Random musings and general banter.

[cheeky chappie]

Can't believe it takes two to demonstrate this pile of View attachment 30115

To be fair though, it's a great price.

Oh wait ...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007322378264.html?src=google

(£11.79 on Ali Express if you don't want to click the link)

 

[Wanderer]

It's lasted you well. What make is it? And with it being early 80s, does it have a turntable?

Frigidaire, if I recall correctly purchased from Iceland. Turntable yes. It has always been lightly used, perhaps a few times per week at best and always had the door left open when not in use.

 

[Battiola73]

+1 any cooked meat that's pink is no good for me - unless its ham. If I ever go out and have a beef roast I always ask for the outside slices.

I do remember once sending back a steak and asking them to butterfly it to cook the inside quicker.

I got fed up sending steak back to be cooked properly. Now have chicken or very often the vegetarian option.

 

[mina]

I like my meat properly dead, too.

 

[Niwa]

Agreed. Unlike a steak which can be rare in the middle, the bacteria is only on the outside.
Whereas a burger is minced meat which has taken the bacterial surface and mixed it up into the pattie, necessitating it be fully cooked through.

Exactly. You phrase it much better than I but that was I meaning.
I like all my food properly cooked, which is why we cook food, to make it easier to digest.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

I also like my meat with a confirmed death certificate in place when it arrives on a plate from the kitchen. Yes, asking for steak 'well done' horrifies people like my partner who has eaten here and abroad in very posh restaurants for decades. She sees me essentially as ruining/cremating the steak - just because I don't want it jumping off the plate and trying to make it back past the the abattoir.... I got loads of problems in the south of France doing that. And in one particular restaurant in Menton, as a culinary punishment, I got some off-cuts of steak, burnt to a perfect crisp, and completely inedible. I now wear them as hiking boots as a reminder not to do that again - particularly in France.