The cooking thread and what are you having for dinner tonight beansnikpoh?

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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Awww man, now I want perfect edge angles...

    Slightly more seriously though, I could shave with a freshly sharpened knife after 5 minutes work. All I really need to do is chop an onion or julienne a carrot.

    Mrs H3 has learnt to live with the sound of steel being drawn across a stone without panicking.

    The fallkniven is rock solid. Doesn't wear away like the japanese water stones. The sapphire ceramic side is nothing short of miraculous for getting a polished edge.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    What a faff ^ . A sharpening steel, that's all you need.

    Bear in mind, I spent a few years in catering.

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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    As if we could forget, Pinno.

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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Pinno wrote:
    What a faff ^ . A sharpening steel, that's all you need.

    Bear in mind, I spent a few years in catering.

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    I appreciate I can be a tw@t, but try sharpening a blunt knife with a steel. If you were in catering, all the knives were rented, and sent to be sharpened weekly, and you just maintained the edge with a steel. A steel will not put an edge on a knife. My brother still works in catering, 22 years under the knife as it were...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    edited January 2019
    Yes, that's all we did - we maintained the edge but what else needs to be done?
    I have 4 Sebatier's of which I have never sent off anywhere. I have had them for years.

    I painted that wagon Bally.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pinno wrote:
    Yes, that's all we did - we maintained the edge but what else needs to be done?

    I painted that wagon Bally.

    Are you Lee Marvin?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    No but I was born in a hospital with revolving doors.
    (You humourless basket).
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    https://www.thekitchn.com/did-you-know- ... ves-211855
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    hopkinb wrote:
    https://www.thekitchn.com/did-you-know-this-steel-doesnt-actually-sharpen-knives-211855

    Well, my mind boggles 'cos my knives cut just fine.
    And since 1991, I have cut myself twice using a kitchen knife for what it's supposed to.
    Ray Orton* showed me how to use them properly and i've never looked back. I think that is the key.

    *Of Orton's Restaurant, 4 Bolton Road, Eastbourne. Now deceased. Very good chef, total tw@t. I learnt so much in a short period of time.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    As long as it works, no need to change!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    hopkinb wrote:
    As long as it works, no need to change!

    I detect something in that but i'll try and take it at face value :wink:
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pinno wrote:
    No but I was born in a hospital with revolving doors.
    (You humourless basket).

    Well it was a choice of Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin.
    Didnt picture you as Clint somehow...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    No but I was born in a hospital with revolving doors.
    (You humourless basket).

    Well it was a choice of Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin.
    Didnt picture you as Clint somehow...

    I'm far more Clint than Marvin. It's the nose you see.

    What did you have for dinner Bally?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Made do with a beef and onion sandwich. Trying to cut down after Xmas and holiday excesses.
    T'was mighty tasty though.
    Oh and I had a Xmas pud with double cream.

    Perhaps I will show more will power tomoŕrow.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Pinno wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    As long as it works, no need to change!

    I detect something in that but i'll try and take it at face value :wink:

    Nah, face value is all that's needed! :D
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Haggis with tatties 'n' neeps Pinno?
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Fcken ready meal lasagne with microwaved veg. Gonna neck a valium and gawp at the box. Friday treat innit. Trailer park style. Shame it isn't oxycodone, and that I can't wash it down with some malt liquor.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Haggis with tatties 'n' neeps Pinno?

    Nah. Fortunately, the best laid plans of mice and men prevailed so instead we ate fried, wee timorous beasties.
    Better than Hoppy's Lasagne I expect.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Home made butternut squash soup with carrots celery and sprinkling of feta cheese.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Home made Pizza with side salad washed down with a surprisingly nice sparkling Australian Chardonnay/Pinot Noir.
    In fact i've broken into it already but the damn dough is taking it's time to rise.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    My next job will be ordering and collecting some Thai take away which I don't mind doing as it's better than Stressbag's cooking :) Just waiting for Lady Muck to place her order...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    She is very cosmopolitan. Surely that lends itself to good cooking.
    Is that why you are such an irksome f*cker?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    Pinno wrote:
    She is very cosmopolitan. Surely that lends itself to good cooking.
    Is that why you are such an irksome f*cker?
    Complete this well known phrase: Assumption the mother of.... :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    ...goats.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    Btw she was born in Tooting. Dead cosmopolitan.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Tooting is one of the coolest places on earth

    https://londonist.com/london/features/i ... s-on-earth
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    (apparently)
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,810
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Btw she was born in Tooting. Dead cosmopolitan.
    Does she know Wolfie Smith?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    Power to the people...

    Oddly, when we drive through Tooting, it manages to do a decent impression of a sh1t hole.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Does Wolfie have a new mota?
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