Why I'm Giving Away Scrapers (And Why You Need One)
Andrew Bluett-Duncan
Director
First thing this morning (Thursday) I dropped off my beautiful BMW 525 Touring at Holmesdale Garage, for a little work to one of the sills, that I’d damaged after being a little too enthusiastic about the speed at which I thought could drive over a policeman (a rather unforgiving sleeping one, made of very hard rubber), at one of my favourite places in the borough, the municipal dump, well manned, beautifully organised, and all round a thing of beauty to this recyclist’s eye, (but I do wish they’d replace their “violent “ speed restrictors with something a little less aggressive).
So then, as I walked into work from the garage (another favourite place of mine in Reigate), I knew that once again I was very late starting to think about this week’s email, and pretty clueless about its content as well. Then I thought to myself, I’ll just have to own up to my parlous state and say just that and beg your indulgence.
However, when I got there Paul and Jacky pointed to a couple of interesting things that appealed to me, for different reasons, so I started to feel a whole lot more positive about my morning, and indeed the day ahead.
Our guarantees
One of the suggestions was about the newish Sabatier knife block, that put me in mind of a conversation I’d had with Jeanne the other day. She said that she’d had several complaints about the brush type of block, only one returned admittedly, but several people saying that they’d already tried this type and didn’t like them. So I’m saying this to remind you of our guarantee, that says you can bring anything back to us that has disappointed you, used or not (although the former is more likely to be the case if it has disappointed).
This product I’ll come back to another time, as our stocks are low at present.
The other was the Dreamfarm scraper.
Dreamfarm Cleana Self Sharpening Scraper.
This is a brilliant little product. It doesn’t sound like much, but in the reality of everyday life it has several applications that make it almost unique in doing what it does effectively, but without ever causing any damage. It’s the sort of nonhuman (inhuman?) version of a fingernail.
It removes sticky labels safely, burnt on food from nonstick surfaces without damaging the nonstick, grot from around your hob (no, I know that you don’t have any such thing, but some people do) Ditto from around the plug hole in your sink etc. etc.
And on top of that it’s resharpenable. Yes really! But didn’t I just say it was self sharpening? Yes, I did*, but in fact it isn’t actually, but it does have a sharpener built into the handle that restores the edge that makes it so effective in use. As well as the scraping blade, there’s also a useful fine hook scraper tool for getting into those hard to reach nooks and crannies, where crud gathers (not in your kitchen of course, but it does in some peoples’).
In summary it looks like this:
- Non-scratch scraper removes stickers, labels, baked-on food, & hard-to-remove grime
- Handle contains a built-in sharpener that will sharpen your Cleana 1,000+ times
- Secondary hook scraper for cleaning hard-to-reach corners & crevices like stove tops & sink edges
- Gentle, non-scratch material mimics your fingernail, without harming your manicure!
* Dreamfarm themselves describe it as resharpenable whereas Amazon (and other retailers) describe it as self sharpening, Amazon are selling two for £15.55. plus postage….so, about twenty quid in all!
I’ll be keeping one in the kitchen, one in the bathroom and one in my shed; and another one will be a present for someone, as I believe everyone needs at least one of these in their home.
You can do the same and at a very favourable price because, for this weekend, I’ve two offers to tempt you:
If you are shopping in Reigate or Cobham, then buy 4 and pay for three.
If you are shopping online, then get 4 sent to you for £20 (including delivery).
This is about half Amazon’s price.
That’s it for this week, but I was fascinated by an interview, that I was watching the other day, between Steven Bartlett and Jesse Inchauspe, a young microbiologist, who made the following observation on Ozempic. Something I wrote about several months ago. The two of them had been discussing the effects of glucose on us, both our need for it and what happens when we have too much of it (which is the case for many of us). And that this, amongst other things in our world, is actually doing us harm. So, the context here is that the ultra processed foods that we consume are gradually poisoning us, and that we are eating them, in part, because they are easily available, addictive and cheap.
So, in the bit that caught my attention, she is referring to Ozempic, used, not for its original purpose (to help diabetics control their sugar levels), but as a slimming drug, that does so by reducing people’s appetite.
She says “Do you realise what’s happening? We have had to invent a drug to prevent people from eating the food around them, because the food around them is so toxic (highly processed, addictive and cheap) that it’s making them sick”. She carries on to make this analogy with water, and says “It’s as if we found that tap water was toxic and killing us. And instead of fixing the toxic tap water, we invent a drug that makes us less thirsty”.
Sounds mad and possibly exaggerated….. but is it? What it is, is a highly complex problem that requires changes in us as individuals, in our food companies and the way they produce food, in our supermarkets and what they put on their shelves and in government policy & regulation.
I trust you have a pleasant and peaceful weekend.
Warm regards
Andrew
Andrew Bluett-Duncan
Director
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