Embarrassingly dim question....

[Speicher]

I have recently collected up all the miscellaneous bits of plastic in the house that look like they have a purpose, I think I recall a small bit of small bore plastic.

Thank you for that suggestion.

 

[BrumJim]

The thing that confuses me about the Kikkoman soy sauce bottles is that it describes itself as a "Delia Cheat Ingredient".

As opposed to what? Making the soy sauce yourself? Does anyone make their own soy sauce? How is it a cheat ingredient?

Help!!!

 

[tdr1nka]

*resists asking a dim sum question* IGMC

 

[Aperitif]

*resists asking a dim sum question* IGMC

And I ain't gonna Kikkoman when he's down...

 

[XmisterIS]

Ok. Some time back, I finished a bottle of soy sauce, and when I went to buy another, found that the cheapest option was the cute flask shaped Kikkoman bottle, so I got that.

Anyone who's had one will know, there's the red bottle top, which has two holes in it, so that you can pour the sauce from one, and control the flow with a finger over the other.

Underneath the bottle top when you unscrew it is a plastic cap that sits in the top of the bottle, providing an airtight seal. To get the sauce out, you need to remove it.

My thought was, if I just take it out and throw it away, the air will get to the sauce through the pouring holes, and do something dire to it. So I've been taking the top lid off, removing the plastic seal, replacing the top lid, pouring the sauce, removing the top lid, replacing the seal, putting the top back on.... Rather a lot of faff. But if it was to be a disposable seal, why not just make it a peel off sticky one, instead of one that can be put back in?

Am I right, or have I been being very, very stupid all this time (the bottle is now about two thirds used).

 

[abchandler]

Can the contents of the vacuum cleaner go in the compost bin. As well as cat hairs, person hairs and dust, who knows what else it might contain.

Vacuum contents can quite happily be added to the compost bin

 

[stargazer]

Vacuum contents can quite happily be added to the compost bin

. . . unless you have synthetic carpets; the fluff from these will not decompose.

 

[Arch]

The thing that confuses me about the Kikkoman soy sauce bottles is that it describes itself as a "Delia Cheat Ingredient".

As opposed to what? Making the soy sauce yourself? Does anyone make their own soy sauce? How is it a cheat ingredient?

Help!!!

I saw that and wondered the same. All I can think is, you use it plain instead of making a complicated fancy chinese sauce. I lost patience with Delia over that 'cheat' series, it appeared to be entirely posh stuff in cans from M and S.

I have in the past bought the sachets of Blue Dragon sauces - mainly sweet and sour, or chow mein. Last time I was at my sister's she made a stir fry and added just soy and sesame oil, and I suddenly realised that was much more delicious than the packet stuff.

XmisterIS: Thanks...