BS: Marmite (A)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Windsinger
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:28 AM

I always thought it was the greasy black gunk one finds beneath one's fridge. ;)

Slán,

~Fionn

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Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:00 AM

Well it is made from the remains of the brewing process, so stiffness or lack of it may come into the equation! {See Brewer's Droop}
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:52 AM

I wonder what sort of mould would be strong enough to grow in a jar of yeast extract! I don't think they had a fridge in mind when they said cool and dark, besides, it would make the Marmite too stiff to spread properly which was your problem wasn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:47 AM

Purple Foxx "How could you tell?"

A newly opened jar of marmite should have a pristine firm smooth level surface (except for maybe a tiny ring left by a burst bubble near the edge), and when you take some out the knife leaves a clear impression. The surface on the latest jar wasn't firm, it was more like discarded engine oil, and the impression left by the knife sank back to a vague but unsatisfying levelness so that you couldn't tell whether you were the first to use it or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:46 AM

I love that track Froggie.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:30 AM

Some places they get mildew
And others get too hot.
Some places are so damp that
Everything you got just rots
All kinds of condensation
Directories of the rain
There's not much compensation
When everything's been stained
Some have sentimental value that
Cannot be erased
Go store it in a cool dry place
                  ---The Traveling Wilburys

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:17 AM

All jars of food, be it Marmite [food of the Gods] Jam [comfit food] or Pickles [food of the Wilfreds] should be kept in the fridge once opened. The top shelf of our larder fridge at this moment contains at least 20 various jams jellies and condiments in the process of being consumed.
We do not suffer from blue mould on the top of our opened jars of food in this house.
We also almost always are able to ignore use by dates because this extends their keeping properties.
Incidentally it does say on the label of a Marmite jar "Store in a cool dark place"
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 08:28 AM

Yes, I'm with MBSLynne. A fridge is no place to keep Marmite. But even if you persist with that perversion, Giok, there's still no call for easy-squeeze packaging. Just offer the Marmite direct to the toast before applying the butter/margarine of your choice.

I understood that Marmite was not available in the States. Has it now penetrated that market? When I visited a pal in Alaska, the only commodity he asked me to bring from the old country was Marmite. I took him eight large jars, only to find at journey's end that all eight had exploded in my suitcase. Eventually all aromatic evidence of the catastrophe was purged from my clothes, but the suitcase never recovered.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:31 AM

Vegemite has been in large squeezeable platice tubes for years in Australia. My Secret Santees have been thus blessed...

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:30 AM

Vegemite is better.

Giok...why on earth would you keep marmite in the fridge??

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: David C. Carter
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:48 AM

Well,I used to like the stuff when I lived in London,but now I seem to have lost my appetite for it.Maybe it does't travel well.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Stu
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:25 AM

Cheese and marmite butties (toasted). Yum.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From:
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:05 AM

I love it!! spread thickly on hot toast!!! Mmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: David C. Carter
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:03 AM

I know someone who confessed to useing it in curry,we don't eat there too often!

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:56 AM

uhmmm...Could we combine these 2 Threads?
BTW More bad news I'm afraid RolyH,the small jar is being discontinued.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Alba
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:47 AM

Ah the blessed Marmite..!
I am about to provide a link to all things Marmite on the Mudcat,
Brace yourself oh lovers of the thick smelly Goo:)
Marmite Frenzy:)

I want to like it but alas no...lol

Best of Wishes to all as always
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: RolyH
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:23 AM

I used to have a serious marmite problem but now seem to have it under control ( 1 small jar a week )

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:17 AM

There are few foods I haven't liked. Marmite is one of them.

There's a squeezable honey pot on the market too, tho' honey's now off my menu as part of a cholest.....    Sorry, thread drift.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: ossonflags
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:05 AM

Give Muppett a gig !! his fee is marmite sandwitches !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:58 AM

I quite like the idea, anyone who has tried to dig the right amount out of a jar which has been kept in the fridge will know this. If it is on cooled toast it drags the butter/margarine off the bread and onto the knife with it, and you have to try and force the resulting khaki slurry off the knife, back onto the toast without the toast disintegrating.
If it on hot toast the melted butter provides a skid pan for the Marmite on the knife, and you end up squeegeeing the butter off the toast, while the marmite remains impervious to the toast.
In short marmite is like a child that doesn't want to go to school, and hangs on to the parent with more arms and legs than they had when you left home that morning.
It's a bit like trying to get rid of a chewy bogey, using a toothpick.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:15 AM

How could you tell? ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:13 AM

I think the recipe has already been altered. I opened a jar recently and thought it was 'off'.

Subject: BS: Marmite
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:01 AM

Papers report that Marmite is to be marketed in plastic squeezable bottles & that the recipe is to be modified to give the thinner consistency this requires.
So,Marmite - love it? hate it? whipped up into a frenzy of indifference by it? discuss.