You reuse it a few times but then yeah, you really shouldnt toss it down the drain. Tho I suspect a lot of people did?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
Aussie insurance ad from the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2xalBSGXI
Those are the stuffiest sounding aussies ever?
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
Not everyone speaks like Paul Hogan :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
But yeah the joke when I was a kid was that, heck if your kitchen was on fire you'd hardly go "oh my goodness, the chips!" rather than "OH FUCK MY FUCKING KITCHEN IS ON FUCKING FIRE"
That's what I meant, wasn't talking about enunciation.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
(Obv I was)
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Alarmist PSAs about deep fryers seems
― Je55e, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
Oops
Dropped my phone in a vat of grease.
...seems very niche or like they were made in response to a highly publicized incident, not necessarily b/c there was an epidemic of chip fryer fires. Or was there?
― Je55e, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
how come nobody ever blows up their kitchen frying latkes?
we used to make really good latkes in the oven, using a muffin pan
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
I need to dig that recipe out again and post it somewhere
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
oil down the drain = FATBERGS
they weren't alarmist ads for deep fat fryers
They were for chip pans, which is just a pot with a fryer basket
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
yeah one of the USPs of deep fat fryers was you weren't supposed to be able to burn your house down with them
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
Would love one of those teaspoon of oil fryers but they seem inordinately expensive.Not really heard what the chips etc produced are like.
Also surprised that somebody would buy oven chips then fry them. I thought supermarkets sold precut chips without whatever processing made them oven chips.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
My parents used to own a Zyliss potato chipper (a fantastic piece of early 70s industrial design) and a chip pan (a grease encrusted lump of metal - IIRC it was dark blue and the bakelite knob on the lid doubled as an adjustable vent). The chipper came with two cutters: wide and narrow. My parents never used the narrow one.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Our kitchens in university accommodation were sparsely equipped, but they did provide electric, thermostat-controlled deep-fat fryers, presumably to discourage students from drunkenly using a chip pan on the stove.
They are good for putting fish fingers in. Are fish fingers even a thing in the States?
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Ah, OK, you call them fish sticks. I can't really argue with that.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Or if you're a "South Park" fan, "fish dicks."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link