The dangers of christmas

10 Dec 2006

t'is the season to be wary, tra, la, la, laaa, tra, la, la, laa confused

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Last night we had a quiet night in binned the laptop and dug out the scrabble and Pk decided we were having party.........no one was invited but if the lady wants a party then a party was had. So instead of our usual caviar and quails eggs she went to the supermarket and came back with a bottle of bubbly and loads of party fodder, mini scotch eggs, sausages on sticks and volovents etc....................all was going well untill we came to the chestnuts then all hell broke loose :?
I'll explain..................as children we both lived in homes with open fires and are more used to roasting them the traditional way over said fire biggrin

But as we have no fire the oven was the only way to go. So I googeled "how to roast chestnuts" :? and a bbc site told me what temprature for the oven and gave me a time of 10 to 30 minutes a bit of a vague guideline I'm certain you'll agree. So just to be cautious I aimed for a cook time of 15 minutes. Chestnuts were cut into and placed in the oven, 10 minutes later there was a huge explosion that to me sounded quite far away so I put it down to our neighbours up in Moss Side but not so it may seem.....................so to the oven I dashed and removed our festive foder and being a tad uncertain if they were quite done I stodd by the tray pealed one and proceded to eat it and thenBANG one of the little blighters exploded and more so did so in my left eye :shock: leaveing me crouched over the worktop in pain feeling as though my eye had been nuked, and a more paniky PK wandering how the fook to get me to hospital as she had drunk some of the bubbly.......
........................is it wise to dial 999 and ask for an ambulance due to an explodeing chesnut injury, so we thought of asking a neighbour but to be honest we have to live with them and I would forever be the guy who was injured by a freak nut accident redface

ops:
Anyhoo all is fine but be warned.................Eating chestnuts may seriously damage your eyesight :oops:

10 Dec 2006

Quote by sheddy
t'is the season to be wary, tra, la, la, laaa, tra, la, la, laa :?
Last night we had a quiet night in binned the laptop and dug out the scrabble and Pk decided we were having party.........no one was invited but if the lady wants a party then a party was had. So instead of our usual caviar and quails eggs she went to the supermarket and came back with a bottle of bubbly and loads of party fodder, mini scotch eggs, sausages on pricks and volovents etc....................all was going well untill we came to the chestnuts then all hell broke loose :?
I'll explain..................as children we both lived in homes with open fires and are more used to roasting them the traditional way over said fire But as we have no fire the oven was the only way to go. So I googeled "how to roast chestnuts" :? and a bbc site told me what temprature for the oven and gave me a time of 10 to 30 minutes a bit of a vague guideline I'm certain you'll agree. So just to be cautious I aimed for a cook time of 15 minutes. Chestnuts were cut into and placed in the oven, 10 minutes later there was a huge explosion that to me sounded quite far away so I put it down to our neighbours up in Moss Side but not so it may seem.....................so to the oven I dashed and removed our festive foder and being a tad uncertain if they were quite done I stodd by the tray pealed one and proceded to eat it and then BANG one of the little blighters exploded and more so did so in my left eye :shock: leaveing me crouched over the worktop in pain feeling as though my eye had been nuked, and a more paniky PK wandering how the fook to get me to hospital as she had drunk some of the bubbly.......
........................is it wise to dial 999 and ask for an ambulance due to an explodeing chesnut injury, so we thought of asking a neighbour but to be honest we have to live with them and I would forever be the guy who was injured by a freak nut accident ops:
Anyhoo all is fine but be warned.................Eating chestnuts may seriously damage your eyesight :oops:

Only comment is above lol

Phredd >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bolt

10 Dec 2006

For a number of years now Chestnuts, like many other foods, have been intensely farmed to get a better crop and size. The pesticides and the feed have all added to an already oil rich product and there are now warnings about roasting these foods. The advice given out by the organisation I work for 'The Dangerous Foods Agency' is to treat Supermarket nuts as intensively grown nuts and to go to smaller retailers for free range nuts that are not treated with the same chemicals and feeds.

10 Dec 2006

See Sheddy.... Proof that you should never try to roast your nuts :giggle:
bolt

10 Dec 2006

For many of us having hot nuts exploding in our eyes is not really that unusual an experience.

10 Dec 2006

Quote by celticq
For many of us having hot nuts exploding in our eyes is not really that unusual an experience.

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Hiya celticq... Long time no see hun kiss

10 Dec 2006

Quote by celticq
For many of us having hot nuts exploding in our eyes is not really that unusual an experience.

Still painful !

10 Dec 2006

Hmmmmm
Roasting your nuts in the oven....
This a new kink you have invented Sheddy confused

11 Dec 2006

I bet you wont let ya nuts near the oven again........... wink

Hope your eye is ok Sheddy kiss

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