Ya caught me. :'(

I used two silicone spatulas to push them around. My oven has hot spots, so I had to keep checking and moving darker nuts away and paler nuts to the hot spots. Then I just used a spoon to scoop out the ones I didn’t want to roast anymore.

Too much work to flip them all one by one, so just rolled them around and hoped for the best.

Throw it all out on the pan and let the oven do its thing!

I don’t think it’s sold anymore, but this is the closest one I can find:

https://modesens.com/product/ninja-bn701-professional-plus-blender-with-autoiq-gray-102685300

I don’t know the website and can’t find it on the website I bought it on, so buyer beware! I think mine’s 1000W or so. I’ll check tomorrow.

Have fun!! Drop questions here if you need any help. It’s nearly bed time for me, so will have to get back to you in the morning if you’re not making it straight away, haha.

I think it is really just to remove the skin. You can use raw (skin on), but I imagine it would just mean having little bits of skin wedged between your teeth and gums…

Same here in Australia. My favourite brands are Mayer’s Mayver’s, Simply Nuts, and Pic’s.

It’s just so much cheaper to make than to buy now. A 380g jar can be $6.30 AUD, when I can get a 1kg bag of peanuts for… $10 AUD? And it’s 1kg of peanut butter.

Thank you!

Sure is. I love dark roasted peanut butter, so whatever peanuts you get (I got blanched and de-skinned. I think some people use raw), roast them to whatever darkness you want.

It’s pretty magical to see it go from whole peanuts to crumbly peanuts to smooth butter.

Ornamental pears do not need to exist, or at least bloom. At. All. Except for the bees. Only for the bees.

Firefly, Community, and Trailer Park Boys.

Lastase pills. Some people don’t know it’s a thing. I wouldn’t be able to eat so many good food like butter, poutine, cheesecake, yoghurt, nachos… I know there are alternatives but they are not the same as the real thing.

I don’t know any of the mentioned authors, but Blindboy Boatclub comes to mind instantly. He writes short stories and some of them can be really weird and some more like horror. I think he’s got three books out now.

Such is life of an EHO. But you do get some amazing places where you think it’s an absolute dive, but the kitchen is spotless. If not… I have videos and photos that live rent free in my head forever now.

Oh boy… I’ve got a few. There is always one that comes to mind, but I’ve had somewhere I just get the creeps when I walk in, and it’s confirmed crawling with cockroaches: In the walls, ceiling panels, floors, under benches, under the ticket machine (RIP), but surprisingly not actually IN food… That I could see. But I’ve always been during the day with people getting food all the time, so it was probably too risky for the cockroaches to get the food.

The one: I walked in, and things get worse and worse. First: Bag of chicken on the floor beside the oven with boiling stock to the left. To the right, someone cutting up cooked meat. Down the back: Back door is wide open. I also get the familiar cockroach feeling.

I turn back to the left and the chicken has gone in to the stock. The person uses a skimmer to skim off the herbs, spices, fats off the top of the stock, and the strainer goes in to the bin… And back in to the stock.

I look back to the right, someone is taking out the rubbish. Ties the dirty bag, drags it out the back door. Comes back, rinses hands for 2 seconds, goes back to cutting meat. No soap.

Cool room is filthy (walls, floors, containers), smells rotten, it’s too warm. I find cockroach nests inside the cool room, and outside of it.

I walk outside the back door to take a breather, and I find rats in the overflowing rubbish bins. Walk back in to the front area (small display case) and it’s warm.

I shut the place for almost 3 weeks. The owner had no idea, I’m sure he got his kids to do the training I ordered him to do because there was no way he could have gotten 98% when I asked him to demonstrated the skills. They tried to move to another Council area, but we gave the EHOs a heads up.

Worst ever.

There’s a best before date, use by date, and, expiry date. Dry pasta will have a best before. Companies have this so that they can guarantee that if storage conditions are ideal, the pasta will look, taste, and cook the same as if it was fresh out of the packet. Past this date, it might get brittle, but it wouldn’t affect the food safety of the product. edit: Past the best before means that it may not have the same qualities as when before it’s best before date, but it’s likely still edible, provided the food isn’t stored in non ideal conditions (very wet or humid, stored in the heat/sun, etc.). After the date, you make the call. I probably wouldn’t eat certain foods after a certain date, though.

Extra info for those who are interested:

Best before will be things like rehydrated pasta, your meats, dairy, perishables… Though admittedly, I have eaten yogurt and hummus 4 months past the date. I lived by myself at the time and they lived in the back of the fridge.

Expiry would be things like baby formula, medication, anything that has a higher risk to health, whether it means it’s for a high risk population, or if it’s got an important role.

Edit: I’d like to add the bolded above, but also… Well, I forgot after adding the bolded stuff, so I’ll come back if I remember.

Environmental health officer, aka health inspector.

Most people don’t know who we are, but we play a huge role in the background on education and prevention for public health issues like food safety, communicable diseases (gastro, outbreaks, pandemic, tattooing, beauty parlours, mosquitoes, rodents, flu, covid, etc.), health of the environment (soil, air, water),… We are a jack of all trades kind of profession.

I gotcha. Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense now. I hope at least most of your home is as it was when you left it. Let us know how you go. Fingers crossed for you!

100% will! Or those who leave the kitchen sponge in the sink still full of yesterday’s cold water.

I will, thanks! Or someone who leaves only one sheet of kitchen paper on the roll when they could have just changed the entire roll (new ones in the cupboard above) and left the single sheet on top of the new one.

Not a chance! 😂