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hots

Joined: 23 Sep 2010
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 1:14 pm Post subject:
Steradent tablets are good for cleaning the loo bowl, just drop a couple in the pan and leave them overnight. Citrus peel and avocado skins make excellent fire lighters when dried. As for stalks and outer leaves? SOUP. Obviously.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 2:03 pm Post subject:
Goodness - loads of things I can do with the steradent tabs then! I think the loo bowl is my fav! Nesquik choc milk mix? Its a dry powder. I dont do milkshakes (lactose intolerant), but can I use it in cakes?

jettejette

Joined: 01 Jun 2013
Posts: 225

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 2:33 pm Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

Nesquik choc milk mix? Its a dry powder.
I dont do milkshakes (lactose intolerant), but can I use it in cakes?

I'm sure you could use it in cakes, as it's sweetened you'd need to cut down on sugar.
Perhaps you couuld mix it with a bit of water for a non alcoholic slug pub or a wasp trap in the Summer.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46235
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 4:26 pm Post subject:
neskwik is the work of demons and should be used as an ingredient in (censored due to the terrorism legislation)

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 5:49 pm Post subject:
One of our helpexers bought it....... its pretty dire - chocolate milk mix....thank God my kids never wanted it.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 16 9:47 pm Post subject:
I think chocolate milkshake powder is one of those things best thrown out if you don't use it for milkshakes. Otherwise you'll end up wasting other useful ingredients. You could use it to add to a bowl of rice krispies to ruin them. As for left over chips, I balance mine on my left shoulder when starting a new thread in Does it really matter.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 16 12:41 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I think chocolate milkshake powder is one of those things best thrown out if you don't use it for milkshakes. Otherwise you'll end up wasting other useful ingredients. You could use it to add to a bowl of rice krispies to ruin them.

As for left over chips, I balance mine on my left shoulder when starting a new thread in Does it really matter.

Better check local regs on disposal of toxic substances!

Henry

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 16 7:36 am Post subject:

As I don't use breadcrumbs in cooking, I always freeze odd bits of left over bread and use it to make bread pudding. Every so often I have to evict all the bread from the freezer and make one. Think the time is coming quite soon. I also have to find the frozen sloes and make some bramble wine from the frozen blackberries.

My vegetable peelings go in the wormery or on the compost heap. The worms have been quite happy outside under the bay tree this winter and put their heads up when I feed them.

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 16 2:53 pm Post subject:
I am just asking, does steradent attack the bugs you want in a sceptic tank?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 16 4:56 pm Post subject:

gregotyn wrote:

I am just asking, does steradent attack the bugs you want in a sceptic tank?

Yes, it "Kills 99.9% of bacteria".

hots

Joined: 23 Sep 2010
Posts: 397
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 16 6:43 pm Post subject:
Sceptic? A deliberate, amusing typo? We have a septic tank and using up Granny's old Steradent tablets in the downstairs loo doesn't seem to have affected it's efficaciousness.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 12:01 am Post subject:

Hots wrote:

We have a septic tank and using up Granny's old Steradent tablets in the downstairs loo doesn't seem to have affected it's efficaciousness.

I expect a bucketload of them might make some difference...

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 1:11 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Hots wrote:

We have a septic tank and using up Granny's old Steradent tablets in the downstairs loo doesn't seem to have affected it's efficaciousness.

I expect a bucketload of them might make some difference...

Certainly might. Twice the safe dose s NOT twice as safe.

At work some years ago the cleaners 'killed' the septic tank by putting too much toilet cleaner (or cleaner of the wrong type) down the loos and sinks.

Henry

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 11:51 am Post subject:

Hots wrote:

Sceptic?
A deliberate, amusing typo?

We have a septic tank and using up Granny's old Steradent tablets in the downstairs loo doesn't seem to have affected it's efficaciousness.

It's okay, we would pronounce the typo the same way over here on this side of the pond.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 1:07 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

Hots wrote:

Sceptic?
A deliberate, amusing typo?

We have a septic tank and using up Granny's old Steradent tablets in the downstairs loo doesn't seem to have affected it's efficaciousness.

It's okay, we would pronounce the typo the same way over here on this side of the pond.

Usefully, we wouldn't. Otherwise, we'd know you as sceptics, not septics.

We throw all manner of stuff down our tank. Nothing much seems to bother it, even a heavy dose of caustic before Christmas.

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