firing up the electric grill.

Anyway, I really have to stop eating bread altogether :-(

I think pork counts as red meat doesn't it?

Bacon counts as unhealthy. It also cooks very well in my microwave bacon crisper.

Microwaves are the best crackling maker, although the Aga is a close second

Or at least make it *feel* longer. ;-)

Tim

You can't bear facts you don't like to hear and dismiss with your head firmly in the sand.

This might come as a surprise to you that pork is classed as a red meat.

Doesn't that depend on whether you serve red or white wine? Pork can go either way.

Owain

It does indeed.

I think you choose the wine to go with the food, not classify the food according to the wine you have with it.

I like Mateus Rose with goulash made with beef shin.

Oh no. Mateus Rose? Gosh that brings back student memories.

For a goulash I would have a very strong red. Something tempranillo maybe.

Pink wines are for delicate flavours