List of Acronyms / Abbreviations

[brazen20au]

Please feel free to post with suggestions or questions to add to this list  if something in regiional please tell us where from!


If I think of any others that we have abbreviated I will add them of add below if you think of them  

ATM - at the moment
BH&G - Better Homes & Gardens (tv show / magazine)
DD - dear daughter
DH - dear husband (sometimes d*ckhead when husband has been silly )
DM - direct message i have never heard this one before myself lol
DS - dear son
EDC - Everyday Cookbook (the book that comes with your machine in Australia)
EVOO - Extra Virgin Olive Oil
FFS - For Food's Sake
FLCT - Feeling like crap today LOL
FSA = Full Steam Ahead
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IYKWIM - If you know what I mean
LMAO - laugh my a$$ off
LOL - laughing out loud
MC - Measuring Cup (the one that comes with the thermomix)
MOTM = Meat on the Menu
MWOC = My way of Cooking
PM - private message
QFITT = Quick Fix in the Thermomix
SA - can be South Australia OR South Africa (so please make it clear )
THX - thermomix
TMX - thermomix
TMXFM = Thermomix Forum
TTS = Time + Temperature + Speed
TWT = Travelling WIth Thermomix


  the wheat or knead setting (is that what's called???! LOL)
  reverse setting
  closed lid, or sometimes used for bowl ie: place the ingredients in the  
  speed soft (or it had another name, can anyone remember it?)

[Thermomixer]

Thanks brazen - a useful site is http://www.acronymfinder.com/

[Shayla]

Thanks Karen - got it figured now!
Shayla

[CreamPuff63]

Made up a newie

TMXFM = Thermomix Forum

[Thermomixer]

LOL - thought that was a new digital radio station!

[CreamPuff63]

Thought sometimes we may need to ask a question to all out there or refer to the forum 

[Thermomixer]

Do you guys have MIX FM ??  Maybe just a mainland radio station - that was the reason i thought that we have MIX FM and TM(i)X FM. 

[Shayla]

Someone asked again about EVOO - must put that on the list too please.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil - how can you really have extra virgin or less than virgin

[faffa_70]

LOL now that you ask Shayla I don't know  one of those silly things isn't it

[Thermomixer]

There is virgin olive oil - which has more acidity than extra virgin oil.

Will find some info.

From wikipedia:

Retail grades in IOOC member nations

In countries which adhere to the standards of the IOOC[19] the labels in stores show an oil's grade. The US is not a member.

    * Extra-virgin olive oil comes from virgin oil production only, contains no more than 0.8% acidity, and is judged to have a superior taste. Extra Virgin olive oil accounts for less than 10% of oil in many producing countries. Used on salads, added at the table to soups and stews and for dipping.
    * Virgin olive oil comes from virgin oil production only, has an acidity less than 2%, and is judged to have a good taste.
    * Pure olive oil. Oils labeled as Pure olive oil or Olive oil are usually a blend of refined and virgin production oil.
    * Olive oil is a blend of virgin and refined production oil, of no more than 1.5% acidity. It commonly lacks a strong flavor.
    * Olive-pomace oil is refined pomace olive production oil possibly blended with some virgin production oil. It is fit for consumption, but may not be described simply as olive oil. Olive-pomace oil is rarely sold at retail; it is often used for certain kinds of cooking in restaurants.
    * Lampante oil is olive oil not suitable as food; lampante comes from olive oil's long-standing use in oil-burning lamps. Lampante oil is mostly used in the industrial market.
    * Refined olive oil is the olive oil obtained from virgin olive oils by refining methods which do not lead to alterations in the initial glyceridic structure. It has a free acidity, expressed as oleic acid, of not more than 0.3 grams per 100 grams (0.3%) and its other characteristics correspond to those fixed for this category in this standard. This is obtained by refining virgin olive oils which have a high acidity level and/or organoleptic defects which are eliminated after refining. Over 50% of the oil produced in the Mediterranean area is of such poor quality that it must be refined to produce an edible product. Note that no solvents have been used to extract the oil but it has been refined with the use of charcoal and other chemical and physical filters. An obsolete equivalent is "pure olive oil"

[Shayla]

I was actually being tongue in cheek about the extra virgin - a virgin is a virgin is a virgin?? Pure is pure and there is no such thing as extra pure

[faffa_70]

FLCT - feeling like crap today  yes that is exactly how I feel today lol - rotten cold and even my BH&G Lemon drink isn't making me feel any better   

[CreamPuff63]

Hang in there and soldier on faffa. (what I really wanted to say, I edited out) Love the acronym and can say  I FLCT too and I need to re-think my work schedule to find some balance in my life.

[judydawn]

Hope all you people that FLCT soon feel better - life is so much more fun if you are well 

[Thermomixer]

I FLCT 2