convection/microwave question

[rvgal]

Tkank you all SO much for this great information! You've really helped me understand more about the microwave convection oven. I really appreciate your help!

[Bethers]

The rv micro/convections are not the same as ones you buy in houses (most of the time). And often the rv one doesn't cook as fast as a home convection oven. I replaced my microwave with a micro-convection and am glad I did. I believe it cooks better than the gas oven in the rv. My turntable will not turn off, so always turns. You do need to get something to lift things when using the microwave function. So, there is a learning curve. I wish mine had the half-time option that Liz's has - but am glad I got it.

No, I'd never quite heard that phrase about things that are expensive. Have heard them called precious - but never tha phrase before. Like it.

[BarbaraRose]

Really??? You've never heard that expression? Martha, maybe it IS a local thing, I've heard that expression my whole life. Ladies?

Never heard it before now.
Up north, Yankees say, "they're expensive."
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I had to wonder about that saying too! I read it over about 4 times to make sure I wasn't missing something! You southern folk have some odd sayings...we Yankees say it like it is!

[Readytogo]

Barbie, I've been in the south for over 40 years and I've never heard that either! One other saying that was odd to when whenI moved from Calif to Ala, someone said 'who does the baby favor?" Sounded to me like "who does the baby like?"Just an observation. Wendy

[Acadianmom]

Vickie, I guess they never saved a dish. That one confused me when I moved to Abbeville.

Martha

[mitch5252]

... they never saved a dish.

??????

I "carried" her to town...

"yonder"

"kin to"

Like I've said for 7 years - ifin ya come to visit from the north, bring your passport...

[Readytogo]

Save the dish?????????????????

[VickieP]

Save the dish, means to put it up or put it away, don't it Martha? What about goin' to "make groceries" or asking somebody if they were gonna get down too when you went somewhere?

[ilovecamping]

I have a convection/microwave but have only used the convection part once. I need to read my book again and see what all I can do with it.

As for all those expressions, I have heard them all but one and I am definately a Yankee. I am not sure where they originated but are common with the older generations here.

[HorizonSeeker]

I don't have the convection oven in Seeker but then I don't cook much. The Goddess is determined to cook in the gas oven but hasn't yet. As for the sayings, I have found that many are not only north/south, but also regional within the regions. As a teacher of English to those new to the English language (especially in the south) it made for some strange and difficult explanations. My husband grew up in a small town 150 miles southwest of me and I never understood some of his local sayings. But that's what I love about language - never boring.

[Acadianmom]

Yes, to save something means to put it up. I had never heard it until I moved to South Louisiana. When I ask my smart azz cousins in Texas if we were going to get down they wanted to know if we were going to break dance. My mother and her sisters grew up in North Texas and they had a lot of weird sayings. If we ask my mother where something was at she would say behind the A looking over the T. That was her English lesson on not ending a sentence with at. And someone is as independent as a hog on ice. I never was sure what that meant.

Martha

[avalen]

"hog on ice".................in my mind I picture a pig on a bed of ice chips getting prepared to get cooked
but then again.....hog could be a motorcyle driving on icy roads. Different ways to speak does keep things interesting.

[Readytogo]

Make pictures, that was the other one I was thinking of

[pattyk]

I'm not sure which of the southern states I was in at the time, but I was only 12 yrs old. I went into a "dime store" to buy a ball. The cashier asked if I wanted it in a toke. I thought for a minute and said yes. I'm native Californian and I had never heard that before. That was a good 50 years ago.

[flick4411]

Gosh, I'm a native Californian too, but if someone asked me about a toke, I would have figured they were talking about a doobie, not a bag!! But then maybe it was a nickle bag??? (for what it's worth, since I'm a gov't employee, I have to pee in the bottle on occasion, so you all can be sure that I'm not partaking of the toke, the doobie or the nickle bag...but I couldn't resist...)