Just a reminder that Jonathan Creek is back on iPlayer. Miracle in Crooked Lane (S3E5) has sploshing as a pretty major subplot (albeit as a bit of a joke) and the final scene is a lady in a bath of porridge.
PS: I wrote this while watching the episode. At one point, Maddie reads an actual copy of Splosh magazine. Well, I assume it's an actual copy.
PPS: The porridge is really badly made. Like they filled a bath with lukewarm water, tipped the oats in then filmed it. Disappointing. I like my porridge filled baths to be full of actual porridge. I thought that they over-estimated how many boxes of porridge oats they would need, but having worked through it they have about the right amount TBH.
A bath, according to my quick google search, holds approximately 180l up to the overflow. Taking myself as an average woman (I'm not, I realise, but I'm 5'9 and about 70kg so probably not atypical for a model #humblebrag). A further google shows that a human has a density of 985 kg.m^(-3), so I will displace around 70l (hey, I'm already rounding my weight down by a few kg), and I wouldn't want to clog up the overflow; so let's say that we need 100l of porridge.
According to some further googling and a touch of mathematics, you need approximately 136g of oats per litre of porridge. Obviously, when making porridge for sploshing, you don't need it to be edible so you can probably be a little short, perhaps 100g per litre. So you need probably 10kg of oats to fill a bath with porridge. A typical box of porridge oats is 1kg, so you need about 10. They had 11 boxes of porridge oats.
At today's prices, you can get cheap oats for £1.50 per kilo (from Tesco), so you could totally make a porridge bath for £15, and having realised how cheap that is, I definitely want to try it now. Anyone got a spare bath?
We use porridge a lot these days and mix it with gunge, paint and all sorts. A little goes a long way.
Porridge oats expand quite a lot so if you put them in boiling water and leave them to soak for 12 hours or so you can dilute them up to 50% without thinning the mixture.
Oh wow, that takes me back. I have slightly awkward memories of watching this with my parents (I'd have been 18) and hoping I wasn't blushing too visibly!
Tilly said: PS: I wrote this while watching the episode. At one point, Maddie reads an actual copy of Splosh magazine. Well, I assume it's an actual copy.
PPS: The porridge is really badly made. Like they filled a bath with lukewarm water, tipped the oats in then filmed it. Disappointing. I like my porridge filled baths to be full of actual porridge. I thought that they over-estimated how many boxes of porridge oats they would need, but having worked through it they have about the right amount TBH.
A bath, according to my quick google search, holds approximately 180l up to the overflow. Taking myself as an average woman (I'm not, I realise, but I'm 5'9 and about 70kg so probably not atypical for a model #humblebrag). A further google shows that a human has a density of 985 kg.m^(-3), so I will displace around 70l (hey, I'm already rounding my weight down by a few kg), and I wouldn't want to clog up the overflow; so let's say that we need 100l of porridge.
According to some further googling and a touch of mathematics, you need approximately 136g of oats per litre of porridge. Obviously, when making porridge for sploshing, you don't need it to be edible so you can probably be a little short, perhaps 100g per litre. So you need probably 10kg of oats to fill a bath with porridge. A typical box of porridge oats is 1kg, so you need about 10. They had 11 boxes of porridge oats.
At today's prices, you can get cheap oats for £1.50 per kilo (from Tesco), so you could totally make a porridge bath for £15, and having realised how cheap that is, I definitely want to try it now. Anyone got a spare bath?
This is the most precise splashing I've ever seen!
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