To worry that i may not have best equipped my DD for the big wide world

[Lucyellensmumma]

She is 19 and lives wiht her boyfriend

Just recieved this face book message:-

You smell-What does it mean to preheat an oven!!!

what have i done???

I know people my own age (38) who think that preheating ovens is a waste of time.

Also have a 38 year old DP who thinks that you should fry eggs over a very low heat.

I hate it! I hate seeing an egg fall into a pan and not sizzle. It just sits there, raw.

Don't worry I was 21 when I found that out.

I always found learning through experience better because whatever mum told me couldn't be right could it. After all I was a teenager. I knew everything. lol.

And for what it's worth, As long as the oil is hot first the best way to fry an egg is over a low heat

Out of desperation DD decided to learn to cook at home for her DofE skill. It's great, I sit back once a week, she get a recipe and makes cheap, wholesome meals from scratch. Think/hope she knows to preheat the oven, something to do with bacteria if you don't.

I don't preheat my oven - isn't it just a pointless waste of power when my food can be cooking while it warms up?

'You smell' ?? Is this a family name/joke/ what the yoof of today are calling their mothers?
Don't really preheat my oven either

Agree with aleene - would be more worried about my dd telling me I smelt than the lack of a preheated oven...

I thought the idea of pre heating the oven was so the oven heats to the right temperature to cook the food. To those of you that don't pre heat do you just leave the food in for longer?

nah aleene, i think its just me!! its a term of endearment, at least thats what i tell myself

The thing with preheating your oven is that if you dont, food is hovering through the "danger zone" (i.e anything between 5 degrees and 75 degrees) where bacteria multiplies at its most rapid.

If its a raw potato you've put in there that will become a jacket spud, you'll almost definitely survive it.

If its little Tarquin's organic chicken nuggets straight out of the freezer however, not so good.

I don´t preheat-unless I put the oven on before what I am preparing is ready to go in it-but I do know what it means-as does my 12yr old!

Just googled and it isn't always necessary but recipes are timed on a hot oven. I thought it was dangerous not to if the food was frozen.

Did wonder what 'You smell' was all about. Sounds very immature to me.

The idea of pre-heating the oven is so that the food cooks evenly and doesn't give bacteria ideal conditions in which to multiply.

Saying that, goodfellows pizza speifically say dont preheat

confuddled

Gosh, I had no idea you were old enough to have a 19 year old daughter

O-M-G!!! I cannot believe people are being all about the you smell comment. Its just what we say to each other on face book, you know, for a joke - some jokes are immature too!

My very intelligent and successful (but not very worldly wise at the time) sister rang my mum after starting her first job out of uni to ask her how one went about 'cashing' your payslip.

BOF, im not i was a gymslip mum, um, ok, well 19!

at Bunny's friend.

friend sister

When I was 18 I didn't know what to do with a prescription from the GP

Stinky;
DH just got all serious and a little bit shouty when I asked if it was truly necessary. Is is, apparently. Something to do with bacteria, spores and cooking times.

I was quite clued up at that age, but I remember my sister consulting a recipe book in her 20s for instructions on how to make a cheese omelette!

I am 30 and just used a recipe to make a victoria sponge
don't need to any more though - hadn't rfealised it was quiteo easy

My ds when making a pot noodle at his friends house (i dont buy them) rang me to ask how long the sauce packet took to dissolve.

TBH I'd be more concerned at her misuse of the exclamation mark

But then I am a pain-in-the-arse pedant.

Love it! My DB phoned me once and asked if I could ring him and record step by step details on how to make macaroni cheese! He was already married by this time!