how many cooking systems are there??

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    yep - how many cooking systems are there in the world. for as long as watso can remember, but there always seems to be a new and more exciting cooking system.

    for what it is worth, but watso's mother was probably conned into buying an expensive set of pots and pans about 50 years ago - but those pots and pans lasted 50 years, and will probably last another 50 years, and maybe another 50 years after that... ok - watso's mother was a hopeless cook - but she sure knew how to cook cheap meat in her expensive frypan. watso would never swap her cheap meat, for the expensive cuts of meat. from memory, watso's mother would cook (in the frypan) the meat for an hour or two in a bit of water at low heat - that was the sunday special - and the meat was just melt in the mouth stuff.

    mmmm come to think of it, but before the advent of electric hotplates, watso's mother had a cooking system which was based on kerosene, which heated pots... all interesting in a way, and people who are long in the tooth, will know that in summer a lot of households relied on wood stoves (ie fire) for cooking... lol - just imagine a hot summers day, be stoked by the wood fire for cooking - seriously, a wood fire, heating a hot stove might be a pleasant scene in winter - but in summer????.

    oh well, watso is thinking back to the days, when the dunny man would collect the NIGHT SOIL, when the dry ice man would deliver the dry ice for the ice box (or whatever it was called), when the washing was done in a COPPER, with a wood fire underneath - yeah, that was in the good times, when clothes would be worn for a week, prior to being washed - and washing day was just once per week... lol - washing day for clothes was once per week - but also for watso, there was a once a week bath - the rest of the week was simply to wash away the black dirt from his feet, by hanging his feet over the bath and having a cold water wash to clean his black feet (always bare footed), prior to going to bed.

    kids these days, have no idea of what it used to be like. maybe us geriatrics should use some litigation funders to take a class action against the government for having allowed this abuse to have taken place... a fair suck of the sauce bottle, but hot steaming kitchens, where cooking tops are heated by wooden fires, in the middle of summer is nothing more than blatant abuse... lol - but we survived... ok - watso's mother used little kero heaters, for cooking - not like the tough aussies.

    oh - yeah, watso longs for the good old days, when the women stayed home, and on washing day, would labour over a washing board, to try and clean the dirty shirts/shorts/overalls of her husband - yeah, the good old days, when the washing room was a separate building, when the dunny was the OUTHOUSE - ie a 20 metre walk from the back door ah yes, bring back those days
 
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