Sparkler

I usually cook rice to accompany curry, which lasts me at least two days, so I've always made more rice than I need, then reheated later by steaming it. I think about 1 or 2 years ago someone I mentioned this to reacted in a way that suggested he thought I was lucky to be alive. All I can say is that I've never experienced any ill-effects of this procedure.

Obviously, rice is the staple here. We have rice cookers that keep the rice warm all day but if we make another batch and the first has been left in a bowl on the table we just stick it in the microwave. No ill effects after over 20 years :-)

Wayne

chuck,

I believe there is a small brewery in Askrigg, something like the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company.

Then there's the Wensleydale Brewery nearby in Bellerby. I believe it relocated from near Leyburn.

And there's the Holme Valley Brewery in Holmfirth.

Mm, sounds like a great trip.

nick

Chris has gone a bit quiet though.

tehe!

It didn't have any ill effects, but I am just feeling sleepy from the

Lurvely!

Hope there's some left tomorrow!

Chuck,

The Boltmakers Arms in Keighley is a fantastic one room pub serving the full range of Taylor's beer including Ram Tam (last week). Well worth a diversion from Haworth - particularly if you use the steam railway.

In Gargrave near Skipton another favourite is the Old Swan. Again, last week, it had 4 ales including Wharfedale Jolly Farmers and Copper Dragon 1816. Both were served in immaculate condition. The pub is not GBG listed but is well worth seeking out - excellent, home cooked food, old style layout of parlour, snug and bar plus friendly customers. It's dog and child friendly as well. My pub of the season.

Regards,

John Bowman

Utter nonsense. It is a case of preference as stated below. I of course am firmly of the sparkler good, no sparkler bad ilk, though I have no objection to the lack of a sparkler if the beer is well presented and well conditioned. In looking after beer in umpteen beer festivals it is condition that really counts. Flat beer is flat beer and too often that's what you get. Sparklers won't help that.

My local brewer Lees beer on gravity is not a patch on the sparkled version and I have had plenty opportunity to compare and contrast.

Nor should he.

Fair indeed. I don't really mind either way though living in Grater Manchester I veer firmly to sparkled beer, but I do dislike intensely the argument that sparklers spoil beer. They may spoil the experience for some drinkers but that's not the same thing at all.

Nor do I care for the "I'm right, you're wrong" arguments advanced by some devotees (and it is usually them) of the anti sparkler brigade.

Peter

It is the reason many chains and pubs put forward for not having (or rejecting once implemented) lined glasses. CAMRA beer festivals always have lined glasses and so there is no confusion - usually.

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Brett

Thought I'd add uk.food+drink.misc as they are usually into discussions about the reheating of food!

|loobyloo wrote: |> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:55:08 +0100, Chris de Cordova wrote: |>

|>> In article , Steven Pampling |>> wrote: | |>>> Anyone disputing the latter item is welcome to try re-heating rice |>>> kept at room temperature for 2-3 hours and eat it. |>>> Just about to do this - what should I expect? |>>> (more like 12 hours, mind!) | |>> Some particularly nasty bacterial infection which will keep you running |>> for |>> days!

Actually Bacillus Cerius creates a toxin in the rice when stored at room temperature. The *nasty* illness starts very quickly and only lasts about

|> I usually cook rice to accompany curry, which lasts me at least two |> days, so I've always made more rice than I need, then reheated later |> by steaming it. I think about 1 or 2 years ago someone I mentioned |> this to reacted in a way that suggested he thought I was lucky to be |> alive. All I can say is that I've never experienced any ill-effects |> of this procedure.

Provided that you put rice into the fridge within 1 1/2 hours of cooking, and store it there for only a few days, then reheated till it is piping hot before eating, you will be fine. Cooked rice can be stored in the freezer for weeks.

|Thought I'd add uk.food+drink.misc as they are usually into discussions |about the reheating of food!

From uf+dm

A white painted line is easy to see. JDW elected to have a very narrow etched line which became invisible to both staff and customers when the glass contained beer.

Which, considering the main cost of having the line is the actual measuring of the graduation rather than the quantity of paint, should actually register as terminally stupid. Of course there is probably some totally specious but half plausible reason JDW (and others) would give for their use of such small markings.

Anyone would think they wanted to be able to serve less than the full pint without being noticed.

Yuck, I only ever cook rice in milk with sugar!

Alan

OMG! That's disgusting! That and tapioca pudding are the two things that drove me down to the bakery and the chippie at school lunchtimes! When I tell my students about the revolting things we Brits do with good food their faces screw up! :-)

Wayne