20-02-2020, 12:51 PM
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Re: The Bane of my Life! - THE SWEDE.
Yesterday I bought a stew pack that contained a swede.After nearly chopping my fingers off peeling it I chopped it and put it in the frying pan to brown with numerous other vegetables.
Then I put them all in the oven to roast. After an hour all were cooked except the swede chunks which were still hard, so I boiled them for ten minutes to no avail. Then microwaved for another ten.
They were just about edible but neither soft nor tasty.
I shall never buy one again. What a useless piece of food, not fit for human consumption!
20-02-2020, 04:06 PM
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Re: The Bane of my Life! - THE SWEDE.
Originally Posted by Baz46
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Swede is good for dieting though:• Can't prepare them √
• Can't cook them √
• Can't eat them √
• Bingo, no weight put on √
Better than any of the conventual diets!
20-02-2020, 07:57 PM
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Re: The Bane of my Life! - THE SWEDE.
Originally Posted by Xandra
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Yesterday I bought a stew pack that contained a swede.After nearly chopping my fingers off peeling it I chopped it and put it in the frying pan to brown with numerous other vegetables.
Then I put them all in the oven to roast. After an hour all were cooked except the swede chunks which were still hard, so I boiled them for ten minutes to no avail. Then microwaved for another ten.
They were just about edible but neither soft nor tasty.
I shall never buy one again. What a useless piece of food, not fit for human consumption!
That is really weird as swedes usually soften quite quickly (we are still talking about the vegetable variety here
)Maybe it was a realllly old one the bunged in with the rest?
One of the farmers along our road supplies most of the UK supermarkets with swedes (we call them turnips in Norn Iron). We would find the occasional one which had literally fallen off the back of the lorry
saved buying them! 
We used to have a black labrador and in typical lab fashion she could not resist bringing one home and devouring it on the back grass, and then stinking the house out for the next couple of days with turnip f@rt$... 
20-02-2020, 09:28 PM
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Re: The Bane of my Life! - THE SWEDE.
Originally Posted by Xandra
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Yesterday I bought a stew pack that contained a swede.After nearly chopping my fingers off peeling it I chopped it and put it in the frying pan to brown with numerous other vegetables.
Then I put them all in the oven to roast. After an hour all were cooked except the swede chunks which were still hard, so I boiled them for ten minutes to no avail. Then microwaved for another ten.
They were just about edible but neither soft nor tasty.
I shall never buy one again. What a useless piece of food, not fit for human consumption!
21-02-2020, 01:10 PM
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Re: The Bane of my Life! - THE SWEDE.
Originally Posted by Glanny
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I think it must have been a rogue one. Any I have used have been tender just roasting 30-40 mins or boiling for around 20 mins.
If I am roasting it, and I can get to the stage of cubing it into 1inch cubes without cutting my fingers off, I usually put them into a saucepan of boiling water for 10 minutes before draining them, putting them back into the saucepan onto a very low heat just to get rid of the excess water for a couple of minutes and then transfer them to the roasting tin with the other veg, oil sprinkled over them and roasted for 25-30 minutes. I never trust vegetables to be soft enough by putting them directly into the oven for roasting, potatoes, thickly cut carrots, swede, turniip, all my veg get the 10 minute boiling water treatment first.
I certainly don't like my veg overcooked, but likewise, I loathe veg that has been roasted for the required time and yet turn out soft AND hard in parts. At least by doing it the way I do, the veg never fails to turn out soft.
Sorry, hate food cooked al dente.
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