Cereal shovel...

[Woodbloke]

SWIMBO's idea here; a cereal shovel in an oddment of English Walnut (needed to be a food safe wood) started yesterday afternoon and finished just now. Based on a much smaller one in Olive we bought from the garden centre a while back. A 75mm deep hole bored with a 45mm Forstner bit and then the bottom cleaned up (as best as possible) with scrapers; interior sanded holding the Abranet in a pair of forceps:



Finished with a coat of Chestnut 'Food Safe' oil - Rob

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

 

[AndyP]

Are those copper wire burnt rings on the handles Rob.
They look very smart.
I’ve never found pouring cereals direct from the packet to be a problem though.

 

[Woodbloke]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

Are those copper wire burnt rings on the handles Rob.
They look very smart.
I’ve never found pouring cereals direct from the packet to be a problem though.

Rings on the handle done with a triangular 'V' shaped lathe tool (don't know the correct name). The pic below shows our cereal buckets, the rhs is my muesli concoction which consists of loads of organic jumbo oats, granola of some sort and a muesli base from Waitrose.



The lhs bucket has my organic wheat bran; I'll have a scoop full each morning on top of the muesli + chopped apple + blueberries + 'nana and whatever else I can cram into my bowl - Rob

 

[Mike G]

That must be fun to get in the average British cereal bowl...wouldn't she find a spoon easier?

Sam, running away...fast.

Never mind the cereal bowl......how about the average English mouth?

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Very nice Rob.

 

[Cabinetman]

Very nice Rob but not much use with bacon and eggs lol, Doc prescribed protein for Breakfast for me!

 

[Woodbloke]

Very nice Rob but not much use with bacon and eggs lol, Doc prescribed protein for Breakfast for me!

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

Mmmmm, 'organic' skimmed milk, which when they've 'skimmed' all the omega 3's and vitamins out of it is just purple water, to which they add (sometimes synthetic) milk powder and thickeners to make it white and appear like milk again...

And you have a go at me about my (historic) bacon habit! You carry on enjoying your 'processed' milk Roberto.

PS Lovely woody item though.

 

[Woodbloke]

Mmmmm, 'organic' skimmed milk, which when they've 'skimmed' all the omega 3's and vitamins out of it is just purple water, to which they add (sometimes synthetic) milk powder and thickeners to make it white and appear like milk again...

Anything added to the milk would have to be, under UK regs as I understand it, listed on the label on the bottle n'est pas?





Unless my eyeballs are deceiving me, I can see no reference to additional added ingredients on the label. When Google was asked the question about additional ingredients as you suggest it said:

Standard skimmed milk contains no additional ingredients or artificial additives beyond cow's milk with the fat removed. [1, 2]

Composition and Processing

• • Natural ingredients: Standard fresh skimmed milk lists just one ingredient: milk. [1]
  • Processing: It undergoes pasteurisation and homogenisation, exactly like whole or semi-skimmed milk, but with the cream (fat) mechanically separated out. [1, 2, 3]
  • Fortification: While some countries (like the US) mandate or practice vitamin A and D fortification because fat-soluble vitamins are lost during skimming, standard supermarket skimmed milk in the UK relies on the milk's naturally occurring nutrients without artificial chemical additives. [1, 2, 3]
  • Exceptions: Specialized products like protein-boosted skimmed milk (e.g., Arla B.O.B) may have extra milk proteins added back in, and organic or lactose-free variants will explicitly state any alterations on the packaging. [1, 2]

So there's nowt on the label/packaging about extra ingredients. When you get the point where you have high blood pressure and highish cholesterol, dairy is a food that needs due care and attention. Care to have a re-think? - Rob...who had a delumptious bacon (fat removed) butty for a mid day snack on Sat!

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Seconds out!! Round Two!!

Popcorn anyone?

 

[TrimTheKing]

Anything added to the milk would have to be, under UK regs as I understand it, listed on the label on the bottle n'est pas?

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Unless my eyeballs are deceiving me, I can see no reference to additional added ingredients on the label. When Google was asked the question about additional ingredients as you suggest it said:

Standard skimmed milk contains no additional ingredients or artificial additives beyond cow's milk with the fat removed. [1, 2]

Composition and Processing

• • Natural ingredients: Standard fresh skimmed milk lists just one ingredient: milk. [1]
  • Processing: It undergoes pasteurisation and homogenisation, exactly like whole or semi-skimmed milk, but with the cream (fat) mechanically separated out. [1, 2, 3]
  • Fortification: While some countries (like the US) mandate or practice vitamin A and D fortification because fat-soluble vitamins are lost during skimming, standard supermarket skimmed milk in the UK relies on the milk's naturally occurring nutrients without artificial chemical additives. [1, 2, 3]
  • Exceptions: Specialized products like protein-boosted skimmed milk (e.g., Arla B.O.B) may have extra milk proteins added back in, and organic or lactose-free variants will explicitly state any alterations on the packaging. [1, 2]

So there's nowt on the label/packaging about extra ingredients. When you get the point where you have high blood pressure and highish cholesterol, dairy is a food that needs due care and attention. Care to have a re-think? - Rob...who had a delumptious bacon (fat removed) butty for a mid day snack on Sat!

Watched a bbc doco on it a few years back , and it was discussed in a thread on here too if memory serves, may have been previous iteration.

Happy to accept that it’s maybe not ALL like that but the stuff in the doco was an awful purplish coloured thin liquid that they then added milk powder back into to make it white again.

Interesting stuff about the cholesterol because I have genetically high cholesterol which I’m trying to lower/manage without drugs and h th e more you talk to docs and dig into it, the whole thing makes you realise that no one rule works for everyone.

Eggs for instance, i completely cut them out for a year, continued on a slow drop, brought them back in for a year, eating on average 8-12 a week, continued drop in level.



Oh and don’t I trust Google, I asked Google and three different AI platforms and got different answers from each. Which I guess means I don’t trust ANYTHING any more!

 

[duke]

Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob

Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering, organic skimmed natch. My little grandson, now nearly two will sit down to a full sized, adult portion of porridge topped with blueberries and happily shovel it all away.

Porridge with a bit of milk and maple syrup is my favourite.