*Bob*

Another personal recommendation for you, Jeremy: One of these pans. Fantastic! Takes all the guesswork and effort out of knowing when your pan is hot. Perfect for people who 'use pans'.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The rice cooker is definitely the way to go. ... if you don't know how to cook rice. You'll probably be needing one of these to cut your pizza in to slices too.

Is it 'seeing the bank manager' time again, Woof?

bignumber5 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- 45-50 minutes later, eat > rice-included dinner. > > have i missed something? Something nicer than a foul all-steamed dinner, perhaps?

You're not in the Glasshouse or something are you, Brum?

Don't mess with The 'Maker. Anyway, if Sean's Chinese Friends suggested he smeared Oyster Sauce over his genitals and stood naked outside the Co-Op playing 'Chopsticks' on a Melodica, he'd probably do it.

A pestle and mortar. I knew it.

Sounds painful

Anyway Sean, I'm sure your rice cooker looks just fine next to your Juicer, 'Aerolatte' frother, electric tin opener, pestle and mortar and Pampered Chef onion mincer. I expect the National Grid noticeably dips every time you knock-up a light supper.

Have you tried typing 'do Chinese people' into google and seeing what Google's most popular 'suggestions' are? Well worth a try.

For the record: Here's the deal. 1. Boil fourteen pans of water. 2. Place rice in a sieve. 3. Sieve under tap for 9 minutes or until your arm starts to ache slightly - whichever comes first. 4. Place rice into first boiling pan. Boil for one minute. Then sieve and transfer to pan two,three, etc etc. 5. When the rice comes out of the fourteenth pan, sieve again - then transfer to a baking tray. 6. Bake for ten minutes, then sieve. 7. Sieve. 8. Add chopped coriander and one mugful of turmeric. Serve.

Rice cookers are for pansies. Straining should be left for when you're sitting on the toilet. It has no place in the cooking of rice. Similarly, the use of turmeric or oil is nonsense to be avoided.

It's that time of the year again.. when disused shops here and there and everywhere spring to life on short-term lets - and shifty, roll-up smoking behatted chancers peddle their shortarsed spindly twigs at ?30 a pop. Merry Christmas.

Oh come on Hugenot, you might have a two year-old Prius (Hybrid, naturally) in prime condition and a fluorescent waistcoat with 'best practice only' written on the back but not everyone comes up to the mark. So: for everybody who's started their car when it's -5 outside and nipped in to get a defrosting implement, been jump-started after having a flat battery and needed to leave a car running, been working on a engine and needed a tool, or had 'one start' left on the battery and had to go inside to get something you'd forgotten.. I wouldn't leave an engine running under the specific circumstances leading to this loss on this thread, but we've done all the rest and they could just as easily have had the same result.

There's no need for the insurance people to discover the details of this little oversight. Let's just keep it between the 4000 of us.

Jobsworths. Watch out.. Captain Karma is coming for you.

I'll b?t they will

I often used to clip my toenails over an large open book (eg a 1987 Times Atlas of the Word) and then tip them into the bin. However, with the best will in the world I didn't always remember to tip the toenails away, leaving a nasty surprise for visiting babysitters with an interest in Geography. In addition, even if I did the tip the toesnails away, more often than not, one would lodge in the spine of the book and like in wait. Only last week I found a big yellow one due east to the Indian subcontinent which looked like it had been there for some time.

999 Letsby Avenue

Between us, the *Bob*s have occasionally left the car running, the motorbike running, left keys sticking in front door lock for four hours and (my personal fave) doing a full shop at Sainsbos and coming back to find we've left two (two!) car doors wide open. We're the luckiest idiots in town.

These days it's more likely to mean 'just winning something', coupled with a large dollop of Aunty Beeb's worthy piety about giving it to this years Origami World Champion rather than something as tasteless and popular as football or the like. Henry Cooper, Jackie Stewart, Steve Ovett, Ian Botham, Daley Thomson...? or Chris Hoy, Joe Calzaghe, Zara Phillips..?

Burn them

Everyone makes mistakes and (as said) opportunity is the thing. My brother 'got burgled' last week. He assures me he'd only had a few ales.. but it seems that he left his front door open.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why would you leave the engine running ? Why, to make friends with your fellow motorists of course. To brighten their day. After all, everyone loves driving up a road to suddenly find a car blocking the way with its engine running and no-one inside.

We haven't had SE22 Magazine for some time now. I can only assume it must have been something I said.