Frozen peas

[sarah]

On the bag of Tesco frozen petits pois in my freezer it says "CAUTION Do not eat raw".

Why? Frozen peas are nice raw.

[neio79]

how strange, cant see why you cant eat them raw, chips taste ok raw and frozen!!:rolleyes:

[Tim in Belgium]

Once when I was 10 I ate about 3 trays of ice cubes, it gave me the sh!t$ the next day, I think in small quantities your guts are fine, but eat 1kg of frozen petits pois and it may be interesting, especially if you forget to chew :)

[Grinch]

Cus they are hard?

[hovis]

as a kid i used to like raw sausage's

[Razor]

Pour them into a dented fuel tank, add hot water and seal tight. The expanding peas pop the dents out.

[neio79]

Pour them into a dented fuel tank, add hot water and seal tight. The expanding peas pop the dents out.

roughly how many are requred for that then??

[Razor]

roughly how many are requred for that then??

Peas or dented fuel tanks?

[DoubleD]

I love frozen peas, not done me no harm (I think)

[the_lone_wolf]

as a kid i used to like raw sausage's
it's all making sense now...

;)

[dizzyblonde]

On the bag of Tesco frozen petits pois in my freezer it says "CAUTION Do not eat raw".

Why? Frozen peas are nice raw.

they stick to your lips?? momentarily?

[phil24_7]

Pour them into a dented fuel tank, add hot water and seal tight. The expanding peas pop the dents out.

Interesting!

I have a dented fuel tank to try this out on or are you pulling our collective legs?

Also, how do you stop the fuel tank from rusting once you've had water in there?

Regards

[Fizzy Fish]

frozen cheese off pizzas is nice too...

[Stingo]

Interesting!


Also, how do you stop the fuel tank from rusting once you've had water in there?

Regards


Easy - put petrol in it.:safe:

[G]

are you pulling our collective legs?




I have no idea about the fuel tank stuff, but the theory is true.

Frozen peas expand significantly when defrosted and give of a fair bit of gas. So not very pleasent if you eat a fair few frozen peas.

Same as that victorian glutony punishment, your force fed dry rice, when it expans it ruptures your stomach and you die.

[phil24_7]

Easy - put petrol in it.:safe:

Alright smarty pants, no need to be like that! Was just thinking that this sort of moisture in a tank will cause rust even if you fill the tank shortly afterwards as there's bound to be an air pocket left in there that has been exposed to the moisture!

I have no idea about the fuel tank stuff, but the theory is true.

Frozen peas expand significantly when defrosted and give of a fair bit of gas. So not very pleasent if you eat a fair few frozen peas.

Same as that victorian glutony punishment, your force fed dry rice, when it expans it ruptures your stomach and you die.

*Pootles off to find somebody to try the rice idea on!*

[northwind]

I have a dented fuel tank to try this out on or are you pulling our collective legs?

Also, how do you stop the fuel tank from rusting once you've had water in there?


It does work. But you don't need to worry about water in the tank so much as the 16 litres of mushy peas :D

[phil24_7]

Well I shall be testing this theory in the near future when I get all my spare panels ready for a colour change in the summer!

[hovis]

Well I shall be testing this theory in the near future when I get all my spare panels ready for a colour change in the summer!

yellow[-o<

[phil24_7]

Haha, no Hovis, not yellow.

Will be painting it matt black.

[rpwoodman]

I cooked some Waitrose frozen peas (with mint) the other day. When I tipped them out onto the plate, I realised I had an added bonus - escargot! I just tipped the snail in the bin and ate the peas.

Just FYI.

[Bear]

When I had my most recent "Oh look there's a nice comfy bit of tarmac: wonder what it'd feel like to hurl this here motor bicycle at it?" moment I came home and stuck some frozen peas on my swollen member (My knee, get your minds out of the gutter!)

I was in so much pain I couldn't get up to either return the peas to the freezer or get myself anything else to eat so I lived on defrosted peas for a day.

Didn't do me any harm

Gibber gibber wibble my old mans a mushroom etc.

[Frank]

bottled water


why the "use by" date?

[Lozzo]

Alright smarty pants, no need to be like that! Was just thinking that this sort of moisture in a tank will cause rust even if you fill the tank shortly afterwards as there's bound to be an air pocket left in there that has been exposed to the moisture!


Can't be any worse than the usual condensation you'll find in any petrol tank. Even the best quality petrol has a trace of water in it.

[Draper]

bottled water


why the "use by" date?

i can think of two possible reasons...

the water has all the plasticisers (or whatever they are so called) and chemicals like that in, and perhaps the plastic does slowly degrade into the water. A lecturer was talking about this yesterday, saying how 40 years ago there was no illness due to no bottled waters to carry around (i.e. just tap water) , yet today everyone drinks bottles of it all the time because they feel they have to. He was also saying that a couple of weeks of water in a bottle, and it is fine, but he maintained that as it comes to about 8 weeks the levels of some plastic business (perhaps those plasticisers) become many fold greater than government standards... perhaps i should have been listening better and would have remembered what the stuff was. things that aren't a medicine do not have to be thoroughly labelled, like a herbal drink could say it has a gram of this substance, whereas it could have non or more than a gram.. theres no control

and secondly, it could be to do with sterile manufacture? perhaps small amounts of particulates get into the bottle during the manufacture and filling processes... not too sure

[Richie]

How do the pea's know what shape the fuel tank was...

[northwind]

Never underestimate the humble pisum sativum. They can adjust chain tension too.

[yorkie_chris]

I'm quite curious to know whether you're taking the pi$$ or not

My tanks dented to buggery and this would be a cool way to pop it out

[leemole]

try expandin foam in ya tank ](*,)

[yorkie_chris]

Might put compressed air to it and see what happens

[northwind]

Not taking the ****, it's just the same idea as compressed air- they swell as you add the water. I'm not sure how the "getting the peas out" stage would go though, it's prety awkward getting stuff out of an SV tank. You need to be careful with air, make sure there's no petrol fumes!

[flibble]

... water expands when it's frozen, so why do peas expand when they're defrosting?

[flibble]

doh.. just seen it was because hot water was added!

But how about why most frozen peas sink when you add water, but when you boil them most are floaters??

[northwind]

flibble, presumably because they expand? And therefore displace more water per pea. I dunno :smt017 Can't cook.

[yorkie_chris]

Not taking the ****, it's just the same idea as compressed air- they swell as you add the water. I'm not sure how the "getting the peas out" stage would go though, it's prety awkward getting stuff out of an SV tank. You need to be careful with air, make sure there's no petrol fumes!

Fill it with water first, same idea as a hydrostatic test.

[phil24_7]

Fill it with water first, same idea as a hydrostatic test.

?

[yorkie_chris]

If you're using compressed air on a fuel tank, there are 2 dangers.
1) air and petrol fumes can go BANG
2) air in a tank has a lot of energy, so if the tank split then it could hurt, a lot.

So, you fill the tank with water before you seal it and admit the compressed air, the water displaces all the fumes out of the tank, and being incompressible if the tank was to split then it just spurts out instead of explosively releasing.

[Keith1983]

I have a novel idea. Why not put several cans of shaving foam in the freezer. After they have frozen cut the end of the can off and voila, frozen foam. Get this in the tank and seal it. As the foam melts it will expand and bingo! Im sure someone on here who is more scientifically minded than myself will come up with a million reasons why this is a bad idea but just adding my two pence worth!

[phil24_7]

Ooh, interesting.

How would one go about pressurising a fuel tank and I thought fuel tanks were double skinned so it would only push out large dents that had dented the inner skin??

[yorkie_chris]

Get this in the tank and seal it. As the foam melts it will expand and bingo! Im sure someone on here who is more scientifically minded than myself will come up with a million reasons why this is a bad idea but just adding my two pence worth!

Really really scientific reason: it wouldn't fit :p

[Keith1983]

Really really scientific reason: it wouldn't fit :p

why? I wasn't suggesting that you would put the whole cylinder in through the petrol cap, I presumed people would realise that it needed cutting up first!

[northwind]

Ooh, interesting.

How would one go about pressurising a fuel tank and I thought fuel tanks were double skinned so it would only push out large dents that had dented the inner skin??

I think some tanks might be but the SV is single skinned.

[flibble]

Save all the pressurising whoas and worries with extracting expanding peas from the tank..... just try the dry ice technique :)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/494805/remove_car_dents_with_dry_ice/

[yorkie_chris]

Whew, for a minute there I thought you were suggesting putting dry ice inside the tank.

My tank is far too knackered for that technique to work, seems
worth a go on a small dent though.

[flibble]

Yeah, be interesting if it works.. my car has loads of dents (mind I did buy it with them already on)

[northwind]

FILL YOUR CAR WITH PEAS. I'll pay for the peas, I'll even boil the water for you.

[phil24_7]

Maybe wait for AR08 so we can all watch what happens!

[flibble]

FILL YOUR CAR WITH PEAS. I'll pay for the peas, I'll even boil the water for you.

OK... the peas will be worth more than my car :)