February 8, 20251 yr An Uber Eats driver who gets £2.50 for one delivery on an illegal e-bike, without any legal protection, and spends all that money on their bike cannot be thinking clearly and should really reconsider their options for earning money. They have, which is why some of them deliver drugs too The uber eats guys kept the country fed during the pandemic, so i wouldnt knock them too much.
February 9, 20251 yr They have, which is why some of them deliver drugs too The uber eats guys kept the country fed during the pandemic, so i wouldnt knock them too much. I have great respect for the courier guys and gals who ride their ebikes in all weathers, at all hours. They have my sympathy, too. They barely earn a crust, just so we can have a warm pizza, but they’re victims of the gig economy that has very serious side-effects for all of ebiking. If e-bike deliveries were to stop right now, we would see an immediate and dramatic reduction to just about everything bad that is happening in ebiking today. Courier riders are the ones either directly or indirectly responsible for: - anti-social and dangerous riding through all our city streets and pedestrian areas - their need for huge batteries is fuelling bike and battery theft - their lack of funds leads to unsafe DIY conversions - their need for rapid charging, unattended over-night at high amperage, is causing fatal fires The crazy thing is, everybody knows this, and multiple laws are being broken all round. We know who and where and why. But seizing and crushing dodgy bikes is not the answer - go to the heart of the problem and crack down on the greedy fast-food empires.
February 9, 20251 yr I have great respect for the courier guys and gals who ride their ebikes in all weathers, at all hours. They have my sympathy, too. They barely earn a crust, just so we can have a warm pizza, but they’re victims of the gig economy that has very serious side-effects for all of ebiking. If e-bike deliveries were to stop right now, we would see an immediate and dramatic reduction to just about everything bad that is happening in ebiking today. Courier riders are the ones either directly or indirectly responsible for: - anti-social and dangerous riding through all our city streets and pedestrian areas - their need for huge batteries is fuelling bike and battery theft - their lack of funds leads to unsafe DIY conversions - their need for rapid charging, unattended over-night at high amperage, is causing fatal fires The crazy thing is, everybody knows this, and multiple laws are being broken all round. We know who and where and why. But seizing and crushing dodgy bikes is not the answer - go to the heart of the problem and crack down on the greedy fast-food empires. So - We have exploitative companies paying paltry wages to delivery people We have bone idle wastrel consumers who drive that business because they can't be bothered to collect their own stuff. We have illegal migrants who supply labour at exploitation wages And we have outlaw, scum teenagers riding around up to no good. The illegal e-bikes are a symptom of other ills, not the cause of them. I'm not sure why Hoppy33 has sympathy for the people who sign up to this mess. Most of them that I see have come here illegally - leaving France to do it. They came through many safe countries on their way here. The principle driver of their journey is that we allow illegal working here and other Europeans countries come down hard on the employers of such people.
February 9, 20251 yr Climate change would be solved easily if enough individuals did what was needed and under their own control without waiting to be forced to. Those ebike issues would also go away if enough people stopped using the delivery services! But as a species and as individuals we are extremely selfish, greedy and competitive, so we do what best suits us in each moment with no thought for the wider consequences. Those traits I listed are necessary for survival in raw nature. A good civilisation would control them to the degree necessary to serve the common good. We are not as civilised as we like to think!
February 9, 20251 yr Author So - We have exploitative companies paying paltry wages to delivery people We have bone idle wastrel consumers who drive that business because they can't be bothered to collect their own stuff. We have illegal migrants who supply labour at exploitation wages And we have outlaw, scum teenagers riding around up to no good. The illegal e-bikes are a symptom of other ills, not the cause of them. I'm not sure why Hoppy33 has sympathy for the people who sign up to this mess. Most of them that I see have come here illegally - leaving France to do it. They came through many safe countries on their way here. The principle driver of their journey is that we allow illegal working here and other Europeans countries come down hard on the employers of such people. You should have sympathy for them. It's not their fault, you have to blame climate change. They know their countries are doomed and France will burn before UK, which is why they have to come all the way here. It must be very worrying for them waiting on the French coast for a crossing, knowing that the flame of climate change is rapidly approaching to singe their backsides.
February 9, 20251 yr The point I make is really that some problems are under our noses and easy to fix with the stroke of a Trumpian Sharpie. If only we had the political will to see it. Has nobody in government joined the dots between our crazy couriers, battery/bike thefts and house fires? It’s as obvious as night follows day. If the price of a warm pizza goes up 50p, I’ll take the hit and maybe delete extra salami.
February 9, 20251 yr You should have sympathy for them. It's not their fault, you have to blame climate change. They know their countries are doomed and France will burn before UK, which is why they have to come all the way here. It must be very worrying for them waiting on the French coast for a crossing, knowing that the flame of climate change is rapidly approaching to singe their backsides. I suppose when you put it like that, we should be kinder and make a huge bridge across the Channel, but mostly we should let the French in, as long as they promise to wash more and clean their clothes. At least they are our neighbours and although leathery skinned, they are probably less used to 'the flame of climate change' than the people who are from the Middle East. I had actually thought of offering sanctuary to Woosh, but then I discovered that he maintains a bunker in the UK - Southend, I think - so you can understand why he has a bunker. He will probably be alright without my offer. My greatest worry is that as the 'flame of climate change' chases more and more people to cooler areas, my traffic free riding and peaceful life at the edge of civilisation up here by Hadrian's Wall will be under threat, and we Northumbrian's will be faced with hordes of displaced southerners. We may have to set too and rebuild the old wall to keep out singed interlopers. It is not a great prospect - we will be sandwiched between them and the Scots. I've read some of their posts on here and I am not filled with confidence.
February 9, 20251 yr The point I make is really that some problems are under our noses and easy to fix with the stroke of a Trumpian Sharpie. If only we had the political will to see it. Has nobody in government joined the dots between our crazy couriers, battery/bike thefts and house fires? It’s as obvious as night follows day. If the price of a warm pizza goes up 50p, I’ll take the hit and maybe delete extra salami. If you make it yourself, you can have an extremely rich and generous pizza for about £2. Flour, yeast, salt, water, tomato pure, garlic, herbs, massive cheese will cost less than £2 - probably well less and taste far better. Mine are big enough to feed three people with good appetites. Problem solved. If you don't want to run the oven for twenty five minutes, you can cook them in a frying pan. Do the first side of the bread base in a hot pan until the bottom of the bread is looking slightly browned, then flip it over and spread the tomato sauce you made from tomato puree, a drop of water, some basil and garlic, when the second side is almost browned, spread copious amounts of hand grated cheese on top in the pan and finish off with a butane plumber's blow lamp. singe until all cheese is fully molten and slightly brown. I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone how to make bread dough. A huge bag of flour costs not much more than a quid - maybe £1.50.
February 11, 20251 yr If you make it yourself, you can have an extremely rich and generous pizza for about £2. Flour, yeast, salt, water, tomato pure, garlic, herbs, massive cheese will cost less than £2 But you cant buy one pizzas worth of each. So maybe 2 quid, but the initial outlay is 10 times that. And if you eat 10 pizzas, your waistline will suffer Whats that weird green stuff you have on the plate next to it ?
February 11, 20251 yr Gotta say those mini-oven style air fryers which use common electric heating elements instead of halogen bulbs cook truly epic pizza, whether cooking pizza made with fresh dough, or heavily processed and frozen - simply preheat to max for a few minutes on "Toast" setting (this switches on all available elements above and below), placing the pizza top oven, and the very rapid result is damn close to what a commercial pizza oven would produce. I'm liking my new ultra efficient and cheapo air fryer a lot, cooks everything well, very versatile. Pizza stone is required for cooking fresh home made pizza, because fresh dough is floppy, but you could part cook the underside of the pizza base on a suitably large cast iron frying pan beforehand, so it doesn't fall through the wire rack, then cook in the oven using only the top heating elements. But you'd get more even far-infrared radiant heat cooking from below using a preheated pizza stone, as there is in a proper wood-fired oven. Alternatively, you could use a baking tray and all the heating elements. This is awful, because now I'm thinking about pizza yet again... Edited February 11, 20251 yr by guerney
February 11, 20251 yr But you cant buy one pizzas worth of each. So maybe 2 quid, but the initial outlay is 10 times that. And if you eat 10 pizzas, your waistline will suffer Whats that weird green stuff you have on the plate next to it ? No it isn't ten times the price. A kilo of flour is £2.30 A block of cheddar is about £3.50 Yeast is cheap as chips £1.45 Garlic powder is about £1.20 Tomato Puree is about £0.65 Basil - grow it in a pot or buy a jar of dried basil for £1 Added up around £9 You can make about ten pizzas for that layout Don't make excuses for lazy people who happen to be poor to buy Pizzas for ten times as much as they cost. The green stuff? You must be Scottish.....
February 11, 20251 yr No it isn't ten times the price. A kilo of flour is £2.30 A block of cheddar is about £3.50 Yeast is cheap as chips £1.45 Garlic powder is about £1.20 Tomato Puree is about £0.65 Basil - grow it in a pot or buy a jar of dried basil for £1 Added up around £9 You can make about ten pizzas for that layout Don't make excuses for lazy people who happen to be poor to buy Pizzas for ten times as much as they cost. If you're serious about value, you should check out https://betbazar.com/ —a platform that brings top-tier betting solutions, just like making your own pizza: smarter, cheaper, and way more satisfying. The green stuff? You must be Scottish..... Okay, you’ve convinced me. Time to dust off my pizza stone and give this a go Edited February 11, 20251 yr by Hen
February 11, 20251 yr Gotta say those mini-oeven style air fryers which use common electric heating elements instead of halogen bulbs cook truly epic pizza, whether cooking pizza made with fresh dough, or heavily processed and frozen - simply preheat to max for a few minutes on "Toast" setting (this switches on all available elements above and below), placing the pizza top oven, and the very rapid result is damn close to what a commercial pizza oven would produce. I'm liking my new ultra efficient and cheapo air fryer a lot, cooks everything well, very versatile. Pizza stone is required for cooking fresh home made pizza, because fresh dough is floppy, but you could part cook the underside of the pizza base on a suitabley large cast iron frying pan beforehand, so it doesn't fall through the wire rack, then cook in the oven using only the top heating elements. But you'd get more even far-infrared radiant heat cooking from below using a preheated pizza stone, as there is in a proper wood-fired oven. Alternatively, you could use a very thin baking tray and all the heating elements. This is awful, because now I'm thinking about pizza again... I got an air fryer recently. It's pretty good. I tend to avoid using electricty for cooking because the price of electric heat is three times the price of gas heat, and I have a gas hob. However the air fryer which cost about £26 at Lidle, is pretty damned good. Makes very fine chips, which are a thing I have not eaten for probably fifty years inn the home cooked sort( Have the occasional fish and chips from the chippy - but not often. It makes really good egg and chips in a quarter of an hour. I crack the eggs into foil pie dish things (washed and recycled) and put them into the fryer for the last five minutes. Makes a great quick and easy lunch.
February 11, 20251 yr some of them deliver drugs too The uber eats guys kept the country fed during the pandemic They also kept the country off their faces too...!
February 11, 20251 yr Ooh, Air Fryer chat! I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts I love it and use it every day. Everything seems to take 10 minutes at 200 degrees. Youtube is full of videos of people cooking stuff you thought wouldn't work, like toast and boiled eggs! Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza:
February 11, 20251 yr That's the smallest pizza I think I've ever seen, why didn't he make it longways then he might at least get a large slice's worth. Looks tasty though... I might get one as currently there is a few cm2 on my kitchen top that doesn't have some kind of appliance or clutter or thing on it! Used slow cooker twice in a yr, time it went in to cupboard so it can hang with George Foreman grill and the Breville. Then I'd have loads of space! What do you make that's healthy, I'd like one that can steam veg/brown rice and cook chicken/beef/veg kebabs and pizza (for my son)? But it would need to be hotter than 200C? Does anybody make omelettes and scrambled egg, does it do the soldiers too? I would use this if I can get a rota of dinners (I'm on mission to lose the half stone I gained since summer even though I got rid of car and used bike...go figure...), like chicken/veg kebabs, ham/cheese omelettes, fish, white meat, anything that isn't carb. Maybe one of these, probably should do some research...this looks nuts and it does a fry up and cooks a small chicken too! https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005006102474840.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.31.3cfe11bfHiI82h&algo_pvid=0562d85e-fdae-4a4b-bbad-b0516d9dea10&algo_exp_id=0562d85e-fdae-4a4b-bbad-b0516d9dea10-15&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%221451%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21GBP%21155.53%2146.24%21%21%211364.31%21405.61%21%40211b804117393033511858257ebde1%2112000035753253291%21sea%21UK%210%21ABX&curPageLogUid=zUWVOPaUFWNf&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A Edited February 11, 20251 yr by portals
February 11, 20251 yr Something about winter makes me go mad for buttered baked stuff. After it's risen in the variable temperature and time yoghurt maker. ...because I've intentionally run out of cheese. Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza: At least ten times as much cheese please. Edited February 11, 20251 yr by guerney
February 11, 20251 yr rice Surprisingly, 10 to 13 minutes in a microwave works out better than any other method I've tried. Get a small casserole dish, chuck in the rice, and one teasponn of oil, mix it in so all the grains are lightly coated. Chuck in one and three quarter parts water to one part rice, nuke at full blast for 10 minutes uncovered, or until the water level has dropped and you can see holes where steam escapes appear on the surface, then cover and nuke for another minute or three while covered. Then fluff with a fork and leave to stand for a couple of minutes. Air fryers of all types are great for cooking all sorts of meat objects - I throw entire dismembered limbs of various animals into a 2.5ltr stainless steel casserote ish with lid and bake for about 1.5hours from frozen, or an hour if oozing blood and gore. Of course I could cook it faster, but I don't want to. Edited February 12, 20251 yr by guerney
February 11, 20251 yr Ooh, Air Fryer chat! I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts I love it and use it every day. Everything seems to take 10 minutes at 200 degrees. Youtube is full of videos of people cooking stuff you thought wouldn't work, like toast and boiled eggs! Talking of pizza, here is a video of a guy making home made pizza: Ooohh - I obviously cheaped out. That sounds pretty damned good.
February 11, 20251 yr https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005006102474840.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.31.3cfe11bfHiI82h&algo_pvid=0562d85e-fdae-4a4b-bbad-b0516d9dea10&algo_exp_id=0562d85e-fdae-4a4b-bbad-b0516d9dea10-15&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%221451%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21GBP%21155.53%2146.24%21%21%211364.31%21405.61%21%40211b804117393033511858257ebde1%2112000035753253291%21sea%21UK%210%21ABX&curPageLogUid=zUWVOPaUFWNf&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A Mine's the dumb mechanical timer version of that on ebay for £20. Cheapo bimetallic strip for temperature control, which means there is none if you use it for hours at a time dehydrating things - turns to "Nuke" mode randomy But it cooks epic pizza and other high temperature stuff great.
February 11, 20251 yr I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts I trust that is only 250w rated max continuous.
February 11, 20251 yr Ummed and erred for ages and considered my #1 priority Airfryer wise CHIPS! and splurged on a tefal actifry with the paddle to ensure chips wings etc get an even cooking without any intervention required.. Limited in some ways though i did bake bread rolls in it from scratch but only 2x at a time with a tin can replacing the stir arm. par baked rolls are fine upto 4x with the turning paddle too. But the capacity to cook 2kg pre peeling of chips at a time is a real boon After about 20 months constant use it developed a fault, Tefal honoured the eu 2 yr warranty picked it up and fixed it returning it a week or so later.. Its also captivating to watch the food (CHIPS) brown as it cooks thru the top window..
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