Comments on: Trouble with ‘taters

By: melanie

melanie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:49:22 +0000

we would end up doing the same thing in reverse of what you did. formulas for metric, via various defunct pages on the tinternet… etc.

Me? I have baked potatoes in the oven. I am over age 18 and learned in the art of cooking. Get a cooking class under you belt. Baked potatoes shouldn’t be a source of angst against Americans or the system.

when was the last time you got laid?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:56:58 +0000

Yes, it is cocking madness for us Americans to still be using this system. Metric is the way to fully go. After living overseas for years I was able to automatically convert everything. Perhaps a measuring revolution is at hand? Or not. We’re stubborn and a bit daft, apparently.

By: StokeyPerson

StokeyPerson — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:25:45 +0000

Worth reading through that lot (just) to get to Loop’s handy hint…thanks Loop

By: greavsie

greavsie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:04:15 +0000

Simple. Buy the spuds by the pound and you can then cook in imperial…..

By: Ladyshambles » Oven Ready

Ladyshambles » Oven Ready — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:14:31 +0000

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By: Loops

Loops — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:10:18 +0000

I prefer to microwave them first and then I cover the skin in butter and bang them into the oven on top temperature until the skin goes crispy – doesn’t take as long for the same result!

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:59:59 +0000

I had a bit of a crush on Ariel (spelling) when I was little.

By: GH

GH — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:16:42 +0000

Hah! Anyone who needs a recipe to make baked potatoes is clearly having problems. If they require one with pictures they’ve been let out early and should be sent back to the padded room. Its as bad as having to read the instructions on a pot noodle or cuppa soup

That said I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the entrance test for our technical support muppets!

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:44:56 +0000

Should have done the search on google.co.UK

Parp.

By: Shambo's revenge

Shambo's revenge — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:00:14 +0000

I still don’t like it, although I am happy with temperature as being an arbitrary scale.

I don’t reckon Fahrenheit would have made very good jackets though, besides mash is best :b

By: Grumpy B

Grumpy B — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:20:29 +0000

Shambo’s revenge asks “why would you put freezing point at 32 degrees, like the wookie defence it just does not make sense”

Well, Danny Fahrenheit said, “lets say zero is ‘bloody cold’ [the coldest winter's day in his home town of Gdansk] and one hundred can be my body temperature.”

OK, as the normal temperature for a healthy adult is around 98.6 F (or 37 C if you prefer)I guess Danny was running a bit of temperature. But that sort of thing can happen if you mess about in snow too long.

So there you have it; 350 degrees Fahrenheit is 3.5 times hotter than a scientist with a fever, relative to a very cold day in Poland. This is a ‘moderate’ temperature – look for the symbol representing three or four sweaty scientist rather than the one that shows they’ve descended into hell (hot).

Now really, was that so difficult?

By: Equine Pimp

Equine Pimp — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:56:09 +0000

Not sure what to apologise for first, spelling Sheppitsgal incorrectly or referencing something as lighthearted as Disney on Angry’s site

By: Equine Pimp

Equine Pimp — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:54:19 +0000

Sheppetsgal – like The Little Mermaid?

By: Sheppitsgal

Sheppitsgal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:37:59 +0000

I use gas. It comes from under the sea.

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:47:48 +0000

Would that be a coffee cup, an espresso cup or maybe een one of those hot chocolate mugs that I got from france?

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:28:19 +0000

A cup is an American measure when cooking. It is the same as one of our mugs – or for a more senior cook, a breakfast cup!

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:59:24 +0000

I understand his pain. Ever see a recipe where they say ‘Use two cups of flour’?

What kind of cup? The FA cup? Will a mug suffice?

Why not use imperial measurements rather than simply taking it for granted that everyone has the same sized cups?

Cunts.

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:43:33 +0000

God help him if he ever wants roasties!

By: Sewmouse

Sewmouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:37:21 +0000

Sounds like someone peed in Phil’s Cheerios.

So now that he knows – one expects Phil will put up his own website on how to bake a potato – because it really shouldn’t be OUR fault that the Euros are too lazy to put one up with C instructions, eh?

By: Z

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:34:38 +0000

Blimey, reading that recipe took almost as long as baking a bloody potato. How about ’scrub, then stab your spuds, shove ‘em in a hot oven, check after an hour and leave a bit longer if they aren’t done’. Even a man could understand that, surely?