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Yup, one needs to be careful with the heat (I wasn't), so the application of the gas-torch can rescue the situation without killing the holes ????

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Yup. And totally, completely and utterly delicious ????

I know you can buy them here, but I fancied a spot of DIY on the crumpet front and they're not exactly difficult! Ingredients are simple and were already in-stock. Recipe - https://www.warburtons.co.uk/news/crumpet-recipe-revealed/ From the linked web page. I doubled the quantities (to make 12) expecting to freeze some. Ingredients (makes 6 crumpets): 150g plain white flour 200ml water ½ tsp salt ½ tsp sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp dried yeast Method Stage 1 – How to make the Crumpet Batter… Add Flour, Water and Salt to a mixing bowl Mix vigorously with a whisk until your arm aches (at least 5 minutes) to create your crumpet batter Mix a few ml’s of water into to your dried yeast Add sugar, baking powder and yeast mixture to bowl and mix for another 30 seconds until you have a clear batter (and your arm aches even more!) Cover mixing bowl and put into a warm place for 15 mins (Top tip – make sure your mixing bowl is bigger than you need as it will expand) Stage 2 – How to bake your crumpets… Place a greased metal biscuit cutter (any shape cutter you have to hand will also do the trick) into the middle of a non-stick frying pan Pre-heat your frying pan on a hob on a medium-high heat setting Before you start, give your batter a stir to remove any large air bubbles Use a ladle to drop approx. 60g batter into the cutter inside the pan Wait for approx. 4 mins – carefully lift the ring off the crumpet Remove baked Crumpet from pan (if the top looks a bit gooey flip over in the pan for a few seconds) Cool Repeat the above to make as many as you can eat! Toast and enjoy with butter, or anything else you fancy to top off your dough-licious bake… The mix after standing, looks promising for the holes: - First ever batch in the griddle: - first ones were a bit thin (half-filled egg ring) they didn't rise as much as I thought. Next lot were thicker but started to burn on the bottom before the top set, flipping them destroyed the holes (so less butter would fit) but still the airy texture inside ???? Total made 16. Hint, if they start burning on the bottom before the top sets, head out to the shed and get the gas-torch. That will cook/set the top without destroying the holes. Not totally perfect on the aesthetics front, but tasted just fine. Visiting family weren't too sure about butter, but have scarfed the lot with ketchup! So, none got to the freezer.

If you ask the AseanNow ChatGPT it will tell you (in complete contravention of the forum rules) how to kill the ads.

Sooooo, the burning question, was this an April Fool or is truth stranger than fiction?

Pizza Quatro-Formaggi (4 cheese), usually with gorgonzola but a decent blue cheese would work for me ???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_quattro_formaggi

Blue cheese and ready-made pizza bases on Lazada (no idea what they're like, I expect Makro have them too). Oven of course, it really needs to go HOT! Lazada. You will also need a baking sheet that fits your oven (and the bases), Lazada again. Do post your results!

Which one was that again?

I'll report the error to the developers. Just can't get the staff machines these days.

A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. 'Have you ever done anything of particular merit?' St. Peter asked. 'Well, I can think of one thing,' the cowboy offered. 'On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen. So, I approached the largest and most tattooed biker and smacked him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground. I yelled, 'Now, back off or I'll kick the s*** out of all of you! St. Peter was impressed, 'When did this happen?' 'Couple of minutes ago

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I admit it's not my idea. When we built the house our contractor put full width lintels above all the doors and above and below the window openings. 12 years later nothing has moved or cracked ????

Ouch!! Accident or surgery or both??

The smallest blocks should be fine if you render on both sides, the rendering adds a lot of strength. I would make the concrete lintel run the full distance from post to post with re-bar the full length.

Despite a couple of miserable days late spurt saw us zip past the 1MWh generation milestone for March ????

Ask whch provider the local resorts use, I would imagine all the major players are available in the area.

This is a 15 year old thread, to avoid confusion it's now

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I asked the new AseanNow ChatGPT system, looks like I'm redundant ????

I tried it with a real forum question. Looks like I'm redundant!! ???? Getting a beer and my coat

I've been playing with the beast and a question to which anyone who lived through the 80's would know. "What happened on the eighth day?" With just that it fluffed "not enough information" So I added "What happened on the eighth day, Hazel O'Connor" It got the reference, and discussed the song (badly) but didn't actually answer the question. Finally, I asked it "did you know that the answer to "what happened on the eighth day" is "a machine just got upset"?" It didn't get annoyed and nuke us all, but ... Adding Hazel O'Connor got ...