Cereal shovel...

[Woodbloke]

SWIMBO's idea here; a cereal shovel in an oddment of English Walnut (needed to be a food safe wood) started yesterday afternoon and finished just now. Based on a much smaller one in Olive we bought from the garden centre a while back. A 75mm deep hole bored with a 45mm Forstner bit and then the bottom cleaned up (as best as possible) with scrapers; interior sanded holding the Abranet in a pair of forceps:



Finished with a coat of Chestnut 'Food Safe' oil - Rob

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

 

[AndyP]

Are those copper wire burnt rings on the handles Rob.
They look very smart.
I’ve never found pouring cereals direct from the packet to be a problem though.

 

[Woodbloke]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

Are those copper wire burnt rings on the handles Rob.
They look very smart.
I’ve never found pouring cereals direct from the packet to be a problem though.

Rings on the handle done with a triangular 'V' shaped lathe tool (don't know the correct name). The pic below shows our cereal buckets, the rhs is my muesli concoction which consists of loads of organic jumbo oats, granola of some sort and a muesli base from Waitrose.



The lhs bucket has my organic wheat bran; I'll have a scoop full each morning on top of the muesli + chopped apple + blueberries + 'nana and whatever else I can cram into my bowl - Rob

 

[Mike G]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

Never mind the cereal bowl......how about the average English mouth?

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Very nice Rob.

 

[Cabinetman]

Very nice Rob but not much use with bacon and eggs lol, Doc prescribed protein for Breakfast for me!

 

[Woodbloke]

Very nice Rob but not much use with bacon and eggs lol, Doc prescribed protein for Breakfast for me!

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

Mmmmm, 'organic' skimmed milk, which when they've 'skimmed' all the omega 3's and vitamins out of it is just purple water, to which they add (sometimes synthetic) milk powder and thickeners to make it white and appear like milk again...

And you have a go at me about my (historic) bacon habit! You carry on enjoying your 'processed' milk Roberto.

PS Lovely woody item though.

 

[Woodbloke]

Mmmmm, 'organic' skimmed milk, which when they've 'skimmed' all the omega 3's and vitamins out of it is just purple water, to which they add (sometimes synthetic) milk powder and thickeners to make it white and appear like milk again...

Anything added to the milk would have to be, under UK regs as I understand it, listed on the label on the bottle n'est pas?





Unless my eyeballs are deceiving me, I can see no reference to additional added ingredients on the label. When Google was asked the question about additional ingredients as you suggest it said:

Standard skimmed milk contains no additional ingredients or artificial additives beyond cow's milk with the fat removed. [1, 2]

Composition and Processing

• • Natural ingredients: Standard fresh skimmed milk lists just one ingredient: milk. [1]
  • Processing: It undergoes pasteurisation and homogenisation, exactly like whole or semi-skimmed milk, but with the cream (fat) mechanically separated out. [1, 2, 3]
  • Fortification: While some countries (like the US) mandate or practice vitamin A and D fortification because fat-soluble vitamins are lost during skimming, standard supermarket skimmed milk in the UK relies on the milk's naturally occurring nutrients without artificial chemical additives. [1, 2, 3]
  • Exceptions: Specialized products like protein-boosted skimmed milk (e.g., Arla B.O.B) may have extra milk proteins added back in, and organic or lactose-free variants will explicitly state any alterations on the packaging. [1, 2]

So there's nowt on the label/packaging about extra ingredients. When you get the point where you have high blood pressure and highish cholesterol, dairy is a food that needs due care and attention. Care to have a re-think? - Rob...who had a delumptious bacon (fat removed) butty for a mid day snack on Sat!

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Seconds out!! Round Two!!

Popcorn anyone?

 

[TrimTheKing]

Anything added to the milk would have to be, under UK regs as I understand it, listed on the label on the bottle n'est pas?

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Unless my eyeballs are deceiving me, I can see no reference to additional added ingredients on the label. When Google was asked the question about additional ingredients as you suggest it said:

Standard skimmed milk contains no additional ingredients or artificial additives beyond cow's milk with the fat removed. [1, 2]

Composition and Processing

• • Natural ingredients: Standard fresh skimmed milk lists just one ingredient: milk. [1]
  • Processing: It undergoes pasteurisation and homogenisation, exactly like whole or semi-skimmed milk, but with the cream (fat) mechanically separated out. [1, 2, 3]
  • Fortification: While some countries (like the US) mandate or practice vitamin A and D fortification because fat-soluble vitamins are lost during skimming, standard supermarket skimmed milk in the UK relies on the milk's naturally occurring nutrients without artificial chemical additives. [1, 2, 3]
  • Exceptions: Specialized products like protein-boosted skimmed milk (e.g., Arla B.O.B) may have extra milk proteins added back in, and organic or lactose-free variants will explicitly state any alterations on the packaging. [1, 2]

So there's nowt on the label/packaging about extra ingredients. When you get the point where you have high blood pressure and highish cholesterol, dairy is a food that needs due care and attention. Care to have a re-think? - Rob...who had a delumptious bacon (fat removed) butty for a mid day snack on Sat!

Watched a bbc doco on it a few years back , and it was discussed in a thread on here too if memory serves, may have been previous iteration.

Happy to accept that it’s maybe not ALL like that but the stuff in the doco was an awful purplish coloured thin liquid that they then added milk powder back into to make it white again.

Interesting stuff about the cholesterol because I have genetically high cholesterol which I’m trying to lower/manage without drugs and h th e more you talk to docs and dig into it, the whole thing makes you realise that no one rule works for everyone.

Eggs for instance, i completely cut them out for a year, continued on a slow drop, brought them back in for a year, eating on average 8-12 a week, continued drop in level.



Oh and don’t I trust Google, I asked Google and three different AI platforms and got different answers from each. Which I guess means I don’t trust ANYTHING any more!

 

[duke]

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

Porridge with a bit of milk and maple syrup is my favourite.

 

[Lons]

.............Eggs for instance, i completely cut them out for a year, continued on a slow drop, brought them back in for a year, eating on average 8-12 a week, continued drop in level..............

That seems like a lorra lorra eggs Al.
Presumably you weren't a fan of Edwina Currie, or maybe too young to remember her contaversial blooper.

 

[Woodbloke]

Happy to accept that it’s maybe not ALL like that but the stuff in the doco was an awful purplish coloured thin liquid that they then added milk powder back into to make it white again.

Interesting stuff about the cholesterol because I have genetically high cholesterol which I’m trying to lower/manage without drugs and h th e more you talk to docs and dig into it, the whole thing makes you realise that no one rule works for everyone.

Eggs for instance, i completely cut them out for a year, continued on a slow drop, brought them back in for a year, eating on average 8-12 a week, continued drop in level.

Fair enoughski!

No expert here, but eggs, although high in cholesterol themselves, don't contribute themselves to cholesterol levels in human beans...very happy to be corrected by more knowledgable folk.

I'd advise not to take statins if under 'pressure' from the medico; bloody horrible things and caused me no end of grief. I take a med now called 'Nilemdo' for cholesterol which is relatively new and thus far has had no nasty side effects. It's apparently priced at around £100 a packet! - Rob

 

[Mike G]

...... I asked Google and three different AI platforms and got different answers from each. .......

I asked one AI thingamejig "how much gold has been mined in the history of the world in cubic metres" and was told 20 (cu.m). I knew this to be wrong, but I clicked on the "more information" button, and was told 900 cu.m . AI isn't that intelligent if it can't even spot that it has given completely conflicting answers to one question.

It tickles me that if you were to melt all of the mined gold in existence and pour in into an Olympic sized swimming pool, it would only fill it a third full!

 

[AndyP]

raining here so I googled the gold question too.
Assuming the World Gold Council knows what they are taking about

How Much Gold Has Been Mined? | World Gold Council

Lately, over 187,000 tonnes of gold has been mined, most of which still exists today. Learn how much gold has become jewellery and the future of gold mining.

www.gold.org

the 20 cu m volume my well be a misinterpretation of a cube measuring 20m x 20m x 20m = 8000 cu M which I think might just be a bit larger than an olympic swimming pool.

 

[Mike G]

Yep, I got some maths wrong. 187,000 tons is approx 9700 cubic metres.....or approaching 4 swimming pools-worth.

 

[TrimTheKing]

That seems like a lorra lorra eggs Al.
Presumably you weren't a fan of Edwina Currie, or maybe too young to remember her contaversial blooper.

Haha, I remember it well, I was probably about 15.

I don't eat that many now, it was partly a phase I went through in my gym going as a way to get decent protein in, and I enjoy all egg cooking methods, but now I'm down to normal levels.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Fair enoughski!

No expert here, but eggs, although high in cholesterol themselves, don't contribute themselves to cholesterol levels in human beans...very happy to be corrected by more knowledgable folk.

I'd advise not to take statins if under 'pressure' from the medico; bloody horrible things and caused me no end of grief. I take a med now called 'Nilemdo' for cholesterol which is relatively new and thus far has had no nasty side effects. It's apparently priced at around £100 a packet! - Rob

Yeah tbh Rob your scare story is one of the main reasons I want to try and control/reduce mine naturally if at all possible. I simply cannot function without sleep!

By having porridge, with 50g raspberries or strawberries, 80g blueberries, and a banana, for breakfast, cutting out the bacon other than once a month (I used to have 2-3 bacon butties a week), moved from butter to Pro-Activ spread and generally just focussed on eating a little more cleanly I've brought mine down from 7.5 to 6.1 and although my LDL is still higher than I'd like, my ratio is good.

I'm going to carry on with my high level of weekly exercise, and eating habits, and see where I am by April next year then if it hasn't dropped further I'll talk to the docs again. they weren't worried last time and were happy to see a slow and steady drop, so let's hope it's carried on that way...

 

[Woodbloke]

Yeah tbh Rob your scare story is one of the main reasons I want to try and control/reduce mine naturally if at all possible. I simply cannot function without sleep!

By having porridge, with 50g raspberries or strawberries, 80g blueberries, and a banana, for breakfast, cutting out the bacon other than once a month (I used to have 2-3 bacon butties a week), moved from butter to Pro-Activ spread and generally just focussed on eating a little more cleanly I've brought mine down from 7.5 to 6.1 and although my LDL is still higher than I'd like, my ratio is good.

I'm going to carry on with my high level of weekly exercise, and eating habits, and see where I am by April next year then if it hasn't dropped further I'll talk to the docs again. they weren't worried last time and were happy to see a slow and steady drop, so let's hope it's carried on that way...

Same here; if I can't sleep the next day is next to useless and akin to a 'car crash'. I also used to like a glass or three of vino in the evening with SWIMBO but I've now found out the very hard way that although alcohol gets you off to sleep, it won't keep you asleep. If I then wake up to go to the loo, say at 2-30 or 3am I won't get back to sleep and just lie there in the dark until dawn. Bloody horrible, so booze of an evening is now a non-starter, although a beer or two at 6pm when I'm getting dinner is fine as by bedtime, the effects have worn off and I'm OK for sleep.

You have pretty much the same sort of brekki as I do; I gave up butter (even though I love it) ages ago and always have the Flora Light or Benecol spread as they're supposed to reduce cholesterol. Not entirely sure by how much, but they wouldn't be allowed to advertise as so on the tub if there wasn't an element of truth in it.

An occasional bacon butty as a treat still rules!! - Rob