Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:32:04 PM
A mobile phone in the 50s??? How would that have been possible? There were no cell towers. They didn't even have satellites for SAT phones.

A long cord perhaps.  Or a more likely a radio phone.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 02:31:08 PM
Ah, I miss the old phones so much I actually found a ringtone that sounds just like the old ringing one

OMG, my grandparents still have a wall phone in their kitchen. The ring is so annoying and loud! And you can't even put it on silent either or at least adjust the ringer volume.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:34:58 PM
OMG, my grandparents still have a wall phone in their kitchen. The ring is so annoying and loud! And you can't even put it on silent either or at least adjust the ringer volume.

Cellphones direct radiation into the brain.  I want a lineline with a very long cord!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:32:04 PM
A mobile phone in the 50s??? How would that have been possible? There were no cell towers. They didn't even have satellites for SAT phones.

They were radio telephones and they probably had a range approaching 50 miles. The problem was there were only about 7 channels so only 7 people could talk at the same time in a city. The service what rather expensive but this was before CB radio so it was the only way you could communicate mobile without a Ham license. You would contact the operator and the operator would complete the call for you.

Quote from: Dena on January 11, 2018, 02:45:11 PM
They were radio telephones and they probably had a range approaching 50 miles. The problem was there were only about 7 channels so only 7 people could talk at the same time in a city. The service what rather expensive but this was before CB radio so it was the only way you could communicate mobile without a Ham license. You would contact the operator and the operator would complete the call for you.

  Talked about derailing a topic.....

   Someone put the locomotive back on the track and make sure the caboose follows.

  If I remember right this was a cooking disaster thread, wasn't it?

Quote from: Laurie on January 11, 2018, 03:00:59 PM
  Talked about derailing a topic.....

   Someone put the locomotive back on the track and make sure the caboose follows.

  If I remember right this was a cooking disaster thread, wasn't it?

Sorry miss Laurie . I just get curious about old technology. 

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 03:07:18 PM
Sorry miss Laurie . I just get curious about old technology.

Yes, Miss Laurie!  Julia wanted to know about the times before microwave ovens.  We didn't go back far enough into the early 1950s when ice boxes were ice boxes.

 If you must show your age try this thread..

Old things Julia1996 might like to know

HUgs,
   Laurie

Well heres a disaster , no didn't try to cook a phone (felt like it as cant down load photos) anyways tried to make so garm floor rolls , it should pour into tray and dry in 10 mins to roll up. It went lumpy , might have got it to hot in pan, and it wont smooth out or dry . It does say its hard to get right in book.

Quote from: davina61 on January 28, 2018, 02:42:06 PM
Well heres a disaster , no didn't try to cook a phone (felt like it as cant down load photos) anyways tried to make so garm floor rolls , it should pour into tray and dry in 10 mins to roll up. It went lumpy , might have got it to hot in pan, and it wont smooth out or dry . It does say its hard to get right in book.

You can't trust those books.  When I did my rack of lamb it did not say anything about using a pan.  I think recipe elves like messing with us.

Quote from: Cassi on January 28, 2018, 03:31:56 PM
You can't trust those books.  When I did my rack of lamb it did not say anything about using a pan.  I think recipe elves like messing with us.

Yeah those cookbooks like to mess with people. When it says separate 2 eggs some people think that means putting each egg on opposite ends of the counter. You really have to watch those cookbooks. Lol😂

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 28, 2018, 04:06:26 PM
Yeah those cookbooks like to mess with people. When it says separate 2 eggs some people think that means putting each egg on opposite ends of the counter. You really have to watch those cookbooks. Lol😂

For sure, and what about the person that responds about the eggs saying I didn't know they were a couple or married?

I thought of a good one for worst disaster. About a year or two ago I decided to make some high end slow cooker fajitas. I had a beautiful, perfect slab of meat. Was way too expensive, and I bought it on a splurge. I had fresh grown bell peppers and everything. So I sear the meat perfectly, get everything setup in the slow cooker... Meat, onions, peppers (hot and sweet), seasonings, and some lime. This thing cooks for like 12 hours. I test the tenderness, and it is just... jesus, it just falls apart perfectly. But... something smelled off. I tried to put that aside, and go to taste it. ... I've never spit something out so quickly. It was what I imagine athelete's foot soaked in balsamic vinegar and evil distilled into a liquid form must taste like. (A taste I never wished to imagine.) My sister and step brother eat everything I make, even if I don't like how it turned out, and tell me it's amazing and seem to mean it even while I'm finding every flaw. Which I do a lot (I'm very self critical of my food), so they don't really believe me how bad it is. So they each try it. And yeah, they both say "Okay, this time you're right, this is awful."

I start trying to figure out what went wrong, and then someone points out the half of a lime left over smells a little odd. I take a slight taste... yep. That's the flavor. The awful, soul crushing flavor. That soaked into the expensive cut of meat for 12 hours. I go and test the rest of the bag... every last one is the same way. I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't that they were rotten, or over or under ripe, or anything. They were just fundamentally wrong. So about 15 cents of lime juice destroyed what was to be a masterpiece.

Quote from: Roll on January 28, 2018, 11:20:44 PM
I thought of a good one for worst disaster. About a year or two ago I decided to make some high end slow cooker fajitas. I had a beautiful, perfect slab of meat. Was way too expensive, and I bought it on a splurge. I had fresh grown bell peppers and everything. So I sear the meat perfectly, get everything setup in the slow cooker... Meat, onions, peppers (hot and sweet), seasonings, and some lime. This thing cooks for like 12 hours. I test the tenderness, and it is just... jesus, it just falls apart perfectly. But... something smelled off. I tried to put that aside, and go to taste it. ... I've never spit something out so quickly. It was what I imagine athelete's foot soaked in balsamic vinegar and evil distilled into a liquid form must taste like. (A taste I never wished to imagine.) My sister and step brother eat everything I make, even if I don't like how it turned out, and tell me it's amazing and seem to mean it even while I'm finding every flaw. Which I do a lot (I'm very self critical of my food), so they don't really believe me how bad it is. So they each try it. And yeah, they both say "Okay, this time you're right, this is awful."

I start trying to figure out what went wrong, and then someone points out the half of a lime left over smells a little odd. I take a slight taste... yep. That's the flavor. The awful, soul crushing flavor. That soaked into the expensive cut of meat for 12 hours. I go and test the rest of the bag... every last one is the same way. I've never seen anything like it. It wasn't that they were rotten, or over or under ripe, or anything. They were just fundamentally wrong. So about 15 cents of lime juice destroyed what was to be a masterpiece.

That really sucks. Poor thing. I once put together a nice potroast dinner in the slow cooker. I turned it on and left for work. When I got home I expected to smell it and I smelled nothing. I check the roast and it's still totally raw. My brother unplugged the slow cooker to plug in the blender for his protien shake and didn't plug it back in. I had to throw it all away because the roast was sitting out all day at room temperature.