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Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2006, 11:16:51 pm

Do you still have one, or does everyone use plastic or metal utensils now?

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: oldspice on July 27, 2006, 11:20:07 pm
I have a whole bunch of them. They are essential for making a good sauce.
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2006, 11:21:06 pm
I agree, although one of mine has disappeared and now I only have a crappy small one.
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: oldspice on July 27, 2006, 11:36:39 pm
I could not cope without wooden spoons. You need them for scrambled eggs, cake making, sauce making - lots of things. I bet you could get a bagful in Poundland.
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: salsa on July 27, 2006, 11:38:12 pm

Yup, I need them, can't use anything else in my tefal pans


 

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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2006, 11:39:09 pm
I use them too and I use my wooden spatula even more.
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Post by: salsa on July 27, 2006, 11:40:12 pm
I want a potato ricer from IKEA, but they are about £12
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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2006, 11:43:07 pm
I've got one, they're worth it.  Mine came from Lakeland but can't remember how much it was.
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Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2006, 11:44:16 pm
Does anyone have one of those things for lifting spaghetti out of the water?
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: salsa on July 27, 2006, 11:45:14 pm

Yes, I have one!!!


Oooh, will have a look at lakeland, I don't make mash much, but generally because I always think it is lumpy.


 

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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2006, 11:46:26 pm

Quote from: smurfboy
Does anyone have one of those things for lifting spaghetti out of the water?


I'm afraid so! 

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: loulou on July 28, 2006, 01:14:38 am
I have one of those too but no wooden spoons. I can't cook so it doesn't matter and I don't really want to go down the wooden chopping boards/spoons/germs road again.
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: kevvosa on July 28, 2006, 01:15:14 am
If you dont cook - what do you eat?
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Post by: Forth Bridges on July 28, 2006, 01:17:34 am
I went and look and ther 3 in my mums draws and thiere a big oen aswell
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Post by: loulou on July 28, 2006, 01:18:52 am

Quote from: kevvosa
If you dont cook - what do you eat?


So many times this has come up. I rely on other people cooking for me or I eat out or I eat rubbish and microwave food.

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 09:01:18 am

loulou, learn to cook, its easier, its cheaper and you get what you want. Microwave crap doesn't fill you up.


 


Seriously, there is nothing easier than a spag bol or a pasta bake, I would even talk you through it.


 

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: oldspice on July 28, 2006, 10:20:53 am


Lou, I bet your own well-scrubbed wooden spoon is much cleaner and germ-free than your average take-away. Ask Knighty!

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Post by: kevvosa on July 28, 2006, 10:22:19 am
Ive heard lots of horror stories about takeaways. They drop stuff on
the floor and then just put it back on the plate, etc. 
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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 10:29:36 am
Also, if you do it yourself you get exactly what you want.
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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 10:43:38 am
I have my darling Dorota.
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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 10:44:35 am
My nan's home help is called Dorothea, are you that infirm?
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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 10:46:58 am
She's a maid not a "home help"
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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 10:49:01 am
maid/home help same thing, different label :D
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Post by: oldspice on July 28, 2006, 10:50:52 am
 What century are you living in! This is someone who was, only the other day, saying the poor should be more careful with their money!
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 11:06:32 am

This is slightly awful. But I have a friend who's granny is very old and was brought up in South Africa, even to this day she thinks anyone black is here to serve her and will even speak to them in orders in the shops such as ''get that down from that shelf for me, now''


Its awful, but slightly funny aswell to watch her act so outdated.

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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 11:11:32 am
The poor should indeed be more careful with their money.  Then they would not be poor.

As for maids, they're hardly an expense - one can get a good one for £7 per hour here in London.

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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 11:15:49 am

Maybe the poor didn't have any money to look after in the first place. It is entierly possible they are poor for life.


Personally I wouldn't want a maid, I can wipe my own botty!

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: oldspice on July 28, 2006, 11:17:13 am
The only people i know with maids are the Royals and high class call girls.
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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 11:19:01 am

Is a cleaner a maid, or is the difference that you use a bell to summon a maid to you for assistance?

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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 12:18:19 pm
Using a bell would be deemed rude.

A maid cleans but also does other tasks such as ironing, etc.

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Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 12:35:12 pm

Ah cool, in which my friends ma and pa have got a maid, but they aren't rich.


Do you just yell her when you need her then?

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Post by: kevvosa on July 28, 2006, 01:39:19 pm
She probably makes her scrub the floor and oggles at her bum. 
Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: salsa on July 28, 2006, 01:58:38 pm
Oooh, I wish i could be paid for someone oggling my bum
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Post by: minty on July 28, 2006, 02:06:58 pm
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Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: smurfboy on July 28, 2006, 02:54:42 pm
Quote from: salsa

Maybe the poor didn't have any money to look after in the first place. It is entierly possible they are poor for life.


Personally I wouldn't want a maid, I can wipe my own botty!



Don't give the stupid woman an audience. She is obviously just trying to get a reaction.

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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 07:37:51 pm
A reaction to what?
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Post by: kevvosa on July 28, 2006, 07:39:59 pm

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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 28, 2006, 08:18:28 pm

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Post by: loulou on July 29, 2006, 02:22:42 am

Quote from: kevvosa
Ive heard lots of horror stories about takeaways. They drop stuff on the floor and then just put it back on the plate, etc. 


Yes that will be true. I don't eat takeaways now for that reason.

Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: loulou on July 29, 2006, 02:25:00 am
I couldn't fancy having a maid rattling around my home but I wouldn't mind Gordon Ramsay moving in to cook for me and Harvey Walden can give me a thorough working out any day of the week.

 

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Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: oldspice on July 29, 2006, 08:37:46 am
Harvey Walden! Oh yes! There's something very sexy under all that big stiff hat.
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Post by: kevvosa on July 29, 2006, 09:30:13 am
I would like Nigella Lawson to come and make me some of her deep fried Bounty bars.


Title: Wooden spoons
Post by: on July 29, 2006, 11:40:07 am

Quote from: salsa
Oooh, I wish i could be paid for someone oggling my bum



Or do you prefer a cheque?