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Subject: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: gnu Date: 08 Oct 12 - 03:51 PM Ha! Fooled ya! Thought it was Bobert again, eh? So... WTF is this crap about puttin stuff i/on a smaller bowl/plate after a meal for storage in the fridge? I mean, if the big bowl fits, why wash the big bowl now AND the small bowl tomorrow? It's a waste of money and natural resources and I got better things ta do than make more work for myself. None come to mind right now... OH... matter of fact, one does... complainin about womenz washin two bowls insteada one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: frogprince Date: 08 Oct 12 - 04:22 PM I wouldn't mind so much about a smaller bowl; at our house, the smaller container is a cheap plastic thingy that can't go in the dish washer; so she insists on putting most tableware in the dishwasher, which is hardly worth it for two of us anyhow, and we also have the little pseudo-tupperware thingies to hand wash. Tell ya what, though: I'm so happy to have her here, alive and well and active, it would take a lot more than that to really bother me these days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: John MacKenzie Date: 08 Oct 12 - 04:35 PM Correct response there Dean. I'm proud of you my friend ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Ebbie Date: 08 Oct 12 - 04:36 PM A good reason for re-casting into a smaller bowl or container is that large bowls take up a lot of room in the refrigerator. Many designed for refrigerator bowls are square-sided and thus bank more closely. Another reason is that there is a lot of extra air room in a large bowl, which leads to faster drying of the contents. Seem like good reasons to me. And yes, gnu, I did think it was Bobert! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Gurney Date: 08 Oct 12 - 04:40 PM A point of interest is; why are most bowls, containers and ovenware made round? They waste space in the frig, space and heat in the oven because you could get more in if they were square, and space in storage when they are empty. There was a point when they were thrown pottery, but now they are machine-pressed of all sorts of materials, it seems barmy to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Bobert Date: 08 Oct 12 - 04:50 PM Yeah, gn-ze, you fooled me... I thought it was me, too??? But yer point is well taken... But it goes well beyond bowls... Why does it take 5 pots and pans to make one meal??? I mean, one mean one, doesn't it??? If ya' gotta cook stuff just use one pan over and over and put the cooked stuff on the plate yer gonna eat from and put it in a little oven to keep warm and dirty one pot... And what with womenz makeup??? Why they gotta have layers of stuff on their face??? You got the foundation layer and then you have this layer and that layer... Why the ehck not just mix 'um all together and then ya' have one layer??? While we are on womenz... Well, not exactly, ahhhh, "on" them at the moment... But, ahhhh, nevermind... The "on womenz" made me forget what I was gonna say... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: JohnInKansas Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:19 PM As already mentioned, the smaller bowl/container minimizes the air in the container - provided that a lid is used which in our cases is usually just a saucer on top of the bowl. (We don't have a saucer that fits the bigger bowls.) The longer period in which the "leftovers" might remain edible is very important in our home, since even the stuff that "she" insists on saving becausae "I might eat more later" will not be touched until the point of "this stuff is all green and fuzzy, do you think we should throw it away?" Sometimes this takes a very long time, so proper preservation is really important. We do it so well that sometimes we find "stuff" that was so well preserved that it didn't ever get green and fuzzy, so we didn't know that it was ready to go. Unfortunately, we've generally been unable to identify what any of this "stuff" was originally, even after we soak it long enough to soften it to the point where it might not break the hammers in the garbage grinder, so we're unable to advise on what things are suitable for very long term storage. I have suspected that one of the valid reasons for having lots of dishes in the refrigerator, in our case, is that: 1. If they're in the refrigerator, they're not in the dishwasher. 2. If they're in the refrigerator, they're not in the cupboard. This is not a single feature, since "she" seems incapable of taking anything out of the dishwasher and putting it back in the same place it came from in the cupboard, so minimizing the number of things in both cases by using a single methodology greatly simplifies the problem of "honey, where do you keep the rest of the ....?" (Which usually comes up only when all of the dishes are in the refrigerator? - - - except for the ones in the dishwasher.) As you can see, we have developed, and completely understand, our own system. As there are some variations in the thought processes (and gaps therin) shared by members of a given family, the only problem you may have is that your own processes have been inadequate to the full and healthy understanding of what your "house system" is. Understanding brings acceptance, and is a much healthier approach than trying to change something that works to your partner's satisfaction - but that's something best kept as a secret between the guys in most cases. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Ebbie Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:21 PM Bobert, your suggestion about makeup reminds me of what a Norwegian (don't know if that had anything to do with his opinion) man used to say. He said he doesn't understand why fireworks are set off as they are. He said that one goes up, everybody says Ah!, another goes up and again everyone says Ah! Repeat. Why not, he said, set them all off at once and everyone would say AAAAAAHHHHHHH!! and then everyone could go home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:42 PM LOL JiK You seemed to have answered a question I was curious about. "Who in the Mudcat has a walk in fridge and needs library cards and a computer indexing system to find the food? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: gnu Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:44 PM "large bowls take up a lot of room in the refrigerator" I thought I covered that. JiK... if yer gonna let it go green and fuzzy, chuck it and avoid food poisoning. This ain't vegetable science, people. Bobert thought it ws him? Thanks for the compliment, buddy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Bobert Date: 08 Oct 12 - 05:53 PM Well, Eb... 'Round 20 years ago back in Wes Ginny there was this lodge house and a lake and every 4th of July the local volunteer fire department would do the firework display... Of course, it being the 4th of July the festivities - i.e. drenkin' and BBQ - started hours before the fireworks display... We had set up a blanket right down from a guy who obviously was having a lot of fun - i.e. drenkin'... Well the fireworks began about couple minutes past 9 and about 5 minutes into what was supposed to be a 45 minute display one of them fireworks went the wrong way and ended up in a van where the firemen were pulling the next one from to be shot off and in less than 30 seconds 30 minutes worth of fireworks went off inside that van... The entire lake was lite up and you could see the firemen jumping into the late to keep from getting burned and then things got quiet all you could see or here was the sight and sounds of that burning van over across the lake and then the sound of... ... one rather drunk hillbilly applauding and yelling "Far out, Man... Far out!!!" Never mind... Ya' had to be there... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: JohnInKansas Date: 08 Oct 12 - 06:35 PM JtS - Who in the Mudcat has a walk in fridge ... Naw. We just don't have all that many dishes left. (I won't tell how they all went away.) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Smaller bowls and plates and womenz? From: Janie Date: 08 Oct 12 - 07:51 PM My plastic containers weather the top rack of the dishwasher quite well - (I use the cheapie "glad" types you buy in 2 to 4 packs in the grocery store.) Not only do they take less room in the refrigerator because they are both smaller and stackable, but since they are more or less clear, I can see what is in them without having to pull them out of the fridge to remove a lid, and can grab the oldest stuff first to reheat (or toss, as the case may be,) and also grab a container to take to work for lunch without having to repackage it into a container that will travel. It ain't a womenz thing, gnuzer. My Dad was much more compulsive about what to save, what not and in which kind of container than is my Mom. He religiously cleaned out the refrigerator of uneaten leftovers every 3-4 days, after having made sure that anything that could possibly be eaten for lunch or breakfast or added as a side dish for the next night's supper was used. A frugal man, and not quite germ phobic enough to warrant a diagnosis. Of course, no one could load a dishwasher to suit him either:>) And let me tell you, that man could pack a dishwasher efficiently and effectively! I don't have a bit of a problem with people storing food in the frig however suits them. In my house, I do want it to suit me. The only real peeve I have is storing food in the frig in the cooking pot, which I will probably need tomorrow, then I am stuck with having to transfer the food to another container, or to a smaller pot or microwavable dish to reheat and washing the pot before I can cook the next day. Menz and teenagers! Humph!!! |
