boiling cans - am I going to die

prv said:
Of course, since FB pies get heated in an oven (and then, the only time I've ever encountered them on a boat, tipped onto the cabin sole) rather than boiled, they don't conform to Dylan's Law of Unopened Tins. I have heard of FB pie explosions taking place (not on a boat) when someone grasped the "bake in the tin" idea but didn't actually read the instructions.

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I can confirm that a FB pie explosion can cause serious damage and / or injury. I think I was about ten or eleven and on a visit to my aunt. Probably because my cousins and I were causing a bit of a distraction, my aunt put a FB pie in the oven without taking the lid off first. We thought a bomb had gone off. When we went back into the kitchen, the oven door was off it's hinges, the oven itself had moved about two feet sideways, and the walls and ceiling were pebbledashed with what passes for FB steak. It was funny at the time, but looking back we were lucky nobody got hurt, if it hadn't exploded we would have been forced to eat it.
 
alan_d said:
You expect so? You're not sure? Are you hedging your bets about the possibility of Dylan being immortal?
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Well, if he makes it round Britain he's going to need to be - especially if he penetrates the canal network, as he has threatened to do!

I think the concept of an immortal Dylan and Slug makes a good argument for the benefits of mortality!

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.— Terry Pratchett (The Colour of Magic)
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Great idea, boiling cans.

I also use disposable paper plates on top of plastic plates. The plastic plate provides rigidity, and the paper plates go right in the bin. I only have to wash the plastic spork, with a little of the hot water for tea.
 
alan_d said:
You expect so? You're not sure? Are you hedging your bets about the possibility of Dylan being immortal?
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I've never met him. He might be as impressive in person as he is in print, in which case ...?
And, TBH, most of the people I know HAVEN'T died, so this theory that we are all mortal remains to be proved.
 
immortal

alan_d said:
You expect so? You're not sure? Are you hedging your bets about the possibility of Dylan being immortal?
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interstingly enough

its my guess that my films will outlive me - in one form or another

i certainly read books about sailing written by men who are long dead just to get a feling of what it was like.

I have to say that if I could watch films of a bloke doing what I am doing - but 100, 200, 300 years ago I would certainly cast my eye across them - just to see what our coasts were like before they became cluttered up with horizon to horizon windfarms and every estuary had a tidal barrage across it. I filmed Ipswich docks whikle they were still in operation, the sandwharf at Wivenhoe, Thames barges racing - 20 of them.

I would be curious - probably fast forward where he expresses his opinions about mobos.

I think I would watch - wouldn't you?


even if I though the man was not quite my cup of tea. after all, I have read all of Ransomes books - and he was a spy and traitor.

D
 
Vara said:
Standard military procedure, although it's a bit wimpy to let them cool down before handling and eating.

Should be juggled between gloved hands while wielding can-spanner, it is also traditional to use the hot water for shaving and washing afterwards (this is made easier as compo tins don't have labels).
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Another vote for the army method. If uncertain you can make a small hole with a knife to release the pressure. That is one of the reasons they have the contents on the top and no labels. Cooks quicker under pressure.
 
dylanwinter said:
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I have to say that if I could watch films of a bloke doing what I am doing - but 100, 200, 300 years ago I would certainly cast my eye across them - just to see what our coasts were like before they became cluttered up with horizon to horizon windfarms and every estuary had a tidal barrage across it. I filmed Ipswich docks whikle they were still in operation, the sandwharf at Wivenhoe, Thames barges racing - 20 of them.
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Have you read Frank Cowper's Sailing Tours? It's a five-volume guide to the coasts of Britain - a sailing directions for yachts, in effect - written about a hundred years ago. The paperback versions currently in print are, so Amazon tells me, astonishingly expensive, but there was a nice hardback edition about twenty years ago which comes up second hand regularly.

even if I though the man was not quite my cup of tea. after all, I have read all of Ransomes books - and he was a spy and traitor.
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No half as much as Childers. Anyway, Ransome spied for us, so that's OK.
 
Ransome

Ubergeekian said:
Have you read Frank Cowper's Sailing Tours? It's a five-volume guide to the coasts of Britain - a sailing directions for yachts, in effect - written about a hundred years ago. The paperback versions currently in print are, so Amazon tells me, astonishingly expensive, but there was a nice hardback edition about twenty years ago which comes up second hand regularly.



No half as much as Childers. Anyway, Ransome spied for us, so that's OK.
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I fear you will find some pretty good evidence that ransome was a double agent

at least childers only swung one way

Dylan
 
Ransome (whose Swallows & Amazon books I greatly admire), was, I think, one of Lenin's 'useful idiots' (like most Guardian journalists). His wife, however, was Trotsky's secretary, which is not a job you just happen across in an ad down the Job Centre. She certainly was a committed communist. I have heard it said that she was involved in funding Comintern agents, which is why she was able to leave the Soviet Union with him in the first place.
 
dylanwinter said:
I fear you will find some pretty good evidence that ransome was a double agent

at least childers only swung one way

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Being a double agent is one way of getting deeper into the cognoscenti.

Childers was also villified by Churchill for his work against the Irish Peace Treaty was he not? Executed for having a pistol that was given him by Michael Collins. Nothing is (as you yourself have repeatedly pointed out to us) ever straight forward.

Woo Hoo! I've just Dylan'd you! Challenging your pre-conceived predjudices!:D

I claim a new verb for the forum; To Dylan, meaning to challenge a poster's pre-conceived ideas or predjudices.
 
I know the background

Searush said:
Being a double agent is one way of getting deeper into the cognoscenti.

Childers was also villified by Churchill for his work against the Irish Peace Treaty was he not? Executed for having a pistol that was given him by Michael Collins. Nothing is (as you yourself have repeatedly pointed out to us) ever straight forward.

Woo Hoo! I've just Dylan'd you! Challenging your pre-conceived predjudices!:D

I claim a new verb for the forum; To Dylan, meaning to challenge a poster's pre-conceived ideas or predjudices.
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it was a one line summary - I am a very flexible thinker, prejudice free and very willing to abandon pre-conceived ideas at a moments notice

I was ready to believe that I would die if I boiled a can of beans - because I was told that it was dangerous by a very well known journalist. Then an eminant scientist of this parish told me that it was safe. He used a real formula to prove his case.

so in the space of 24 hours I have changed my mind twice.

Dylan



D
 
dylanwinter said:
I fear you will find some pretty good evidence that ransome was a double agent
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There was an article in the paper recently about that, wasn't there? Only suspicion, as I recall, but it explained why he didn't get an ambassador post, or a knighthood, or something. Bearing in mind that his wife had been Trotsky's secretary, I doubt if he would have been terribly sympathetic to Stalin anyway.

That said, does it really matter? Is Gill's typography devalued by his incestuous relationship with his daughter? Are William Mayne's books devalued by his conviction for molesting young girls?

On the whole, I think the works stand or fall on their own merits, not on what we know about the artist/author/creator - although that knowledge may be fertile ground for PhDs. Even Sylvia Plath's adoring hordes of english students haven't managed to crushed Larkin's reputation - he got a new statue at Hull Paragon station last week.

What was this thread about anyway?
 
Great thread... The explaination a while back about the pressure in the can ref, the boiling water around was spot on. Everything else is entertainment, and info about the canning industry. Keep at it!

While working near Lockabie in the hills, extremely cold. We stayed at the local farms. Breakfast was bacon, carved off the hanging stuff in the kitchen, and haggis in slices, also fairly dried. More recently, I have been to a Burns night where it was exploding out of its 'container' and looked and tasted nothing like the stuff I ate in Scotland. More like a mush of grain and 'trimings'.
Any comments??
 
Downwest, I live a few miles up Annandale from Lockerbie. The local butchers in the town sells truly excellent haggis.

My Swedish wife eats it with beetroot, because that's what they do with
pölsa, a similar dish they make in Sweden. I like both haggis and beetroot, but I could not bring myself to eat them together. She doesn't like turnip, unfortunately - though with the alternative name for some varieties, I suppose it could be counted canibalism if she did ....

The best of the tinned stuff isn't bad - and the instructions on the tin tell you to pierce two holes in the top and heat in boiling water in true Dylan style ... so there!
 
that would be wonderful - the flying ditchman

dt4134 said:
Maybe he's cursed to cruise the narrow waterways of Britain till the end of time itself. Instead of a Flying Dutchman a Flying Ditchman.
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I could not think of a more wonderful way to spend eternity than roaming the salt marshes of east anglia, the lochs of the west coast of scotland, the sandy coast of Wales, the crinkly bits or Ireland

how wonderful!

I have so many pleasures ahead of me as I explore this amazing island of ours

I am amazed that more people don't join me

yours


D
 
dylanwinter said:
I have so many pleasures ahead of me as I explore this amazing island of ours

I am amazed that more people don't join me
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"Creek creepers unite! You have nothing to lose but your weans..."

I have this image of a long gaggle of wee sailboats, led up rivers by a slighly larger one wi' tan sails.

Er, what's the draft of far-famed Slug?

:)
 
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