Tea? (Part 2)

[brockers]

Yes Speicher. Hot choccy powder is cocoa powder plus sugar.

As one who's spent literally minutes in the tea/coffee aisle in Sainsbury's, calculating whether to buy the read-mixed Green&Blacks hot chocolate powder (cocoa powder with white cane sugar), or to make my own with G&B's cocoa powder and demerera sugar, I can inform you it makes sense, both from a financial and gustatorial perspective, to make your own.

Am now slurping an enormous mug of the stuff inbetween key-strokes.

The next stage though is using full cream milk, as the semi-skimmed doesn't quite hit the spot.

 

[coffeejo]

As one who's spent literally minutes in the tea/coffee aisle in Sainsbury's, calculating whether to buy the read-mixed Green&Blacks hot chocolate powder (cocoa powder with white cane sugar), or to make my own with G&B's cocoa powder and demerera sugar, I can inform you it makes sense, both from a financial and gustatorial perspective, to make your own.

So how does one go about this then? How many teaspoons of each?

*drooling in anticipation*

 

[brockers]

Go for a heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder for an average sized mug - I used to make it far too strong with two or more teaspoons. Add slightly less volume of sugar then mix into a paste with a little cold milk, then add to the warming milk in the pan. If you've got a milk frother, then all the better. This might even be too sweet for some, or even not chocolatey enough. Feel free to play around with the quantities.

Another one for ringing the changes is Spanish hot chocolate. It makes a thicker drink than you might be used to, cos it's got starch in it. But the added vanilla flavour makes it extremely moreish.

 

[coffeejo]

I Was In Taunton Today And I Forgot To Buy Any!

 

[Arch]

Another one for ringing the changes is Spanish hot chocolate. It makes a thicker drink than you might be used to, cos it's got starch in it. But the added vanilla flavour makes it extremely moreish.

Go far enough south in Spain, and it could be Moorish too....

Afternoon all! I was out at a whisky tasting last night! Five different drams, all different enough to be able to distinguish, and my verdict was that I liked the Dalmore best, and I'll cope with peatiness (they gave us a peaty Speyside, which is apparently an oddity), although I'd have to be in the mood for it.

The Old Pulteney was unusual - a definite 'salty' note to the flavour.

A fun evening, and I was pleased that none of the 'notes' I detected in the various whiskies (vanilla, mollasses etc) were ridiculed by the chap running it.

 

[Archie_tect]

[sorry, don't understand why spirits taste nice]

Kettle's just boiled, fresh brew anyone?

 

[brockers]

Go far enough south in Spain, and it could be Moorish too....

10/10 for that one !

 

[Speicher]

I am getting confused, Night Train. On your post about building a trailer, you said something like "the bolts go into rivet nuts". Arch said that rivets are nothing like a bolt, so what is a rivet nut?

 

[Archie_tect]

It keeps your donkey flange in one piece.

 

[Night Train]

I am getting confused, Night Train. On your post about building a trailer, you said something like "the bolts go into rivet nuts". Arch said that rivets are nothing like a bolt, so what is a rivet nut?

This is a pop rivet.

These are nuts.

Opps!
These are nuts.

When you combine them together you get a rivet nut, or rivnut.




A rivet nut, or rivnut, is a captive nut that is fixed like a rivet.

They are inserted into a hole in thin sheet metal with a tool like a pop riveter.
I have one like this.

Then it is compressed locking it to the sheet like a rivet. The tool is then unscrewed leaving a captive nut.

Here is how it might be used, where the metal is too thin to tap a thread into it otherwise.

 

[Arch]

These are nuts.

<pedant> However, several of those (the cashew, the almond, the walnut) are, strictly speaking, seeds, not nuts. And the peanut, if it's a peanut, and not a hazelnut is a bean. A hazel nut is a nut. I can't tell what the other one, so it may be a nut... </pedant>


It's small talk like that which makes me the life and soul of any party, you know.

Tea?

 

[Speicher]

Yes, it was very kind of you Night Train to show me your nuts



and bolts and it was, as I may have said before, rivetting.

Perhaps when I said rivets were like bolts, I was thinking of "pop" rivets.



Arch, as for small talk, I did not have a doughnut yesterday, even tho' it was Wednesday. I am going out for lunch to the local Thai restaurant today.

To add to the excitement, I now have two compost bins!

 

[Arch]

Yes, it was very kind of you Night Train to show me your nuts



and bolts and it was, as I may have said before, rivetting.

Perhaps when I said rivets were like bolts, I was thinking of "pop" rivets.



Arch, as for small talk, I did not have a doughnut yesterday, even tho' it was Wednesday. I am going out for lunch to the local Thai restaurant today.

To add to the excitement, I now have two compost bins!

I had two doughnuts yesterday, but they were the mini ones, so not even as big as one real one!

Enjoy your lunch. Will there be men in the party, and will they have to wear a thai?

 

[Archie_tect]

...will they have to wear a thai?

...and curry favours unless they're all crackers.

 

[potsy]

To add to the excitement, I now have two compost bins!

Always thought you talked a lot of 'compost' on here, now we have proof