Very off topic.

[Hornet 6]

All my sprouts are the first item to disappear from the Sunday roast offerings, straight down, & woe betide the kitchen staff if they are gone over from aldente!

If someone puts sprouts on my plate, they are eaten first every time, I hate them, but eaten first you do at least have the rest of the meal to take the taste away.

Neil.

 

[tozzybum]

There good for throwing at people but never appear on my plate Satan,s bum drops .Wife loves them ,i hate them

 

[Alantoo]

We have been living here for 17 years. We have 17 vegetable beds.

I love sprouts, so the head gardener says every year "All the beds are full, if you want any sprouts this year I need another raised bed"

Suckered every time!

Alan

 

[kes]

I was going to buy some yesterday with the monthly shop but it was the only bacon product in Sainsburys without a price - so it lost our to outdoor reared wiltshire.

 

[Legolas]

For the tech heads.

You wont touch bacon/ham/salami and other processed meats etc after reading exactly what is curing your own guts when doing so.

http://www.finnebrogue.com/app/uplo...t-products-and-the-role-of-heat-treatment.pdf

John, that article is about the production of toxic nitrosamines, they are produced when nitrates are heated above 300 degrees celcius. There are no nitrates in commercial bacon cures, only nitrites (which don't produce nitrosamines) so it's not really applicable. Uncooked cured meats such as Parma ham or salami include nitrate in the commercial ingredients, so nitrosamines could be produced if the meat was heated to over 300 degrees, so, unless you were eating at my mother in laws, you should be ok.

i appreciate everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but in all honesty, you should take a look at the nitrate/nitrite content in green veg, far, far more than your average slice of bacon.

 

[finnbear270]

I was going to buy some yesterday with the monthly shop but it was the only bacon product in Sainsburys without a price - so it lost our to outdoor reared wiltshire. .... Think it was £3.00 a pack.

 

[John Gryphon]

John, that article is about the production of toxic nitrosamines, they are produced when nitrates are heated above 300 degrees celcius. There are no nitrates in commercial bacon cures, only nitrites (which don't produce nitrosamines) so it's not really applicable. Uncooked cured meats such as Parma ham or salami include nitrate in the commercial ingredients, so nitrosamines could be produced if the meat was heated to over 300 degrees, so, unless you were eating at my mother in laws, you should be ok.

i appreciate everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but in all honesty, you should take a look at the nitrate/nitrite content in green veg, far, far more than your average slice of bacon.

Ok and thank you Legolas I will have to reconsider,but I do love silver beet and sprouts still

 

[finnbear270]

Sprouts, kids usually hate em' with a vengeance, I remember sometime in the eighties, after getting the kids back off the first wife, we were moving house, on pulling out the free standing cooker from the wall we were greeted by a four foot high two foot wide desiccated Christmas tree made of sprouts, the two boys had been firing them off their forks behind the cooker when no one was looking!

 

[John Gryphon]

Sprouts, kids usually hate em' with a vengeance, I remember sometime in the eighties, after getting the kids back off the first wife, we were moving house, on pulling out the free standing cooker from the wall we were greeted by a four foot high two foot wide desiccated Christmas tree made of sprouts, the two boys had been firing them off their forks behind the cooker when no one was looking!

Did ye fry them up and sit by the boys with the stock whip while they ate them lol?