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RE: Cooking with tins? - SarrissUK - 07-02-2022 What's a hay box? RE: Cooking with tins? - PyreneesPlot - 07-02-2022 (07-02-2022, 09:51 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote:(07-02-2022, 08:42 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: I've moved away from always using dried beans and chickpeas and the like because I reckon it probably uses less energy for a factory to produce lots of tins than each home to boil their own. And the costs seem to be about the same. And of course the energy to transport filled tins would be greater than packets of dried! Certainly the costs were lower, to buy not boil, but having switched to an efficient modern electric hob from gas, and added more solar panels I'll have to look again. As an aside, I was appalled to discover that the fridge freezer my mum bought in 2020 was less efficient than the one we bought a decade previously :( RE: Cooking with tins? - toomanytommytoes - 08-02-2022 (07-02-2022, 11:25 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: As an aside, I was appalled to discover that the fridge freezer my mum bought in 2020 was less efficient than the one we bought a decade previouslyIs that going by the efficiency rating listed on the label? They changed the rating system in the UK in 2021, getting rid of the A+++/A++/A+ to D system and replacing it with A to G. Now an appliance which was A+++ will be a B or C. Most freezers are now E or F, with some better ones at C or D, and a few much more expensive ones at A. RE: Cooking with tins? - JJB - 08-02-2022 Perhaps we should have his discussion around electric cars that the world and his wife seem to lauding as eco friendly, notwithstanding the whole life environmental cost of mining, manufacture and recycling. I'm no expert and haven't delved deeply into it but with an old diesel car (bought when the government were encouraging diesel cars) doing about 3K miles a year I'm not in the market to spend out on an expensive leccy one. RE: Cooking with tins? - Vinny - 08-02-2022 (07-02-2022, 10:00 PM)Veggie Wrote: ^^^ "Then of course energy you use at home would depend how cooked. A pressure cooker is far quicker and cheaper than in an ordinary pan."Are slow cookers not a bit dangerous when cooking beans? Aren't they supposed to get up to a high temperature to kill off botulism? Just saying. RE: Cooking with tins? - toomanytommytoes - 08-02-2022 Think it's only kidney beans which you shouldn't cook from dried in a slow cooker, not due to botulism but instead a protein which makes you sick. I find canned beans much harder on my stomach, presumably because they don't soak them before them canning process. RE: Cooking with tins? - Scarlet - 08-02-2022 (07-02-2022, 08:55 PM)Veggie Wrote: I caught a bit of The Food Programme today - about Eco-labelling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014648I would love to find that report....I've a friend that bangs on about plant based....nowt wrong with beans if you don't want meat. I don't use many tins to be honest. I've not bought tomatoes for years....I love beans but I always use my own. What I do use is sweet corn, chickpeas, tuna and I couldn't live without sardines!!! I also buy tinned rice pudding the boys take it windsurfing for carbs. It's so easy in a packed lunch RE: Cooking with tins? - Vinny - 08-02-2022 (08-02-2022, 08:55 PM)Scarlet Wrote:Dunno about that, you can't wack a home made rice pudding.........especially the skin!(07-02-2022, 08:55 PM)Veggie Wrote: I caught a bit of The Food Programme today - about Eco-labelling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014648I would love to find that report....I've a friend that bangs on about plant based....nowt wrong with beans if you don't want meat. RE: Cooking with tins? - Veggie - 08-02-2022 "wack a home made rice pudding"????? Doesn't it get stuck on the walls, in your hair and in dollops on the floor?? RE: Cooking with tins? - Scarlet - 09-02-2022 (08-02-2022, 11:01 PM)Vinny Wrote:I make it very often- but if they decide to go first thing in the morning it takes too long to cook.(08-02-2022, 08:55 PM)Scarlet Wrote:Dunno about that, you can't wack a home made rice pudding.........especially the skin!(07-02-2022, 08:55 PM)Veggie Wrote: I caught a bit of The Food Programme today - about Eco-labelling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014648I would love to find that report....I've a friend that bangs on about plant based....nowt wrong with beans if you don't want meat. |