Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. egg_ says:

    Which Animals Could You Eat In A Fight?

     

    Give me big enough knife and fork…

     


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  2. Zipster says:

    <blockquote>Canola has a good amount of DHA in it. I think it has a bland slightly medicinal taste. I don’t rate it beyond shallow frying.</blockquote>

     

    Canola is deodorised and sanitised. It is somewhat oxidised from high heat treatment, which is the main problem with these vegetable oils. You can buy cold pressed canola, but you may as well just buy  cold press virgin olive oil.


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  3. srr says:

    🙂 Two of my favourite things –

    <strong>Dog pulls off very impressive billiard rail shot</strong>
    https://rumble.com/vlm22w-dog-shows-impressive-billiard-rail-shot.html


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  4. egg_ says:

    Grapeseed oil is high temp and great for BBQ and has a nice mild flavour.

    “Canola” being r@peseed oil.

     

     

     

     


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  5. Farmer Gez says:

    Use sunflower or just plain veg oil.  Don’t use Canola (rapeseed oil) pigs won’t eat that shit.  It is not a plant we consume, so why consume its oil?

     

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    Axl knows bugger all about canola oil.

    I wouldn’t fry with rapeseed oil either, but that’s not canola oil.

    High oleic canola oil is good for frying and high in mono-saturates. Plenty of this type canola being planted to replace palm oil.

    Palm oils fries really well, tastes great but also good for clogging up the arteries.

     

     


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  6. Farmer Gez says:

    BTW

    Axl – It is not a plant we consume

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    Canola is a brassica.

    Help me out here class.

    Can anyone think of brassicas we may consume?


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  7. egg_ says:

    Canola oil is a vegetable oil derived from a variety of rapeseed that is low in erucic acid, as opposed to colza oil. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from the seed of any of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae.

     


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  8. jo says:

    Gez cabbage cauli broccoli and everyone’s favourite Brussels sprouts.


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  9. Runnybum says:

    With all of this conversation about cooking oils, which is the best oil to cook politicians in?


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  10. calli says:

    Rocket, turnips, cresses, spinach, mustard and horseradish, as well as radishes themselves.  Oh and bok choy and all the other boks and choys.

    The flower gives them away.


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  11. Dot says:

    **Canola is deodorised and sanitised. It is somewhat oxidised from high heat treatment, which is the main problem with these vegetable oils.**

     

    Deodorising removes aldehydes and ketones because it is generally done under very low pressure.

     

    If oil lasts for 1 – 2 years, it likely has tiny levels of free acid and oxidants. Oxidation is a process which is exponential.

     

    You are right about sanitation.

     

    The process also removes tocopherols which are antioxidants.

     

    This is why cold pressed oils are better.

     

    Some of it goes to customer perception. A good olive oil is not always clear. That lack of clarity can be seen as a flaw.

     

    Old Arnie before he went girlie man touted flaxseed oil. Any reports?


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  12. calli says:

    Boiling oil, of course!

    Could try tar too.


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  13. kaysee says:

    I am coming up with an error page while trying to post links. The first got through but can’t proceed. Will try to post the links, later.


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  14. custard custard says:

    Hi Cats,

     

    Back again after being in Cat gaol whilst the new updates were rolled out. Carry on…


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  15. johanna johanna says:

    Woo-hoo! I’m re-personed! Thanks, Adam.

    As for cooking oils, that scam run by ‘celebrity chefs’ like that SA woman who was always spruiking extra-virgin olive oil (which she happened to sell) for cooking is nonsense.

    For stir frying or indeed most frying, peanut oil is best. That’s what Chinese and Asian chefs use if they can.

    Good quality olive oil is best used at room temperature in dressings for salads or as a dipping sauce for bread or splashed over various dishes at the end to give a bit of oomph. As a frying medium, I’d rate it at the lower end because it doesn’t get hot enough before the flavour starts to degrade. As for using extra virgin for frying – it’s just an ostentatious display of wealth combined with ignorance – unless you happen to be selling it.


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  16. Mark A says:

    Try one more time


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  17. JC1 JC1 says:

    All good, thanks Adam.


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  18. calli says:

    We can tell the registered upper crust now.  You have stylish, yet understated avatars.

    All hail our new overlords!


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  19. Ruprecht says:

    Does anyone know what the point in registering is?


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  20. rocinante says:

    Test Saturday


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  21. calli says:

    You don’t have to fill in fields, and you look slimmer.


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  22. Mark A says:

    calli says:
    August 28, 2021 at 4:50 pm

    You don’t have to fill in fields, and you look slimmer.

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    and if happen to be born on the wrong day, you can’t access the blog for days


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  23. srr says:

    Oh good, now it’s postable where it originated –

    “srr says:

    August 28, 2021 at 3:36 pm
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    struth says:
    August 28, 2021 at 2:10 pm

    We even told you the tracking app would then be made a permit based app.

    Exactly what is happening.

    Can’t tell the difference between being traced and being permitted…………….it’s going to smack you in the face.

    =================================================

    Yeah but it’s OK; for those always boasting about breaking lockdowns all over the place, travelling where & when they will, damn the rules.

    When the police do pull them over to check their tracking & tracing permit passport, and find they’ve clocked up 10’s of thousands of dollars of fines & committed gaolable offences, well they’ll obviously know they’re Govt Pro-Jab Propaganda Agents and they’ll all laugh about what a jolly good time they have sucking in the ‘lowly classes’.

    Oh silly me, I forgot, they won’t pull them over. They’ll just scan their Rego and KNOW they’re Propaganda Agents, not to be hindered in their very important gaslighting work.”


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  24. johanna johanna says:

    Our steam loco fans in the West would have been there?


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  25. <i>and if happen to be born on the wrong day, you can’t access the blog for days</i>

    +1


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  26. Farmer Gez says:

    For stir frying or indeed most frying, peanut oil is best. That’s what Chinese and Asian chefs use if they can.
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    Peanut oil is very similar canola oil in fats. It has a higher level of saturated fats that helps the frying quality.
    Palm oil is nearly all saturated fat, that’s why it fries well.

    It’s basically a lard tree.


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  27. kaysee says:

    Trying again …

    ᵔᴥᵔ

    Un


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  28. Mark A says:

    Last night’s Lame pics.


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  29. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Van Wrongselen in the Oz writing about Shorten aiming to take. Albanese’s job


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  30. Nick, I tried to respond to your question but the hamsters must not like someone who’s not registered.

    Take a look at the main page – Adam has put up a post.


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  31. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP has tweeted a Ben Garrison cartoon from April 2020, which of course was put in the crackpot conspiracy theory box at the time.

    https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bill_gates_pandemic-1024×765.jpg


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  32. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Ok thanks Calli. I see it now. Not sure about the slim bit though


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  33. mh says:

    I’m reporting from the Suncorp NRL double header tonight.
    Masks are a bummer, but not required when you’re drinking. Only TaliDan could come up with a law where you have to be masked while drinking.


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  34. Mark,

    the stork, the illegible writing of doctors + the 4 musicians!

    thank you!


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  35. kaysee, #5; unfortunately, people don’t care. To that end, everyone in favour of such abuses of power in a “free” “democratic” country should have to watch footage of what the allied troops found when they arrived at the concentration camps in Germany, Poland etc. Or, perhaps, Schlinder’s List.

    I just tried to put up a clip from Sky news that nilk had up on her site. It was the NSW Police Commissioner saying to Laura Jayes that, subject to the Premier and the NSW Covid-19 cabinet’s decision, he would like people to have to confirm their vaccination status by showing their phones to prove that they’re allowed out.


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  36. kaysee, and on your contributions this arvo, they’re al great! thank you.


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  37. Indolent Indolent says:

    I’m logged in but I still can’t post a link.


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  38. johanna johanna says:

    From Flash-Cat:

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
    August 28, 2021 at 5:20 pm

    as any fule kno.

    Nigel Molesworth!!

    Stay here, Johanna, as I doubt Nigel is much known or appreciated on the Dash-Cat.
    A spotty schoolboy with inkblots and poor spelling creates not the joy there he does here.

    While being temporarily un-personed here (now fixed) I said over there ‘as any fule kno.’

    Apparently the Neanderthals here are incapable of recognising literary references, especially high classics like Molesworth’s Diary.

    Pearls before swine.

    The good things are, we Neanderthals do not have to scroll past the travails of the nouveau riche about how incompetent their tradesmen are, their past relationships for the last 60 years, their public generosity to less fortunate relatives, and their interlecshural superiority.

    And that’s a short list.

    I suspect that one or two readers here recognise Molesworth, possibly who even who do not have university degrees, you snob.


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