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If the point of paella rice is that it stays separate and cooks without having to be covered, and arborio rice is meant to turn out creamy, how can arborio rice be a suitable substitute for a paella rice? Sainsb's have a "paella rice" but it doesn't specify what rice it is on the website - does anyone know?

Paella pan would be the common term. Paellera is probably what you're thinking of.

Bangers and mash with gravy - yum! Perhaps taxi driver's background wasn't English? Anyway, we even had a cartoon called Bangers and Mash, back in the 80s.

I sometimes want to change the flavour in a simple way and also add to nutritional value. I use the drained milk in the soup. Spot on with the scorching... I'll try heating the milk first in microwave and then pouring onto potatoes and simmering. UK milk top codes (whether foil or plastic tops). Blue = full fat Green = semi-skimmed Red = skimmed Gold top is from Jersey cows that give higher fat milk and I have seen in recent years a purple top milk in the supermarket, but I don't know what that's about.

I've tried plain boiling peeled and cut potatoes, salted and unsalted, in normal blue top milk. Each time, the milk curdled. Will it always curdle because of the potato or is there a way to do it without the curdling?

Thank you.

Crusting buttercream. Is that what they call an oxymoron? I'll have a look into those, thanks. I take it the sugar in those icings would keep the product from going off too soon?

Hi, what is a good recipe for icing that can be spread or piped and kept at room temperature for a few hours? A buttercream icing would be most suitable but I can try anything else.

There's really nothing to scrub off - it's perfectly smooth. I rang the company, Chef Set, and they're only open two days a week! I expect it is a very low quality product. I would like to know though if anything is likely to leach into water or food if I use it again so I'll give them another ring on Monday.

The potatoes and water went in first. Anyway, it is stainless steel - should that happen? I've had stainless steel pans before for a long time without that

Hi, I bought this 14cm stainless steel pan the other day, put a few small potatoes in it to boil. When it came to washing-up, we saw these stains on it. What are they and is the pan safe to use?

Both are Chef Set brand, which doesn't sound inspiring, but as they are both from a catering supplier, shouldn't they all be professional quality? p.s. I have a question about babkas, if anyone wants to tootle along to the Regional Cuisine section. The pan will be used mainly for boiling eggs, but it will have to do double, treble duty with other things, which I why I wanted to make sure I bought the right one. lol. I know.

I don't think either of them is clad aluminium. I'll have to choose the stainless steel one because it will end up going through the dishwasher and when I scrub them, dark grey stuff comes off. I don't suppose the height/ width thing makes a difference to anything really.

The Bidfooddirect website doesn't have all that information on the products.

96102 and 95822 are the ones.

It's Bidfood, I can't copy the link without being logged in and other info showing.

Hi, I followed this recipe allrecipes.co.uk/ recipe/10305/ polish-babka , using a bit less currants and a small amount of chopped dried apricots. I greased and sprinkled the tins with nibbed nuts but didn't glaze. It turned out fairly dry - is that how it should be?

The supplier sells two 2l saucepans. One is 18cm (for those who are curious, with a lid for £11.64) the other is 16cm (without a lid for £11.99) Does the width and height make a difference in any way with this size of pan? The first one is definitely stainless steel, the other doesn't say.

It was a round cake, and to be honest, I don't remember it exactly, but it was cut less and more irregular than battenburg. I might have to venture into the world of facebook and ask on his page. I think it was a curved pattern.

I would expect if they are are on television and supposedly professionals, they ought to know. Part of what they are doing is teaching about food as well as entertaining.

Has anyone else got food-related pet peeves? I've just been annoyed again by somebody on telly saying dulchy de leche, instead of dulthey or dulsey. And then there's the same problem with "choritso"! 😣

Perhaps I shouldn't have called it a recipe since the cake itself doesn't matter, it's more the technique of cutting it this way and that and fitting it together to create the effect that I'm after. I thought it might have been on his foundation site, but it isn't. I think now it might have been a guest appearance on somebody else's programme and he did something different for it.

I don't know what the flavours were, I'm not sure there were two flavours, it might have been one colour sandwiched and the line helped give the effect. The main thing I'm interested in is how he went about cutting it to achieve the look. It was a round cake as far as I can remember.

Hi, many years ago I was watching JP on television making a two colour wonky or wavy looking cake. He was cutting it this way and that to create the effect, I think the whole thing had a normal position, i.e. it wasn't tilted or anything like that. Do you know which cake I mean and what it's called?

And a flan parisien or patissiere is an egg custard in a pastry shell.