Salt and sugar woes
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
Smitha Vijayan wrote:
I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Spoken like a true techy :-D One New Years eve, shortly after we had settled down from popping champers and shouting "Hapshy Newsh Yearsh!", I made coffee for everyone who wanted. In my drunken state it took me bloody ages to boil the water, find clean cups, ladel the coffee in, find usable milk and so on. The whole process took so long that by the time I delivered the steaming cups of joe everyone was falling out of their chairs laughing and congratulating me on managing the amazing feat. Once we had all calmed down from the laughs the first few took long suffering sips of coffee and promptly spat it out onto the grass. The rest, being drunk, went ahead and sipped theirs only to spit out too. Turns out that not only had I used salt instead of sugar but I had been using a table spoon and not a tea spoon for ladeling the coffee and sugar in. X| regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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:laugh: Good you figure it out fast, otherwise, you could be blaim with all the cooking! How is Nish feeling now? Cheers Al
He is much better than the last two days - but he still hasn't fully recovered from the pain. Thanks Smitha :) Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
Smitha Vijayan wrote:
Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Try kosher salt or sea salt with a larger crystal size. I find keeping it in a lidded bowl is more convient to cook with. Just pick it up with your finger tips and sprinkle it on the food. Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you. -Chris Maunder
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
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Smitha Vijayan wrote:
we have different crystal sizes for sugar and s
I miss those. They are difficult to disolve but I love those.
Smitha Vijayan wrote:
Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Good Luck! I researched on them for a long time seems that the kind of crystal we get in India are not available in US (may be it might be same for Canada) even in authentic Indian Stores.
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
I generally use kosher salt for cooking. The flakes are larger and flat and look nothing like sugar, so no chance of mistakes there. Table salt i keep in a shaker, whereas i keep sugar in various larger containers that can be scooped or poured from vs. shaking. I have mixed up the cinnamon and powdered ginger before though, since i keep those in similar containers and they are close in color. Makes for an interesting flavor, but less shocking than salt in place of sugar...
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
Well I am glad it was salt and not a dead decomposing insect! Regards, Nish
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Smitha Vijayan wrote:
we have different crystal sizes for sugar and s
I miss those. They are difficult to disolve but I love those.
Smitha Vijayan wrote:
Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Good Luck! I researched on them for a long time seems that the kind of crystal we get in India are not available in US (may be it might be same for Canada) even in authentic Indian Stores.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
seems that the kind of crystal we get in India are not available in US (may be it might be same for Canada)
Very much possible :( Regards Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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Smitha Vijayan wrote:
I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Spoken like a true techy :-D One New Years eve, shortly after we had settled down from popping champers and shouting "Hapshy Newsh Yearsh!", I made coffee for everyone who wanted. In my drunken state it took me bloody ages to boil the water, find clean cups, ladel the coffee in, find usable milk and so on. The whole process took so long that by the time I delivered the steaming cups of joe everyone was falling out of their chairs laughing and congratulating me on managing the amazing feat. Once we had all calmed down from the laughs the first few took long suffering sips of coffee and promptly spat it out onto the grass. The rest, being drunk, went ahead and sipped theirs only to spit out too. Turns out that not only had I used salt instead of sugar but I had been using a table spoon and not a tea spoon for ladeling the coffee and sugar in. X| regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Good to know this happens commonly in real life and not just in movies. Cheers, Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 11:13 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
I had a similar problem last time I went to a Starbucks. I realised I hadn't sugared my tea. Went back to the sundries area, grabbed a white sachet, and poured. It was when I came to drink it I realised my mistake. Went back to the sundries area, and saw sugar in a great big container with a spout... I couldn't even complain to anybody, as I did it myself! Iain.
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Smitha Vijayan wrote:
Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Try kosher salt or sea salt with a larger crystal size. I find keeping it in a lidded bowl is more convient to cook with. Just pick it up with your finger tips and sprinkle it on the food. Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you. -Chris Maunder
andy brummer wrote:
Try kosher salt or sea salt with a larger crystal size.
Thanks - I will try that. And sounds like sea salt might be more salty. Cheers Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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I generally use kosher salt for cooking. The flakes are larger and flat and look nothing like sugar, so no chance of mistakes there. Table salt i keep in a shaker, whereas i keep sugar in various larger containers that can be scooped or poured from vs. shaking. I have mixed up the cinnamon and powdered ginger before though, since i keep those in similar containers and they are close in color. Makes for an interesting flavor, but less shocking than salt in place of sugar...
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I am curious. In most Hollywood movies you will see a sugar pourer in diners and restaurants. In most cases it looks like the user ends up pouring five teaspoons of sugar into their cup. Is this common or yet another movie perpetuated myth? For all of my life it has either been one-teaspoon sugar packets or using a teaspoon to ladel out of a sugar bowl. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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I had a similar problem last time I went to a Starbucks. I realised I hadn't sugared my tea. Went back to the sundries area, grabbed a white sachet, and poured. It was when I came to drink it I realised my mistake. Went back to the sundries area, and saw sugar in a great big container with a spout... I couldn't even complain to anybody, as I did it myself! Iain.
You could so sue. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Well I am glad it was salt and not a dead decomposing insect! Regards, Nish
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Well I am glad it was salt and not a dead decomposing insect! Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Well I am glad it was salt and not a dead decomposing insect!
You really should learn to identify basic flavours! Regards Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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I am curious. In most Hollywood movies you will see a sugar pourer in diners and restaurants. In most cases it looks like the user ends up pouring five teaspoons of sugar into their cup. Is this common or yet another movie perpetuated myth? For all of my life it has either been one-teaspoon sugar packets or using a teaspoon to ladel out of a sugar bowl. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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doMy grandma has a sugar bowl. I suppose they're common enough in places. But in my house, we either add sugar while cooking (and measure it) from a large container, or pour it into coffee (from a small canister with a pencil-sized hole in the lid). Here, personal preference decides how or if it's measured - i just dump in (roughly) 1tsp, while my wife measures out probably 3 to 5tsp into her large (16oz) coffee mug. Most diners have either paper packets or similar canisters (pourers).
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I am curious. In most Hollywood movies you will see a sugar pourer in diners and restaurants. In most cases it looks like the user ends up pouring five teaspoons of sugar into their cup. Is this common or yet another movie perpetuated myth? For all of my life it has either been one-teaspoon sugar packets or using a teaspoon to ladel out of a sugar bowl. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry! K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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doThere are plenty of restaurants that have the sugar in a container like that, leaving room for the 4 different kinds of alternate sweetener packets. Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you. -Chris Maunder
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Well I am glad it was salt and not a dead decomposing insect! Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Eh, it's just protein. I'll bet Paul adds imported African insects to his coffee...
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Or...(if practical) you could take a little taste of the condiment in question before adding it to the food/drink. John
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Eh, it's just protein. I'll bet Paul adds imported African insects to his coffee...
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Shog9 wrote:
I'll bet Paul adds imported African insects to his coffee...
And I bet also used film! Regards, Nish
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Heard this commotion in the washroom just after I gave Nish his morning dose of hot malted chocolate beverage and when I was starting to clear the kitchen sink. I was in a panic especially after all the heart-attack-muscle-spasm related incidents of the last two days. And I see Nish spitting out the drink and washing his mouth. As soon as he had done with it, he explains to me that the drink had a weird taste - the only explanation he could give of it with his culinary skills or the lack of it [even went to the extend of saying he thought some insect had gone into it in the interval between the time I put the drink on the table and the instant he came and drank it]. I tasted the drink - I had used salt instead of sugar!!! I keep salt and sugar in similar containers [from a set of 12 I bought from some mall], but I normally use salt from a dispenser and so I always keep the salt container below the sugar one. Last night I accidentally swapped them when refilling the dispenser [this also explained why last night's porridge was so sweet we had to throw it away and had to go to bed eating some salads, bread, and curry]. The series ended with Nish tasting sugar and pepper on his hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Nish suggested labelling the containers - but I didn't want to. That sounded amateurish. I have been handling salt and sugar for at least the past 15 years and never has this happened to me. I realised that this was because back home we have different crystal sizes for sugar and salt. Sugar crystals are bigger you never mistake them for salt. Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto. - Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach -- modified at 10:49 Wednesday 22nd February, 2006
Smitha Vijayan wrote:
Next time I go to the grocery store, I am going to do a thorough research on the types [crystal sizes] of sugar available in Toronto.
Next time. Let Nish get his own breakfast and have him make yours too. :-D Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]