Terminology

[Blue Seas]

Can anyone here suggest how to translate the op into English? TIA

It's all about having an 'ology'. If you had an ology, then you would have understood it first time around without unnecessary follow up questions.

 

[DanTribe]

I have misgivings about something that looks like a kitchen tap but which produces boiling water.

This was a problem facing Wallace in the new film. When his Tea-O-Matic was confiscated, he had to remember how to use old teapot technology.

 

[claymore]

I share your concerns. We have a microwave by the fridge.
I often attempt to make porridge in the fridge

 

[Stemar]

I share your concerns. We have a microwave by the fridge.
I often attempt to make porridge in the fridge

I, of course, would never do such a thing.

But mainly because my efforts at making porridge in the fri microwave ( dammit, you've got me at it now) usually have an explosive outcome that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I share your concerns. We have a microwave by the fridge.
I often attempt to make porridge in the fridge

Shirley the auld Laird has a manservant for such tasks? Jammie if I recall correctly.

 

[claymore]

Wi a burst o uncharacteristic chenerosity, ah pit the wee scaldie ontae a reduced hoors contrac'.
Nefer did onythin' sae daft - mabrekfass is weel ower by the time the wee fekker shuffles in.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I, of course, would never do such a thing.

But mainly because my efforts at making porridge in the fri microwave ( dammit, you've got me at it now) usually have an explosive outcome that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon

The trick is to take it out of the cartoon and put it in a bowl.

 

[claymore]

Does cartoon porridge put a smile on one's face?
Dear Heart thinks I should try it.

 

[Stemar]

Does cartoon porridge put a smile on one's face?
Dear Heart thinks I should try it.

Who gets a smile on their face might depend on who has to clean the microwave afterwards

 

[claymore]

I don't know where she keeps her cleaning stuff...

 

[mjcoon]

Who gets a smile on their face might depend on who has to clean the microwave afterwards

I confess to cooking a sachet of porridge in the microwave every morning (because too lazy to measure out my preferred mix of 50/50 normal and jumbo oats). No cleaning needed, though it's done with 1.5 min + stir + 0.5 min.

On the other hand I've just splattered a bowl of soup into the wretched thing...

 

[Graham376]

I, of course, would never do such a thing.

But mainly because my efforts at making porridge in the fri microwave ( dammit, you've got me at it now) usually have an explosive outcome that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon

Not nearly as explosive as a Fray Bentos pie put in a cooker with the lid on, school chum blew his mother's cooker door off and redecorated much of the kitchen.

 

[capnsensible]

Not nearly as explosive as a Fray Bentos pie put in a cooker with the lid on, school chum blew his mother's cooker door off and redecorated much of the kitchen.

Well scupper me starboard flip flop, Jack.

 

[mjcoon]

Not nearly as explosive as a Fray Bentos pie put in a cooker with the lid on, school chum blew his mother's cooker door off and redecorated much of the kitchen.

Wasn't he meant to blow the doors off?

 

[mattonthesea]

Isn't it funny how it's never the person who pays the bills

Or the one who 'isn't able' to replenish the water tank!

 

[Minerva]

Not nearly as explosive as a Fray Bentos pie put in a cooker with the lid on, school chum blew his mother's cooker door off and redecorated much of the kitchen.

Could have been worse; at least he was saved from eating a Fray Bentos pie!

 

[veshengro]

Not nearly as explosive as a Fray Bentos pie put in a cooker with the lid on, school chum blew his mother's cooker door off and redecorated much of the kitchen.

Get a pressure cooker I was advised, like a fool I relented. Moored on a pontoon in the River Fal one frosty day I loaded the cooker with chicken drumsticks , mixed veg and one of those gravy sachets all from Tesco's up the river, topped it up with water and lit the Galley stove.
After some time hissing and blowing steam I guessed the grub was cooked. Pressed the button to release the pressure and yanked the two handles apart...There was a sort of muffled Whoosh! The lid came off and the contents of the cooker sprayed around the cabin, I received a hot gravy shower, my charts (yep I'm one of them) on the Chart Table were fortunately under a plastic cover but Falmouth Harbour was still marked by sliced Carrot buoyage, the Galley clock showed half past Broccoli and the cabin sole was a gravy lake.
I recovered 5 chicken legs, could have sworn there had been 6, and spent over an hour scrubbing everything clean. Later, starving because my dinner had exploded, I decided to make toast. The cabin quickly filled with acrid black smoke after a couple of minutes and realised I had found the missing chicken leg. It had wedged itself up on the centre jets beneath the stove top.
I know now not to be in such a hurry to open the Pressure Cooker, even if I do think the pressure has evened out...

 

[Stemar]

Glad that's something to laugh about now. It could so easily ended with a stay in a burns unit.

 

[veshengro]

Glad that's something to laugh about now. It could so easily ended with a stay in a burns unit.

So true. Fortunately it was freezing on deck so I was well wrapped up, even down to a wooly hat and I had just nipped below to see how the grub was cooking. Left hand suffered for a few days but generally I escaped.

 

[capnsensible]

Glad that's something to laugh about now. It could so easily ended with a stay in a burns unit.

Imagine all those neeps, tatties and wee timorous beasties....