Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:54 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Providing you didn't start off with previously frozen chicken

It is OK if the chicken was frozen raw, change the state of it by cooking it and refreezing is fine.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:18 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

It is OK if the chicken was frozen raw, change the state of it by cooking it and refreezing is fine.

I know it'll be ok to eat but the freezing, cooking, re-freezing process must work against the cell structure of the chicken

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:29 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

I know it'll be ok to eat but the freezing, cooking, re-freezing process must work against the cell structure of the chicken

Yeah, the real damage is done when freezing it raw, soups, stews and casseroles should be fine though.

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Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:16 am  

cool. Thanks for that.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:17 pm  

poncy "artisan" bread wouldn't have been up to the job!!

poncy "artisan" bread wouldn't have been up to the job!!

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:23 pm  

Standee wrote: poncy "artisan" bread wouldn't have been up to the job!! Okay. Great story - but a bit crap?

Standee wrote: poncy "artisan" bread wouldn't have been up to the job!! Okay. Great story - but a bit crap?

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:47 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

The first of those self-service Chinese buffet places I ever visited was in the early nineties in Strutton Ground, Westminster.
It was still there and was packed to the rafters last time I passed, a couple of months ago.

I was amused to get a bill there which included a 10% service charge.
For use of the crockery and cutlery presumably.


Anyone been to Cleator Moor, Cumbria?
It's a tiny place consisting of not a great deal more than a couple of terraces of houses.
I drove through it about 20 years ago and was amazed to see it had a Chinese takeaway.
I wondered how they had decided to open up there, of all places.
I mused whether they had looked at a map of Britain with all the Chinese takeaways on it, seen the big gaps in distribution in Cumbria and thought "Aha, a gap in the market, it's Cleator Moor for us !!"

There are loads of Chineese takeaways in Cleator Moor now! It does have an exceptionally good Cantoneese restaurant mind you!

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:06 am  

West Cumbrian Rhino wrote:

There are loads of Chineese takeaways in Cleator Moor now! It does have an exceptionally good Cantoneese restaurant mind you!

A restaurant? Good grief ... it can't be populous enough round there to support it surely?
Is it a sort of destination restaurant where people drive there?

I was up your way recently ... popped into Haigh's in Workington to get stocked up with proper Cumberland sausage.
I love that shop, their sausage rolls are a meal in themselves.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:28 am  

Mintball wrote:

Okay. Great story - but a bit crap?

it was tic, the comedy value that she thinks she can keep the loaf forever!

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:33 pm  

interesting little article http://www.lovefood.com/journal/features/13184/is-dripping-better-than-olive-oil-in-the-kitchen

interesting little article http://www.lovefood.com/journal/features/13184/is-dripping-better-than-olive-oil-in-the-kitchen