Things I have learnt since becoming rich (a.k.a. fuck you: Nigella and Jamie)

[TheAutumnHere]

1. Having an oven that holds temperature stops cakes falling
2. A stand mixer simplifies baking by a factor of at least 4, and improves the results
3. Branded vacuum cleaners actually remove dirt from the floor
4. Le Creuset pans don't stick, and just wipe clean
5. Baking with children is delightful japes, when timed the morning before the cleaner comes
6. Corn fed chicken is the bomb

Just leaving a note to my past self - who never cut herself any slack and thought she was a slattern and a crap cook.

Zennudist “Confusing post. Are you high?“

This made me lol so hard 😂

Seriously OP. I think you need some form of therapy. You've got ishooooos.

All of those things apart from the vacuum buying have nothing to do with money or expensive brands.

X post with OP

Actually I feel like OP is looking for a fight now

I thought the OP was saying that people should be kind to themselves if they are struggling to reproduce food without the equipment to do it.

On average more expensive ingredients and a better equipped kitchen are likely to produce better results.

@TheAutumnHere I like the way you write and your story telling ability.

Honestly, as someone who is currently painfully poor your OP and subsequent posts are just maddening and make me feel really sad. Dude, I KNOW I'm poor. I know life is hard when you don't have much money because I live the reality every single day. I have spent all morning and some of the afternoon just existing, i.e doing house jobs which would have taken about half an hour if I lived in a big house and had loads of money.
Drying clothes on radiators because I can't afford £200 for a tumble drier, turning the heating on and off a lot to not spend too much money on gas, washing up and cleaning the sticky pumpkin seeds from my tiny kitchen where everything takes 800 times longer because there is only 1 tiny square kitchen worktop space, that's it. Sink is a shallow half size like you'd have in a caravan and the pipes judder and bang unless you turn on the water higher, but then it splashes, which has to be wiped up, blah blah. Everything takes so long.
I have a relative who lives on a boat because they are too poor to rent and their life is 100x worse than mine in that respect. It's just mentally tiring apart from anything else, and leaves you with no time or energy to think about baking.

Being poor makes you tired and less likely to do stuff because worrying about money and all of the above mentioned stuff takes ALL YOUR ENERGY.
But I already know all that because I'm living the dream. Yay.

@MummyJasmin Oh, come on!!!!!

I do think it can be eye opening.

I found that with proper storage which for a long while we were without. So much less clutter making it easier and quicker to clean house and looking better with no effort.

Some of our storage and furniture has been repurposed or made by DH from no longer viable flat packs and things left over – and having materials and tools to do that with all took time to acquire.

I wouldn't say we were rich - but were are better off than when DC were younger - combination of many things and it does make life easier in so many little ways as PP said.

@RhubarbTea - it's sounds
really shit. I'm sorry you're struggling. Hang in there. You're doing better than you think.

I cannot understand why so many PPs are saying, "Yes, more money makes life easier". Is this news? Is it rocket science? Did the OP have an epiphany and felt she had to share it with MNers who just didn't realise?? How lucky we are to have been shown the light

I didn't realise people were so affected by their lack of ability to bake/cook & them blamed themselves.
I just assume it's not one of my strengths, I have plenty of others though & don't feel bad about it at all.

Sorry OP, but you’re wrong. My cakes turn out perfectly (even if I say so myself) with an ancient £12 hand mixer from Sainsbury’s and a cheap rental oven.

Possibly there may have been a problem with your particular oven?

Whilst I see the message the op is trying to get across I also agree it’s not news that it can be harder in life without much money.

I’m more surprised anyone holds up TV chefs as any measure against which they feel lacking.

stick it under the grill to set. Cos it doesn't have a stupid plastic handle

Then, technically, it's not a Spanish omelette.

And when I make not Spanish omelette, my Meyer pans do just fine because they, too, have metal handles.

www.jmldirect.com/cleaning/ironing-and-laundry/dri-buddi-bundle-offer-portable-energy-efficient-indoor-electric-clothes-dryer this is £64.97 - which I know can seem just as impossible as £200 when you have very limited funds - but we've found it's better than our tumble drier.

We've had it years - it was a gift from relatives but for getting school uniforms dry on time it's been invaluable - especially in last house where I was always worried about putting heating on - it was an expensive house too heat - we spent a fortune trying to sort that - insulations new windows and doors. When we moved it was a revelation how much cheaper it was to heat this one.

@chippychip1 @MaidenMotherCrone

This is the thing. Now I am apparently an excellent cook. Before my food wasn't as good.

Folks giving me the received wisdom that a bad workman blames his tools gave me a double hit: it meant I labelled myself a bad workman, and it discouraged me
from crediting the difficulties my bad tools caused me.

Shit life circumstance with an added stomp on the self esteem.

Some people have Dysons that don't pick up dirt?

OP reminds me of an infamous poster who had stairs in her kitchen.

No tools will turn me into a Masterchef pro.

Is this you op? 😜

What's preheating your oven got to do with it? Did that knowledge magically bestow itself upon you when you became 'rich'?

@InsertFunnyUsername - I'm insufferable because I have a kitted out kitchen and a cleaner? Or because I say that I have found it really really makes a difference?

Yeah - not everyone can afford a JL trolley dash - old me couldn't.

But I didn't give myself enough grace for how well I did with what I had.

And now the message from posters like you is that I should retreat to savour my delicious home baking and not speak up too loud about what I see, because it makes people feel uncomfortable...?

I think you need much deeper pans for your cooking. The ones you are using are too shallow.