Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Looby]

no, it's generally cooked altogether, at the same time, to order. I'm not being exhausting, it's just not an actual cheese steak. I'm sure I could get one at my local Subway, not "mixed together" if I so chose. Besides, it doesn't even look like the peppers & onions are cooked.

I didn't say it was an actual cheese steak, just that it sounded like your description. It's the closest thing I have seen to the US version.
The pepper and onion in that picture are extra and not actually standard in the steak and cheese. There is cooked pepper and onion mixed with the steak.
Good for you if you can get your subway cooked to order, it's all in tubs pre-cooked here then it's toasted with the cheese in the roll. Another thing we're clearly shit at. [emoji6]
I don't even know why I'm bothering with this as I have subway maybe twice a year. [emoji1]

You are exhausting.

 

[gosub]

because they're disgusting

Digusting describes the smell, but the "sandwiches"- a chemistry set of disapointment

 

[Looby]

Digusting describes the smell, but the "sandwiches"- a chemistry set of disapointment

It's an odd smell of all the different meats I think. Meatballs clashing with salami and skanky turkey.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I didn't say it was an actual cheese steak, just that it sounded like your description. It's the closest thing I have seen to the US version.
The pepper and onion in that picture are extra and not actually standard in the steak and cheese. There is cooked pepper and onion mixed with the steak.
Good for you if you can get your subway cooked to order, it's all in tubs pre-cooked here then it's toasted with the cheese in the roll. Another thing we're clearly shit at. [emoji6]
I don't even know why I'm bothering with this as I have subway maybe twice a year. [emoji1]

You are exhausting.

I really don't understand the personal insults? not really sure what your problem is with anything I said, it wasn't directed at you but at UK Subway.

 

[Miss Caphat]

and it's funny that I'm exhausting and not the constant barrage of demands for explanations and insults re the food culture of the US directed at me. ok, sure

 

[Looby]

I really don't understand the personal insults? not really sure what your problem is with anything I said, it wasn't directed at you but at UK Subway.

I was pissing around because you can be quite picky and seem to find fault with everything said on threads like this. It wasn't meant as an insult, I find it quite funny. Sorry if you took it personally.

 

[xenon]

I keep forgetting about Subway. I've only been in once, drunk.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I was pissing around because you can be quite picky and seem to find fault with everything said on threads like this. It wasn't meant as an insult, I find it quite funny. Sorry if you took it personally.

again, I'm the one finding fault with everything? that's super funny

 

[Maurice Picarda]

and it's funny that I'm exhausting and not the constant barrage of demands for explanations and insults re the food culture of the US directed at me. ok, sure

It's not just the horrid cheese and chocolate. You still haven't fixed the voltage issue.

 

[Miss Caphat]

It's not just the horrid cheese and chocolate. You still haven't fixed the voltage issue.

getting right on it

 

[Miss Caphat]

g'night all.

 

[xenon]

FOr balance I've eaten dona kebabs whilst sober. Well, for values of balance.

 

[xenon]

Good night. There may be more questions tomorrow.

 

[Looby]

and it's funny that I'm exhausting and not the constant barrage of demands for explanations and insults re the food culture of the US directed at me. ok, sure

again, I'm the one finding fault with everything? that's super funny

I didn't start the thread or barrage you with questions. I also haven't insulted your food culture either. You are quite happy when it's the other way round and you're taking the piss out of the UK because of snow or wind or heat or whatever.

I was having a laugh as I thought we all were and I've apologised if you were insulted.

 

[gosub]

It's an odd smell of all the different meats I think. Meatballs clashing with salami and skanky turkey.

that you don't get in any reputable deli.

 

[Vintage Paw]

It sorta makes sense in my mind. Mind you having cooked on an electric hob for years, I sometimes splash a bit of water into the pan, to help things along. (I don't use much oil.) SO I tend to think of that stewing, frying, steaming through thing as broiling. As opposed to, er just frying.

#43 in the list why xenon doesn't have dinner guests.

No no. Broiling, as the Americans use the word, refers to what we call grilling - where we grill something under the grill in the grill section of the stove - the section that is above the oven, and under the hob. It's confusing, because broiling sounds like boiling, which might start in turn conjuring up all sorts of images about different cooking practices, but actually all they mean by it is what we call grilling. The grill where you grill your cheese on toast. That bit. That's what they call broiling. So we'd grill some bacon there (if we weren't frying it in a frying pan, or whatever), but they'd call that broiling.

broil
(brɔɪl)
vb
1. (Cookery) US and Canadian to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way. Usual equivalent (in Britain andother countries): grill

I don't believe, in general, the separate grill compartment that we have in our cookers is especially prevalent in America. I could be wrong on this. I believe if they are going to broil they will have a separate broiler, or are able to do it in the oven compartment somehow. I'm a little shaky on the details.

But American broil = British grill.

In the United States, when the heat source for grilling comes from above, grilling is termed broiling.

 

[Vintage Paw]

(Until this thread, I too was under the impression broiling had something to do with boiling.)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Why do Subways all have the same revolting smell?

I hold my breath as I walk past them. It smells deeply wrong and not like food at all - almost like some chemical effluent of uncertain provenance giving off fumes.

It seems there is no clear consensus on what the smell actually is - some people say it is the cheap bread, some say preservative slime the meats come packaged in, others old dressing and sweaty staff. Who knows. But whatever it is, it is vile. I suspect it is probably the smell of soylent green being cooked.

Funnily enough, I never eat anything from Subway.

 

[DotCommunist]

seeing eating a sandwich marginally smaller than my head when theres people who get fuck all, daily is sometimes surreal. Its like the bible parable about the cows

 

[Orang Utan]

. Sausage mash and Yorkshire pud is toad in the hole

No it isn't. There's no mash. And you have to cook the sausages with the pudding so they are embedded in it. It's not just sausages with Yorkshire pudding.

 

[Orang Utan]

I hold my breath as I walk past them. It smells deeply wrong and not like food at all - almost like some chemical effluent of uncertain provenance giving off fumes.

It seems there is no clear consensus on what the smell actually is - some people say it is the cheap bread, some say preservative slime the meats come packaged in, others old dressing and sweaty staff. Who knows. But whatever it is, it is vile. I suspect it is probably the smell of soylent green being cooked.

Funnily enough, I never eat anything from Subway.

McDonald's and Pret A Manger smell the same too

 

[Orang Utan]

OK, next question for the Americans: wtf is a Salisbury steak?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

McDonald's and Pret A Manger smell the same too

I don't smell that particular offensive aroma outside of those places - McDs obviously stinks of those awful fries (probably the cooking oil really), but Pret doesn't seem to smell of anything in particular, at least the ones I've passed here in Manchester. For me, Subway is in a league of its own for offensive smells.

 

[Glitter]

How do you shave a steak Miss Caphat ?

 

[SpookyFrank]

OK, next question for the Americans: wtf is a Salisbury steak?

Kinda like Mr. Brains faggots.

 

[Cid]

No no. Broiling, as the Americans use the word, refers to what we call grilling - where we grill something under the grill in the grill section of the stove - the section that is above the oven, and under the hob. It's confusing, because broiling sounds like boiling, which might start in turn conjuring up all sorts of images about different cooking practices, but actually all they mean by it is what we call grilling. The grill where you grill your cheese on toast. That bit. That's what they call broiling. So we'd grill some bacon there (if we weren't frying it in a frying pan, or whatever), but they'd call that broiling.



I don't believe, in general, the separate grill compartment that we have in our cookers is especially prevalent in America. I could be wrong on this. I believe if they are going to broil they will have a separate broiler, or are able to do it in the oven compartment somehow. I'm a little shaky on the details.

But American broil = British grill.

Separate grill compartment?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How do you shave a steak Miss Caphat ?

With a mandolin perhaps, to give you lovely fine slices? Or 'shave' might be a poncey word for sliced steak.

 

[Orang Utan]

With a mandolin perhaps, to give you lovely fine slices? Or 'shave' might be a poncey word for sliced steak.

I imagine it's like doner kebab

 

[gosub]

No it isn't. There's no mash. And you have to cook the sausages with the pudding so they are embedded in it. It's not just sausages with Yorkshire pudding.

yes and no. if you serve main courses without accompanying vegetables- potatoes and usually cabbage with toad in the hole, you are doing it wrong. Oh and gravy

 

[gosub]

Separate grill compartment?

main oven also has a grill, but its pants, the element is just a square that follows the edges.