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Oven heating pre-prepared dinners

  • 04-02-2017 10:24PM
    #1
    Logo
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    We were too busy today so bought pre-prepared dinners from Dunnes Stores (see pics). The instructions say to pre-heat oven @ 150 deg C and place trays on middle shelf for 25 minutes. Then it says to "remove film lid and serve". But the film lid looks like a piece of plastic (probably a bit like the dinner will taste:) ).
    I haven't tried pre-pared dinners before and wondering if it's ok to put the package in the oven without removing the cover? (I realise that it's really a first world problem but I'm starving!!)


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  • #2
    cbyrd
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    Leave the plastic on, you can pierce it to let out steam, but it won't melt.
    Enjoy


  • #3
    floraldream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭floraldream


    Remove the plastic. It will melt on your dinner otherwise.


  • #4
    B.A._Baracus
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    Better to microwave it. Never cook them in the oven myself.


  • #5
    Jack the Stripper
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    Do Dunnes have live chat?


  • #6
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    From your images it says to falkja;lkj in the oqiwnfoif, then aoinoai the ononaoind until it's well and tonsoinsoif.

    Enjoy your salmon!


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  • #7
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Loveinapril wrote: »
    Seriously?!

    "Instructions say X. Can I do Y?".

    Instructions are for loosers.


  • #8
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    Instructions are for loosers.

    Maybe they should tighten their belt then.


  • #9
    HamsterFace
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    Disgusting. Are you really old?


  • #10
    B.A._Baracus
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Disgusting. Are you really old?

    Like clockwork.


  • #11
    refusetolose
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    why do you have a picture of blur?


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  • #12
    fussyonion
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    Cover it in foil and microwave it.


  • #13
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Stop buying nasty pre-made food from Dunnes, you slobbering peasant.


  • #14
    B.A._Baracus
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    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Stop buying nasty pre-made food from Dunnes, you slobbering peasant.

    ".... Moments later Roger logged off boards to eat caviar off a cheap hookers arse... "



    :pac:


  • #15
    bodhrandude
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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #16
    jimmy blevins
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    fussyonion wrote: »
    Cover it in foil and microwave it.

    I charge my iPhone that way.


  • #17
    matchthis
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    http://9gag.com/gag/aq5d41p/remove-sleeve-and-film


  • #18
    Arghus
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    I laugh at the thought of people actually oven cooking these things. I mean you've purchased a load of mutant processed food that clearly says more about your laziness and lack of concern about nutrition, than it does about anything else.

    I say this as a man whose had his fair share of those "meals" down through the years. I always presumed they put the oven instructions there as a bit of a laugh: I've gone through with it and bought the gloop, of course I'm going to put it in the microwave if I can. I may as well wallow in my decadence.


  • #19
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Bin it and chop a fukking carrot into sticks.
    Carrot sticks, baby spuds and a bit of fish/meat. Dinner sorted.


  • #20
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    The ready meals in eg Dunne's are excellent. I only get them when they are half price reduced, and of course microwave them.

    Good simple food.

    My Sunday dinner today is a Supervalu ready meal. Bacon and cabbage. Looking forward to it...

    "mutant processed food that clearly says more about your laziness and lack of concern about nutrition, than it does about anything else."

    Not at all.. just that am easily tired and if I stayed on my feet to cook a lot would be too tired to eat. The ready meals for me mean I get decent food. A treat! When I do cook I make extra and freeze it, as a ready meal...


  • #21
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Pre prepared dinners are not "good simple food". They're convenient, heavily processed and nutritionally lacking. Each to their own, but let's not kid ourselves.


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  • #22
    Graces7
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Pre prepared dinners are not "good simple food". They're convenient, heavily processed and nutritionally lacking. Each to their own, but let's not kid ourselves.

    Not true; not the kind I eat. Simple ingredients. I would not touch curries or lasagne or anything "heavily processed." Mine today is simple ingredients,simply prepared. No additives etc.

    Just cooked ready so I can access them without the cooking.

    I also sometimes buy a plain cooked chicken for the same reason.

    And they are the same as what I cook extra and plate up for myself.

    I do seem to remember that you eat takeaways etc? No way for me!


  • #23
    suicide_circus
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    There's definitely a difference between the meat and two veg kind and the more complex type dishes. There's only so wrong you can go with the former.


  • #24
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    Not true; not the kind I eat. Simple ingredients. I would not touch curries or lasagne or anything "heavily processed." Mine today is simple ingredients,simply prepared. No additives etc.

    Just cooked ready so I can access them without the cooking.

    I also sometimes buy a plain cooked chicken for the same reason.

    And they are the same as what I cook extra and plate up for myself.

    I do seem to remember that you eat takeaways etc? No way for me!
    Yes ineat takeaways, crisps, sugar. I'm under no illusion what's in them. I am no stranger to the odd pre prepared meal either, but they are what they are. "Simple ingredients" - they're just another form of takeaway.


  • #25
    FizzleSticks
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  • #26
    somefeen
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    Just do what I do and ring the mammy, she'll know


  • #27
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    somefeen wrote: »
    Just do what I do and ring the mammy, she'll know

    On recognising the incoming call number, my wife often answers the phone with "Cookery helpline, how may I help you?"


  • #28
    elperello
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    Just plate them up and microwave them as if they were a leftover from a home cooked meal.

    You won't have the trouble of transferring hot food from the plastic container and it will be easier to wash before re-cycling.


  • #29
    Gwynplaine
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    I often wondered who buys those dinners. I just imagine the people preparing them spitting in the gravy and rubbing their lad on a piece of ham.


  • #30
    colm_mcm
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    I often wondered who buys those dinners. I just imagine the people preparing them spitting in the gravy and rubbing their lad on a piece of ham.
    authentic restaurant experience!


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  • #31
    Robineen
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    Arghus wrote: »
    I laugh at the thought of people actually oven cooking these things. I mean you've purchased a load of mutant processed food that clearly says more about your laziness and lack of concern about nutrition, than it does about anything else.

    FFS. I get the impression the OP doesn't buy these too often. Hence his confusion.
    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Pre prepared dinners are not "good simple food". They're convenient, heavily processed and nutritionally lacking. Each to their own, but let's not kid ourselves.

    Yet heavily processed (the flour), nutritionally not-so-great pasta is eaten by the truckload in this country and that's fine?


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