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  1. Loofah

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    We used to put chestnuts on the coal shovel on the open fire :) lovely but you have to remember to pierce them!
     
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      Doesn't work quite so well with a wet underfloor/geothermal heat pump system :roflol: The options are boiling, grilling or roasting in the oven and none of them work for getting rid of the blasted interior skin!
       
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        Moan: Outrageous.

        Send it to Trading Standards.
         
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          Sending to Trading Standards doesn't get you anything but a little bit of satisfaction. Starting off by sending the photos to customer relations at Morrisons is likely to get you some monetary vouchers :blue thumb: :biggrin:
           
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            We always put them in the hot ashes under the coal fire.

            If you do as @Sheal said and cut a cross in top and bottom and put them in the oven than the inner skin should peel off OK.
             
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              Good excuse to use the barbeque. :biggrin:

              How do chestnut sellers roast them these days, I'm sure there must be environmental constraints put on emissions from a smoky brasier polluting the atmosphere.:heehee:
               
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                We have one of these, on a gas hob they never have a problem with the inner skin

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                  I've got one of those too! Somewhere....:biggrin: It's beginning to look as though the secret lies in this cross-cutting business. OH's feeble stab with the point of a knife obviously isn't good enough :nonofinger: Another example of 'If you want something doing properly etc etc'. But where does it all end? :gaah:
                   
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                    I lookes at this (skip to 1 minute in). Mind you, they seem to have nuts as big as tangerines:

                     
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                      Love this one! About 40 seconds in, vegetariens look away :roflol:
                       
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                        I've had my start/stop engine-d car for nearly three years. This week, in cold frosty weather, I discovered you can't start the engine to warm the car through inside before making a journey. The engine stops running. :frown:
                         
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                          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                          Parlay vouis anglais.
                          Mercy, prego.
                          mange tout.
                           
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                              They usually have an override switch on the dash to disable the stop/start function. What's the make/model?
                               
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