I am beginning to think this is impossible for me

(eat more) #83

chef @foxbase LOL

(Cocker) #84

Hahahaha :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

If I do pull those macaroons off it’s all I’ll talk about for a week :laughing:

(eat more) #85

i see baking sheets and silicone mats and all kinds of cheffy stuff in your future :slight_smile:

i do highly recommend an electric pressure cooker…don’t think it will help with macaroons but it turns out quite effortlessly amazing food stuffs

(Cocker) #86

Oooooh yes! I admit I was looking at silicone egg rings, to keep the eggs nicely packaged up as you fry them ha.

Thanks for the tip - I didn’t even know that pressure cookers were even a thing any more…I mean, I remember them being all the rage when I was a kid…but thought they’d been replaced with steamers or something.

(eat more) #87

i think i donated my silicone egg rings…they weren’t as useful as i had hoped LOL

pressure cookers have made a comeback…the most popular are the Instant Pot and the Power Pressure Cooker XL…
i think the stovetop models only left because ppl were having accidents with them…and there was mass panic and hysteria…iron chefs still use stove top tho LOL

there are a couple of Instant Pot threads here…lots of yummy food to look at

(Cocker) #88

Mmmmmm pressure cooker food porn!

The jets of scalding hot steam from the valves at the top were the best bit! But then…I grew up in the north of England and entertainment was often hard to come by.

(David) #89

Whereabouts in England did you grow up @FoxBase?

(Cocker) #90

Hey @Chance! I’m originally from Middlesbrough area…though moved south after uni and haven’t really been back.

(David) #91

Nice. I was brought up in Bradford, then moved to Hull. I know all the right places to raise a family!

(Cocker) #92

Hahaha - nice to meet a fellow northerner…you’re the first I’ve ever met online! On the plus side - we’re ideally suited for life after the apocalypse :sunglasses:

(David) #93

I suppose in a zombie apocalypse, at least everyone’s keto.

(eat more) #94

i’m just trying to figure out how i’m going to get to the uk in an apocalypse since you guys are suited for it and all :blush:

(Jeff Logullo) #95

(OT: anyone besides me begin to “hear” FoxBase’s posts in a British accent?)

(David) #96

Doesn’t everyone write in a British accent? This is news to me!

PS even though @FoxBase and I were raised only a couple of hundred miles apart, our accents probably sound like we are from different countries. No judgment. :smile:

(Cocker) #97

Hahaha! As @Chance says - for a small island we have a ridiculous number of regional accents…I suspect neither of us sounds much like British most often seen on TV.

My accent is a Yorkshire/Geordie hybrid…in “Game of Thrones” terms (which represents British accents pretty well) I sound like Eddard Stark (Yorkshire) but occasionally break out in to Davos Seaworth (Geordie)…

(Jeff Logullo) #98

Thank you for the fine tuning of my mental image of your accent! :grinning:

Enjoy your new interest in cooking! Lots of inspiration and advice to be found here.

#99

@chance @FoxBase
Another Yorkshire person here! Grew up in Sheffield. Although I am in Canada now for 29 years, I can’t lose the accent. I don’t know it until I hear my voice on a voice mail or something, then I hear the accent.

(Cocker) #100

Hey! Nice to meet you @ketograndma! As the age old saying goes “You can take the lass out of Sheffield…” :smile_cat:

For me it’s family…when I hear them I always think “They sound well northern!”…and my friends say “Yeah, you sound exactly the same!” :laughing:

(David) #101

Don’t worry about not being able to lose the accent. I have no scientific evidence but have good cause to believe that human life arose in Yorkshire so your accent may be part of your fundamental structural DNA.

Like a certain amount of body fat, it is probably evolutionarily necessary at some level to have a Yorkshire accent, and perhaps sickness comes when we try force our bodies to override it. I don’t think there are any studies on the effect of diet and regional accents in the UK (probably due to the power of big pharma), but I imagine the results would be both statistically significant and a game changer.

I don’t know @FoxBase personally but he has mentioned that moving south from Middlesbrough has allowed the Yorkshire accent gene to activate. I really wonder if this “way of speaking” is what will allow him to shift those last stubborn pounds. It’s working miracles for me.

Keep calm and keto on, by gum!

(Cocker) #102

Hahahaha!

I’m fairly certain that Yorkshire is the cradle of life - widely confirmed by scientists…Yorkshire scientists anyway, all the other ones are probably still jealous. If you think about it the Yorkshire accent is probably as close to the sound of pure creation as it’s possible to get.

:laughing: