Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

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ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
When you have a lovely big potato baking in the oven for 1½ hours so it's perfect. Cheese is grated ready to cut in half to pop under the grill, only to find that the centre of the spud is black and manky!!

Grrrrrr
I baked a lovely big potato this evening. No messing about for 1½ hours though - 20 minutes in my super-duper microwave/grill/fan oven did the trick. As for rotten centres... I always cut big potatoes in half to check, and to bake them quickly more effectively.
 

Accy cyclist

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I baked a lovely big potato this evening. No messing about for 1½ hours though - 20 minutes in my super-duper microwave/grill/fan oven did the trick. As for rotten centres... I always cut big potatoes in half to check, and to bake them quickly more effectively.
Seems like we all had baked spuds for tea tonight.:smile: I had one with mackerel, broccoli and mushrooms and it took a mere 6 minutes in my basic microwave.:okay:
 
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Accy cyclist

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The grill/fan oven additions to my oven brown the skin as if baking the spud in a conventional oven. I get about 95% of the quality of a perfect conventionally baked spud in about 20-25% of the time.
I microwave spuds then sometimes deep fry them in my newly acquired deep fryer for a minute or so to brown and crisp the skin.🥔 Last night i couldn't be bothered with the deep fry bit.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I microwave spuds then sometimes deep fry them in my newly acquired deep fryer for a minute or so to brown and crisp the skin.🥔 Last night i couldn't be bothered with the deep fry bit.
I find the 20 minutes that the spuds take just right for getting the rest of the veg peeled, chopped and steamed. Tonight it was carrots, parsnips, broccoli and cabbage. Oh, and half a cob of sweetcorn.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I've just remembered the triviality. Yesterday, there i was at the traffic lights in the left of two lanes. As the lights turned green the car in the lane on my right shot off, indicated and moved in left well ahead of me. That was perfectly acceptable. However as i looked in my right hand mirror i saw one of those 'Chelsea tractor' police 4x4s trying to cut in front of me without signalling just before the road turned into one lane. I thought it bad mannered that Mr plod thought I wasn't worthy of a flick of a switch indicator light being activated so i didn't let him overtake me. 🧐
 
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