Most depressing product in a supermarket?

[Tin Pot]

any 'meal for one'

Especially when you're a married man buying it.

 

[dan_bo]

Confess to buying that. I find cheese very moorish, even when I am not hungry. So I buy grated cheese for pizza/toasty topping put it straight in the freezer. It sprinkles out nicely, and it doesn't tempt me at all for snacking. It does tempt me to make a cheese on toast, but at least that's cooking, and hopefully I won't go to that effort unless I'm hungry. Or sad. Or happy.

Ffs.

 

[Tin Pot]

Have to say I'm with grated cheese/carrots/whatever. Run that one by me again, you're too bone idle to grate your own cheese?

My wife buys grated cheese.

 

[Tim Hall]

Thing she gets me to do is practise using other hand for a whole day (yeah, yeah!)

The usual advice is to change hands at 99.

 

[potsy]

I may know someone that buys Aunt Bessie's microwavable mash quite often

 

[Ganymede]

There is obviously a valid need for many things in this thread. But this little sad story proves that at least these two products are depressing.

It's still happy, though, that it enables them to live together and independently, which is a bright side.

Yeah. *sigh*. Thanks for understanding. Though I've just been round there with 4 portions of home-made beef stew and a bag of home-grown runner beans, so it's not all ready-meals!

 

[jefmcg]

Ffs.

???

(yes, I know what it stands for. I just don't know what is making you think that)

 

[dan_bo]

???

(yes, I know what it stands for. I just don't know what is making you think that)

Block of cheese + grater = grated cheese. You can even freeze it!

I'd post some amusing pictoral equation but im on me phone and can't be arsed.

 

[winjim]

Block of cheese + grater = grated cheese. You can even freeze it!

I'd post some amusing pictoral equation but im on me phone and can't be arsed.

You buy cheese by the block? Why not buy milk and rennet, and make your own?

 

[Markymark]

Block of cheese + grater = grated cheese. You can even freeze it!

I'd post some amusing pictoral equation but im on me phone and can't be arsed.

Wouldn't grated cheese freeze in a lump?

 

[Andrew_P]

 

[slowmotion]

Not sure if I'd want one of these!

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Crikey! A loo that p1sses back at you!

 

[jefmcg]

Block of cheese + grater = grated cheese. You can even freeze it!

I'd post some amusing pictoral equation but im on me phone and can't be arsed.

But it comes grated, it's no more expensive than the blocks, there is no washing up involved, and no bits of fingers accidentally added, no product lost on the floor, bench or clinging to the grater. I don't have to throw away wrapping just to rewrap or place in a container (that needs washing later) etc etc. I can't see the downside of buying it grated if your intention is to grate it anyway.

Which does not apply to fresh produce, which is oxidising on every surface, particularly cut surfaces and losing vitamins, and going stale and mouldy much faster.

I make my own yoghurt and bake often with a colony of sour dough yeast I started from the environment, because these products are superior to what is on the supermarket shelves, plus making them is a pleasure in itself. The cheese usually goes on hand made sour dough pizza base.

If I want a better experience than cheapest supermarket cheese, I'll buy white mozzarella and slice it. But any that doesn't get used in cooking will likely to be scoffed by me within 24 hours. Little salt and pepper, drizzle of olive oil, and I'm half a kilo heavier.

I wonder if partially frozen mozz would grate nicely in the food processor?

Wouldn't grated cheese freeze in a lump?

No. By it's nature, it's greased. Sometimes whacking the bag on the bench is required to break up a lump.

**Edit - the potato starch (see below) probably helps. If I was to grate and freeze cheese, I'd probably spread it out on a backing sheet in the freezer, and only move it to a sealed container after it was frozen. Then it wouldn't stick much together.

 

[Salar]

Who's that Welsh comedian who uses the four-pack of baking potatoes story in his show? He's arguing with the supermarket guy about how he only wants one potato but can't find them in loose from in the store and is holding four-pack. Staff member says, "That's how they come sir." He replies,"No, it's not, you bloody did that!"

GC

Rhod Gilbert

 

[nickyboy]

But it comes grated, it's no more expensive than the blocks, there is no washing up involved, and no bits of fingers accidentally added, no product lost on the floor, bench or clinging to the grater. I don't have to throw away wrapping just to rewrap or place in a container (that needs washing later) etc etc. I can't see the downside of buying it grated if your intention is to grate it anyway.

Which does not apply to fresh produce, which is oxidising on every surface, particularly cut surfaces and losing vitamins, and going stale and mouldy much faster.

I make my own yoghurt and bake often with a colony of sour dough yeast I started from the environment, because these products are superior to what is on the supermarket shelves, plus making them is a pleasure in itself. The cheese usually goes on hand made sour dough pizza base.

If I want a better experience than cheapest supermarket cheese, I'll buy white mozzarella and slice it. But any that doesn't get used in cooking will likely to be scoffed by me within 24 hours. Little salt and pepper, drizzle of olive oil, and I'm half a kilo heavier.

I wonder if partially frozen mozz would grate nicely in the food processor?


No. By it's nature, it's greased. Sometimes whacking the bag on the bench is required to break up a lump.

Enjoy your wood pulp

http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the...eshly-grated-cheese-whats-the-difference.html