Holy feeping creaturism batman..

They need it because it's the latest greatest and nobody else they know has one.

But it could be useful if you've got a long commute or get caught in traffic. Put in the roast or casserole before you leave for work and turn on the oven an hour before you expect to get home. Dinner's ready when you arrive!

Isn't this what they made slow cookers for?

spend nearly 20 years cooking for a living, I developed some skills. :D

the day 'the lights go out' is the day the convenience worshippers starve.

When will they invent something that plugs into my brain and does everything for me?
:D

What is ' feeping ' ?

all knew what feeping creaturism was :p
just means you must be one of them management types, only good to keep the board off our backs ;)

from scientific and other publications, as far back as the mid '80s, how we all needed to have our refrigerators order milk for us when we are running low. Every time some remotely applicable new tech comes out (better internet connectivity, cheap RFID), it gets mentioned again. This stuff "scared" me when I was in high school. I find the pervasiveness of this feeping creaturism even more frightening now.

flail....run away screaming

heredity does help.....

For your amusement: My grandmother constantly told everyone that when she was a girl they had a vegetable on the front of their house.....

(yeah, vestibule)

Best One: Pa comes into the room, asks Ma and I where his "thingummy" is. Ma replies that the last time she saw it, it was on the "doofer". Pa says he's already looked there and couldn't find it. Ma asks if he's looked in the "wotsit", he says yes, and it wasn't there either. Finally, she says to go and check the "whojameflip". Two minutes later there's a gleeful "Gottit!" from Pa.

Finally getting my breath back after an enormous gigglefit, I asked Ma if she had any idea at all what he was looking for and where he'd been looking:

"I haven't a clue, but at least he's happy now he's found it from wherever it was!"

Still raises a wide smile....

See? Heredity DOES help.....

should I admit that?!

GG

The software my company writes and sells manages inventory, and the trick to it is you have to set a minimum "stock" level to ensure you don't sit around waiting for the delivery.

I need milk for my coffee. I hate coffeemate or any other non dairy creamer. So a system that waits till inventory =zero is useless to me, since I need milk every day, and I run out every 3 or 4 days. I don't want to wait a couple of hours for my morning fix.

So to do it properly, you have to set a minimum stock level (2 quarts or litres lets say) and orders when you hit that point, so that you have enough on hand to cover the period where you are waiting for delivery of your order. Set it too high and you have too much milk, too low and you run out. Then you have to build the interface to allow the consumer to set the levels and adjust them. I can do that in my head better than the computer.

My fridge isn't going to be ordering milk for me anytime soon.

James

knowing that I left the prime ham in the refrigerated state in the oven at home. I'm just about to board the plane for the short flight and quickly connect to my oven to start the cooking process. One section cooks the ham while the other the veg and potatoes - when I get home a dinner is ready.

A busy mum / dad is doing errands and realized that he / she will not be home in time to get the dinner on for the family. With a swift connect via a mobile the dinner is on and everybody eats on time.

Then I'm throwing dice in the alley
Officer Leroy comes up and is, like,
"Hey, I thought I told you..."
And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!"

If this oven has a fridge function, I'm sure it knows what the date is. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong...

Aren't you as a Scot, therefore a non Sassenach, a 'foreigner' to the english?

Or did I miss the sarcasm alert?

James

But the bar is pretty low there, nae?

I have read "How the Scots invented the modern world", and understand how John Knox's crusade improved the education system and so on. I'm sure my ancesters benefited from that.

I have had little exposure, excepting the one MBA course from Heriot Watt....

James

Both my wife and I work. By the time my wife and I get to the daycare centre to pick up your little one (or, she picks up the little one and I meet them on my way past), then get home, then get her meal ready, we have about a half hour with her before it's bed time.

I wouldn't mind being able to setup the meal in the oven the night before then have it ready and warm when we get home. Quicker dinner for the hungry little one, more time with the family instead of the kitchen.. what's not to like?

Och, noo, I dinna ken the involvement of spoonerisms! My mistake.

It was a sad day when M&S closed their Canadian stores. They were refreshingly different than most Canadian stores that carry the same merchandise as US stores. And there were a few foodie things that I enjoyed as well.

James

But no US delivery. I actually tracked down a likely UK delivery spot (a friend's wife is dating a man in Croydon) so I can order things once in a while. His initial purpose was to get my kid a Dougal purse, but then I branched out.

I order, he accepts, he reships. Now I'm a shopping addict on two continents.

is more than awesome.

Pay a bit more, but the quality is so much better.

Almost every friday i stop on the way home and get somehting nice as a treat for dinner.

No onions? :0

I can't imagine a bowl of chili without fresh chopped onion sprinkled on with the cheese.

the call the oven is to turn it on or off.

But even I know that he's referring to Marks and Spencer.

And I will cheerfully join you on the hunt down. But likely a shopping trip instead. I know us.

Of course, we'd have to hunt up Steff and GG to really make the day!
:)

I have a six-year-old child who has witnessed the phenomenon so seldom that she will actually stand by and watch Mom cook. With a look of awe, bordering on horror. She actually talked me into one of those weird GT Xpress 101 things on the infomercial because it looked more likely to provide sustenance than anything else likely to happen.

The angel-food cake is pretty good, though. Also the breakfast-sandwich thing.

I'm in!

just let me know where/when/who/how and I'll rob the nearest bank! :p

GG
]:)

up for a girls weekend in london..

shopping and drinking..would be fab

I am just coming to the last day of my very enjoyable Florida vacation. Other than totalling the rental car and getting a citation and a (deserved) $120 fine, the only thing that has marred the whole two weeks is CHEESE!

Could I just point out to all of my Transatlantic Chums that putting grated cheese on anything and everything does not constitute haute cuisine!

If you sprinkled grateded cheese on MY chili, I would have to kill you. If I order a steak, why on God's Green Earth would I want it blackened* and covered in melted cheese? And PAY EXTRA!

I could go on, but I will calm down and go and pack...

Neil :D

*NITS(tm) culinary interpretation. 'Blackened' means to cover the food item in a mixture of totally inappropriate spices and then char it in an over-hot pan thus renering the food item, to cultured European palates, totally inedible.

They do it to fresh tuna, for Chrissakes. Hey, people, the word I'm looking for is 'subtlety'.

I'd need a bloody Lottery win to do it at all!

:p

GG

I have staff in Montreal. I go there every 6 months or so. My hotel is on one side of the highway, office on the other. I drove in on a Sunday, and drove to the office Monday morning. I drove through the lights, over the bridge to find....they replace the lights with a freaking roudabout. And nobody knows how to drive in them. I did manage it safely but saw some other near misses while I was there.

As for the big trucks, yes there are those who buy big trucks and SUVs because they perceive they are safer with a big mass of steel around them. Of course stats prove that SUVs are more likely to be in deadly accidents due to a high centre of gravity which makes them more prone to rollovers, but when have actual stats ever made a difference.

James

and I may well try and find one in the UK.

To be able to kick off a reheat of something previously frozen or a quick roast of a couple of chops and the cooking of the bagged veggies for when I knew I would get home would be so useful. If it turned out I was not going to get back to eat it for whatever reason, then the food would still be in the fridge!

It's not a matter of being "too stupid to plan their own time effectively" because I can't always plan my time. Sometimes someone else does it for me or some piece of inanimate machinery does.

I cook A LOT. I rarely buy pre-prepared or take-outs as I like my own cooking. So, if I can get one of these, I will.

:D

ah..cheez whiz..food of the gods..i miss that nasty stuff :) toast is not quite the same.

steak..like mine with mushrooms and onions..sometimes a pepper sauce can be nice, toehr times just plain will do

coco wheats... :0

The oven wants to go, too.

A properly prepared steak requires no augmentation whatsoever.

Saut?ed onions and mushrooms on the side is good. B-)

Edit: emo-typo-con

of the pickup. Ever. Also, I understand that Florida's roads are particularly dangerous & confusing to non-residents. The layout or something.

unfortunately, some people have dead taste buds.

they like barbeque sauce [ BBQ ] which is some sort of tomato based product on them

the really, really wierd ones like HP sauce on them.

the totally screwed up people like peppercorn sauce on them.

bit of montreal style steak spic. [ garlic, lemon pepper, black pepper,salt course ground ] and cook 'er up is all a steak needs.

steak! Grilled rare with baste of butter, garlic and a touch of Worcesteshire. Better fire up the grill, I'm thinkin'.

I cheat a little. My favorite steak marinade is a package of Good Seasons Italian dressing mix and 4 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.