fudge?

[chr15]

anyone any good at making fudge?
I've tried twice now and both times it comes out solid and gritty rather than squishy and smooth..

I guess I need a thermometer to monitor the temperature really..

Yep it's a bit of an art making fudge and its depends what consistency you want it as to how much you heat it. Generally the more you heat it the harder it gets as it starts to turn to toffee. I tried a thermometer but couldn't get on with it so I use the test where you drop a bit of the mixture into a cold pan of water and when you can roll it into a ball between your fingers then it's ready.
Obviously you have to adjust it to how you like it, I like it to be crumbly and have managed to get it just right after a couple of non starters.

 

[ColJack]

Answer me a question: Do YOU think that you should be eligible for benefit when others without any of your skills have to go to wok to keep you?

having paid more than £100 a weeks in tax and NI for the past 14 years, and owing to the fact that I have a mortgage protection policy that pays my mortgage while I'm unemployed then yes I do think that I should be eligible for benefit..

I am applying for jobs on a daily basis but unfortunately so are many other people for the same job.
I've no doubt that I could get a job for minimum wage but that simply won't pay the mortgage.
would you change jobs knowing that you would be worse off for doing so and that you would loose your house if you did?

 

[joe-90]

I'm self-unemployed. As soon as a job is done I'm unemployed like you are. I'm surprised to see you up so early.

 

[joe-90]

Shouldn't you be in bed ready to get up for the new week?

Answer me a question: Do YOU think that you should be eligible for benefit when others without any of your skills have to go to wok to keep you?

if someone qualifies for benefit by having made contributions during times of employment, of course he is eligible. What a strange question, Joe.

So you think it's right that he picks and chooses what job he'll take whilst others work in abattoirs or night shifts or travel massive distances on the motorway while he makes fudge? If we all carried on like that the country would be bust. Wait a minute - we are bust.

 

[ColJack]

well good for you..
I lack the confidence in my abilities ( on the domestic side, and you don't get commercial / industrial as a one man band ), the inter-personal skills and the business accumen to be self employed proper, so I prefer to work for someone.
They get and arrange the jobs and do all of the paperwork side of it and I just take home a pay packet without the hassle..

 

[joe-90]

Well why do you give advice in the electrical forum if you don't have confidence in what you can do? Go work for minimum wage until you get the job you want. Stop being a scrounger.

 

[Lincsbodger]

 

[ColJack]

again, working for minimum wage will not cover my mortgage and working will invalidate my mortgage protection policy.
so going for that minimum wage job will result in me losing my house..
am I not entitled to borrow some of the money back that I have already paid into the government coffers, and will re-commence to do so when I do get a job again?

 

[joe-90]

What makes you think you'll get one? Nobody wants a lazy worker who would rather be on the dole than work.