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Title: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 16:22:53
As per title😀


Title: Re: Things we can & can't do without
Post by: river monster on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 16:26:36
Swindon Town FC for both..


Title: Re: Things we can & can't do without
Post by: Arriba on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 17:03:20
Women


Title: Re: Things we can & can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 17:04:13
I can't do without booze :pint:


Title: Re: Things we can & can't do without
Post by: Legends-Lounge on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 17:12:52
Women

Way things are going you may have to.


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: JBZ on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 18:55:39
I couldn't do without a motorcycle


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 18:57:13
I don't think we really need a microwave for the use it gets


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: flammableBen on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 18:57:14
This forum. I try and stay away sometimes but I just love you all too fucking much. <3


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Chubbs on Sunday, April 11, 2021, 21:38:04
Women
Can or can't?


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: jayohaitchenn on Monday, April 12, 2021, 06:44:23
I don't think we really need a microwave for the use it gets

Got rid of ours a couple of years ago and never replaced. It's not been missed.


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Bennett on Monday, April 12, 2021, 07:25:08
Got rid of ours a couple of years ago and never replaced. It's not been missed.
Ditto


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 07:31:14
Got rid of ours a couple of years ago and never replaced. It's not been missed.

Ours just sits there on the work too gathering dust!


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: 4D on Monday, April 12, 2021, 07:36:33
Mine gets used daily.


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 07:37:52
Not for jacket potatoes I hope!


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: JBZ on Monday, April 12, 2021, 07:49:09
Couldn't do without our water bath as cooking sous vide is a must


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: 4D on Monday, April 12, 2021, 08:00:49
Not for jacket potatoes I hope!

No. Defrosting, warming stuff, heat packs, salmon  :)


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: horlock07 on Monday, April 12, 2021, 08:11:34
Our microwave is almost solely used these days for warming up cups of tea that our 8 year old asks for then forgets to drink, often warming them 2-3 times before she gets round to drinking them the little bugger.

I am having a serious do I - don't I need it internal debate about BT TV at the moment, rarely watch the football these days, have GCN+ for the cycling so Eurosport is not really vital as I don't watch much Nordic skiing or the Welsh Open Snooker and we rarely watch 'normal' TV live any more, plus obviously with a firestick we can watch via iplayer if we wanted to, thus at the moment is an expensive hard drive recorder and that's about it.


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 08:21:21
Microwave is used about as much as yours and have just recently cancelled BT Sport due to the rubbish on there plus the price hike.


Title: Re: Things we can or can't do without
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 08:27:57
No. Defrosting, warming stuff, heat packs, salmon  :)

I sometimes heat smoked mackerel but get a right boll*cking for stinking the kitchen out😀


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:02:44
In both of my marital homes, we've never had a microwave.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:04:25
An oven is much more important!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: 4D on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:11:03
In both of my marital homes, we've never had a microwave.

Two wives BO?  :)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:12:17
Two wives BO?  :)

He's dropped himself right in it😀


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:21:17
Two wives BO?  :)

ha, no just the one but 2 different homes. What I think I was trying to say was that before I moved in with the (now) wife (about 8 years or so) I did have a microwave but since then we haven't needed one.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bennett on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:25:36
I am having a serious do I - don't I need it internal debate about BT TV at the moment, rarely watch the football these days, have GCN+ for the cycling so Eurosport is not really vital as I don't watch much Nordic skiing or the Welsh Open Snooker and we rarely watch 'normal' TV live any more, plus obviously with a firestick we can watch via iplayer if we wanted to, thus at the moment is an expensive hard drive recorder and that's about it.
We got rid of our TV when we moved too, being reliant on "players" is really liberating (and it's great never to see the big bang theory "cos it's on")


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: horlock07 on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:44:28
An oven is much more important!

When I first left Uni I lodged with a guy (who was a work colleague then and is now a long-standing friend), he had grown up without a microwave, or in fact a telly. One of the things I bought to the house when I moved in was a microwave, as he had never used one before and assumed it was like an oven, he put a jacket spud in for 50 mins and fucked off to have a bath, when he came to take it out it had shrunk and was glowing like a radioactive walnut!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, April 12, 2021, 09:46:10
When I first left Uni I lodged with a guy (who was a work colleague then and is now a long-standing friend), he had grown up without a microwave, or in fact a telly. One of the things I bought to the house when I moved in was a microwave, as he had never used one before and assumed it was like an oven, he put a jacket spud in for 50 mins and fucked off to have a bath, when he came to take it out it had shrunk and was glowing like a radioactive walnut!

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

At least he would't have needed to use so much butter so healthy all round!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: michael on Monday, April 12, 2021, 10:57:47
For those of you that do not have a microwave, just wait until you hear about Smart Phones, they will blow your mind.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: swindonmaniac on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:16:41
For those of you that do not have a microwave, just wait until you hear about Smart Phones, they will blow your mind.
But how do you open it to put your food in ??


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:18:10
For those of you that do not have a microwave, just wait until you hear about Smart Phones, they will blow your mind.

I bet you have an electric carving knife & tin opener😀


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: swindonmaniac on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:26:56
I bet you have an electric carving knife & tin opener😀
Now there's a thing,  might be able to do without the carving knife but cutting the meat with a normal knife would create massive lumps and chunks of meat on the dinner plates and probably take three times as long.  E!electric tin opener, Never had one.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Batch on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:28:24
My mum has an electric carving knife, well mums do don't they ..

They are great. I can't cut meat for toffee with a normal knife, well not thinly anyway


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:29:29
Both very 1980's although I can see why some use an electric carving knife but whatever you use it's best to let the meat cool rest first.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:29:54
My mum has an electric carving knife, well mums do don't they ..

They are great. I can't cut meat for toffee with a normal knife, well not thinly anyway

😀😀😀


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Panda Paws on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:43:23
For those of you that do not have a microwave, just wait until you hear about Smart Phones, they will blow your mind.

I don't lack a microwave because I'm living in the dark ages, I lack a microwave because their big ugly things that are completely useless. There's nothing a microwave can do better than I can do in an oven.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Nemo on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:49:32
I don't lack a microwave because I'm living in the dark ages, I lack a microwave because their big ugly things that are completely useless. There's nothing a microwave can do better than I can do in an oven.

As a recent microwave purchaser who managed 30 years without one, the singular exception is jacket potatoes being ready in less than a day.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:49:35
I don't lack a microwave because I'm living in the dark ages, I lack a microwave because their big ugly things that are completely useless. There's nothing a microwave can do better than I can do in an oven.

Yep, exactly the same. Or on the hob if reheating something is required.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: michael on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:55:05
Check out the Michel Roux Jr's on the thread here


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Costanza on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:57:35
We have a cheap microwave purchased purely for quick re-heating the kids stuff reasons but we didn't have one for well over a decade and didn't miss it.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:58:49
As a recent microwave purchaser who managed 30 years without one, the singular exception is jacket potatoes being ready in less than a day.

Can you get crispy skins on a jacket in a microwave?


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: pauld on Monday, April 12, 2021, 12:09:06
Air Fryers are the bollocks. That is all.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: horlock07 on Monday, April 12, 2021, 12:14:58
We have twice had to live for c.3 months with a microwave as our only means of cooking when having kitchens extended/altered, with a bit of imagination you can live quite happily with only a microwave, albeit I wouldn't recommend it or the associated washing up in the bathroom sink!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: RobertT on Monday, April 12, 2021, 13:43:44
Air Fryers are the bollocks. That is all.

Got one recently and I concur.  It's like when I got an outside Chimney once and within a few minutes of trying it out I was seriously contemplating taking the fence down to burn it.  With the Air Fryer I'm looking at stuff in the fridge and freezer wondering if it will work.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Nick Bamosomi on Monday, April 12, 2021, 14:54:58
We have twice had to live for c.3 months with a microwave as our only means of cooking when having kitchens extended/altered, with a bit of imagination you can live quite happily with only a microwave, albeit I wouldn't recommend it or the associated washing up in the bathroom sink!

I was about to post on here as that is precisely what we are going through at the moment. Our microwave has become invaluable in the last week for heating up food prepared in advance and frozen. And with the combination oven part it can even produce a crispy jacket on a potato!!

But having to wash up in the bathroom sink is definitely not a high point of our day.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: horlock07 on Monday, April 12, 2021, 15:02:32
I was about to post on here as that is precisely what we are going through at the moment. Our microwave has become invaluable in the last week for heating up food prepared in advance and frozen. And with the combination oven part it can even produce a crispy jacket on a potato!!

But having to wash up in the bathroom sink is definitely not a high point of our day.

I feel your pain!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Shrivvy Road on Monday, April 12, 2021, 15:15:41
Vote for the air fryer here as well


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: JBZ on Monday, April 12, 2021, 16:44:15
A boiling water tap is a good thing


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Monday, April 12, 2021, 17:29:48
Seconded or as they were called, a "Hydroboil".

Cracking for businesses that like to crack the whip and ensure their staff can efficiently use a 10min break to rustle up all manner of powdered based soup or noodles (or a good old brew), without being able to complain about not having time to boil a kettle :)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Flashheart on Monday, April 12, 2021, 17:37:27
Are air fryers any good at making chips?


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: RobertT on Monday, April 12, 2021, 18:20:43
Are air fryers any good at making chips?

Yes, both homemade (just a light covering of olive oil) and frozen (they work best on improving the oven cook chips)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Monday, April 12, 2021, 19:36:25
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*PEDANT ALERT |*| PENDANT ALERT *
*******************************

Surely air fryers are good at cooking chips rather than making chips?  ;)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: RobertT on Monday, April 12, 2021, 20:47:48
Well, no.  You could describe the cooking process as the bit that actually makes a chip, whereas the preparation merely creates a cold sliced potato.  Or, you could have a high end Air Fryer that gets the potatoes out and slices them up before neatly arranging them within itself.  So there.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: 4D on Monday, April 12, 2021, 21:17:06
We have an air fryer. Bacon and fish fingers are ace in it.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Chubbs on Monday, April 12, 2021, 22:10:15
I'm amazed at how many people are sans microwave. How do you heat baked beans? Don't tell me you do them on the stove/hob.



Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Monday, April 12, 2021, 22:12:32
I once heated them in the microwave without covering them......what a mess😀


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 06:32:29
I'm amazed at how many people are sans microwave. How do you heat baked beans? Don't tell me you do them on the stove/hob.

You heat beans in the microwave? You absolute heathen. Next you'll be telling me you do scrambled eggs in the microwave too.

Ours mostly only gets used for defrosting bread.

I have no use for a home phone. Been without one for years now.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Bob's Orange on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 08:20:15
I'm amazed at how many people are sans microwave. How do you heat baked beans? Don't tell me you do them on the stove/hob.



Hardly, the hob would get all messy. In a small pan over a gas heat for a few minutes.

Another thing that just came to mind that loads of people apart from me seem to have. One of those Alexa things. I'm sure they are very handy etc but just seems like unrequired flim flam to me.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Batch on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 08:45:11
Another thing that just came to mind that loads of people apart from me seem to have. One of those Alexa things. I'm sure they are very handy etc but just seems like unrequired flim flam to me.

Ah well, yes and no - for me.

Its bloody useful for listening to things like the radio and spotify. Even the new "dots" are of adequet sound for a kitchen, bedroom and office. I've hooked one up to my very old amp for the living room too.

Outside of that, once the novelty of being able to control your TV, light bulb or plug has worn off I have to say I don't use it for much beyond setting the heating, doing the odd imperial<-> metric conversion and the like and using it as a timer/alarm- even though I can fdo all that on my phone!

I've got 5 dots :)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: jayohaitchenn on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:22:03
I'm amazed at how many people are sans microwave. How do you heat baked beans? Don't tell me you do them on the stove/hob.



Hob you bellend


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: jayohaitchenn on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:22:44
I have no use for a home phone. Been without one for years now.

Literally never had a home phone starting from when I moved into my own place.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Tails on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:32:48
People have home phones? Must be about 12 years since I've ever used one, I just assumed no one else did!

Big fan of microwaves too. I tend to do big batch meals in the slow cooker these days and use the microwave to heat them up. Can see why people would live without them though.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Saxondale on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:39:52
Ive spent 3 months on site for 40 - 50 hours a week.  A microwave has been vital.  As has the toaster.  A steady diet of soup and scrambled eggs with occasional portions of meals from home has kept me from spending a fortune at the petrol station on shit packaged sandwiches and ready meals.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Peter Venkman on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:45:33
Ive spent 3 months on site for 40 - 50 hours a week.  A microwave has been vital.  As has the toaster.  A steady diet of soup and scrambled eggs with occasional portions of meals from home has kept me from spending a fortune at the petrol station on shit packaged sandwiches and ready meals.
How do you make soup in a toaster...asking for a friend :)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Batch on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:45:40
we have a home phone.

mobile blackspot and WiFi calling can be variable

99.9% of the time it's junk calls though


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Saxondale on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:48:32
How do you make soup in a toaster...asking for a friend :)

I knew I was doing something wrong.

I left my sandwich maker at the test centre I was managing.  My successor was making full english breakfasts in it.  Should have taken that as well.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: 4D on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 11:40:54
I have a home phone, I never answer it.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Chubbs on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 15:45:46
You heat beans in the microwave? You absolute heathen. Next you'll be telling me you do scrambled eggs in the microwave too.

Ours mostly only gets used for defrosting bread.

I have no use for a home phone. Been without one for years now.
Oh hell no. I use a microwave for a lot of things. Scrambled eggs is not one.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: ibelieveinmrreeves on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 16:00:26
I cook scrambled eggs in the microwave and I fucking LOVE IT.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: horlock07 on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 16:05:30
Scrambled egg's are a ball ache whatever way you cook them, its poached all the way for me in my special pan!


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Chubbs on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 17:23:16
Scrambled egg's are a ball ache whatever way you cook them, its poached all the way for me in my special pan!

I only do scrabbled eggs when i fuck up an omelet


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Peter Venkman on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 17:29:48
Big fan of microwaves too. I tend to do big batch meals in the slow cooker these days and use the microwave to heat them up. Can see why people would live without them though.
This, my wife batch cooks lots of stuff  then freezes it and we reheat in a microwave as its faster, better and does not dry the food out.

Theres a lot of snobbery in this thread about microwaves.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 18:26:04
Well, no.  You could describe the cooking process as the bit that actually makes a chip, whereas the preparation merely creates a cold sliced potato.  Or, you could have a high end Air Fryer that gets the potatoes out and slices them up before neatly arranging them within itself.  So there.

You'll be a heathen in the US, what with chips being crisps! They'll say...

"You cook chips (crisps) in an air fryer, Rob?!"

 The disbelief ;)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 18:31:05
Like BO I don't see any need for an Alexa or whatever but tons of my family do.

Chubbs...beans...I bake mine  ;)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Legends-Lounge on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 18:45:12
Like BO I don't see any need for an Alexa or whatever but tons of my family do.

Chubbs...beans...I bake mine  ;)

Bought my Mrs an Alexa globe thingy for her birthday back in January. Fucking amazing sound for such a small piece of electronic wizardry. Disappointed I cannot get any BBC radio stations on it though.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Batch on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 20:10:14
you can get BBC stations on Alexa. Or are you not in the UK?

"alexa play radio 4"

plays through bbc sounds.

you may need to activate the BBC sounds skill in the Alexa app


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: 4D on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 20:17:18
People have home phones? Must be about 12 years since I've ever used one, I just assumed no one else did!

Big fan of microwaves too. I tend to do big batch meals in the slow cooker these days and use the microwave to heat them up. Can see why people would live without them though.

Does 'big' batch like your cooking?  :)


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Batch on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 20:25:36
marvelous stuff


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Panda Paws on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 09:05:22


Theres a lot of snobbery in this thread about microwaves.

It's not snobbery to say that, in my opinion, they are massive ugly things that don't bring me value and I've never once wished I had one. That's just a different opinion to you.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Berniman on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 09:39:27
The title of this thread is starting to feel relevant about the club I have supported since i was a kid unfortunately


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Jimmy HaveHave on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 09:40:29
Let's hope we don't become the next Bury.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 13:04:33
No microwave snobbery from me. They are useful at times. I use mine to keep my football boots warm...

I hear David Flitcroft likes to put his head in one.


Title: Re: Things we can't do without or have no use!
Post by: Tails on Thursday, April 15, 2021, 08:29:11
It's not snobbery to say that, in my opinion, they are massive ugly things that don't bring me value and I've never once wished I had one. That's just a different opinion to you.

Exactly what a microwave snob would say!