The problem is this. It's 500 degrees /always/. there is no way to adjust it. how the fuck can you cook at 500 degrees and not burn something?

You're preaching to the choir my boy.

Are you flowing this week?

Ahh, yes, this might be the key then. Ours have a temperature dial.

And yes, I feel very much like I am.

Try this for a dressing instead.

 

1 red pepper, chargriled until the skin is black. Peel off the skin and do it over a bowl so you can catch the liquid that'll run off.

 

Dice it up nice and small.

 

Add to it the following:

 

3tbsp of good quality olive oil (extra virgin. taste some on your finger before you add it, it it makes you go :-& then get some better stuff)

 

1 tspn of a nice melow balsamic vinegar

 

the juice of half a lemon

 

1/2 a tspn of mustard powder (if you can't get that, use a full teaspoon of whole grain mustard)

 

about a teaspoon of honey (if you're a nonce and claim not to like honey, use a wee bit of sugar instead)

 

1 clove of garlic, crushed

 

2 finely chopped spring onions

 

1 tspn dried oregano
about 6 fresh basil leaves, torn up

 

If you want it spicy add some hot smoked paprika or a fresh chilly (chopped).

 

pinch of salt

 

a good grind of black pepper (BLACK pepper, not that shitty evil white stuff)

 

Have a taste and adjust the seasoning as required (more sugar/honey if it's too tart, or if it's totally overwhelming add a bit more oil. try to avoid going too crazy on the salt)

 

give it a good hard mix until it's emulsified, keep it in the fridge and use within a week.

Well, I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.

Yeah here is two pictures I took to show you this fucked up thing. One shows the temp setting. It actually appears to be higher than 500 degrees. The other is the rack.

I've printed that, and next time I'm in the mood for kitchen stuff I'll give it a go! Thanks!

 

And what is a nonce? I like honey, just curious.

That's very strange :?

Why don't they just put normal grills in them :?

There is a pan under that grill to catch the grease, and that's not a bad thing, but like I said it's /fucking/ useless when all you get out of it is charcoal. That's why we have outdoor grills, and that's why you guys call me dumb colonial :-<

Someone who thinks of the children a little /too/ much.

As in a pedophileish way?

And oh - i've not tried that, just probably what I'd do if i was trying to make soemthing a bit like that Kraft stuff, so don't blame me if it's rank :D

Hey, come on now. There are plenty of other reasons for us to call you a dumb colonial /// (hug) ///

Yes.

haha, I'll keep it in mind!

That's probably true. :'-(

 

I think it would be cool if you guys were just down the street, or at least somewhere I could get to by car!

Aye, then we could all come round and laugh at your "broiler" (I refuse to believe that's a real word).

But no, it'd be fun to get together for a barbecue :D

It /is/ a real word! :)

 

Yeah and you could show me the blind, cripple, dart wizard!

I accept that it is a word in another language (American-English) but it still doesn't sound like a real word, even a foreign one.

You know what I really hate? When I meet foreigners who were taught English by Americans. Not the vocabulary and dialect, that's fine, if you're going to speak English you may as well speak the most dominant and widely used form, which is currently American English. But the pronunciation really pisses me off. You'd think a good teacher would teach a neutral (of course that neutrality is only conventional, but it doesn't exist any less for that) accent. I stumbled on this English as a Second Language teaching video the other day and it was an American woman doing the teaching and the subject of the lesson was "pronunciation". I watched the whole thing while going :| and :@ and "no no no no no". She was teaching people to say "can" and "can't" and it was horrrrrrrrrible. Can was "kaehn" and can't was like "kant". Rather than "kan" and "karnt" as is right and fucking proper.

I wouldn't mind but they're calling this "English" and it just fucking isn't. If you want to call it "American English" and teach those pronunciations then that's fine. But if you're calling it "English" then teach fucking English pronuncifuckingations you cuntfuck fucks.

I blame you entirely of course.

lol of course it's my fault!

 

I probably say it the way that lady was teaching it.