I use boiling bags all the time. The same kind that they use for frozen foods. Came with a vacuum sealer machine. They aren’t especially cheap, but they are convenient for leaving after school meals for the teens.
In a somewhat humorous turn, I didn’t have the soap for the dish-washing-machine. So I figured I’d use regular dishwashing soap like Dove. I thought better of it and decided not to try it.
I learned later (from this board) that my kitchen would be full of suds! :eek: Whew!
Good one- that sounds like the way I made butter with my son’s kindergartener class:
each child got a small tupperware with 1/2 cup cream. We all sat in a circle and passed the containers around from child to child singer the butter song (this is the way we make the butter, make the butter etc).
Poof- the emulsion collapses and you have a chunk of butter. Pass out the crackers!
Adding some vinegar to the boiling water does not help poached eggs keep their shape. It only makes them taste vinegary. The only way to end up with a plump, oval poached egg is to buy newly-laid eggs directly from someone who keeps chickens. That way you know they haven’t been sitting in a refrigerated warehouse for two or three months before you buy them.
(Stale eggs tend to squish out flat and thin in the bottom of the saucepan, or go into millions of little webby strings in the water. Ick.)
teela brown, that’s exactly what I was going to say. I’m a pretty competent cook, but I can’t poach an egg properly to save my life.
I’ll throw in the one about washing a skunked dog in tomato juice. All my parent ended up with was a slightly less smelly pink poodle.
They likely gave you the key combination that called back the last caller. They send it from a number that is a toll number, and you’re charge $10 - $100 a minute if they or a machine picks up.
“Just believe in yourself and you can achieve anything.”
Ignore them and they’ll go away. - No explaination needed.
Build it and they’ll come. - There are a few businesses that wouldn’t agree with that.
Where the north begins. - Many places use that slogan. Only a sign at the south pole can claim it as true. It was off catagory, but I had to say it.
I tried this too (poached eggs on buttered toast or english muffins are a favorite)
and had no luck at all. Increasing the dosage just seemed to dissolve the whites if anything.
Heloise and her daughter have repeatedly chirped that the way to light candles in deep candleholders, or light fires in fireplaces, is to light a piece of long spaghetti. I have tried this several times, and all I end up with is raw spaghetti pieces with charred ends.
For a while, I was using those fireplace matches, which are wooden matches of normal diameter but about a foot long. Now I use those long gas lighters.
I used spaghetti for lighting candles as a kid. many times you ended up with one inch pieces of blackened spaghetti in the bottom of the candle. I made a new candle lighter. I took a stick, attached a paper clip to it, and put a match in the paperclip. Now I use the long gas lighter from the store.
If you drink enough you will drink your self sober.
If you have frost bite rub the affected area with snow.
If you burn/scald yourself put the affected body part onto something hot.
Its pointless doing last minute revision just before you go into an exam.
If you are going to have a real fight with a martial artist, bow,out of etiquette your opponent will bow in return and as he does so he will take his eyes off of you and you can kick him in the nuts.
If you drink a pint of beer through a straw you will be drunk by the time you have finished it.
Never explain ,never apologise ,your woman will love you al lthe more for it.
If you can wiggle your toes then they are not broken.
In very hot conditions only take small sips of water as infrequently as possible.
You can train through injuries.
These are all pieces of advice that have been given to me in the past by apparently intelligent adults and they are all total tripe.
Feeding a 4 month old formula mixed with cereal in a bottle will help them sleep through the night. nope. just made for a gassy, grumpy 4 month old with my kid.
any of the “Dryer Sheet Secret Uses” nonsense.
G.K. Chesterton had the best take on this philosophy:
"Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, “That man will get on; he believes in himself.” And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written “Hanwell.” I said to him, “Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.” He said mildly that there were a good many men after all who believed in themselves and who were not in lunatic asylums. “Yes, there are,” I retorted, “and you of all men ought to know them. That drunken poet from whom you would not take a dreary tragedy, he believed in himself. That elderly minister with an epic from whom you were hiding in a back room, he believed in himself. If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter. Actors who can’t act believe in themselves; and debtors who won’t pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness. Believing utterly in one’s self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has `Hanwell’ written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus.”
The omelet thing does work, but as others have mentioned, you need to use freezer bags (quart size work really well). Write on the bags with a Sharpie marker so that you know whose is whose. Also, if you are camping (or living) at high altitude, it will take longer to cook. I love to put cheese in those, because it gets mixed in the eggs. Yum!
We tried to make breakfast in a paper bag while camping last year (got the idea from a scouting website), and that pretty much failed miserably. The idea is that you line the bottom of the paper lunch bag with bacon, and then you put a layer of frozen hash browns and crack two eggs on top. Then you fold over the bag and poke a green stick or weenie fork through the folded part, which was quite difficult because there were so many layers of bag. Then you hold the bag over the fire…and wait and wait and wait, and hold it closer to the fire…my husband’s bag fell into the fire, but he managed to save it. We kept having to open the bags to see if the eggs were done, and by that time the bacon was well past crispy and the some of the potatoes were starting to turn black. It was edible (barely), but it took way too long. The bacon grease does keep the bag from burning, but it’s just not very practical.
And, yes, Harmonious Discord “ignore them and they’ll go away” is the worst advise ever.
Or the dreaded, “Just be yourself”. Told mostly to those with difficult social situations.
“Put toothpaste on a pimple, it’ll clear up over night!” “Uh, didn’t work? Well make sure it’s really paste, not the the gel kind.” Nope, I’ve tried it more than once and the pimple just laughs at you. Not to mention that they now think whitening toothpastes cause pimples…
I was going to chime in with this one…when I’m ‘myself’ people run. Quickly.
It’s not a scam (and even if it was, there are no phone numbers that charge at “$100 a minute”, assuming you are talking US dollars and not Zimbabwean dollars!
It’s just a misunderstanding. See Do Cell Phones Have These Five Lesser-Known Features? | Snopes.com
However, whoever wrote it screwed up and actually gave the code for the enhanced full-rate codec, which cuts talk time.
Hey, now! Stuffing a paper towel tube full of dryer sheets and exhaling marijuana smoke into it does indeed make it very difficult to detect any odor in the room, even to nonsmokers! And rubbing a dryer sheet on the cat does reduce static in her fur. I don’t think I’m familiar with any other uses, except, y’know, in your dryer.