If you’re after a light, refreshing dessert to round off dinner, take a look at this Lime and Coconut Meringue Pie. This variation on a classic is bound to impress friends and family alike.
You can find the full recipe below and a helpful video to guide you through the baking process. You can also download a recipe card from NEFF.
All our Blomberg appliances come with at least a three year warranty. That got us thinking – if you were to buy one today, what could you get done before the warranty expires in three years’ time?
Take a look at the list below to find out! Of course, these are just some of the options – let us know on Facebook or Twitter if you have any more ideas.
According to Metro, it takes an average of two years, 11 months and eight days to go from meeting someone special to getting engaged. If you already have a partner, the chances that you’ll be engaged in three years are pretty good.
Once you’re engaged, the average time to the wedding day is also less than three years.
If you’re a fan of the video game franchise Halo, you’ll recognise this awesome Lego spaceship as the UNSC Infinity. It’s over three feet long and includes LED lighting as well as a custom base representing a distant city.
Of course you don’t have to build a spaceship. Three years is plenty of time to construct almost anything from LEGO, from famous landmarks, to animals, vehicles and 2D pictures.
Most UK undergraduate degrees take less than three years to complete. You don’t even have to attend a physical university if you go for distance learning. Use your three years to study something like computer science or nursing and you could literally change your life.
‘Once in a blue moon’ may refer to a rare event, but you can experience a blue moon roughly once every three years. They aren’t actually blue though – when a season of the year has four full moons, the third one is given this name.
If you can get your hands on a spacecraft, travelling to Mars only takes around six months. However, Earth and Mars are only close together roughly every two years, so you’d have to wait before coming home again.
OK, so it doesn’t actually take three years to learn to drive (on average). However, this is the amount of time drivers say it takes to feel confident behind the wheel.
It took Chris Juby just over three years to turn every chapter of the bible into a tweet (@biblesummary). You could do the same with pretty much any book – War and Peace and The Lord of the Rings trilogy are both shorter than the King James version. Just make sure it’s out of copyright.
You’ve probably heard of leap years, but what about leap seconds? It’s not a regular thing, but roughly every three years there’s an extra second in the day to make up for the difference between the speed of the earth’s rotation and atomic time.
Theoretically, you should adjust your watch.
If you have three years, you’re guaranteed to be able to attend a triennial event. One example is the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale – the largest art festival in the world. It lasts for 50 days and spans 200 villages in the Niigata region of Japan.
Time lapse photography involves taking a still image every so often and piecing them together into a video. You could try making one of your children or your dog growing up. Three years is plenty of time to make something spectacular, such as this video of the Northern Lights:
One thing you won’t have to wait three years for is a great deal on a new appliance. Take a look at these models from Blomberg for inspiration.
So, you stagger through the door, arms laden with bags of food comprising your weekly shop. You’re tired – all you want to do is put the food away as quickly as possible and put your feet up. You open the fridge door, haphazardly grab food and drink, and put everything on the first space you spot before sinking blissfully onto your sofa.
Sound familiar? Well, if this is you after your weekly shop, it might be worth taking a few extra minutes when you unload food into the fridge.
The way you store items in your fridge can have a significant impact on our health, wellbeing and finances.
Let’s start with the basics. We all know not to eat raw meat and that it needs to be thoroughly cooked at high temperatures. Vegetables are much safer though, right? Sometimes they don’t need any cooking at all. Well yes, they are. However, as many of you know, storing meat above vegetables or fruit can cause contamination. Imagine some raw chicken juice leaking from its packaging and dripping on carrots, apples or that lovely fruit trifle on the bottom shelf.
There’s a good chance you won’t notice anything wrong when you take the food out, which could then make you very ill. Ensuring that all your meat is at the bottom of your fridge so it can’t drip on anything is a simple way of protecting yourself and your family.
If you’re in doubt, take a leaf out of the professionals’ book. Chefs frequently arrange their fridges in cooking temperature order. This means items that require low cooking temperatures are at the top and food that requires high temperatures is at the bottom. This way, if anything drips onto something below, any bacteria will be killed in the cooking process.
If food goes off, you have little choice but to chuck it away. This is both wasteful and expensive. If the food has gone off because you’ve forgotten about it, it’s annoying, but it’s even more so if food has gone off because it hasn’t been stored correctly.
Our handy guide below outlines where items should be stored for optimum temperatures.
OK, let’s break this down into some common food types. Of course, all fridges are a little different and you may not have certain features, such as meat drawers or salad crispers. Don’t worry though, our advice will still help you out.
And no, we don’t suggest keeping your cat in the fridge… (Or letting it eat your sausages).
Keep these towards the bottom, where temperatures are at their coolest, to maintain the bite and crunch, though above the raw meat to avoid any nasty germs. If you have a drawer that’s labelled for fruit, it’s the perfect place to keep it as there is often less moisture in the air.
Veggies prefer a bit more moisture than fruit – it helps keep them fresher for longer. If you can control the amount of moisture in your drawers then crank it up a bit or, if you have one, pop them in the drawer that is labelled specifically for vegetables. Otherwise normal drawers are fine for storage.
As previ
ously mentioned, raw meats should go at the very bottom of the fridge, to keep them from dripping on things. This goes for red meats, fish, and poultry.
Sometimes fridge drawers can be a bit small for a bulky items, or they are specifically designed for fruit and veg. In this case, pop the meat on a shelf above, ideally on a large tray or something similar that will catch any drips.
Cold meats, like ham, should be kept toward the bottom of the fridge, preferably in an air tight container or wrapped in cling film.
Most of us keep the milk in the fridge door, but this area can be susceptible to inconsistent temperatures. It’s better to keep milk near the bottom of the fridge, where temperatures are coldest. This can make the bottom of your fridge a bit crowded, but height adjustable shelves come in handy to fit everything in.
Soft cheeses and butter don’t need to be kept all that cold as it will make them harder than most people want. As such, storing them in the dairy compartment on the door is fine, or towards the top of the fridge
Other dairy products like hard cheeses and yoghurts are best kept alongside the milk at the bottom of the fridge, to keep them at their best.
It’s often best to keep your eggs outside the fridge. This is because changing temperatures in a fridge can cause condensation to form, which in turn can increase the risk of germs growing. If you’re dead set on storing eggs in the fridge, keep them towards the middle of the appliance, where temperatures are at their most consistent.
Thing like sauces and cans of soft drinks can be kept in the door or towards the top of the fridge, as it’s less important to keep these cold. They’re also fairly resistant to temperature fluctuations, which makes the door a good choice.
Now you know how to arrange all your produce inside a fridge, why not explore our range of appliances here?
