*snickers*

[conuly]

You brits...

How do you boil water? I'm reminded of the classic complaint "he doesn't even know how to boil water". *grins some more at the silliness*

Although, honestly, I hope youse guys never lose power over there. You'd be helpless. Apparently.

Edit: Actually, this reminds me of the time I slept over at Lizziey's and made pancakes. All the time, Kassondra (whose name I never can spell) was going on and on about not having pancake mix and I was just grabbing the flour and salt and baking soda and whatnot.

Comments

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

...I had no idea that Americans didn't have electric kettles. I'm amazed. Heh. That's destroyed my childhood illusion of America as a land of luxury.

I can remember when we didn't have one, years back, and boiled a whistling kettle on the stove instead. Am fairly sure it wasn't as fast as the electric kettle, but all I can really remember is my mother being irritated by the whistle.

Actually, my flat here has an electric cooker as well as an electric kettle, and no open fire. I'm technically helpless if the power goes out, I suppose, but don't often have a use for boiling water.

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Wow. The kettles thing is actually really weird. But I feel the need to add that mum ditched the electric kettle a few years ago for a whistly hob that goes on the hob, because it looks cooler, she likes the sound, and it ends up with less horrible limescaley white stuff in it.

As for the pancake thing: we hardly ever do stuff like cake mix on packets. And those of us that don't look down on those who do, because we are Horribly Smug And Domesticated.

(Also, wtf is up with meaturing things in cups and having sticks of butter? It makes it such an arse to translate an American recipe!)

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on pancakes, though. I've never eaten pancakes made with pancake mix, and am vaguely disturbed by the concept. Keep meaning to gather ingredients and make some here.

European Quisene

[evilsibe.livejournal.com]

All recipies :

-Step 1
Boil Water

Re: European Quisene

[conuly]

Never "preheat oven"?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I remember a particularly stupid commercial showing the kids making the parents breakfast in bed, including orange juice and blueberry pancakes, and just as the father is about to eat some, the mother whispers, "Uh, honey...we don't have the stuff for pancakes."

How do you not have the stuff for pancakes? They're milk, eggs, flour, leavening. I happen to prefer buttermilk, which we do run out of from time to time, but jeez.

And I boil water by putting it in a teakettle and lighting the burner on my stove. (I did once spend $40 on an electric teakettle and it lasted for a couple months before dying. Primitive, my aunt Fanny.)

[conuly]

If you don't bake much, you might not have flour or baking soda.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Well, at least for me:

I don't drink milk, so any milk in the house is a) purchased by my roommate, or b) purchased specifically for cooking.

I don't usually eat eggs, so ditto the above.

I don't cook all that much, so having flour and/or leavening is going to be rare (although I suspect I have both at the moment).

[scarletdemon.livejournal.com]

When my American friend told me he didn't own an electric kettle I almost cried, I felt so sorry for him. And tea has to be made with BOILING water, not hideous "microwaved" water. You heathens.

[conuly]

I'm stunned that only some people over there have actual coffee pots. Freaks o' nature.

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

Water boils in an electric kettle faster than on the stove, which is why they are so popular over in England, where shops actually close for tea time.

That said, we do not have a coffeepot. We didn't drink coffee until this year (yes, that's 2005-- all 8 days of it), and when we do, we go for the funnel/filter/thermos method of brewing coffee, using the teakettle to boil the water. I kept wanting to have a coffeepot, but our kitchen storage is pretty limited, and we just didn't have room for one more small appliance like that (the new bread machine is going to replace an existing bread machine). So, funnels and filters, which take up much less space than a small electrical appliance.

[gilded_lady]

I know someone who was trying to make macaroni and cheese....and forgot to boil the water before she added the pasta!

So people can apparently forget how!

*waves* I'm visiting semirhage527 friend's list for the day through the lj friends-list swap.

the power thing

[farraige.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that, because at the moment an entire city of Carlisle is left without power due to terrible flooding. Some streets are submerged under 7ft of water. I guess the population of Carlisle are having to make do without their comforting tea... poor people.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I have an electric kettle but it is used so little, I'm buying the kind that sits on the stove when it dies.

If we were in a blackout, I'd use a billy or appropriate sized receptacle on the BBQ or even on a fire if I wanted hot water badly enough.

I'm a throw-together cook. I rarely bother to measure accurately but apparently, I'm very good at measuring with my eyes as stuff always turns out.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I use an electric jug kettle. When the power went out, we put a saucepan on the gas hob. I have a whistle kettle but the whistle irritates me. My mother has an electric kettle that doesn't turn itself off. It's not broken, just how it was made. Sort of defeats the object really, in my mind.

I have a friend and her daughter wouldn't believe you could make pancakes or Yorkshire puddings from anything other than the packet mix. I mean, flour is pretty cheap if you buy own brand (23p) add the rest of the stuff, it's still cheaper than the 90p+ that you pay for the packet mix. And you still have to add an egg and milk to the packet. Doh.

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

...I had no idea that Americans didn't have electric kettles. I'm amazed. Heh. That's destroyed my childhood illusion of America as a land of luxury.

I can remember when we didn't have one, years back, and boiled a whistling kettle on the stove instead. Am fairly sure it wasn't as fast as the electric kettle, but all I can really remember is my mother being irritated by the whistle.

Actually, my flat here has an electric cooker as well as an electric kettle, and no open fire. I'm technically helpless if the power goes out, I suppose, but don't often have a use for boiling water.

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Wow. The kettles thing is actually really weird. But I feel the need to add that mum ditched the electric kettle a few years ago for a whistly hob that goes on the hob, because it looks cooler, she likes the sound, and it ends up with less horrible limescaley white stuff in it.

As for the pancake thing: we hardly ever do stuff like cake mix on packets. And those of us that don't look down on those who do, because we are Horribly Smug And Domesticated.

(Also, wtf is up with meaturing things in cups and having sticks of butter? It makes it such an arse to translate an American recipe!)

European Quisene

[evilsibe.livejournal.com]

All recipies :

-Step 1
Boil Water

Re: European Quisene

[conuly]

Never "preheat oven"?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I remember a particularly stupid commercial showing the kids making the parents breakfast in bed, including orange juice and blueberry pancakes, and just as the father is about to eat some, the mother whispers, "Uh, honey...we don't have the stuff for pancakes."

How do you not have the stuff for pancakes? They're milk, eggs, flour, leavening. I happen to prefer buttermilk, which we do run out of from time to time, but jeez.

And I boil water by putting it in a teakettle and lighting the burner on my stove. (I did once spend $40 on an electric teakettle and it lasted for a couple months before dying. Primitive, my aunt Fanny.)

[conuly]

If you don't bake much, you might not have flour or baking soda.

[scarletdemon.livejournal.com]

When my American friend told me he didn't own an electric kettle I almost cried, I felt so sorry for him. And tea has to be made with BOILING water, not hideous "microwaved" water. You heathens.

[conuly]

I'm stunned that only some people over there have actual coffee pots. Freaks o' nature.

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

Water boils in an electric kettle faster than on the stove, which is why they are so popular over in England, where shops actually close for tea time.

That said, we do not have a coffeepot. We didn't drink coffee until this year (yes, that's 2005-- all 8 days of it), and when we do, we go for the funnel/filter/thermos method of brewing coffee, using the teakettle to boil the water. I kept wanting to have a coffeepot, but our kitchen storage is pretty limited, and we just didn't have room for one more small appliance like that (the new bread machine is going to replace an existing bread machine). So, funnels and filters, which take up much less space than a small electrical appliance.

[gilded_lady]

I know someone who was trying to make macaroni and cheese....and forgot to boil the water before she added the pasta!

So people can apparently forget how!

*waves* I'm visiting semirhage527 friend's list for the day through the lj friends-list swap.

the power thing

[farraige.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that, because at the moment an entire city of Carlisle is left without power due to terrible flooding. Some streets are submerged under 7ft of water. I guess the population of Carlisle are having to make do without their comforting tea... poor people.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I have an electric kettle but it is used so little, I'm buying the kind that sits on the stove when it dies.

If we were in a blackout, I'd use a billy or appropriate sized receptacle on the BBQ or even on a fire if I wanted hot water badly enough.

I'm a throw-together cook. I rarely bother to measure accurately but apparently, I'm very good at measuring with my eyes as stuff always turns out.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I use an electric jug kettle. When the power went out, we put a saucepan on the gas hob. I have a whistle kettle but the whistle irritates me. My mother has an electric kettle that doesn't turn itself off. It's not broken, just how it was made. Sort of defeats the object really, in my mind.

I have a friend and her daughter wouldn't believe you could make pancakes or Yorkshire puddings from anything other than the packet mix. I mean, flour is pretty cheap if you buy own brand (23p) add the rest of the stuff, it's still cheaper than the 90p+ that you pay for the packet mix. And you still have to add an egg and milk to the packet. Doh.