People who are doing it WRONG

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My Dad loves to talk about how he enjoys a good barbecue in this weather, once he even invited a lot of family round for one.

His version of a BBQ is a George Formby grill (natch), and in nice weather he plugs it in outside to cook a burger or sausage on. He is quite evangelical about how clever it is to barbecue that way.

It gives me the gritted teeth rage.

Anyone else who is doing it ALL WRONG? Offload here

"My colleague who says 'yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah' when a simple nod or 'yes' would suffice is WRONG."

Oh dear. I do this. You don't work in Chiswick do you Fragglehair? If you do, I fear I am your colleague...

PS Apols for the annoyance.... I just can't stop myself....

The only place I've ever seen electric kettles in the US is in self-catering accommodations near Disney World. They are there for British and Irish folk. They do take longer to boil than kettles in the UK. We boil water in the microwave.

"Also when peeling carrots or parsnips, hold the thin end first and peel the thick end (away from the body) and then when you hold the wet peeled bit to do the other end, the increasing width holds the veg in your hand so it doesn't slip out."
You don't peel the entire length of the vegetable in one long piece? What's wrong with you?

Avocadotoast - you can keep your avocados, but peanut butter + slices strawberries? You may have changed my life!

I would love to enter a speed potato peeling contest - I go at it like a mad woman and can peel pounds of spuds in no time

Yeah, Ninja My thought too!

I don't peel them, though, unless they're big old winter buggers with more of a bark than a skin. Or potatoes.

If you do them in long strips you have to keep moving your holding hand, surely?!

:o but I agree that all peeling should be avoided where possible as the skin is delicious.

I peel potatoes away from me too, it takes off far less potato along with the skin, it's less wasteful so I'm being thrifty. Or greedy.

Nope, Chris, I have one of these :) Peels in a few light swipes!

:o I'm clearly lacking on a technological front.

I'm not in Chiswick OnIlkelyMoorBahtat so feel free to yeahyeahyeah to your heart's content!

I love Weetabix with butter - although I haven't had it for years!

To complete the experience, when the Weetabix biscuit has been eaten, you must load a knife with butter and pick/squish up all the remaining crumbs off the plate into the butter and scoff!

I also do the tea/sugar/milk thing first.
I didn't originally, but then we started getting a scum, as mentioned by a previous poster. Doing it this way avoids the scum and is not cat piss if you leave the bag in long enough.
I know this isn't the right way, but I don't like scummy tea!

For some unknown (and very strange) reason, my family have always used the term 'buttering your bread' as a euphemism for scratching your bits So I've had so many giggles reading these posts

I'm so gutted to have discovered that 'egg in a cup' wasn't invented by my mum! In fact, I think Chanandler and Blue bananas are lying, my mum definitely invented the dish as a special cure for all illnesses.
Sickness bug....egg in a cup. Flu......egg in a cup. Verruca....egg in a cup.

In my opinion the most wrongest of wrongsome wrongyness is when someone puts something into the wrong department in the fridge!

Ok so the departments (and that's definitely the correct term, almost like different teams at work) may be invisible, but everyone knows that the chees department for example should not be infiltrated by any other non cheese product and that within that department, there should be clear subsections i.e. Soft cheeses like to sit next to each other, NOT placed on top of the hard cheeses as if they have no identity of their own

FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse Thu 02-Jul-15 11:58:43
I may be persuaded by the fact that I think I might be the only person I know who has brown sauce on fish that brown sauce may have other applications.

Ahem. FuckYouChris, did you not see my earlier post about the Wrongness that is my DH putting brown sauce on salmon and triggering such a row that we nearly divorced?

You're obviously both wrong uns made for each other. Shall I introduce you and you can take him off my hands?

Actually I just had a horrible thought that you might be DHs sister!

Tell me, do you put hot milk on cereal? (another example of DHs and family total wrongness).

Fraggle PHEW!!!

I once worked in catering for a contract with teenagers from Europe. Every day at least one of them would ask for hot milk for their cereal.

Purplehair, your dh is sick, sick I tell you! I would never lubricate salmon in such a manner salmon requires lemon and a nice white sauce :)

And milk on cereal must be cold.

Phew! I may be weird, but I'm not that weird.

Ooh, the thread is on Discussions of the Day

Lately I have been putting milk into my mug before adding the hot water to my tea. In my defence, I make a rubbish cuppa no matter what I do (no idea how!) and it's the only way I can restrain myself from putting milk in dh's mug (he has it black). If I do it when the kettle's boiling, I'll remember, if I do it after, I'll forget

Luckily, I make such a rubbish cuppa that even in my own home people leap out of their chairs to offer to make the tea. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The cupcake and the strawberry thing is brilliant. And the banana thing works too. I don't like Nutella.

I learned a couple of weeks ago that I was chopping celery all wrong and that's why it was a chore.

You cut it into 3 inch chunks, then you slice it down the ribs leaving just a little bit holding it together at the top. Then you cut across.

I realise this may have been obvious to everyone else but to me it was like learning the meaning of life.

It was only a few years ago that I learned that you slice bread by pushing the knife away from you instead of sawing it back and forth and ending up with something that looks like it's been gnawed off.

Again, most people probably knew that but there might be a few people still out there.

My friend's mum showed me how to eat mussels.

You take the mussel you want to eat between the thumb and index finger of one hand (that's left, for me) and choose one of the smaller mussel shells and hold it between the thumb and index finger of your right.

Then you use it as a tweezer to pull the flesh out whole, eat, chuck empty shell into debris bowl, repeat.

It's really efficient and everyone is very impressed.

I'm mainly a tea drinker but I there are four people in whose homes I always ask for coffee because they make such weak, watery tea.

I mean milky, not watery, although the two seem to go together. Nothing makes my heart sink faster than accepting the offer if a cup of tea and watching the maker add about an inch depth of milk to the cup when the correct amount is about 1tbsp.

I'm waiting for the 54 pillowcases update!

My DH puts instant coffee, a teabag and cocoa powder in, adds hot water, and dried milk for his "zipper", and he leaves the tea bag in so he can chew it later.
It's just so wrong I can't even.

Bras are best put on bending forward so norks nestle into the cups, then fastened at the back.

BBQs are so last season, or whenever it was sunny last (not down saaf) it's all about the smoking now, no?

Sausages are best eaten sliced lengthwise and filled with raspberry jam and wrapped up in the doughiest white bread around.

Potatoes should never be peeled, as there's lots of fibre and vitamins in and next to the skin

At ease.