Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Miss Caphat]

also, this is a great name for a dish, though I have no idea what Monterrey Jack cheese "balls" are

COQ‘N’BALLS / 3.95 fried chicken and Monterey Jack cheese balls with hot sauce.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I was confused when I first saw a ridged one called griddle tbf. I suppose the idea is to drain off the fat and make it healthier, but you can't fry an egg on it so, for that reason I'm out

You can fry an egg on one - but you have to like corrugated eggs though.

Or, you could fill it with oil until the surface of the oil is above the ridges.

 

[twentythreedom]

nothing epecially yank about a griddle. What do you think the burger you buy from the burger van is cooked on?

Piss off with your boring sensible answers

 

[fishfinger]

You can fry an egg on one - but you have to like corrugated eggs though.

Or, you could fill it with oil until the surface of the oil is above the ridges.

You could shallow fry crinkle cut chips.

 

[Vintage Paw]

spanikopita: a Greek "pie" with filo crust, spinach filling

and apparently, it's the bread and its weird chemicals making Subway smell so bad

http://www.themarysue.com/subway-yoga-mats/

That looks fucking delicious. The spanikopita, not the yoga mat bread.

 

[DotCommunist]

You can fry an egg on one - but you have to like corrugated eggs though.

Or, you could fill it with oil until the surface of the oil is above the ridges.

my old mum, the ex chef still sneeringly says that I just 'poach those eggs in oil, its not a proper fried egg'

especially galling when she's eating the plate I've just made

 

[Vintage Paw]

Incidentally, since that Mary Sue article mentioned 'the food babe' this article by 'the science babe' may be of interest:

The "Food Babe" Blogger is Full of Shit.

Think "Ben Goldacre pwns Gillian McKeith."

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You could shallow fry crinkle cut chips.

Perfect - it'd be like Lego as they'd fit just right.

 

[Miss Caphat]

That looks fucking delicious. The spanikopita, not the yoga mat bread.

yeah it's really good

 

[Vintage Paw]

Presumably it's spinach and feta? It looks like feta. Spinach and feta are <3

 

[gosub]

deleted as somebody else made the same point.

 

[Vintage Paw]

In other news, I just discovered what poutine is. I had no idea. brb, moving to Canadia.

 

[Santino]

see? you're up there with the premiership pedants.

I think you'll find it's actually called the Barclays Premier League.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Presumably it's spinach and feta? It looks like feta. Spinach and feta are <3

yes, spinach, feta, some finely chopped onions generally, and filo dough.

 

[maomao]

my old mum, the ex chef still sneeringly says that I just 'poach those eggs in oil, its not a proper fried egg'

especially galling when she's eating the plate I've just made

So you're a potter and your mum has pica. What's that got to do with fried eggs?

 

[Pickman's model]

I think you'll find it's actually called the Barclays Premier League.

for pedants it's the parker pens premier league as well you know

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Incidentally, since that Mary Sue article mentioned 'the food babe' this article by 'the science babe' may be of interest:

The "Food Babe" Blogger is Full of Shit.

Think "Ben Goldacre pwns Gillian McKeith."

That 'food babe' woman sounds like a right knob. Good article - thanks.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I a actually think you make perfect sense, it's just the word broiling is alien to British ears and makes us think of something completely different to what it is.
Coz it sounds so much like "boiling".

I'm not a fan of the technique because it tends to overcook meat. My mother uses her broiler a lot and lets just say she's not the cook my grandmother was. I use a grill pan for steak because it gives you a good sear and you have more control of what stage it gets cooked to.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I plead childhood trauma though. On Sunday afternoons my dad would announce that he and my mother would do a Guardian crossword. Mum would flap about with dictionaries as my dad read out the clues dressed in his raggedy dressing gown that always exposed his balls to the whole family, shouting at any child who dared to disturb him. I've always felt they were a perverse and selfish pursuit because of this

I don't do crosswords because my 80 year old mother still does the NY Times in pen. I can't compete.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I did explain

it's actually Americans who all love the Royal Family, sadly.

Pretty much true. Someone must be buying that Royal Doulton china with pictures of William and Kate advertised all the time in women's magazines, or they would stop. Please god, make it stop! Make it stop!

 

[fractionMan]

Also, their weedy home wiring means an American electric kettle takes about twice as long to boil.

Why can't they put two plugs and elements on each kettle?

 

[fractionMan]

I expect that's been answered tbh, but I'm lazy

 

[Crispy]

Why can't they put two plugs and elements on each kettle?

I.... don't know. The regs probably forbid it for safety reasons.

After all, there are no dual-socket 6kW British kettles.

 

[Crispy]

However, there's nothing stopping you using two kettles and boiling half a cup of water in each one.

I now have an image of a massively parallel kettle that plugs into all the sockets in your house and can boil a cup of coffee in a second.

 

[maomao]

Why can't they put two plugs and elements on each kettle?

Patent for just such a device here:
http://www.google.com/patents/CA2486614A1?cl=en

I guess they just don't want kettles that much.

 

[maomao]

However, there's nothing stopping you using two kettles and boiling half a cup of water in each one.

Except that half a cup of water wouldn't cover the element in most kettles (I'm aware that you can buy kettles with a flat element at the bottom).

 

[Miss Caphat]

However, there's nothing stopping you using two kettles and boiling half a cup of water in each one.

I now have an image of a massively parallel kettle that plugs into all the sockets in your house and can boil a cup of coffee in a second.

Why would you boil a cup of coffee?

British people, Why Would You Boil A Cup Of Coffee!?

 

[Miss Caphat]

Just kidding I don't actually care. Boil whatever you want

 

[Orang Utan]

Why would you boil a cup of coffee?

British people, Why Would You Boil A Cup Of Coffee!?

You boil the water then add the granules.

 

[Crispy]

You boil the water then add the granules.

To the kettle.

British people have a coffee kettle and a tea kettle, so as not to spoil the flavour of each kettle's patina.