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Kitchen gadgets for cooking

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zbluebirdz

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I've been using a microwave to cook most of my meals and am looking to get another kitchen gadget for cooking - getting a bit tired of tasting microwaved food (not the ready meals kind) ... I do have an oven, but the grill unit has an unhealthy love affair with the smoke alarm ...

Main criteria for the cooking gadget: quick to start / get going, quick to clean, doesn't take ages to cook something, doesn't take a rocket scientist to use it ...

What do you use for grilling and/or griddling meat, fish, eggs and vegetables?

Are the "# in 1" slow / quick cooker gadgets good as well?

Any other gadgets that might be useful in cooking food?

NB: no preparation gadgets, please.
 
I Love a slow cooker - bung it on first thing on low, ready for tea - tender meat even from very cheap cuts, no need for oil, I've had ours for over 30 years and still drag it out at least twice a week. Ours is big enough for a whole chicken and they literally fall apart when they are cooked.
 
Halogen for me too. Use it to cook fish portions with baby tomatoes etc. round the edge and best thing to toast Lidl rolls evenly.
 
I have loads, but had this towards the end of last year. I love it.: http://instantpot.com/

It is essentially an electric pressure cooker (I had never used one before - they terrified me, even though my OH loves the stove top version), a slow cooker, rice cooker, soup maker, yoghurt maker and has various preset programmes for stews and other things.

I can do chicken portions, from frozen (literally directly from the freezer) in 15 minutes, defrosted chicken portions in 8 minutes, or a whole frozen chicken in 30 minutes (depending on size). I can do a rack of ribs, to falling off the bone tender in under 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes under the grill to finish the encrusted (low carb) sauce. Bone broth from stock bones/chicken carcass is fantastic in a fraction of the time.

It's such a versaitle thing and I once it has cooked long enough (set by you, like a microwave), it goes onto a keep warm function until you're ready to eat. You can also defer the start for a number of hours, then again, it will keep warm.

Have a look a the video on the IP site. It's not a cheap thing, but I'm sure I can be rid of several gizmos that I rarely use these days.
 
AndBreathe said:
It is essentially an electric pressure cooker (I had never used one before - they terrified me, even though my OH loves the stove top version),
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There was a news item on the tv news the other night, someone ended up with first degrees burns to his stomach and arms using one of those when it blew up. I will not mention the brand name that caused it, but it was not the one you have.
 
@zbluebirdz Lakeland have 20% off Remoskas at the moment.

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/brands/re...moska&ef_id=U29CxgAABVy9bY3A:20170430071058:s

My own favourite gadget is my slow cooker. If I'm slow cooking the next day I simply chop the veg for it the night before, while I'm making supper for that night anyway, then I bung the ingredients in at breakfast time next day and eat it at supper time! I don't precook any of it. Veg, meat, stock cube, whatever, all goes in raw and comes out scrummy.

I do stews, bolognese, chilli, cottage pie mix, whole chickens, joints of pork. We're a household of two so the freezer is always full of goodies - the slow cooker makes 6-8 portions.

:)
 
We brought a remoska for our campavan when on electric hook up but it has never left the kitchen. Absolute life saver when the oven was on the blink last year.
 
We bought a Lakeland remoska when we had our kitchen done. Great for chicken joints and chops. It comes with a recipe book for other ideas.
 
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