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  1. Once i invent a device that stops water going through the mesh of my dehydrator i can then dehydrate water .think of the benefits ...extreme lightness compared to unhydrated water and you could fit a gallon in a matchbox so your haversack could contain enough to cross death valley . If you dehydrated sea water you would get free salt so you could rehydrate some and boil bacon . All you have to do is rehydrate a pint then add it to the amount of rehydrated water to get a pint of reconstituted water ,big game changer Todays soup was potato and leek ,pretty easy to make just cut up pots (no need to peel) into inch cubes but i used frozen leeks but chucked in an onion to improve it .Not as good as soup 1 (potato and onion) i think the chinese powder gave it the heat so i will put a teaspoon in todays soup tho see if it improves . So far the consistency is ok if you dont fill with water to max but use the veg at max .Its a pity you have no setting for a semi chunky soup but i guess if i could be arsed i could use the chunky setting then use the smooth+ button to manually chop it smaller ,but if i am going that far i might aswell just buy a tin of the stuff but get sugar and salt in deadly amounts
  2. What! They poke a handfull up there and feel it swelling lol. hmm interesting nightime sex play though makes a diiference to a whole mackeral i suppose. OH you mean 'eaten' by the mouth ,whoops
  3. It seems a bit counterproductive buying a device (machine A) that produces things fast but to put in an ingrediant i have to go into the garden open cupboard 3 and get my pressure cooker out t( a nice multicooker machine B)to make a ingrediant suitable to go in machine A . I do have some pulse and grain additive somewhere its several years old but dry so i may resort to the old fishing method of putting some in a big vacuum flask covering it with boiling water and leave it overnight to see if its soft enough 12 hours later .Thinking about it boiling the water in my water dooda is machine C and perhaps the flask technically is machine D .Bugger once its made and i reheat it its done in a microwave (machine E) or on the stove top machine F .I may aswell just open a soup kitchen or a hotel kitchen lol No soup today i made sausage rolls i ate 5 ...they were awfull ! But i wont give them to the foxes after my hard work .Best use cheap sausage meat methinks 97% stuff doesn't work so well No soup because i had run out of potatoes and onions i kinder liked soup 1 and freezer 3 in shed 3 has a lot of room in it for errr soup and stuff i just wish frozen tomatoes came out better but are only fit for ........soup Ps i can recomend the 5.7l version of this ,not the cheapest but not a ninja ,the support staff are brilliant they sent a free silicone seal for my soupmaker after i asked if they sold replacements https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pressure-Electric-Cooker-Litre-Chrome/dp/B06XC7R53Z/ref=sr_1_3?c=ts&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vnR2NiGIhLudKaS1WsIObiIibzEtKB9DX5JN2G0qkTYSQV0YymfJ1x4WjVJylEQQ0m013YqsZf5QeQ-ggPS7stGP9mqnkl_5jDmLrJEiyHZDYVZ8qzXAYw1ojl9y1VrbXlJuxpwyPL1qDf-CzaRoNs_-XdGqgACA6SGFC0XuVamlbJRVczuQBfg_ABOBjOjkkA_6goBcL6N98tFmgQtbzYz-dtACxItGjgKwoeZVnk0.NEckwzsQ0LnzlNTXKZyj2xG5sMHoG3zJZ8KmMmOZS8U&dib_tag=se&keywords=Electric+Pressure+Cookers&qid=1710454213&s=kitchen-appliances&sr=1-3&ts_id=3538346031 PS the mrs hates it lol as i mentioned shes no cook ,never used my combi oven bar as a microwave ,never used my breadmaker (s),never used my air fryer .........BUT uses the hotpoint hot water dispenser so could be trained eventually lol
  4. Todays was 'tomato' soup ,two tins of toms ,some dregs of a packet of freezer burned swede and a couple of chopped sweet peppers from last year ,a stock cube and seasoning . Pretty tasteless mrs didnt like it so i secretely put in a teaspoon of some chinese ( name to long to bother typing) dried additive for stir fry . Chucked it in and used the extra smooth function to mix it . Definate improvement it gave a pleasent 'warm' feeling and still had the tomato background ,mrs liked it less! Finished 2 bowls with my still warm extra fiber bread ,the other bowl once cold will go in the freezer . Its not easy to find a recipe that i have all the ingrediants for ,i see no point in buying ingrediants i will probably use a small amount off then chuck in the composter .Bought a book with 100 recipes but i found only one i could make without ordering in stuff ,got two freezers fulll of veg but the idea was use that not buy more! Its a shame soupmakers are so small they all hover round the 1.7ltr mark so "batch" cooking asides from a family of mice impossible its just 3 bowls of soup i could eat that in one sitting !
  5. I will try some but i dont think you can use them directly in the machine (nor our vast quantity of dehydrated tomatoes from our crop last year ) The process from start to finish lasts 19 minutes so neither would soften or rehydrate quick enough . In the winter i make Scots potato soup using a family recipe but as bones are used its not suitable for a soupmaker (well once perhaps lol) but i may stove make it then use the machine to see what its like in smooth form (i wish there was a 'medium' setting ) then soak the pearl barly and chuck it in in a potfull it will then be smooth but with whole grains
  6. Believe me i slightly burned todays and its in the machine lol a pan would have been in the dustbin by now . I chucked a few of last years peppers in and one obviously hid from the blade and sat still enough to stick to the bottom .
  7. No its nothing to do with cold women! Just bought a soupmaker ,its basically a kettle and a whisk combined but it works better than i thought. Got it sunday so started playing yesterday .Pretty simple you chuck stuff in it ( food not bolts or other car parts) and soup comes out .Yes pots do the same but my attention span means half the time the soup is baked onto the bottom and arouses wrath from my personal cold woman. Plenty of recipes out there but most have ingrediants we dont have in the cupboard at the moment .But i needed to try it (my wife dislikes cooking but can fry eggs and bacon so has some use in the kitchen) Anyway yesterdays efforrt was potato and onion soup ,chucked in 4 cut up strong onions ,no real spuds so used a tin of them ,seasoned it and bunged in an oxo cube .Machine made steamy noises and sudden roaring noises and 19 minutes later a tiny tiny beep was heard (our Echo Flex in the kitchen listens for beep and our Echo show 8 (told you i was a Neophile (sp?)) shouts out "somethings fooking beeping " you cant use the f word Alexa ignores it but 'fooking' sounds ok lol ) unfortunately the tiny beep went unheard by Alexa but the machine keeps the end product warm anyway. Result .....it was great ,bit watery as i filled it to the max line with plain water but even my cold mrs emptied her bowl and the remaining soup went into the freezer for my lunch in the future.Nice and warming the onions were a little noticable but if you like onions its fine . Today i chucked in an inch of sundays chicken (meat chopped up into half inch bits) to much rain to go outside for another tin of potatoes so i chucked in a tin of butter beans ,a tin of carrots and two chicken stock cubes and seasoning .I set the beast in action ,usual sounds and those tiny tiny beeps were heard (not by Alexa or my cold woman though) opened it up ,strange orange colour but thicker than yesterdays. I didnt tell mrs about the butter beans she hates them and its not phsycological she made the uuuurrrr !noise and declined it .I bravely took my bowl and whilst it was ok dunking bread in it when it came to spoon action it was uuuurrrr! From me aswell . Not a great loss the cost was less than a tin of real soup . Consigned to toilet for trouts and sickly roach to eat in the sewage outfall if will get disharged from in the excuse its raining . I will try seeing what canned tomatoes and some other tin of something will come out with tomorrow and keep you informed whether you want to be or not!
  8. I love the chirp of sparrows despite their dowdy appearence ,they remind me of fond memories as a kid on a hot sunny days in london .When we moved here there were none but i heard one up the far end of the road and year on year they crept down and now they feed at our bird feeder . Another memory bird are skylarks ,they remind me of gentler times at Seton Sands where my gran and other relatives had chalets (one had a railway carriage!) and i spent all day adventuring and with my sister scouring the dunes looking for pop bottles to get the 3d back.The skylarks lived in the fields around ,theres a couple i hear here one in the field behind and another in the field opposite the school Not sure "conservation" in some cases is that great it appears all the new red kites that are increasing around here have scared off the buzzards that used to be seen in numbers ,generally humans in their effort to appear to be concerned in wildlife bugger it up . I used to speak to Phone if actually feeding birds is bad ,nature works by killing off the weak so the strong survive .We maybe killing them off by keeping the weak alive ,sounds great but come spring theres a finite amount of living food about so with more artificialy survived birds about taking them perhaps theres not enough to feed all the chicks these extra birds produce and the ones from the stronger birds that would produce them naturally? so in our desperation to save more perhaps we end up with less? I have stopped feeding whole sunflower seeds i spotted a tit stuffing whole ones down a chicks throat last year not sure trying to digest something that shouldnt be around that time of year is a good thing besides its hard exteria and pointy end.
  9. I have never found one with an "active" ingrediant ,most are just a thickish liquid that coats the throat trying to remove the 'tickle" that may cause the cough. Mentholated ones are fairly good opening up the sinuses but little else,the best cough mixture was dr collis brown but coming off the high not so great whether it worked on coughs i have no clue . Unfortunately chemists are full of quack cures and snake oil anything that actually works is prescription only and i have a great doubt half are useless. If it wasnt for quack cures and womens "products" chemists wouldnt exist . Talking of chemists the local one that delivers (a very active 80+ year old lady that calls everyone 'mate' delivers ours) couldnt get hold of my mrs epilepsy pills so we had to get the dr to issue a paper prescription so we could go and get it elsewhere ,cost us c£15 for a taxi each wway (£29 in total) luckily the trip from the station where we got off had a loo the cost of living in a village far from a bus route with a mrs on crutches and me with a problem that keeps me near the bog . I got home a wreck i was so knackered not sure why i think something more sinister is going on but the dr insists my recent camera and ct scan proves theres nothing so refuses to investigate further .I get fricking tired sleeping somethings going on perhaps its 'long' covid but i cant remember getting covid lol Beeng as self sufficiant as possible i have bought a treadmill (if i cant walk around the village without crapping myself keeping 10 feet from the bog works for me) hard to find one with a decent weight limit i am not a thin waif any more , but found one cheap enough that folds flat incase one day we get a visitor ,but what a bloody boring thing it is even with a tv showing suedo real walks in front of you .the mrs is thrashing me we got one with arms so she can hold onto them ,using crutches on a treadmill could be problematic for her and anyone within 6 feet if she fell on it lol i get knackered just switching it on and logging into the fitshow app on my pad Chesters1 top tip "fitness bands" watches dont work counting steps on treadmills very well but we upgraded from a fitband 6 to an 8 it can sit in a little dooda that clips to your shoe and makes you feel inadequate when the mrs thrashes you on steps aswell .i even enables a competition mode in its app just to remind me lol
  10. Its unusual goverment departments talk to each other but i guess extracting money from the masses to pay for Ukraine and our uninvited guests has priority
  11. Probably far less corrupt and safer than this 4th world country we have today ,as for the sun keep it 20c is high enough for me
  12. Theyre not deporting them thats to expensive theyre freezing them to death lol https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-pensioners-elderly-single-parent-household-housing-shelter-figures-a8419241.html I wonder what the figure is now as our "guests" have mounted up since
  13. Cetainly a prettier fish than those pot belly carp we see ,and as they are not fed with buckets of boilies a week far rarer when they get big.
  14. They certainly cant hide as easily as a sparrow
  15. You told us his name https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dont+tell+him+your+name+pike&view=detail&mid=4D3825EDA90D9663B7204D3825EDA90D9663B720&FORM=VIRE&PC=MOZB
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