We have now got two sous vide water baths on trial with leading chefs Marc Verite of Southport's Michelin recommended Warehouse Brasserie and former British Meat Chef of the Year Steve Collinson of Chapter One East Keswick. Pictured above are young chefs Dan and Danny of Chapter One with their superb new water bath in the foreground. There has been some debate amongst Instanta staff regarding the meaning of the term "sous vide" with Peter Brindle coming up with the most impressive but I can assure everyone that "sous vide" is simply French for "under vacuum".
I see that Fabio has got to grips with the WAG problem and they will no longer be welcome when England travel. I don't know what took him so long. We banned our WAGS from our Tuesday night five a side a long time ago. We had to do it because the local leisure centre was getting overrun with the girls in their D&G and DKNY flashing their new boobs and putting the lads off their game.
What exactly does "Made in Denmark" mean? We recently had a few failures on switches and asked the supplier for a report. We had no switch failures under warranty last year so even one failure would be considered bad news and when we got four we were not happy. We had specifically chosen a very expensive Danish made switch as we pride ourselves on using only the finest components in our boilers. We were therefore a little surprised when the quality report came back to us from China! We are pleased that the fault was acknowledged and rectified quickly but as I said at the start of this paragraph "what exactly does "Made in Denmark" mean?". Seems that made in China and finished in Denmark wouldn't fit on the switch!
And whilst on the subject of trade with China. We have some small rubber components made over there. Last time we bought them in March they were 8p each. Yesterday we ordered several thousand more and were quoted 50p each due to "increased costs". Now I know that inflation has been on the up but if it's 625% in three months I would advise you to sell Yuan now.
We had our first warning of recession yesterday when we got an email advising us that Allied Catering Supplies (Yorkshire) Ltd has ceased trading and no funds will be available to unsecured creditors (that's people like us who sold them stuff and haven't been paid). They only owe us around £500 but, as we had zero bad debts in our last trading year, this looks a bit ominous just one month into the new year.Let's hope it is a blip and not a sign of things to come. If it is, it looks like we might be going to the pub for a bit of karaoke for our Christmas do. Here's an appropriate song for us to sing when we get there.
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