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I don't know his name, or anything about him really. I like the weird food.

They made a series of this? I saw the one-off Edwardian special they made years ago and enjoyed it muchly.

Also, Giles Coren once snubbed RemovedByRequest, so he can't be all bad.

Yes, er... a Tudor one, French revolution one (last night) and next week it's the roaring 20's.

What happened to last weeks. The Foxsat box reported an error with the recording and it isn't on Iplayer. It was due to be the 1950's.

No idea, didn't watch that one.

Think there was tennis related disruption last week.

Bloody tennis. Why not stick the tennis on BBC 3 eh?

Can girls receive BBC3?

Yeah I was shocked by how watchable it was as I had low hopes fo it based on that publicity clip of gappy tooth woman leaping out of a van John Woo style.

The whole midwich cuckoos thing was actually quite sinister.

There's a really dirty joke there somewhere, so just assume I said it.

spoliers!!

That's only stuff from all the trailers. I don't think it's revealing anything of the plot.

There is two bloke's kissing in it though so look out for that near the end if you need to look away uncomfortably.

A guy I know watched this by mistake, and realised that it was the elephant he adopted for his daughter some years ago. He's checking whether it came with a warranty.

you sure????

Who looks after food hygiene in the hivemind? I cooked a chilli con carne on Friday night; it has been in the fridge since. If I eat it tonight (thoroughly warmed) will I die?

Two chances.

5 days is on the edge of dubious, but I'd eat it. You want it well heated though. At least 20 minutes on the hob - add some water as it'll have thickened up too much to heat through easily. If there's rice with it, chuck the rice and make new.

Has anyone here taken Paroxetine before?

If so, how did it go for them?

Just had a spectacularly arsey email from an actor demanding to know the outcome of his audition at the end of June.

Thing is I haven't held any auditions, and don't have a bloody clue what he is talking about.

Actors = uppity lazy cunts.

Good enough for me. Aye, all this is a given. I very rarely keep rice, because I know it's difficult to refrigerate, and I've never bothered to memorise how you go about not poisoning yourself with it.

Obviously you have to tell him he got the part.

CRASTER POSTER GIVES GOOD DOCTOR THE SHITS

Press conference about, ooooh, 6am tomorrow morning?

Unless you've got a completely girly-man stomach, you should be able to happily eat any cooked refrigerated food that doesn't actually smell bad or have mould on it.

If he was a real doctor you think he'd be taking health advice off some badger fanatic on the internet?

They carry diseases you know.

Email him back and tell him he's made the second audition but the part has changed a bit and he's required to turn up wearing a Scooby Doo fancy dress outfit.

That is usually my rule, actually. But for once I thought I'd check. One day I'm going to read a book on food hygiene so I can use FACTS AND SCIENCE.

We long ago established I am a Ross-from-Friends type doctor, not a real doctor.

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Want. The other t-shirts on that site (bottom right) look ace too.

Just had a reply from uppity actor apologizing and saying he searched for a certain company but I came up top so he emailed me.

Yeah, because that's how the internet works. I assume I've now had to pay for his stupidity via either Yahoo or Google. Grrrr,

I have an incredibly lax approach to food hygiene, mind. I don't so much have a '15 second rule' as a 'hasn't gone cold yet' rule. I credit this with building up my immunities and never getting ill.

FACTS and SCIENCE have no place in the ART OF COOKING AND FACE-STUFFING, man. SCIENCE kills ART. Food made with SCIENCE ends up tasting like snail porridge.

That would be funny until about the third time that you have to explain it to someone.

They really don't.

Well played. But I'd wager Blumenthal has made more money from food than you ever will, hmmm?

Same here. I'm pretty tolerant of stomach bugs, by and large (hell, I eat a lot of spicy food with after affects that aren't really distinguishable from minor food poisoning anyway). It's rare food hangs around in my fridge this long; the last pot of chilli was behind some bottles of cider and I forgot about it.

The statistical snobbery one even has a fucking typo on it.

Totally disagree. The only thing that better blends science and art than cooking does is that experiment where they see what kind of webs spiders make when they're ripped off their tits.

How much of that is down to being a canny publicist, and how much due to how good the food tastes? People are notoriously easy to sway with fashion and hype and marketing.

Someone explain this one to me:

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/statistical_sno ... 3201199033

It has a typo.

I haven't seen that one. Note they are user-contributed, so I suppose typos are inevitable.

Also, I'm with Craster on cooking being a perfect art/science blend. I am totally going to copy how Blumenthal keeps cooking oils in his kitchen: a row of proper chemistry bottles with ground glass stoppers.

That's not a typo, that's "using the wrong word".

They got "don't" and "you" the wrong way round. That's a typo.

EDIT - it would have been funnier if I'd said something like "they mean X/Y, not Y/X! Oh, the sillies". but I've missed my chance now.

Disagree. Typo's are typing mistakes, like hitting g instead of h. Anyway, they should have had "what part of" at the top.

Technically, yes, vernacularly, no.


Means the same.

I have been building up my kitchen science collection. The wife bought me a massive tome all about they way they do loads of the stuff at El Bulli - after about 50 attempts I have successfully managed to produce shots of melon soup with bubbles of bacon juice floating in them, which is ultra-awesome.

HOLY SHIT. WANT. HOW DO YOU DO THIS.

I've had this on my To-Buy list for ages. It's supposed to be a very good book.

It's worth noting for people who don't realise that Blumenthal, whilst the most famous of these kitchen scientists, is far from the first, or the most prominent, to play in these waters. He often collaborates with various physicists and chemists from academia to come up with new techniques (and, to be fair, he does cite them correctly).

That's the best kind of correct, my friend.


Except it then makes sense.

It's fucking sweltering in the office, but I'm not allowed to open the window because the new girl is "cold". She even has a fleece on.

Indeed, but given that I couldn't be arsed to type out "mistake" rather than "typo", and you still knew what I meant, I win.



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It makes sense both ways round, dude. Defence exhibit the first - I understood what it meant.

It had become sentient and was hiding from you.

So, if it's living, I can slaughter and cook it all over again and everything will be fine? Right?