"…and with the ceremonial Whirling of the Plates successfully completed, Charles is now King of England."
@variablepulserate Here's some blurb from the manufacturer's website: This Sustain Wooden Cutlery Pack contains a knife, fork, spoon, teaspoon, napkin, salt and pepper. Made from birchwood with a light beeswax coating, perfect for food service and takeaway. Made of Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®-C117930) certified wood.
Premium, sustainable, disposable wooden cutlery pack
This product is made of FSC®-certified wood
Made from renewable, plant-based sources
Compostable in industrial facilities under specific conditions.
These items are sold in a minimum order of 400 units per pack.
Meals in the public hospital sector now come with a sealed paper envelope containing coated wooden knife, fork, spoon and teaspoon, recycled paper napkin and individual sachets of salt and white pepper.
I’m really very worried…
Following annual blood tests I’ve been diagnosed with severe anaemia, my haemoglobin level is close to 60% of its normal (already lowish) level. Tomorrow morning I collect a referral from my GP to take to the big public hospital four suburbs to the west of here for assessment and possible treatment. I don’t know how long I’ll be there but I’m packing a go-bag with essential clothing, electronic communication/entertainment toys, medications and toiletries.
Some coffee pods of sizes I didn't get with the sample pack of 12 assorted pods when I bough the pod machine on Sunday arrived by mail today, from Nespresso direct, you can't get them in the shops. With the arrival of these 80 ml and 535 ml, pods I now have - once the pods have been used then opened and emptied - a wide variety of sizes of reused pods I can use later. I have some food-grade perforated silicone caps that cover the tamped coffee grounds in the recycled pods.
These pods have a circular barcode on the underside of their rim, the codes are read by the machine to determine how much water to force through the ground coffee. The pods are spun at up to 7000 rpm to centrifugally remove the liquid from the pods.
It then drizzles down the sides of the pod and arrives in the cup or carafe with a very thick crema - even with reused pods.
The pod sizes I have will be dispensed as 40 ml, 80 ml, 150 ml, 230 ml, 390 ml and 535 ml.
Yesterday morning I made up what amounts to a bean casserole, with seven different legumes involved. I used a can of peeled whole tomatoes, a can of beans in smoky sauce, a can of baked beans, a can of four bean mix and two sweet chilli black bean meal pots. In addition there were 100 grams of frozen Quorn "mince," half a can of chopped Spam and a tablespoon of toasted farro wheat grains. I cooked it all up in an enamelled cast iron dutch oven on the induction cooktop, simmering it all for 40 minutes to concentrate the sauces by evaporating excess moisture.
Just the sort of food I like on these increasingly cold nights.
I've owned a number of coffee pod machines over the years. Today I collected another such machine, bough online yesterday. This is a Nespresso Vertuo Next device that works rather differently, spinning the barcoded pods at up to 7000 rpm to dispense the coffee. There are five different sizes of pods, the barcode around the rim of the pod tells the machine whether to dispense 40 ml; 80 ml; 150 ml; 230 ml or 414 ml. The pods are expensive and thus far only Starbucks and Nespresso themselves make suitable pods. I have on order from Amazon a set of caps to fit the 230 ml size pods to make the original pods reusable, cutting the expense and waste considerably.
I makes fantastic coffee, too, with a rich, thick crema on top. I bought this device on a special sale at a saving of $47, plus the manufacturer has a $50 cash back promotional offer valid until the end of May.
On Twitter, Elon Musk took away the Pope's blue check.
And then his rocket exploded.
Coincidence? I think not.