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A JAFFLE is more than a toastie. It's sealed around the edges so you can fill it with so many more fillings that don't run out the sides. It's more like a pie made with bread. Great for cooking over a campfire. Filled with an egg and baked beans, yum.
@@kevo6190 - and that has to be "no Australian" - well, not a "real one"... Any Australian who hasn't been camping with jaffles over the morning camp fire - shame... (what has the world become)
Jaffles were invented to give the middle finger to Coulomb's Law. 20 mins after cooking, with a cold exterior crust, the inside ingredients will melt through granite surfaces. Most Australians speak the way they do due to severe jaffle tongue burns.
also you can make jaffles with ingredients that would spew out the sides of a toasted sandwich, a jaffle iron fuses the top and bottom breads around the edges into one delicious pocket of burn ya mouth outta ya face.
The original jaffle is made with a "jaffle iron". A "clam shell hinge design" cooking implement made out of heavy cast iron featuring long handles (to prevent burns from direct flame...gas stove or open fire)-connected to two half shells ("sliced bread size")- designed to copy a pie.The bread slice edges are sealed tight by the pressure of the "half shells" being locked down together tightly. Only 2 slices of bread (buttered on the outside) used rather than using pastry.The ingredients go in between 2 x bread slices which are placed on the each of the locking , 6" circular( or square) half shells .It is flipped over to cook both on sides over a flame not baked or fried. Invented here in the 1940's or 50's it was popularly used when camping.. Memories of childhood!!!! Can you still buy jaffle irons?
Yay to us Aussies. We don’t need to worry about guns in schools😊Roos and Emus in some schoolyards in North West Queensland where I grew up are the only hinderance. Just a nuisance really.
When you vote compulsorily in Australia, the compensation is a charity stall selling sausage in bread (+onions, sauce and Mustard), plus yummy baked goods.
Jaffle makers have been around in Australia since 1949. They were created to make toasted sandwiches over a campfire and are a very clever, effective product. They were around long before the toasted sandwich makers of today, so they were called jaffles first! And it's pronounce with a hard A, like apple - jaffle.
I have two jaffle irons and a sandwich maker. The sandwich maker was bought 15 years ago and used once before being shoved in the back of the cupboard. The jaffle irons were part of my "inheritance" and are used at least once a week. BTW jaffle uses a soft "a". A hard "A" would make it sound like Jay-fell. Hmm, I wonder what an apple jaffle would taste like.
@@adriancampbell6924, you’d probably need to either boil the apples first, or use tinned apple, as I do. It makes a great dessert, especially if you use pastry instead of bread (shock, horror! But you can fit in more apple). Lovely with cream &/or ice cream. Even better with the right amount of cinnamon mixed in or sprinkled on.
@@judithstrachan9399 Making pastry is too hard for mere males. I like the cinnamon idea though and if I added sultanas it would then be strudel, an Austrian/Australian dessert.
@@adriancampbell6924 Make? MAKE pastry? Naaah, I use the pre-made & rolled stuff. Cut in quarters it’s just the right size for the sandwich toaster. I don’t much like dried fruits, but that does sound great.
You have to keep in mind is that Australia is an enormous area with a tiny population. Since infrastructure is paid for by taxes we can't match the Japanese level of infrastructure.
Wollongong and Newcastle are really not far from each other so the trains should be a lot faster. The steam trains were faster than the current ones from Newcastle.
Exactly. Australia is 22 times the size of Japan and yet they have nearly five times as many people as we do. With such a small area and so many people paying taxes it would be more amazing if they didn’t have good infrastructure.
Scotch finger biscuits, made by Arnots, are basically just sugar, flour and a little milk baked. Thus they are highly hygroscopic and will quickly absorb moisture if left out and not kept in airtight containers. After about a day in that bowl those biscuits/cookies would be totally stale and unpalatable.
Jaffle is an Australian grilled cheese, it seals the edges of the sandwich keeping the cheese inside at molten lava temperatures to ensure you burn the insides of your mouth when you bite it.
It is not specifically grilled cheese. Originally, leftover savoury mince and stews were the most popular, especially during the 30's great depression.
@kenchristie9214 the most common type in modern days is cheese (and varieties of), you can add any filling you like, tin spaghetti goes well if you want to relive the memories of your ancestors. I was simply making the comparison for easier understanding considering in the video he compares it to a grilled cheese
My favourite jaffle is either tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce, or cheese & tomato, both guaranteed to give you 3rd degree burns if you aren’t careful. Jaffle: “a” sound as in cat Your pronunciations are hysterical. Wish we could send you sound files.
Yeah, but the only thing Americans learned in those wars was how to lose and kill people.Forget geography.. they’ll Probably tell,you,it’s a pencil, not a country.
@@johnlaine2654Tell me you know nothing about the first Gulf War without telling me ? The coalition went in led by the Americans they destroyed the Republican Guard the rest surrendered including to American TV crews, Saddam and his sons were hunted down and killed(Saddam after a trial).
I live in Victoria; Australia, on the Bellarine Peninsula and the trains and buses operate on a coordinated timetable. I can catch a bus in my street which is always on time, within 5 mins. maximum, and takes me into Geelong where I can catch a train to Melbourne within a few minutes. Love jaffles. Unlike toasted sandwiches, the jaffle iron seals the edges which means you can put any filling in it. Don't use that restaurant if it is demanding a tip. You are only required to pay the advertised price on the menu.
Hah, Even the taxi service shut down here in Blackwater QLD. No Trains, no buses nothing but foot falcon if you don't have a working car. I can still make jaffles though:)
I think part of the reason Japan's public transport infrastructure is better than Australia's is that their population density is 113 x greater than Australia's (339 vs 3 people/km²). That has to make a difference. Personally, I would trade highly efficient public transport for more personal space. Scotch Finger biscuits are like shortbread and are made with a groove lengthways so that you can snap them in half to make two fingers. It is a crime to snap them across the other way. Sausage sizzle has to be on white bread. I agree, needs onions and sauce.
That sort of metric/reasoning only works if you count the empty desert into our population density. Sure Japan's is way higher than ours, but our urban density isn't considerably higher than, for example, the Netherlands (outside of Amsterdam/Rotterdam). Yet they manage to run those services efficiently at a city level. Our issue is that we build for cars and not people. We spend billions and billions on the least efficient infrastructure ever, and it makes ALL our services more expensive to administer as a result. I pointed to the Netherlands as the example, because they had similar issues around 15-20 yrs ago and managed to turn it around by converting increasingly large amounts of road to low speeds and bicycle/public lanes.
@@smalltime0, Now that our carmakers have basically moved offshore & we don’t have to protect that industry as much, maybe we can become more efficient in transporting people.
A jaffle is not a grilled cheese... Watch out all the Aussies be coming after on this one. I'm a Gen X and jaffles were a food staple lol mostly spaghetti jaffles or savoury mince jaffles or ham cheese and tomato or ham cheese and pineapple. Jaffles are still a popular snack or camp breakfast. Anytime snack really.
Local government elections in NSW last weekend. That could what the he was voting for. Agree about the snag. That looked dry as. Needed some tomato sauce and onions.
Jaffel makers are the best. Put leftovers in them and it makes a sealed pocket of bread. Sealed taco, seal spag Bol, sealed Vegemite and cheese, just about anything
The Sunday and public holiday surcharge covers the penalty rates for staff on those days, as penalty rates can increase hourly pay rates by more than 50%
Jaffle makers were originally only the hinged sort for putting over a fire. then people started putting them on hobs in the kitchen to make jaffles at home then the electric home ones came along. jaffles are not the same as a toastie, the bread is sealed around the edge and the texture of the bread and filling (usually cheese, tomato, ham or some variation) and the overall experience is just different
We tend to fly between capital cities but you can also catch the train if you just want to relax and take in the scenery. The journey takes 10 hours. High speed rail isn’t a thing in Australia because it’s just faster and more economical to fly. We don’t have the population to make it viable.
Every time they do a feasibility study (about every 10 years or so), the only economically viable route for a high speed train is Sydney to Canberra, and really, what's the point? 😉
@@Merrid67play it It's always been viable (Brisbane to Melbourne) since first proposed; the reason we don't have it was that some people wanted to protect the jobs in aviation and large road transport because the viable model for the VFT includes passengers and light freight and that would have affected those businesses. Today airlines can much more easily scale to still be profitable even if they were to lose flights to the fast rail. As Australians are the most highly mobile people on earth, our travelling public is the equivalent of a population double our size elsewhere. The Sydney-Melbourne route is the fifth busiest in the world - just under 10,000,000 seats a year and Sydney (12th) has previously been in the top 10 business airports in the world (currently not fully back to prepandemic levels).
The jaffles at my school tuckshop were either savoury mince or ham/cheese/tomato, they were the best. At home it was usually spaghetti. They’re better than toasties. And yes the person doing that to the scotch finger biscuits needs their citizenship revoked lol
Gosh, spelling errors, foreign countries and Indian foods have all thrown you for a loop today, Ryan! 😂 Google Jaffle maker, the modern descendant of the original Jaffle Iron. Aussies know where Azerbaijan is because we watch the Olympics. A Samosa is a deep fried pastry dough formed into a pyramid shape and stuffed with a filling, often a mixture of diced and cooked or mashed boiled potato, onions, green peas, lentils, ginger, spices and green chili. A samosa can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian, depending on the filling.
When I was a firefighter, jaffles (pronounced to rhyme with apples) were popular for quick meals. We had a competition to see who could make the most disgusting jaffle, but the rules also said you had to eat it all. The winner was a beetroot and jelly bean jaffle. It was a horrible weird sugary mess; and yes he ate it all.
The difference between a grilled cheese sandwich and a Jaffle is, well, a grilled cheese is a grilled cheese, while a Jaffle is buttered on the outside of the bread slices and filled with anything you want and cooked in that Jaffle Marker which allows for the thickness of the ingredients, and fuses the edges together to stop the contents from running out [hopefully]. I have made many Jaffles using jam [that's jelly to you], baked beans in bbq sauce, or with chicken pate. So in essence a Jaffle can be filled with whatever you can imagine, has butter on the outside to crisp and brown, and hopefully has sealed edges all around.
They leak into your mouth when you foolishly decide to bite into them when they're at 250 degrees C(thats 482 degrees Farenheit for our American friend).
For the scotch biscuits, they have a break line in the middle of them, running lengthways through the middle. This persons "friend" broke them in half widthways instead of lengthways.
Azerbaijan is between Iran and Russia; its capital Baku sits on the Caspian Sea. Bread in frying pan - fried bread - that's English! Don't really get fried bread in Oz. I call it a toastie! The Northern Territory election was last month. The democracy snag needs tomato sauce.
There are many apartment blocks located next to shops and train stations in Australia. Just because you may not live in one is not an indictment on the whole country. If people like that life style they are free to move there. But apartment living has its drawbacks.
Jaffle, rhymes with baffle. Dude, you HAVE to go to a camping store, buy a cast iron toastie (syn with jaffle…sort of) maker, go camping, build a small cooking fire, butter (optional)two slices of bread (butter on the outside) place in toastie maker, pour in baked beans, or just about anything, close it up, stick it above the coals….turn……turn…..check……turn…..turn….check, pull out, put on a plate, take a bite, and burn the F out of your mouth! Wait….eat…..know.
When you questioned a sausage on white bread I didn't know if you meant about the bread being white, or that bread was being used at all. If it was the second, using bread to hold the sausage makes it more portable as you walk along and has less burned fingers. If it's the first then it's because white bread is more common and people who won't eat brown, rye or seeded bread will probably eat white bread. As for condiments, mustard, tom sauce and bbq sauce are usually available from a sausage sizzle. Maybe that person likes the pure flavor of the sausage without it being overlaid with a condiment taste.
A jaffal filling is sealed in the bread a bit like a pie. The filling can be things like tinned spaghetti, baked beans or braised steak and onion. Traditionally cooked on an open fire or in a wood stove. It can have cheese in it but usually a more substantial filli g.
My wife and i plan to start a small take-away selling nothing but Jaffles. she's thai, never seen one before, i explained that it's a filling in bread... she asked if we could add cheese (i forgot to tell her).. it's when i knew we'd do it. She wants to make them with butter chicken (and cheese), thai green curry (and cheese) etc. I can't wait.
Jaffles were very popular because the hard edges created a seal on your 'sandwich' Great for stuff like leftover savoury mince, braised steak, or just about anything that wouldn't stay in a sandwich. I used to love using eggs and bacon in them with a little pepper.
Local government elections were held for most NSW councils. Except the ones where there weren't enough candidates, because the NSW Liberals stuffed up😂
I think this has been mentioned before Ryan, you ain't paying attention! We have weekend, night and public holiday penalty rates for staff, so there's a surcharge at those times. Also why we don't do tips, as a rule. It's par for the course in the US because hospitality workers get paid so little...
Last weekend we had local council elections in NSW. After I walked out of the school gates, I saw the PM get out of his limo to do his duty too. That democracy sausage in the pic needed tomato sauce and onions.
Japan doesn't have our workers unions! It's also impossible to have high speed trains between say Melbourne/ Sydney/ Brisbane - because there are mountains and different councils, govts, gages in the way! Japanese people also have common social goals and strict personal discipline! I can catch a train or bus every 5 minutes near me! 🤨
The rail guage is not an issue the network would have to be built from the ground up as the existing lines have too many bends. High speed trains need much straighter lines with gradual curves, can you imagine traveling at 400kmh on the current train tracks.
Jaffles were first made in1925 and popular during the depression as way to utilise leftovers (namely savoury mince and stew). Also popular with baked beans and spaghetti. It wasn't until 1949 the jaffle iron was patented. While walking through a shopping centre in 1977, I saw plastered all over a shop window "NEW FROM THE U.S.A. - JAFFLES".
Scotch Finger biscuits, made by Arnotts. The ones in the bowl are broken in half. Jaffles are the best, we had a jaffle iron when I was a kid and I am OLD. The only way to eat a sausage is in white bread, would be better with fried onions and possibly sauce
Yep. Butter (better than marg) onions (dark, dark brown!), & tomato sauce (or bbq if you insist). Not usually mustard, though it’s getting more common. Those bikkies are broken THE WRONG WAY!!!!
Waffles are traditionally cooked over a fire and sealed around the edges. They're great food. They're also great for creating blisters inside your mouth. They get super heated and stay that way for a while if they're sealed around the edge of the bread. Which is how they should be
As a kid a Jaffal was always cooked on an open fire and given our choice we would always have a “ skettie” jaffal. ( canned spaghetti) or baked bean! Yummy, brings back memories.
Sausage & bread looked underdressed - no sauce, no onions! In Western Australia a sausage democracy or Bunnings is always served in a bread roll. Sauce & onions added if wanted.
Did you know that the Grand Final public holiday is coming up on Friday 27 September in Victoria? A public holiday for a football match and for a horse race [2nd Tuesday in November]. Name another country that beats that.
Not only are jaffles sealed by the cooking process, but by buttering the OUTSIDE you end up with an extra tasty meal! We often put tinned spaghetti on the inside, or ham and cheese, so it is WAAAAAAY above your toasted cheese sangas lol
This is ridiculous to even ask why. Australia has been around for 100 years. Denmark and Japan have been around for ages. Denmark and Japan combined have the land area of one of the smaller Australian states. Japan and Copanhagens population density (remember that number of people /square mile = amount of government income / square mile) means that services and amenities will be better. As the number of people spread out over a larger area, the money spent on government infrastructure and services also gets spread thin.
Tipping: Remember, America pays bullshit wages for hospitality, so you’re expected to tip. Australia has good minimum wage(comparatively) tipping is encouraged in big restaurants so 3% on a bill that’s prob triple in price is steep.
Jaffles are more like home made hot pockets than grilled cheese. The appliance is like a waffle maker that presses down, toasts, and seals the sandwich and cooks the fillings at the same time .
Welcome to my city -- pronounced WOOL - un -GONG! Or The Gong. I see the tree up a pole every time I am in the main street's pedestrian-free Mall. There are other tortured trees, some acting as seats by being kept on their sides.
I can tell you why Australia has no high-speed railway. We have a population of around 35 million people in a very large island. Japan's population is around 125 million in a series of quite small islands. There are many people in government and in big business who want to build high speed rail in Australia, but they know that the costs are so high that those companies that want to build them (at government expense) want NOTHING to do with running them. Because they know that as soon as the first train was run the entire system would be bankrupted! I have noticed that many who want these railways in Australia believe that the fares would be like today's railway fares but in fact they would be competing directly with airline fares, as they do in Europe. As it happens, Australia has the world's most efficient and safest airline system and fast railways simply could not compete with our airlines. Much of Australia's railway system was built during the great depression and as a result has begun less than ideally reliable and because of lines constructed using human labour the tracks have been laid on much less than favourable lines. On two occasions Italian tilting trains (Pandolino) have been tried on the line between Sydney and Canberra. These trains were very fast at around 220 km/h, which is not actually regarded as high-speed because to be so defined they need a speed of 250 km/h but no financial justification could be found for operating them.
Australia has only just reached 27 million, not 35 million, in population this last week or so. It just confirms that the infrastructure costs involved in building high speed rail anywhere in Australia remains even more of a "fantasy" rather than a viable financial investment.
@@heatherharvey3129 Yes, I apologise for my silly error. But it does support what I said about a high-speed railway in Australia. Thank you for correcting me.
Jaffle, rhymes with apple. The iron seals the edges so you can overstuff the sandwich, and cut into 2 or fours (depending on the pattern on the iron), without the stuffing falling out from the middle either, because it seals all the edges of the individuals pieces as well.
Ryan, I think you need to do a reverse AMA, where you can review these with a chat going and we Aussies explain what you're seeing, how to pronounce, why it may look like a US thing, but our version is different, etc.
After 40 years of weekly use we purchased a new Breville Jaffle maker, which is not the same as a toasted sandwich maker and is definitely one of our most used appliances beaten only by our Breville “CountryKitchen”! NSW in Oz
Jaffle is a cheese toastie with the sides crimped (Aussies don't just put cheese on them tho) Scott finger biscuits...someone woke up and chose violence. You break them like a kit-kat Some local cafes do gratuity only on public holidays
Putting bread in a frying pan is fine for cheese (I actually wouldn't use a jaffle iron for that) but what about an egg jaffle or a baked bean jaffle or a spaghetti bog jaffle. Frypan would be useless in those circumstances.
Because a grilled cheese sandwich is just 2 pieces of bread pressed together and cooked under a hot press. What a Jaffle maker does is it seals the edges while forming it into triangles. It doesn't have to be cheese either, as a child spaghetti jaffles at the tuckshop were a thing (tinned spaghetti, placed onto bread buttered on the outside so it doesn't stick to the jaffle maker, press till toasted, now you ahve a hot spaghetti jaffle) The sealing makes it a different experience to eat. Also enjoyable with cheese and other things, (cheese/vegemite, cheese/ham, cheese pressed chicken meat, cheese/tomato/(ham?)). For "The Scotch" Those are "Scotch Finger Biscuits". They're designed to be able to be broken lengthwise into "fingers" and dipped in tea/coffee whatever. He's cut then cross-wise instead of snapping them lengthwise. The "Democracy Sausage" is a "thing". At assorted places things like local youth groups, or scouts associations etc will setup a "sausage sizzle" booth, where you get a sausage on a piece of bread with optional onions/sauce/mustard, for a dollar, or for a "gold coin donation" (1 and 2 dollar coins are gold). It became standard to set one up outside voting booths selling a sausage with some cold drinks for sale as well from the esky. Many folks who lined up would be hungry, or would become peckish after smelling the cooking sausages, and they're cheap. So it became tradition to get your "democracy sausage" when you voted. As for where the voting was, there were local council elections in much of NSW this week.
Wollongong/gong (Wool-long-gong) mentioned ;D The tree was an art installation, very divisive when it first was put up. Has been lit on fire a couple of times. They are planning to take them down soon. The train from gong to syd is horribly slow due to turns, and state of the tracks. Currently 1hr - 1hr 30 to Syd CBD normal high speed rail (200k/h-ish) and straight would cut it down to 22min. Will not happen in my lifetime.
Jaffle maker is a toasted sandwich maker. Its was made to enclose the sandwich ingredients in a pocket so it can burn your teeth and tongue right out of your head. Jaffle: pronounced Jaff-el. Other names for this type of sandwich is a Breville, or a toastie.
Here a Snag is a hot dog on a single slice of bread.. can add tomato sauce and onions if you like that. On a Saturday at Bunnings car parks local charities run stalls and you can buy one for $3.50… and they are loaded with onion and sauce unless you say No to them.A snag can also be just a sausage on a plate with the rest of your lunch or dinner.With the bread it becomes it’s own edible plate.Yay for Australia.
Other than cheese, jaffles fillings can be baked beans, can spaghetti, egg or other savoury items. The original jaffles iron is put into the coals of a camp fire.
My jaffle maker bit the dust earlier this year, after doing toasted sandwiches on frying pan a couple of times, I couldn’t wait any longer to go to Kmart and get a new jaffle maker. There’s no comparison, And Ryan you surprise me, an American who doesn’t know geography outside of the USA, who would have thought??? 🤣
Surcharges reflect the higher loading on wages for work performed on Sundays and Public Holidays. Since the employer must pay the higher hourly rate, the customer’s meal cost includes extra to cover for it. Otherwise, the employer will not open their business on Sundays or on Public Holidays. So customers would miss out.
Reality check: Japan has millions of workers paying tax and relatively small landmass that has been occupied for thousands of years by intelligent innovative problem solvers, not Stone Age culture followed by 236 years of transplanted culture. Give Oz time and money and we will catch up.
... and politican hesitation & stalling. Sydney is to have a second airport. I lived in Sydney in 1984/1985. The second airport was being discussed and "planned" way back then! 40! 😮 years ago!!
I forgot about the gauge drama. It certainly causes problems as do the other thing's you described but also we don't have the people needed to make it worthwhile.
@@infin8ee there is also the issue that Qld is the only state that owns its rail network. All the others are run by private companies which would also be at play
@@infin8ee but high speed rail at least to far north Queensland would be amazing for tourism and the local economies. Making it an inland rail following the highways would reduce cost of land, obstacles in general, and help dying communities grow again. There could be rail connections back to the cities.
Mate, Wollongong is actually pronounced : Wool-ongoing. It’s an Aussie thing. About an hour south of Sydney. It’s a bit hard to build a fast train from Sydney to Wollongong as it’s at the bottom of a big Cliff ( I guess you would call it a small mountain in the US.)..also the rail line meanders through Sydney’s southern suburbs so there’s not much space for another set of rail lines. Would be bloody expensive and the population just isn’t there to support the massive cost of construction.Even a fast train from Sydney to Melbourne is a dream invented by many Federal Governments.
No. We are going into Spring (mid September). The Vernal Equinox occurs around September 22 or 23 in the Southern Hemisphere. Authorities call the first day of September the first day of Spring but nature is on its own timetable. Summer starts mid December with the Summer Solstice, 20, 21, 22 or 23 December. Again, authorities call the first day of December the first day of Summer, but nature does its own thing anyway. You will notice that the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere is just before Christmas. That’s when the summer weather hits.
There really should be a better train connection between Campbelltown (south west Sydney and Wollongong - pronounced Wool-long-gong, its nickname is "the Gong") it is about a 50-60 min drive but about 2.5 hours on the train because you have to head towards Sydney city (the domestic airport train station) before you can head to Wollongong
Fastest way my mate lived in "The Gong" and worked with me at Minnow(Minto) is to change at Wolli Creek go to Hurstville then catch the train for "The Gong" from there.
Jaffles have closed edges and usually filled with things like baked beans or tinned spaghetti, toasties are open on the edges and done in a pan, there is a difference between the two and a toastie cannot have baked beans or tinned spaghetti in them
Jaff elle irons were originally created for camping and to use on an open fire, they have been around for well over 50 years, before sandwich makers were invented. 😊
I live in Central Queensland. Rail infrastructure is dedicated to shipping coal out. Once a week a passenger train comes through at 8am and another at 5am heading west. The reverse train arrives at 9:30pm the next day. Absolutely useless for the workers that currently drive in or fly in to work at the local mines. Just adds to fatalities on the road when those same workers finish the 12 hour days and 7 day shifts and jump in their cars to race home.
Hi there. A commercial biscuit Scotch Fingers, have a crease baked down the middle to make it easier to break into fingers possibly to make in convenient to dunk in your tea. Breaking the biscuit across, who does that?
Well there is currently an election going on in Queensland. Perhaps $0.50 cent train/bus trips just a desperate political gimmick. Then again I could just be cynical.
I've taken the Geelong to Melbourne & vice versa train around 1,000 times. Rarely was it more than a few minutes late. Only a few times there were significant delays. I've also taken the Shanghai subways a similar amount of times. Both reliable. Shanghai trains more frequent due to populace / rate of use.
Japan population 125 million, Australia 28 million. Area of Japan 378,000km2 area of just NSW 801,150km2 easier to do when population justifies it - just give it a decade with Albo and we will have 100 million here too!
N.S.W. local council elections were on the 14 September, I knew about it for 2 months, marked it on the calendar... And completely forgot, so I expect in 2 or 3 months I will get a fine from the AEC ( Australian Electrol Commission) if memory serves it's about $50.
I remember our year 7 teacher taking us in detail through the 21 years of effort and millions of dollars they'd put into planning the Very Fast Train between Melbourne and Sydney up to that point. I'll be 50 next year, and no progress.
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A JAFFLE is more than a toastie. It's sealed around the edges so you can fill it with so many more fillings that don't run out the sides.
It's more like a pie made with bread. Great for cooking over a campfire. Filled with an egg and baked beans, yum.
Is it just me who cracks it when people call a 'JAFFLE' a 'BREVILLE'?😂🤨
Egg, baked beans AND cheese, double yum 😋
@@kevo6190 - and that has to be "no Australian" - well, not a "real one"...
Any Australian who hasn't been camping with jaffles over the morning camp fire - shame... (what has the world become)
@@kadmow mmmmm🤤 campfire JAFFLE 🤘
@@Joanne-t6j leftover Camp oven curried sausages are awesome too
Jaffles were invented to give the middle finger to Coulomb's Law. 20 mins after cooking, with a cold exterior crust, the inside ingredients will melt through granite surfaces. Most Australians speak the way they do due to severe jaffle tongue burns.
Funny mate
Oh yes, I’ve been burned by many a jaffle that I thought had cooled down. They are So Sneaky.
😂😂
I use a sandwich toaster (Sorry!) & open them at the corner to cool down enough to eat. I’m so ashamed…..
@@judithstrachan9399 u lost your Aussie accent, haven't u?
The difference between a jaffle and a sandwich is that the jaffle seals the bread around the edges. A samosa uses pastry but a jaffle uses bread.
also you can make jaffles with ingredients that would spew out the sides of a toasted sandwich, a jaffle iron fuses the top and bottom breads around the edges into one delicious pocket of burn ya mouth outta ya face.
@@TheKanguru I must find mine - it is in one of drawers I think - I hope it is not out in the garage!
- would be interesting using fresh damper dough to make a "pie" in an iron...
The original jaffle is made with a "jaffle iron". A "clam shell hinge design" cooking implement made out of heavy cast iron featuring long handles (to prevent burns from direct flame...gas stove or open fire)-connected to two half shells ("sliced bread size")- designed to copy a pie.The bread slice edges are sealed tight by the pressure of the "half shells" being locked down together tightly. Only 2 slices of bread (buttered on the outside) used rather than using pastry.The ingredients go in between 2 x bread slices which are placed on the each of the locking , 6" circular( or square) half shells .It is flipped over to cook both on sides over a flame not baked or fried. Invented here in the 1940's or 50's it was popularly used when camping.. Memories of childhood!!!! Can you still buy jaffle irons?
Ooooh! And the cheese and baked bean ones you can make on the campfire! Good memories… ❤️🇦🇺👍
I love that the only school lockdown in Australia is due to a roo. That's the kind of freedom the US doesn't have 😂
Yay to us Aussies. We don’t need to worry about guns in schools😊Roos and Emus in some schoolyards in North West Queensland where I grew up are the only hinderance. Just a nuisance really.
When you vote compulsorily in Australia, the compensation is a charity stall selling sausage in bread (+onions, sauce and Mustard), plus yummy baked goods.
If youre lucky. My local schools do nothing.
Until the wowsers step in and stop people selling home baked food.
Who hasn't burnt their mouth on the red hot filling off a jaffle.😂
Like molten lava!😂
Tongues basically regenerate.
I love baked bean jaffles, but rarely have them, because the 15 min wait until you can actually eat them is torture, so I always go in too soon and
No one in the recorded history of jaffle making 😂😂😂
Used to make them, wrap them in alfoil then take them for smoko when rockhounding in Mount Isa in the Winter. Always came out warm and yummy.
Jaffle makers have been around in Australia since 1949. They were created to make toasted sandwiches over a campfire and are a very clever, effective product. They were around long before the toasted sandwich makers of today, so they were called jaffles first! And it's pronounce with a hard A, like apple - jaffle.
I have two jaffle irons and a sandwich maker. The sandwich maker was bought 15 years ago and used once before being shoved in the back of the cupboard. The jaffle irons were part of my "inheritance" and are used at least once a week. BTW jaffle uses a soft "a". A hard "A" would make it sound like Jay-fell. Hmm, I wonder what an apple jaffle would taste like.
@@adriancampbell6924, you’d probably need to either boil the apples first, or use tinned apple, as I do. It makes a great dessert, especially if you use pastry instead of bread (shock, horror! But you can fit in more apple). Lovely with cream &/or ice cream. Even better with the right amount of cinnamon mixed in or sprinkled on.
@@judithstrachan9399 Making pastry is too hard for mere males. I like the cinnamon idea though and if I added sultanas it would then be strudel, an Austrian/Australian dessert.
@@adriancampbell6924 Make? MAKE pastry? Naaah, I use the pre-made & rolled stuff. Cut in quarters it’s just the right size for the sandwich toaster. I don’t much like dried fruits, but that does sound great.
You have to keep in mind is that Australia is an enormous area with a tiny population. Since infrastructure is paid for by taxes we can't match the Japanese level of infrastructure.
Wollongong and Newcastle are really not far from each other so the trains should be a lot faster. The steam trains were faster than the current ones from Newcastle.
Exactly. Australia is 22 times the size of Japan and yet they have nearly five times as many people as we do. With such a small area and so many people paying taxes it would be more amazing if they didn’t have good infrastructure.
Scotch finger biscuits, made by Arnots, are basically just sugar, flour and a little milk baked. Thus they are highly hygroscopic and will quickly absorb moisture if left out and not kept in airtight containers. After about a day in that bowl those biscuits/cookies would be totally stale and unpalatable.
You forgot the butter.
At my place they wouldn’t last a day… a couple of mugs of coffee and a packet of Scotch Fingers is prob equal to an evening snack.
Jaffle is an Australian grilled cheese, it seals the edges of the sandwich keeping the cheese inside at molten lava temperatures to ensure you burn the insides of your mouth when you bite it.
no its not. if you only use it to make grilled cheese thats just your own ignorance around how the product works .
It is not specifically grilled cheese. Originally, leftover savoury mince and stews were the most popular, especially during the 30's great depression.
@@TheKanguru
The joke
🙄
If the insides of your mouth haven't got some amount of 3rd degree burns, you've left it out too long.
@kenchristie9214 the most common type in modern days is cheese (and varieties of), you can add any filling you like, tin spaghetti goes well if you want to relive the memories of your ancestors.
I was simply making the comparison for easier understanding considering in the video he compares it to a grilled cheese
My favourite jaffle is either tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce, or cheese & tomato, both guaranteed to give you 3rd degree burns if you aren’t careful.
Jaffle: “a” sound as in cat
Your pronunciations are hysterical. Wish we could send you sound files.
@@keirrac2 me too!
I'm partial to baked beans.
Braised steak and onions.
There’s nothing quite like a tomato skin blister on the lip from a cheese and tomato jaffle 😖
Scotch finger biscuits, made by Arnott's, must be broken along the line, just like a Kit Kat.
Yes , broken that way was a crime against Scotch fingers.
Sitting here eating them right now.
Japanese has a huge population. Australia is so spread out and fewer people.
Poor Ryan..I can't imagine living in a world without samosas
Azerbaijan borders Iraq, so I'm surprised an American hasn't heard of it. After all, we know wars were invented to teach Americans geography 😉
Yeah, but the only thing Americans learned in those wars was how to lose and kill people.Forget geography.. they’ll
Probably tell,you,it’s a pencil, not a country.
@@johnlaine2654Tell me you know nothing about the first Gulf War without telling me ?
The coalition went in led by the Americans they destroyed the Republican Guard the rest surrendered including to American TV crews, Saddam and his sons were hunted down and killed(Saddam after a trial).
It border Iran, not Iraq
@@jwnomad my mistake. At least I'd heard of it
I live in Victoria; Australia, on the Bellarine Peninsula and the trains and buses operate on a coordinated timetable. I can catch a bus in my street which is always on time, within 5 mins. maximum, and takes me into Geelong where I can catch a train to Melbourne within a few minutes. Love jaffles. Unlike toasted sandwiches, the jaffle iron seals the edges which means you can put any filling in it. Don't use that restaurant if it is demanding a tip. You are only required to pay the advertised price on the menu.
Bro if Australian public transport is a hate crime what is America's an act of terrorism or someone ahahah
Are your trains Vline from the Bellarine to Geelong? How often they run?
@@rapidcougar3785 best comment 🌟
@alphgeek I'm an 1h 20min drive to Melbourne and 1h 32min with public transport to Melbourne
Hah, Even the taxi service shut down here in Blackwater QLD. No Trains, no buses nothing but foot falcon if you don't have a working car. I can still make jaffles though:)
I think part of the reason Japan's public transport infrastructure is better than Australia's is that their population density is 113 x greater than Australia's (339 vs 3 people/km²). That has to make a difference. Personally, I would trade highly efficient public transport for more personal space. Scotch Finger biscuits are like shortbread and are made with a groove lengthways so that you can snap them in half to make two fingers. It is a crime to snap them across the other way. Sausage sizzle has to be on white bread. I agree, needs onions and sauce.
That sort of metric/reasoning only works if you count the empty desert into our population density. Sure Japan's is way higher than ours, but our urban density isn't considerably higher than, for example, the Netherlands (outside of Amsterdam/Rotterdam). Yet they manage to run those services efficiently at a city level.
Our issue is that we build for cars and not people. We spend billions and billions on the least efficient infrastructure ever, and it makes ALL our services more expensive to administer as a result. I pointed to the Netherlands as the example, because they had similar issues around 15-20 yrs ago and managed to turn it around by converting increasingly large amounts of road to low speeds and bicycle/public lanes.
@@smalltime0, Now that our carmakers have basically moved offshore & we don’t have to protect that industry as much, maybe we can become more efficient in transporting people.
A jaffle is not a grilled cheese... Watch out all the Aussies be coming after on this one. I'm a Gen X and jaffles were a food staple lol mostly spaghetti jaffles or savoury mince jaffles or ham cheese and tomato or ham cheese and pineapple.
Jaffles are still a popular snack or camp breakfast.
Anytime snack really.
My fav is spaghetti and cheese jaffles.
I remember when we got our first Breville. In our house "grilled cheese" was done under the grill. Having the Breville changed everything.😂
Local government elections in NSW last weekend. That could what the he was voting for. Agree about the snag. That looked dry as. Needed some tomato sauce and onions.
Wasn't even laced with butter or margarine. A very dry argument there.
It really needs butter
Jaffel makers are the best. Put leftovers in them and it makes a sealed pocket of bread. Sealed taco, seal spag Bol, sealed Vegemite and cheese, just about anything
Arnott's Scotch Finger Biscuits.
The choc topped ones FTW
And Americans root beer
@@nolasyeila6261 Nah, the choc ones are just overkill. The biscuit is heavy enough as it is already.
@@KrenisphiaAgreed. And the chocolate melts when you dip them in your coffee. Plain is perfect. ❤👍🇦🇺
Remember the old joke? ‘And you thought the Irish were dumb’… 😂❤🇦🇺
Jaffles have lines on them to show where to cut, proof that sandwiches are meant to be cut diagonally. 😋
The original jaffle irons came in different shapes and cut lines
My family had the round one so we always had the little triangular bit left over, but the jaffle was UFO shaped.
The Sunday and public holiday surcharge covers the penalty rates for staff on those days, as penalty rates can increase hourly pay rates by more than 50%
Jaffle makers were originally only the hinged sort for putting over a fire. then people started putting them on hobs in the kitchen to make jaffles at home then the electric home ones came along.
jaffles are not the same as a toastie, the bread is sealed around the edge and the texture of the bread and filling (usually cheese, tomato, ham or some variation) and the overall experience is just different
Jaffle rhymes with raffle.
And a samosa is an Indian pastry usually filled with potatoes and veg, and sometimes meat and veg.
Pity anyone who hasn't tasted one.
Scotch finger biscuits and think of a kitkat. Those are broken the wrong way.
You can put anything inside a jaffle. Leftover spaghetti bolognese with Parmesan is a fave.. yum
What's left over spaghetti bolognaise?
@@Nalianna 🤣🤣
We tend to fly between capital cities but you can also catch the train if you just want to relax and take in the scenery. The journey takes 10 hours. High speed rail isn’t a thing in Australia because it’s just faster and more economical to fly. We don’t have the population to make it viable.
Every time they do a feasibility study (about every 10 years or so), the only economically viable route for a high speed train is Sydney to Canberra, and really, what's the point? 😉
@@Merrid67play it
It's always been viable (Brisbane to Melbourne) since first proposed; the reason we don't have it was that some people wanted to protect the jobs in aviation and large road transport because the viable model for the VFT includes passengers and light freight and that would have affected those businesses.
Today airlines can much more easily scale to still be profitable even if they were to lose flights to the fast rail. As Australians are the most highly mobile people on earth, our travelling public is the equivalent of a population double our size elsewhere. The Sydney-Melbourne route is the fifth busiest in the world - just under 10,000,000 seats a year and Sydney (12th) has previously been in the top 10 business airports in the world (currently not fully back to prepandemic levels).
The jaffles at my school tuckshop were either savoury mince or ham/cheese/tomato, they were the best. At home it was usually spaghetti. They’re better than toasties. And yes the person doing that to the scotch finger biscuits needs their citizenship revoked lol
Gosh, spelling errors, foreign countries and Indian foods have all thrown you for a loop today, Ryan! 😂 Google Jaffle maker, the modern descendant of the original Jaffle Iron. Aussies know where Azerbaijan is because we watch the Olympics. A Samosa is a deep fried pastry dough formed into a pyramid shape and stuffed with a filling, often a mixture of diced and cooked or mashed boiled potato, onions, green peas, lentils, ginger, spices and green chili. A samosa can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian, depending on the filling.
When I was a firefighter, jaffles (pronounced to rhyme with apples) were popular for quick meals. We had a competition to see who could make the most disgusting jaffle, but the rules also said you had to eat it all. The winner was a beetroot and jelly bean jaffle. It was a horrible weird sugary mess; and yes he ate it all.
Not real smart in Wollongong.
Instructions said "plant at base of light pole"😂
The difference between a grilled cheese sandwich and a Jaffle is, well, a grilled cheese is a grilled cheese, while a Jaffle is buttered on the outside of the bread slices and filled with anything you want and cooked in that Jaffle Marker which allows for the thickness of the ingredients, and fuses the edges together to stop the contents from running out [hopefully]. I have made many Jaffles using jam [that's jelly to you], baked beans in bbq sauce, or with chicken pate. So in essence a Jaffle can be filled with whatever you can imagine, has butter on the outside to crisp and brown, and hopefully has sealed edges all around.
Those are Arnott's brand Scotch Finger biscuits. Sort of a poor man's shortbread. And that was sacrilege.
Jaffle makers seal the edges. So you can have baked beans or spaghetti in them and it won't leak everywhere
They leak into your mouth when you foolishly decide to bite into them when they're at 250 degrees C(thats 482 degrees Farenheit for our American friend).
For the scotch biscuits, they have a break line in the middle of them, running lengthways through the middle. This persons "friend" broke them in half widthways instead of lengthways.
That person is a sicko
I sometimes do it that way just to see the reaction 😂😂😂
@@stephenkirton9921you’d get great reactions.
Azerbaijan is between Iran and Russia; its capital Baku sits on the Caspian Sea.
Bread in frying pan - fried bread - that's English! Don't really get fried bread in Oz.
I call it a toastie!
The Northern Territory election was last month. The democracy snag needs tomato sauce.
French toast ?😂
I love French toast. But it isn’t the same as a jaffle.
There are many apartment blocks located next to shops and train stations in Australia. Just because you may not live in one is not an indictment on the whole country. If people like that life style they are free to move there. But apartment living has its drawbacks.
Scotch finger biscuits. Need to be kept in an airtight container 😅
Nah you open the packet and eat them all 😂😂😂
@@stephenkirton9921 actually you are correct, I'll edit my comment 🤣🤣
Jaffle, rhymes with baffle.
Dude, you HAVE to go to a camping store, buy a cast iron toastie (syn with jaffle…sort of) maker, go camping, build a small cooking fire, butter (optional)two slices of bread (butter on the outside) place in toastie maker, pour in baked beans, or just about anything, close it up, stick it above the coals….turn……turn…..check……turn…..turn….check, pull out, put on a plate, take a bite,
and burn the F out of your mouth!
Wait….eat…..know.
When you questioned a sausage on white bread I didn't know if you meant about the bread being white, or that bread was being used at all. If it was the second, using bread to hold the sausage makes it more portable as you walk along and has less burned fingers. If it's the first then it's because white bread is more common and people who won't eat brown, rye or seeded bread will probably eat white bread.
As for condiments, mustard, tom sauce and bbq sauce are usually available from a sausage sizzle. Maybe that person likes the pure flavor of the sausage without it being overlaid with a condiment taste.
Don't forget the fried onions.
A jaffal filling is sealed in the bread a bit like a pie. The filling can be things like tinned spaghetti, baked beans or braised steak and onion. Traditionally cooked on an open fire or in a wood stove. It can have cheese in it but usually a more substantial filli g.
My wife and i plan to start a small take-away selling nothing but Jaffles. she's thai, never seen one before, i explained that it's a filling in bread... she asked if we could add cheese (i forgot to tell her).. it's when i knew we'd do it.
She wants to make them with butter chicken (and cheese), thai green curry (and cheese) etc.
I can't wait.
@@Naliannawhere are you? I’d come if you’re close.
@@judithstrachan9399 Darwin right now, but plan to move to Warrnambool (vic) soon.
@@Nalianna Awwww. I’m in Qld. Best of luck with the venture.
@@judithstrachan9399 One day we will
franchise out :)
Jaffles were very popular because the hard edges created a seal on your 'sandwich' Great for stuff like leftover savoury mince, braised steak, or just about anything that wouldn't stay in a sandwich. I used to love using eggs and bacon in them with a little pepper.
Braised steak jaffle mmmmmm😂😂😂😂.
Local government elections were held for most NSW councils. Except the ones where there weren't enough candidates, because the NSW Liberals stuffed up😂
I think this has been mentioned before Ryan, you ain't paying attention! We have weekend, night and public holiday penalty rates for staff, so there's a surcharge at those times. Also why we don't do tips, as a rule. It's par for the course in the US because hospitality workers get paid so little...
Forget cookie. Arnott’s Scotch Finger Biscuits. He’s joking about how he stores them because he intends to eat them. It’s also a pun on Scotch.
Last weekend we had local council elections in NSW. After I walked out of the school gates, I saw the PM get out of his limo to do his duty too.
That democracy sausage in the pic needed tomato sauce and onions.
Japan doesn't have our workers unions! It's also impossible to have high speed trains between say Melbourne/ Sydney/ Brisbane - because there are mountains and different councils, govts, gages in the way! Japanese people also have common social goals and strict personal discipline! I can catch a train or bus every 5 minutes near me! 🤨
Japan also has a lot of social problems that you do not want.
The rail guage is not an issue the network would have to be built from the ground up as the existing lines have too many bends. High speed trains need much straighter lines with gradual curves, can you imagine traveling at 400kmh on the current train tracks.
@@stephenkirton9921 Thanks and no! It's definitely not viable! 😁
Japan has maintains, bigger ones in fact, they also have different "councils" too, called municipalities.
Thank you Ryan for always making me laugh out loud 😂❤ love it every day
Jaffles were first made in1925 and popular during the depression as way to utilise leftovers (namely savoury mince and stew). Also popular with baked beans and spaghetti.
It wasn't until 1949 the jaffle iron was patented. While walking through a shopping centre in 1977, I saw plastered all over a shop window "NEW FROM THE U.S.A. - JAFFLES".
Tell him he’s dreaming!
Scotch Finger biscuits, made by Arnotts. The ones in the bowl are broken in half. Jaffles are the best, we had a jaffle iron when I was a kid and I am OLD. The only way to eat a sausage is in white bread, would be better with fried onions and possibly sauce
Didn't even have a smear of butter or margarine on the bread. Dry argument there.
Agreed in all respects.
Yep. Butter (better than marg) onions (dark, dark brown!), & tomato sauce (or bbq if you insist). Not usually mustard, though it’s getting more common.
Those bikkies are broken THE WRONG WAY!!!!
Waffles are traditionally cooked over a fire and sealed around the edges. They're great food. They're also great for creating blisters inside your mouth. They get super heated and stay that way for a while if they're sealed around the edge of the bread. Which is how they should be
My latest thing to do in these is Hush Browns with Fish Fingers inside, no bread
As a kid a Jaffal was always cooked on an open fire and given our choice we would always have a “ skettie” jaffal. ( canned spaghetti) or baked bean! Yummy, brings back memories.
We only had the long handled round one that sat in the coals.
Japanese trains are always on time. The consequences for the driver is cruel.
Sausage & bread looked underdressed - no sauce, no onions!
In Western Australia a sausage democracy or Bunnings is always served in a bread roll. Sauce & onions added if wanted.
Did you know that the Grand Final public holiday is coming up on Friday 27 September in Victoria? A public holiday for a football match and for a horse race [2nd Tuesday in November]. Name another country that beats that.
Not only are jaffles sealed by the cooking process, but by buttering the OUTSIDE you end up with an extra tasty meal! We often put tinned spaghetti on the inside, or ham and cheese, so it is WAAAAAAY above your toasted cheese sangas lol
This is ridiculous to even ask why. Australia has been around for 100 years. Denmark and Japan have been around for ages. Denmark and Japan combined have the land area of one of the smaller Australian states. Japan and Copanhagens population density (remember that number of people /square mile = amount of government income / square mile) means that services and amenities will be better.
As the number of people spread out over a larger area, the money spent on government infrastructure and services also gets spread thin.
Not 100yrs! did you fail history? The First Fleet arrived in 1788!
Tipping:
Remember, America pays bullshit wages for hospitality, so you’re expected to tip. Australia has good minimum wage(comparatively) tipping is encouraged in big restaurants so 3% on a bill that’s prob triple in price is steep.
NSW council elections were held on Saturday September 14th.
Jaffles are more like home made hot pockets than grilled cheese. The appliance is like a waffle maker that presses down, toasts, and seals the sandwich and cooks the fillings at the same time
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The difference is it cuts the bread in half and seals the edges at though the bread was all one piece to start with and it creates a pocket
Welcome to my city -- pronounced WOOL - un -GONG! Or The Gong. I see the tree up a pole every time I am in the main street's pedestrian-free Mall. There are other tortured trees, some acting as seats by being kept on their sides.
I can tell you why Australia has no high-speed railway. We have a population of around 35 million people in a very large island. Japan's population is around 125 million in a series of quite small islands. There are many people in government and in big business who want to build high speed rail in Australia, but they know that the costs are so high that those companies that want to build them (at government expense) want NOTHING to do with running them. Because they know that as soon as the first train was run the entire system would be bankrupted! I have noticed that many who want these railways in Australia believe that the fares would be like today's railway fares but in fact they would be competing directly with airline fares, as they do in Europe. As it happens, Australia has the world's most efficient and safest airline system and fast railways simply could not compete with our airlines. Much of Australia's railway system was built during the great depression and as a result has begun less than ideally reliable and because of lines constructed using human labour the tracks have been laid on much less than favourable lines. On two occasions Italian tilting trains (Pandolino) have been tried on the line between Sydney and Canberra. These trains were very fast at around 220 km/h, which is not actually regarded as high-speed because to be so defined they need a speed of 250 km/h but no financial justification could be found for operating them.
Australia has only just reached 27 million, not 35 million, in population this last week or so. It just confirms that the infrastructure costs involved in building high speed rail anywhere in Australia remains even more of a "fantasy" rather than a viable financial investment.
@@heatherharvey3129 Yes, I apologise for my silly error. But it does support what I said about a high-speed railway in Australia. Thank you for correcting me.
Jaffle, rhymes with apple. The iron seals the edges so you can overstuff the sandwich, and cut into 2 or fours (depending on the pattern on the iron), without the stuffing falling out from the middle either, because it seals all the edges of the individuals pieces as well.
Ryan, I think you need to do a reverse AMA, where you can review these with a chat going and we Aussies explain what you're seeing, how to pronounce, why it may look like a US thing, but our version is different, etc.
After 40 years of weekly use we purchased a new Breville Jaffle maker, which is not the same as a toasted sandwich maker and is definitely one of our most used appliances beaten only by our Breville “CountryKitchen”! NSW in Oz
Jaffle is a cheese toastie with the sides crimped (Aussies don't just put cheese on them tho)
Scott finger biscuits...someone woke up and chose violence. You break them like a kit-kat
Some local cafes do gratuity only on public holidays
Putting bread in a frying pan is fine for cheese (I actually wouldn't use a jaffle iron for that) but what about an egg jaffle or a baked bean jaffle or a spaghetti bog jaffle. Frypan would be useless in those circumstances.
Because a grilled cheese sandwich is just 2 pieces of bread pressed together and cooked under a hot press. What a Jaffle maker does is it seals the edges while forming it into triangles. It doesn't have to be cheese either, as a child spaghetti jaffles at the tuckshop were a thing (tinned spaghetti, placed onto bread buttered on the outside so it doesn't stick to the jaffle maker, press till toasted, now you ahve a hot spaghetti jaffle) The sealing makes it a different experience to eat. Also enjoyable with cheese and other things, (cheese/vegemite, cheese/ham, cheese pressed chicken meat, cheese/tomato/(ham?)).
For "The Scotch" Those are "Scotch Finger Biscuits". They're designed to be able to be broken lengthwise into "fingers" and dipped in tea/coffee whatever. He's cut then cross-wise instead of snapping them lengthwise.
The "Democracy Sausage" is a "thing". At assorted places things like local youth groups, or scouts associations etc will setup a "sausage sizzle" booth, where you get a sausage on a piece of bread with optional onions/sauce/mustard, for a dollar, or for a "gold coin donation" (1 and 2 dollar coins are gold). It became standard to set one up outside voting booths selling a sausage with some cold drinks for sale as well from the esky. Many folks who lined up would be hungry, or would become peckish after smelling the cooking sausages, and they're cheap. So it became tradition to get your "democracy sausage" when you voted. As for where the voting was, there were local council elections in much of NSW this week.
Wollongong/gong (Wool-long-gong) mentioned ;D
The tree was an art installation, very divisive when it first was put up. Has been lit on fire a couple of times. They are planning to take them down soon.
The train from gong to syd is horribly slow due to turns, and state of the tracks. Currently 1hr - 1hr 30 to Syd CBD normal high speed rail (200k/h-ish) and straight would cut it down to 22min. Will not happen in my lifetime.
Jaffle maker is a toasted sandwich maker. Its was made to enclose the sandwich ingredients in a pocket so it can burn your teeth and tongue right out of your head. Jaffle: pronounced Jaff-el. Other names for this type of sandwich is a Breville, or a toastie.
Here a Snag is a hot dog on a single slice of bread.. can add tomato sauce and onions if you like that. On a Saturday at Bunnings car parks local charities run stalls and you can buy one for $3.50… and they are loaded with onion and sauce unless you say No to them.A snag can also be just a sausage on a plate with the rest of your lunch or dinner.With the bread it becomes it’s own edible plate.Yay for Australia.
Democracy Snag = Sausage Sizzle on bread most people can eat, no nuts, seeds, etc. (usually has gluten)
Can add sauce, grilled onions.
Oh wow now I want a jaffle! 😋 such a cosy thing for a weekend!
Other than cheese, jaffles fillings can be baked beans, can spaghetti, egg or other savoury items. The original jaffles iron is put into the coals of a camp fire.
Scotch Finger biscuits (from Arnotts) should not be cut in half (like the ones int he pic).
My jaffle maker bit the dust earlier this year, after doing toasted sandwiches on frying pan a couple of times, I couldn’t wait any longer to go to Kmart and get a new jaffle maker. There’s no comparison, And Ryan you surprise me, an American who doesn’t know geography outside of the USA, who would have thought??? 🤣
Surcharges reflect the higher loading on wages for work performed on Sundays and Public Holidays.
Since the employer must pay the higher hourly rate, the customer’s meal cost includes extra to cover for it.
Otherwise, the employer will not open their business on Sundays or on Public Holidays. So customers would miss out.
Reality check: Japan has millions of workers paying tax and relatively small landmass that has been occupied for thousands of years by intelligent innovative problem solvers, not Stone Age culture followed by 236 years of transplanted culture.
Give Oz time and money and we will catch up.
You will find high speed rail is harder in Aus due to wildlife. But heat is an issue, distances and rail gauges.
... and politican hesitation & stalling. Sydney is to have a second airport. I lived in Sydney in 1984/1985. The second airport was being discussed and "planned" way back then! 40! 😮 years ago!!
I forgot about the gauge drama. It certainly causes problems as do the other thing's you described but also we don't have the people needed to make it worthwhile.
@@mika72.-Bois I had friends whose house was bought back then for the airport. Crazy that it's taken so long!
@@infin8ee there is also the issue that Qld is the only state that owns its rail network. All the others are run by private companies which would also be at play
@@infin8ee but high speed rail at least to far north Queensland would be amazing for tourism and the local economies. Making it an inland rail following the highways would reduce cost of land, obstacles in general, and help dying communities grow again. There could be rail connections back to the cities.
Mate, Wollongong is actually pronounced : Wool-ongoing. It’s an Aussie thing. About an hour south of Sydney. It’s a bit hard to build a fast train from Sydney to Wollongong as it’s at the bottom of a big Cliff ( I guess you would call it a small mountain in the US.)..also the rail line meanders through Sydney’s southern suburbs so there’s not much space for another set of rail lines. Would be bloody expensive and the population just isn’t there to support the massive cost of construction.Even a fast train from Sydney to Melbourne is a dream invented by many Federal Governments.
THANK YOU - always a pleasure.
jaffles don't have to just be cheese, in my primary school, they would put heinz spaghetti in them
No. We are going into Spring (mid September). The Vernal Equinox occurs around September 22 or 23 in the Southern Hemisphere. Authorities call the first day of September the first day of Spring but nature is on its own timetable.
Summer starts mid December with the Summer Solstice, 20, 21, 22 or 23 December.
Again, authorities call the first day of December the first day of Summer, but nature does its own thing anyway.
You will notice that the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere is just before Christmas. That’s when the summer weather hits.
I will never tip but I have no problem paying an extra 10% on Sundays so the staff can get their Sunday wage rate.
There really should be a better train connection between Campbelltown (south west Sydney and Wollongong - pronounced Wool-long-gong, its nickname is "the Gong") it is about a 50-60 min drive but about 2.5 hours on the train because you have to head towards Sydney city (the domestic airport train station) before you can head to Wollongong
Fastest way my mate lived in "The Gong" and worked with me at Minnow(Minto) is to change at Wolli Creek go to Hurstville then catch the train for "The Gong" from there.
Jaffles have closed edges and usually filled with things like baked beans or tinned spaghetti, toasties are open on the edges and done in a pan, there is a difference between the two and a toastie cannot have baked beans or tinned spaghetti in them
Jaff elle irons were originally created for camping and to use on an open fire, they have been around for well over 50 years, before sandwich makers were invented. 😊
I live in Central Queensland. Rail infrastructure is dedicated to shipping coal out. Once a week a passenger train comes through at 8am and another at 5am heading west. The reverse train arrives at 9:30pm the next day. Absolutely useless for the workers that currently drive in or fly in to work at the local mines. Just adds to fatalities on the road when those same workers finish the 12 hour days and 7 day shifts and jump in their cars to race home.
Hi there. A commercial biscuit Scotch Fingers, have a crease baked down the middle to make it easier to break into fingers possibly to make in convenient to dunk in your tea. Breaking the biscuit across, who does that?
The way you prononce Wollongong made me chuckle 😁 Wool-un-gong
50 cents a train/bus ride here in Australia. That's right people 50 cents.!! I traveled for an hour and it cost 50 cents!!
Where do you live?
@@bundy10409 Queensland....the "Sunshine State".
Free train's all weekend.
@@rebeccatracey9066 I was born in Brissie. I live in Melbourne and it's $2.65 for a concession for 2 hours. $5.30 for full fare.
Well there is currently an election going on in Queensland. Perhaps $0.50 cent train/bus trips just a desperate political gimmick. Then again I could just be cynical.
I've taken the Geelong to Melbourne & vice versa train around 1,000 times. Rarely was it more than a few minutes late. Only a few times there were significant delays. I've also taken the Shanghai subways a similar amount of times. Both reliable. Shanghai trains more frequent due to populace / rate of use.
Ah that was funny pronunciation of the the Victorian towns. 😂
We are on day 21 of Spring.
Bring on Summer.
Summer’s already here! Feels like it, anyway.
Japan population 125 million, Australia 28 million. Area of Japan 378,000km2 area of just NSW 801,150km2 easier to do when population justifies it - just give it a decade with Albo and we will have 100 million here too!
N.S.W. local council elections were on the 14 September, I knew about it for 2 months, marked it on the calendar... And completely forgot, so I expect in 2 or 3 months I will get a fine from the AEC ( Australian Electrol Commission) if memory serves it's about $50.
I remember our year 7 teacher taking us in detail through the 21 years of effort and millions of dollars they'd put into planning the Very Fast Train between Melbourne and Sydney up to that point. I'll be 50 next year, and no progress.
Enjoy Autumn. Try not to fall.