First-World Problems.

[Andrij]

Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.

Fake news.  Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.

[jsabine]

Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.

Fake news.  Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.

Nah. No-one ever refers to them as prosecco glasses.

[Beardy]

Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.

Fake news.  Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.

No one in Waitrose would refer to champagne flutes as glasses.

[jsabine]

Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.

Fake news.  Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.

No one in Waitrose would refer to champagne flutes as glasses.

They might, if they're looking for a generic term to cover both flutes and coupes.

[T42]

Heard somewhere the other day that both Marie-Antoinette glasses and flutes are wrong for Champagne: flutes in particular concentrate the CO2 and deaden the sense of smell.  Apparently a plain & simple wine-glass is best, but I suppose that fear of waiterly scorn will stop people asking for them.

[jsabine]

I saw something similar, but I think it suggested a more tulip-shaped glass than most wine glasses - perhaps one close to a whisky tasting glass.

[ElyDave]

my wine glasses are tulip shaped, which allows one to use the same glass later for the whisky

[Mrs Pingu]

My toast is too crunchy.

[Poacher]

The bidet waste pipe is frozen and not accessible without ripping tiles off, so the bidet is now unusable until it thaws.

[Beardy]

Grey imports are just so enticingly cheaper than a legitimate uk sorce.

[T42]

The bidet waste pipe is frozen and not accessible without ripping tiles off, so the bidet is now unusable until it thaws.

Crikey!  How are you going to make coffee?

[rogerzilla]

The bidet waste pipe is frozen and not accessible without ripping tiles off, so the bidet is now unusable until it thaws.

Crikey!  How are you going to make coffee?

Or wash your swimming trunks?

[Kim]

Barakta accidentally put bread in the fridge.

[barakta]

 

[Tim Hall]

Barakta accidentally put bread in the fridge.

I know people who do that on purpose.

[Jaded]

It holds back the blue fur.

[ian]

I don't think it does, bread mould grows fine at lower temperatures, the rate limiting step is relative humidity, which a fridge will increase. Best to store it somewhere dry but not so dry that it goes stale. And then when it does go mouldy, feed it to your inlaws.

[T42]

Having your Cornish cream tea served with jam on top of the cream. BBC article here.

Duncan Biscotto posted: "Don't apologise, it still tastes the same - there are worse atrocities in the world."

Whaddaya expect from a over-baked gentleman of the Italian persuasion?

[nicknack]

I don't think it does, bread mould grows fine at lower temperatures, the rate limiting step is relative humidity, which a fridge will increase. Best to store it somewhere dry but not so dry that it goes stale. And then when it does go mouldy, feed it to your inlaws.

Hmm...
We keep bread in fridge now because of mould growth when stored in bread crock - especially in summer. It doesn't get mouldy now and I fail to see a downside.

[ian]

The trick is to keep the relative humidity down, mould can't grow without significant humidity and moisture, some of which comes from the bread, the rest from its surroundings. So some air circulation but not so much that it dries out the bread. Or accept that with decent bread it should be eaten within a day (and a proper French baguette of the type unavailable in Britain, within about ten minutes of purchase). For plastic bagged loaves, I always leave the bag open, plastic bags just make for a sauna.

[nicknack]

Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?

[Kim]

Bread ends up cold, dry, about as mouldy as it would anyway and tasting faintly of fridge contents.  This may with hindsight belong in the iconoclasm thread.

[ian]

You're taking up valuable beer space.

[nicknack]

Bread ends up cold, dry, about as mouldy as it would anyway and tasting faintly of fridge contents.

Well, it ends up cold but none of the other things. If it did i wouldn't do it, would i?

You're taking up valuable beer space.

I have a separate, larger fridge for essentials.

[Canardly]

I have to attend a beer festival on Thursday.