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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 4, 2021 21:51:07 GMT
We had to get a new cooker at the end of last year and the grill doesn't seem to toast bread, it just makes it hard and dry.
I miss toast!
Are toasters safe or do they have teflon in them? (never ever had a toaster!)
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Post by ffiscool on Apr 4, 2021 22:46:39 GMT
You might be ok with stainless steel. I just did a quick google and if they have plastic outsides and non stick insides, then they could be toxic for the buds
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Post by Hezz on Apr 5, 2021 0:26:57 GMT
No reason for toasters not to be safe since if anything burns it is going to be the bread! They wouldn’t get hot enough, I’d think, as they cut out and pop up when the toast is done. I’ve always had a toaster, and never had a problem.
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Post by birdguhl on Apr 5, 2021 6:50:08 GMT
Couldn’t manage long without my toaster!
I don’t think they have Teflon inside as the bread doesn’t come into contact with anything other than the wire holders.
Sandwich toasters are different story but they have cut-off mechanism re temp. The only non-stick thing I have a George Forman grill and it clicks on and off.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 5, 2021 7:53:46 GMT
Oh, this is good news. I'm going to see if I can find a toaster then
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 6, 2021 14:23:33 GMT
We have toassst!!!
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Post by ariella on Apr 6, 2021 14:44:08 GMT
Toast is so simple but so variable. I love nothing better than strawberry jam on toast. I’m coeliac so keep my bread separate from the rest of the family and use the grill not the toaster to prevent cross-contamination. It took a long while until gluten free bread became something to actually enjoy rather than tolerate and so I really appreciate it and feel it’s a treat at times. Enjoy your lovely new toaster!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 6, 2021 15:03:41 GMT
I'm a coeliac too, but am not very good at keeping to the diet. In fact I find it almost impossible. I'm also vegetarian and on a diet. Toast is so simple but so variable. I love nothing better than strawberry jam on toast. I’m coeliac so keep my bread separate from the rest of the family and use the grill not the toaster to prevent cross-contamination. It took a long while until gluten free bread became something to actually enjoy rather than tolerate and so I really appreciate it and feel it’s a treat at times. Enjoy your lovely new toaster!
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Post by ariella on Apr 6, 2021 15:35:04 GMT
Marianne Marlow, I’m a vegetarian also and managed to lose 1 stone between last summer and Christmas, some of which has gone back on, but I’m planning on getting it back off before my silver wedding anniversary in June. What part of the diet do you struggle with? I was diagnosed in 2005 but had complete atrophy of my villi as they thought originally it was bowel cancer my symptoms were so severe, they didn’t consider coeliac disease until I had a sigmoidoscopy and gastroscopy and they took biopsies, I’m really strict with my diet. In all those years I’ve only glutened myself once and the other times have been at weddings or eating out, something I just don’t do now. Any recipes or help, just shout! 😃
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Post by jellybean on Apr 6, 2021 15:58:50 GMT
Nice toaster Marianne. Hope it makes nice toast 😉
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Post by birdguhl on Apr 6, 2021 16:03:09 GMT
Ooh that looks like a good one, Marianne! Enjoy!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 6, 2021 16:31:28 GMT
ariella I was diagnosed as coeliac in December 2019, I think. I feel very tired a lot and so a locum doctor ran about a million blood tests on me and the one for Antibodies( can't remember the test name) came up as a "weak positive" and I had to fight to get the gastroscopy. I struggle with all of it. I hate having to cook so many different foods for me, husband and 2 year old. I hate the gluten free bread, it's expensive, too sweet and tastes awful, plus I wasted half a loaf anyway. I have pernicious anaemia that I have to get 12 weekly injections for and I am always on the verge of iron deficiency anaemia. I get constipation and diarrhea (but I had those in the 6 months off gluten too). I am always tired but then I have a lung condition too - pulmonary fibrosis and I have something like 48% of my lung capacity. I guess I just get fed up with the daily struggles, it's hard enough just to do the normal stuff I need to do but also reading every little ingredient too. Sorry for the whinge, I know you already know the struggle.
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Post by mona on Apr 6, 2021 17:07:44 GMT
Marianne Marlow That's hard to hear.. but it's really good to see you get on with life, taking care of your baby girl and budgies.. W.r.t ingredients and outside food, I have trouble letting people understand the items I am seriously allergic to. People don't understand the serious effects of being allergic over here..so I end up not eating outside food.. and worry every time when I'm invited for lunch/dinner at someone's house. I always pass the food to my hubby's plate when no one's looking 🙈😅 With close friends, they understand, so it's okay.. I do have another set of medical issues with me, which makes simple daily tasks difficult for me. Docs asked me to quit my job 5 yrs back, but I tried with all precautions. But had to finally quit last year. It's frustrating & depressing at times.. It doesn't feel good to be home without work, but I guess there's something better supposed to happen in future.. So, I really tell all the people who are healthy to value it and take care of their body 😍
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Post by ariella on Apr 6, 2021 17:49:57 GMT
Marianne Marlow, oh don’t apologise at all. I know it well and I empathise greatly, especially with a little girl to look after. I also have hypothyroidism, peripheral neuropathy and an early menopause so never apologise to me about what it’s like to feel tired. I have learned to do as my body tells me and I do jobs until my body says enough and if that’s only half an hour a day of gardening for a week rather than a full day and getting it done, so be it. I take loads of medication for severe migraines and I also have something called pansomnia, which made me have such vivid dreams I’d throw myself out of the bed, run around and even walloped my husband one night. The neurologist actually found that part funny. Luckily my husband had an app on his phone and recorded me as I couldn’t remember the next morning. I’d get up and start getting dressed or be convinced there were pins and needles all over the floor and be there picking them up. My meds worked wonders and knocked me out for years. My head would hit the pillow and that’d be it until the morning. Now, I have night sweats and wake shivering as I get so cold when the body temperature starts to lower. I completely get the faff of doing separate meals also. My eldest son is a coeliac too and so when he still lived at home I’d do him a slightly different version to the rest of the family as then I was the only vegetarian, my youngest son, now a teen, is autistic and has a very restricted, regimented diet, my adult daughter has turned mainly vegetarian but she can eat lots of things I can’t because they contain gluten, so I frequently do four similar but separate meals each evening. The tiredness caused by low iron and ferritin is awful isn’t it? I’m sorry you have to go for those injections but I’m sure you’d never get up each morning without them. When I’ve been glutened I have to go back onto iron tablets for about 6 months, I have such awful pain and the pain itself makes me throw up, then there’s the toilet business, bleeding and the gripes and bloating. So due to the risk of malignancies caused by gluten for coeliacs, I just don’t take the chance and never eat out. I either take my own food or I don’t go. I’m a real home bird though and rarely go out anymore unless it’s necessary. mona, sounds like you also don’t eat out. I find people struggle to understand the difference between food allergies and intolerances and think you’ll just be poorly for a couple of hours and that’s it. 🙄 Marianne Marlow, the only bread I enjoy is Genius triple seeded or toastie bread. It’s ridiculously expensive and the slices are stupidly small but you can make a sandwich without it falling apart. I have adapted all my recipes over the year and I love baking and can pretty much bake everything successfully except for Swiss roll as the cake always cracks and breaks up. I use Doves Farm flour and it makes the best Yorkshire puds, pancakes, cakes, cookies, etc. In the winter if I make a vegetable casserole I substitute grated cheese for the vegetarian suet and mix with water and flour and they make gorgeous dumplings. My lot get gluten free yorkies and stuffing all the time and are just used to it now. 😂 With your breathing suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, I find it inspiring that you get up, get on and often go for walks with your little girl. I have seen your posts about her and adore her name, Eve. That was my chosen name for a girl in my last pregnancy but didn’t get used as I had another little boy. I didn’t like commenting on that thread as I didn’t feel I knew anyone on the forum enough but she’s adorable and those curls!! Adorable. Anyway, I can go on and on and you’ll all have to tell me to shut up when I do as I’m the same with emails and iMessages too! Enjoy your toast. Simple pleasures are often the best!
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Post by ffiscool on Apr 6, 2021 20:18:33 GMT
It’s all horrible, what you have to go through.
My stepbrother is coeliac and he hated all breads except the Genius. But he makes his own (with a bread maker):so can add what he likes to taste better.
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