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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

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

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

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 !

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

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 .

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

They certainly cant hide as easily as a sparrow

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

I just bought one of those drill holders with the arm ,my old B&D fits perfectly and it hasnt got a keyless chuck so you can put it in reverse without fear of it coming loose . https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/b5QAAOSwsc9k20D9/s-l1600.webp I would prefer it had the potential to drill at an angle but those in my budget are feeble compared

They are very destructive ,i remember at about 10 3 of them used to terrorise my dads pidgeons

You have tooooo much time now youve retired lol Its like the close season of my yooof is back ,floats made of straws that fold in half fist strike and balsa pike lures pike break in half and laugh at you. Not been down the river this winter most of the times its approaching me!

I am old but despise bookface and titter. They are like self checkouts in supermarkets imho

Weird idea i can see an advantage if you smoke but on talking to an employee standing puffing on one as i waited for a taxi she didnt actually smoke she took it up so she could chat with her friends in a vape break ! Her reason fell apart as she was alone at the time and actually puffing on it so may have got addicted to nicotine for no reason at all .why not just take the break and not polute the air with strange smells ? I can see a reason to escape for a while but why not skip dive for stuff its far better (says a guy they called skippy at the uni)

I have been investigating the new litter .....vapes ! Nice rechargable 3.7v lithium cells for reusing in projects .Bugger knows why they use rechargable batteries in disposable vapes though.The best ones are the flat or oval types that have pouch versions i reuse them in our many rechargable nightlights we use all over the house (they come on when they see motion) why waste turning on lights when a battery light will do as you pass one room to another .Two batteries last longer than one less recharging Mrs turned some of the aluminium tubes into a wind chime ,that should impress the neighbours lucky they are some distance away lol

Cheers i have several sets of varied screw ,bolt and stud removers and have used your guides twice with success .The trick sometimes so easy as to use a counter clockwise drill bit as it starts to cut it can just uncrew the damaged screw .I wish my pillar drill had reverse Most of the problems are steel into aluminium on my daughters scooter (its pretty old so galvanic action going on)so any i remove are substituted with stainless if they are not a over tight situation (holding covers on etc rather than wheels and such) Stainless fixings are getting so cheap i am not seeing much difference to ordinary screws bolts etc so i have made up a few boxes of stainless alternatives in several sizes from 2mm to 8mm .I understand stainless isnt as strong as steel but in many situations preferable. I used to use copper grease on bolts etc but now the thought is thats not so great as our predecessors advised so now use stainless which hopefully gets around the problem of galvanic action as ofcourse the copper in the grease has its problems. Talking about bolts and nuts the best tool i have bought lately is a torque multiplier ,my sons LDV wheel nuts were so tight we snapped 3ft bars with scaffold tube on them with me standing on the end trying to shift them (a heavy duty impact wrench burnt out trying ! Milwaukee fuel are crap nowadays ! It went straight back ,did you know you can bend 3ft crowbars and 5ft digging bars very easilly?) But the multiplier worked fine ,slow but got the nuts loose enough for my 240v impact driver to take over with just a little smoke! Its quicker than a 1" socket handle and extention ,bugger knows what tool was used to tighten them ! There seems to be a sudden decline in tools since 2021 going by this guy who repairs them and also hates Milwaukee tools well worth watching https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCMUC8bYhuT5p6xncsk1CZAO1Fw&playnext=1&si=POrUmZwZOU8Fk-jY

Those shears must be very close to that sheeps balls to keep it that still!

What Brexit 2 ? Or is khan extending ulez to the rest of the country ? So few on here

Happy newyear to all. Had a phone call out of the blue today obviously a frail old lady so we presumed it was my old head bailffs wife Jan wishing us a happy new year .Sounded like her but seemed a bit hard of hearing which see isnt. Suddenly she mentioned her name and it was a name from my Intrepid research contacts she had got intouch in 2003 when i put an advert for ex employees in the cheam newspaper but it had been very brief and i had no reply to my reply .No replies to any christmas cards so i presumed she had not wished to continue or had died as some have after all it was 60+ years ago when she worked there. The reason for her sudden call was she had got a card from a long forgotten workmate who i had mentioned her address in his Christmas card so he had obviously got in touch .I said i should have asked first (as i said in his card she could be dead as i had not heard from her for years) she said she was delighted to hear from him (he lost his wife 20 odd years ago as she has lost her husband about the same time so perhaps they may meet as he lives less than a mile away from her ?) Sending a letter to the old girl tomorrow and i will include a couple of other ex cheam workers addresses .She chatted away for 15 minutes as if we had been in contact for years or perhaps thinking i worked there as she mentioned other people as if i knew them personally from back then . As for Jan she phoned later and chatted away and said when bob (her son ) had time she would pop over ,we (me) hardly know her bar asking her on the phone getting in touch with Bill regarding bailiff matters and seeing her in his car as he passed now and again .I guess both old girls were lonely ,i dont mind a gossip but its hard work outside passing general pleasentries ,its hard work anyway for me i am billy no mates and have never sought others to make freinds with ,i have two i have known for 50 years they are great mates they may get in touch once a year if that lol Happy New Year ,Dave aka Chesters1