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Post by smokey on Jun 2, 2014 20:25:31 GMT 10
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Post by davo on Jun 3, 2014 8:28:18 GMT 10
Hahaha funny article Smokey.....yeah guys can get quite anal about this stuff.....I was just thinking when reading it that when Heston's Souz Vide came about on telly a couple of years ago and it really took the fancy of the guys on the other forum, I was seeing what this article was about. I must say though, with the current new realisation of healthy food and cooking lead by guys like Jamie Oliver just to name one I guess, it's good that vegetables and fruit are seeing bigger roles into the modern diet. I too am eating a lot more veggies than I normally used to and are enjoyng them more now that I'm steaming them as apposed to other techniques. I'm also veggie juicing and blending a lot more nowadays. Blending gives you the fibre as well as the nutrients and juicing just give you the nutrients. I've never been much good with salads  cheers Davo |
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Post by Gus65 on Jun 3, 2014 9:19:37 GMT 10
Absolute cracker of an article.
I sat here reading that and thought "I resemble that remark". Not all of it (haven't go a sou vide yet) but definitely some of it.
Interesting to see how the article would have been written if it was about guys spending hours watching sport, porn or tinkering with cars.
Often heard comments at home about getting a hobby that doesn't involve work and now that I have, I get comments like in the article (does everything have to have smoke on it) and the occasional "how long till dinner, I'm hungry".
Just goes to prove that some people arent happy if they can see that we are.
Gonna do a Bo Ssam next.
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Post by davo on Jun 3, 2014 11:22:11 GMT 10
I was just having a think about this and took my mind back to my school days in the 60's & 70's where if a boy went to do home economics class with a classroom of girls, you would've either been considered a girl or a poof or both :Dand got a right royal bashing in the playground for it as it was just not a thing boys did and if I remembered correctly, there were some options at High school that had in brackets...(girls only) just like in metalwork or woodwork had (boys only)....now political correctness was yet to be heard of in Australia and so descrimination was not only happening, but was expected.....untill some ol bird burnt her Bra and demanded equality.....things turned to change eventually. It was known in the 70's that Chefs were Men and Cooks were women and that women were never to be known as Chefs, our Mums were mostly always the chief cook and bottle washer at home and kids always thought that it was girls that always did the cooking except of course when it came down to the outside BBQ where Mum couldn't even get a look in. She just had to do the salads....and the washing up lmao Now since the power of the Internet, cooking shows on telly and marvellous devices that would make any kitchen look like a commercial job, the male Foodie has emerged. My wife and I have often talked about this and she tells me that in Japan, all Kids learnt home economics at school as it was compulsury subject nationally and it didn't matter what gender you were, you had to learn it and was part of exams. I'm now wishing that it had been the same here but I think it would've been only half hearted.....like everything i guess at school age....the really interested ones will shine and the others couldn't give a rats a... I never learnt to cook for myself till I was about 25 when I first left home and moved to another town to find work, I was living with an Uncle at the time and he asked me if I could cook and that eating out all the time was expensive and I said "ummmm nope" and then he asked if I can use a BBQ and I said "yeah sorta" so he said it's a similar principle but your burners are on this stove (was a gas cook top) and so I made a few blackened offerings lol and he was telling everyone down at the pub that he used to have a set of shiney saucepans...now they're all Black!! cheers Davo |
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Post by chrisg on Jun 3, 2014 19:24:55 GMT 10
 Not made a venture into SV as yet, can see the appeal but, well, just but...  In my family although I doubt any of us realised it at the time it was different, both my parents cooked, dad being the gun at roasts and mum anything involving bakery and finesse So with five of us, two siblings of each, we all learned to cook to some degree. Dad learned in the army I think, legends say after he was pulled from bomb disposal they asked if he could cook and being he used to peel the veg he said yes (eight kids in his family, the boys were the better cooks ) My mum's side although she would deny it were part Romany, all gypsies cook, so we were fated from the start. Funny how it has worked out though, we could open a family restaurant. I get real involved in creating, my next brother is a mean one with things like kidney sortes, and a wine buff, my next sister is a jack of all trades, the next is similar to me and my youngest brother is a gourmet bushie he has about three bbqs, all home made, he's a welder and hunts or fishes most of his protein and tends a mean veg garden - he got that from dad. Not exactly the norm I suppose. My first wife was a home economics teacher, we did get on very well in the kitchen But I've pretty much always been the cook, its an enduring hobby. I found it a little jarring to arrive in the culinary wasteland of Australia in the 70s to be honest - the food scene in the UK, contrary to myth, was way ahead The salvation was finding the ethnic side of Australia, which has of course blossomed, with all due respect to the other States I came to SA and I do think it got going there early, in the wine growing areas mainly, but even in Adelaide you could hunt up good suppliers and good food In WA where I live now there has been a different cultural influence, or influences, some European but a lot of South Africa and strangely Canada. ( A Canadian couple I know say Canadians are good cooks from necessity, spending months snowed in  It's all an adventure, and really sexism does not belong in the kitchen but it sure had a stronghold back in the day. Very amusing article, I may get into SV, but I wont be using it to boil eggs, although this week's local paper had an amusing article on how even the "great" cooks can't agree on the best way to do that (I usually steam them in the shell, sue me ) Cheers |
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I may as well be the male modle for this. I showed the Wife just now and got no reaction at all so it must be true 
I may as well be the male modle for this. I showed the Wife just now and got no reaction at all so it must be true 
