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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 18, 2024 17:28:50 GMT
Air fryer seems the thing to try, but Mrs says she's confused by different models and types. Anyone got any tips of what needs to be looked out for...? Mine's a two compartment job, (Ninja Foodi Dual Zone Air Fryer- AF300UK) but you can get ones which are one large single fryer. With two compartments you can cook two different things at different settings. Anyway it seems to do the job. It seems to be the model everyone rates. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 18, 2024 18:56:38 GMT
Air fryer seems the thing to try, but Mrs says she's confused by different models and types. Anyone got any tips of what needs to be looked out for...? I’ve got one that seems to be a clone of a Ninja. It’s got two separate cooking compartments and each could handle a chicken at a push They are truly amazing. They’re not a fryer in any sense, they are a a fan assisted grill. The beauty of it is, they heat up a small area and are therefore preheated far quicker than an oven. My daughter who has a prepay meter says hers is about a quarter the cost of the big oven. We do all sorts in ours. Meat you’d roast or grill. We do have a lot of gadgets, i mean we’ve got an egg boiler and an egg poacher (two different gadgets) but they are USED hell they even wear out !! But honest, the air fryer is probably the most used of the lot. There are a whole pile of tbem. Ours is a simple two compartment fryer, no rotisserie no visible area etc. total 8 litres as two four litre separate compartments each individually controlled. Cost me about £100 - £120. Probably saved us that in electric already |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 18, 2024 18:59:52 GMT
We rarely use our oven . It’s mostly the ninja and the microwave .
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 18, 2024 19:27:55 GMT
Yes the retail parks shafted high streets . They might emerge again with 15 minute cities. I doubt it. Not round here anyway. What used to be suburban shops are now turkish barbers, kebab places and tattoo parlours. There is an asian market but i’m not convinced it caters for brits. Same goes for the dodgy polish sausage shop |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 18, 2024 19:29:33 GMT
Yes the retail parks shafted high streets . They might emerge again with 15 minute cities. I doubt it. Not round here anyway. What used to be suburban shops are now turkish barbers, kebab places and tattoo parlours. There is an asian market but i’m not convinced it caters for brits. Same goes for the dodgy polish sausage shop If they take our cars away then high streets will have to emerge again . |
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Post by ProVeritas on Jul 19, 2024 21:14:45 GMT
Actually, I think the high street has a much bigger problem than poor quality fast food. Amazon and internet shopping, for instance. Ridiculously high rents foisted on retailers by hedge-fund landlords are also a massive factor. All The Best |
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Post by ProVeritas on Jul 19, 2024 21:21:53 GMT
Air fryer seems the thing to try, but Mrs says she's confused by different models and types. Anyone got any tips of what needs to be looked out for...? I bough a mid-range Air Fryer about 18 months ago. A single compartment big enough to take a whole large chicken, and leave room to roast some spuds for the last 20 mins as well (if you par-boil them first. If I was buying one now, with that I have learned over 18 months, I'd definitely go for a twin compartment. And just to save worktop space I'd probably go for one of the Ninja Twin-Stack models. Right now my fav recipe is chicken breast, oiled then coated in flour and seasoning, then approx 16 mins cooking time. Works even better if you can marinade or brine the chicken over night; brining makes a HUGE difference to chicken, gammon etc, have yet to experiment with beef and lamb. All The Best |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 20, 2024 8:44:23 GMT
Actually, I think the high street has a much bigger problem than poor quality fast food. Amazon and internet shopping, for instance. Ridiculously high rents foisted on retailers by hedge-fund landlords are also a massive factor. All The Best Yes indeed, but think why that is. The thing is in a free market everyone is being paid just enough to encourage them to take the work on. So ask why the rents are so high. The answer is ironically the regulations themselves. In a free market, if the rents were too high it would be cheaper to build a new shop or adapt an existing building into a shop.
Around the beginning of the 20c in our town the high street was just being created. We had an old high street and a new one. The old one dates back to the 12c I think, and is hardly used today. It used to run alongside the abbey, so was connected to the church. The new one was just residential buildings where one by one people turned their front room into a shop front. At that time each house was a mini factory, with the wife baking bread and others would make textile products, so in the case they made more than they needed, they would just put the surplus in the front window since all the houses are right next to the pavement. Of course you can't do this anymore, so you as a buyer are essentially forced to pay more money than the hedge funds deserve to be paid for the services they supply. The regulations the Daily Mail keeps asking for to cut sown on all the supposed evil in the world are actually helping the hedge funds stuff the people. This is a form of socialism. Capitalism is as I describe our high street. It was left to grow according to requirements.
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Post by ProVeritas on Jul 20, 2024 8:47:21 GMT
Ridiculously high rents foisted on retailers by hedge-fund landlords are also a massive factor. All The Best Yes indeed, but think why that is. The thing is in a free market everyone is being paid just enough to encourage them to take the work on. So ask why the rents are so high. The answer is ironically the regulations themselves. In a free market, if the rents were too high it would be cheaper to build a new shop or adapt an existing building into a shop.
Around the beginning of the 20c in our town the high street was just being created. We had an old high street and a new one. The old one dates back to the 12c I think, and is hardly used today. It used to run alongside the abbey, so was connected to the church. The new one was just residential buildings where one by one people turned their front room into a shop front. At that time each house was a mini factory, with the wife baking bread and others would make textile products, so in the case they made more than they needed, they would just put the surplus in the front window since all the houses are right next to the pavement. Of course you can't do this anymore, so you as a buyer are essentially forced to pay more money than the hedge funds deserve to be paid for the services they supply. The regulations the Daily Mail keeps asking for to cut sown on all the supposed evil in the world are actually helping the hedge funds stuff the people. This is a form of socialism. Capitalism is as I describe our high street. It was left to grow according to requirements.
Rents are so high because of institutional corporate greed. You can't just continually build new shops, free market or not, we'd run out of land, and we need less land built on so we can increase our energy, food, and fresh-water security. All The Best |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 20, 2024 9:07:20 GMT
Yes indeed, but think why that is. The thing is in a free market everyone is being paid just enough to encourage them to take the work on. So ask why the rents are so high. The answer is ironically the regulations themselves. In a free market, if the rents were too high it would be cheaper to build a new shop or adapt an existing building into a shop.
Around the beginning of the 20c in our town the high street was just being created. We had an old high street and a new one. The old one dates back to the 12c I think, and is hardly used today. It used to run alongside the abbey, so was connected to the church. The new one was just residential buildings where one by one people turned their front room into a shop front. At that time each house was a mini factory, with the wife baking bread and others would make textile products, so in the case they made more than they needed, they would just put the surplus in the front window since all the houses are right next to the pavement. Of course you can't do this anymore, so you as a buyer are essentially forced to pay more money than the hedge funds deserve to be paid for the services they supply. The regulations the Daily Mail keeps asking for to cut sown on all the supposed evil in the world are actually helping the hedge funds stuff the people. This is a form of socialism. Capitalism is as I describe our high street. It was left to grow according to requirements.
Rents are so high because of institutional corporate greed. You can't just continually build new shops, free market or not, we'd run out of land, and we need less land built on so we can increase our energy, food, and fresh-water security. All The Best No the reverse would happen. If a free market, the properties we do have would be fully utilised. It's the regs that prevent many cases of someone who wants to utilise it but is prevented. This makes the cost of property much higher. |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 20, 2024 9:19:00 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges .
It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all.
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Post by bancroft on Jul 20, 2024 10:37:09 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges . It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all. When I was renting in a London Suburb they had a small off-street parking area for a small residential area, Oddbins, Blockbuster, PO, Cleaners, Office Supplies, Newsagent and small supermarket. The council slapped 80p minimum and for every hour, so the locals complained and said most trips were only half hour they got a special rate, first 10 mins free, then 20p for 30 mins and for an hour normal charges apply. I moved so don't know if it lasted |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 20, 2024 12:13:10 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges . It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all. The whole charges thing is idiotic. They want less vehicle use/to treat the motorist as a cash cow but there comes a point where people say: "Fuck it" and just don't go there. And the town dies and the tax take becomes zero. Khanage is doing the same in London. Many tourist areas in the EU are doing the same. It's lunacy. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jul 20, 2024 12:47:30 GMT
Actually, I think the high street has a much bigger problem than poor quality fast food. Amazon and internet shopping, for instance. Ridiculously high rents foisted on retailers by hedge-fund landlords are also a massive factor. All The Best Indeed yes, I agree. |
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Post by ProVeritas on Jul 20, 2024 15:34:40 GMT
Rents are so high because of institutional corporate greed. You can't just continually build new shops, free market or not, we'd run out of land, and we need less land built on so we can increase our energy, food, and fresh-water security. All The Best No the reverse would happen. If a free market, the properties we do have would be fully utilised. It's the regs that prevent many cases of someone who wants to utilise it but is prevented. This makes the cost of property much higher. There is really no such thing as a Free Market, unless you want to abandon all consumer, environmental, financial, legal and democratic safeguards. Those places that have done all of that tend to be backwater, 3rd world economies, overseen by dictators. Not sure why any sane person would want to turn out country into that to be honest. All The Best |
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