People who talk to themselves in work

[DaveB]

Ah, thought you meant on here

WHS. I thought we were in for some juicy gossip there

[MaryPoppins]

Easy Peesy.

<Nummy stuff>

Mmmmmm. Num num num.

[MaryPoppins]

WHS. I thought we were in for some juicy gossip there

Well even if I did have such gossip, I would never impart it to all on a thread!




I'd do it via PM, silly.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Worst "talker" I had to endure was a bloke who said each key's name as he pressed it (I am not making this up) that made for long days. I confess to calling my pc "a shed" or "you fascist" when it is slow or misbehaving though.

[DaveB]

Well even if I did have such gossip, I would never impart it to all on a thread!




I'd do it via PM, silly.

Well thats no fun.

How are we supposed to maintain the appropriate levels of rampant speculation, baseless accusations, name calling and flouncing if you do it all in PM's!

[MaryPoppins]

Well thats no fun.

How are we supposed to maintain the appropriate levels of rampant speculation, baseless accusations, name calling and flouncing if you do it all in PM's!

I know, I know. You come up with some baseless accusations, I will go along with them, and we will see how flounces..!

[cailin maith]

Easy Peesy.

Corn oil

Corn Kernals

Heavy saucepan.

Pour enough oil into the base of the saucepan to cover a corn kernal.

Heat the oil till it just starts to smoke, take off the heat and add enough corn kernals to cover the base of the pan 1 or two grains deep. This is important, dont add too much or you end up with a lot of unpopped kernals.

Put on the lid and shake the pan so that the corn becomes coated in the oil. Put the pan back on the stove on a medium heat and wait. After a couple of minutes the corn should be popping away merrily.

Do not take the lid off while it's still popping!

Once the popping subsides, carefully shake and leave for a few more seconds. Once the popping quietens down again take it off the the heat and quickly empty the popcorn into a bowl. You don't want burnt popcorn.

Very little of the oil will end up in the popcorn, its purpose is just to heat it. Most the oil will remain in the bottom of the pan with the unpopped corn.

Top with salt, sugar, anything else you want. Olive Oil and lots of Parmesan is suprisingly nice.

To make toffee popcorn you just need to make the toffee sauce. Also dead easy.

Toffee sauce.

Put 50g of butter in a pan.

Add 4 heaped tablespoons of soft brown sugar. Don't use white sugar, it really doesnt work as well.

Add 2-3 tablespoons of golden syrup.

Stir together on a medium heat until the butter has melted, and all the sugar has dissolved.

Now you have made the popcorn and the toffee sauce, you need to put them together. This must be done while the sauce is still hot and liquid.

Put the popcorn into a large mixing bowl.

Drizzle some of the toffee sauce over the top.

Stir untill the sauce is mixed into the popcorn and starts to cool. This is important. If you dont stir it well enough all the sauce ends up in a pool at the bottom of the bowl.

Add some more sauce and repeat untill it's all been added and the popcorn is all nicely coated.

Leave until is cool enough to eat. This is probably going to be the hardest bit for you

Yeeeeuuuuummmmm!!!

Thaks Dave

[Gonzo]

Solved that for you.

I'll make some popcorn at the weekend.

£30 gets you a popcorn maker. It won't pop 100% of the kernals but it will do a pretty good job.

[Churchill]

£30 gets you a popcorn maker. It won't pop 100% of the kernals but it will do a pretty good job.

Making popcorn gets me more than £30 worth...

[original PM]

Nooooo!

Thanks for being discrete!