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Shaw Tarse said:
ATM said:
DoctorX said:
ATM said:
Toby Carvery
King Size
6 quid with AA 20% off discount
Beer extra
AA dissshhcount you say? *hic*King Size
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dimots said:
Burwood said:
Let’s face it. These carvery places are rank but better than my MIL offers up. 
Hahaha funny because it’s true 
The sad thing is that carvery's are very popular even though they serve rubbish to the masses. Sad reflection on the great UK unwashed tastes...
Let me summarise. A carvery is meat and two veg, ok it might be 2 or 3 meats, 3 veg, a yorkie pudding etc, but basically it is simple food. And to be good, simple food really needs to be cooked very well.
THIS IS THE FIRST LAW OF COOKING
The hardest things to cook well are the simplest things. Like chips or bread or rice etc etc etc.
And carvery's cannot do this, they fail on so many levels.
First problem with them. Short order cook who does not care feeding 50 people. With simple food you need a good chef who does care feeding less than 10.
Second problem. Everyone likes their meat cooked differently, from rare to well done. But at least juicy. Things sitting under hot lamps for an hour?
Third problem, roast potatoes need to be crispy, which means serving at the last moment, not sitting around. Sitting around is the leathery curse of death for a roast spud. What does the carvery do? It puts the spud in a chinese water torture where it cries so much it really goes soggy.
Fourth problem, given they cannot do any of the above it's probably not surprising the veg turns out to be a soft soggy mess nobody cares about. When someone can promise me that if I go to a carvery I will say " the carrots and broccoli were fantastic" I will not go to a carvery.
In the meantime, my lunch today. From waitrose. Duck slices with duck and apricot pate and a bottle of "on offer" red. Total cost about half the carvery and no over cooked veg in sight.
Let me summarise. A carvery is meat and two veg, ok it might be 2 or 3 meats, 3 veg, a yorkie pudding etc, but basically it is simple food. And to be good, simple food really needs to be cooked very well.
THIS IS THE FIRST LAW OF COOKING
The hardest things to cook well are the simplest things. Like chips or bread or rice etc etc etc.
And carvery's cannot do this, they fail on so many levels.
First problem with them. Short order cook who does not care feeding 50 people. With simple food you need a good chef who does care feeding less than 10.
Second problem. Everyone likes their meat cooked differently, from rare to well done. But at least juicy. Things sitting under hot lamps for an hour?
Third problem, roast potatoes need to be crispy, which means serving at the last moment, not sitting around. Sitting around is the leathery curse of death for a roast spud. What does the carvery do? It puts the spud in a chinese water torture where it cries so much it really goes soggy.
Fourth problem, given they cannot do any of the above it's probably not surprising the veg turns out to be a soft soggy mess nobody cares about. When someone can promise me that if I go to a carvery I will say " the carrots and broccoli were fantastic" I will not go to a carvery.
In the meantime, my lunch today. From waitrose. Duck slices with duck and apricot pate and a bottle of "on offer" red. Total cost about half the carvery and no over cooked veg in sight.
Burwood said:
dimots said:
Burwood said:
Let’s face it. These carvery places are rank but better than my MIL offers up.
Hahaha funny because it’s true I got my plate and my main bit of chicken was "the parsons nose" ................... I kid you not.
I sat there looking at it, wondering how someone could be so dumb to carve that. Or maybe she just hated me for shagging her sister and it was a message to keep my hands off ?
20 plus years later my dog loves his parsons nose, we always give it to him, it's doggy heaven.
Next time we go around for Christmas meal to the sisters in law, "Do you mind if I bring my dog?
escargot said:
ATM said:
Toby Carvery
King Size
6 quid with AA 20% off discount
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Grim.King Size
6 quid with AA 20% off discount
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