Specialty Kitchen Appliances

Jack Lalanne Juicer

admin — Fri, 20 May 2005 06:26:27 +0000

Small Specialty Kitchen Appliances - As Seen On Tv

There are many small kitchen appliances to help create delicious meals, snacks, and desserts in the kitchen. We see many of these handy items advertised on television on commercials and infomercials.

A few that come to mind are the Ultimate Chopper, George Foreman Grill, Ronco Rotisserie Grill, Jack LaLanne Juicer, GT Express 101, and the Pasta Express. Watching the infomercials on these As Seen On TV Products makes your mouth water watching the awesome foods they create.

The Ultimate Chopper is a compact food processor that slices dices and chops. What can you do with the Ultimate Chopper? Puree carrots to make your own baby food. Pulverize peanuts into creamy homemade peanut butter. Grate hard cheese, chop onions and other vegetables for salads. Grind your own meats. Turn regular table sugar into powered sugar. Create quick snacks like salsa and other dips. Crush ice. With the blender attachment you can create exotic drinks and smoothies. These are just a few things you can do with the ultimate chopper.

The George Foreman Grill is an awesome product for making quick meals. It is reasonable priced and helps to remove fat when grilling. It is great for cooking bacon, hot dogs, hamburgers and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Here is an easy grilled chicken breast recipe. Marinate skinless, boneless chicken breast in italian dressing for at least 3 hours preferably over night. Grill on the George Foreman Grill for 4 to 5 minutes. The color of cooked chicken is not a sign of its safety to eat. Use a food thermometer to determine that chicken has reached a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F throughout.

The Ronco Rotisserie Grill is great for cooking beef, chicken and pork roasts. It is known for the slogans "set it and forget it".

With the Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer you can create very tasty healthy juices. What will be your favorite grapefruit delight, kiwi surprise, papaya magic or the very simple orange juice?

The GT Express 101 can cook meals in just 7 minutes. The GT Xpress 101 has non stick cooking chambers both top and bottom so no need for turning. Cool meals, snacks, desserts and delicious low carb food in less time.

The Pasta Express is a very basic kitchen tool for making boiled hot dogs and pasta dishes. It can also be used for storage.

These products make our lives simpler in the kitchen and can be just plain fun to use. What will be the next new kitchen appliance we will see advertised on an infomercial?

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TK Healey chief editor for SurfTilYouDrop® a consumer based website focusing on As Seen On TV Products. Check out the http://www.surftilyoudrop.com/uchopper.htm for creating great snacks and dips in the kitchen.

Have you ever used a Jack Lalanne Power Juicer?

I got one for Christmas last year and it's still in the box - I'm not really big on juice but figured it may be time to check it out. Anyone like theirs and have creative uses for it?

I have a Jack Lalanne Power Juicer as well. I use it on occasion but it mostly collects dust. The reason is that I prefer to eat the whole fruit or vegetable, I don't like to clean the machine and I have a small kitchen with limited counter space for a big item like the juicer. My children are grown and gone so I am not trying to sneak fruits and vegetables into them with healthy juice. Also I don't like the clean up afterwards when I could eat a whole carrot or two and have no mess to clean up.

I think I would use it more if I could make enough juice for a couple days at one shot and keep it in the refrigerator. This would seem more efficient and one cleaning of the juicer for several days would work better. I just hate to have to clean the whole machine for two glasses of juice, one for me and one for my husband. When I tried to make more juice and store it, it just wasn't very good the next day and I am sure much of the nutrient value was lost.

If you have several people in your house hold and getting kids to eat veggies is difficult then it can be a great thing. If it is just for yourself, unless you are adverse to eating vegetables and fruits raw in salad or as snacks, I think the juicer is not really efficient.

Just my two cents...

Jack LaLanne Power Juicer

George Foreman Grill

admin — Thu, 19 May 2005 08:44:39 +0000

Each Steak-Lovers’ Awesome Friend, The George Foreman Steak Grill

It can be very fulfilling for your stomach to consume steaks daily but undoubtedly, you'll discover that your cholesterol amount is flying in the charts upon going to your physician for your full body health check and it's likewise really pricey. Furthermore, you would also require to expend on medications for your recent health issues given rise by the steaks that you've eaten every day, besides your steak expenditures. Steaks are really delicious and are ordinarily kept for particular functions or gatherings which are rarely consumed because they aren't stable for your health. Fortuitously though, the George Foreman Steak Grill is one product that stands out from the other portable grillers that fix nutritious steaks.

Promoted to prepare safer steaks, this George grill is a good deal greater compared to a charcoal griller or other portable electric grillers. Only observe the operating instructions that came with it and you're secure to go, this griller is very simple to employ. You can also create grilled chicken, lamb, fish or even vegetables and these foods will for certain taste greater and be safer because they will possess lesser fat and grease in them while retaining all the juices and nutrients in the foods. You can likewise prepare steaks faster with this grill, with dual grilling plates, your food will fix equally on both surfaces simultaneously and in only minutes, your steaks will be completed. You don't need to concern about burning your steaks nothing like in charcoal cooking because you hold control of the cooking temperature so you can tell when it's completed. Simply rub it away with a new, damp cloth, the cooking surfaces are quite simple to clean with its nonstick application and it's fit for a new employment although, so as not to hurt yourself, keep in mind not to put water on any component of the machine as it is electric.

With the hearty, tasty and quick steaks that it can create, the George Foreman Steak Grill is really each steak-fans' best friend. A word of forethought though, even if the steaks hold fewer oil, never consume too many of them as they are nevertheless terrible for your health.

You can find more information about electric grills at http://georgeforemansteakgrill.info/george-foreman-steak-grill-loving-steaks/, where you can read about George Foreman Grill Steak.

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Andre writes articles on different fields of interest.

Can you put battered chicken on a george foreman grill?

i want to make snitzels and i dip them in egg and flour a few times, but i was wondering if i could cook them on the george foreman grill, (just the kind u plug in) or would the batter burn and stick too much?
will the batter just roll off or stick the the top when i open it?

Easy George Foreman Grill Recipes : Cooking Filet Mignon On The George Foreman Grill

Indoor Grill

admin — Wed, 18 May 2005 05:39:10 +0000

How To Grill A Steak Indoors

Have you ever wanted to bite into a fresh grilled steak only to look out of the window and see two feet of snow on top of the barbeque grill? Well just because you can’t get into the backyard without a snowsuit and a pair of galoshes doesn’t mean you can’t grill up a steak in the dead of winter.

In fact, you can cook up a steak that tastes exactly like it came off the grill right in your kitchen. Your first thought may be that cooking a steak on the stove doesn’t taste anything like a steak off the grill – and you’d be 100 percent right. The trick to getting that fresh-off-the-grill taste in your kitchen is to use one of the most underused household appliances around: the broiler.

The broiler: your kitchen’s secret weapon

Most people just associate the broiler with keeping food warm, but it can actually be used to recreate the effects of a gas or charcoal grill almost exactly. Two of the biggest highlights of a fresh grilled steak are the crispy charring and juicy carmelization.

On a stove or in a frying pan, those are simply impossible to recreate, but a broiler can replicate them so close that you might not even be able to tell the difference.

Cooking on a broiler can be difficult to master, but there a few tricks that can make getting the hang of it easier than lighting a charcoal grill. And let's not forget, grilling All-American. Summer is MADE for grilling. And winter can be made for indoor grilling.

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i am having a problem with my indoor grill pan? serious answers please.?

we bought a indoor grill pan and have used it twice the problem is my grill is smoking up the house something fierce and i have treated it with oil and everything. Is this normal and what can i do to prevent the smoking or there not much to do?

If it is cast iron, treating it with oil is a good idea. If not, the oil isn't necessary until you are cooking something. Try lowering the temperature on the stove-top. Another reason for smoking...check the bottom of the pan to see if any grease or food debris is leftover. That could definitely cause smoking and flare-ups. Also, check the burners for greasy residue and food debris. Make sure those are clean as well. If you continue to have problems after everything is cleaned and lowering the temp doesn't work, contact the manufacturer of the pan. The info should be on the packaging or check the internet if the packaging has been thrown away. Any remaining problems could be the result of a poorly made or faulty piece of equipment (i.e. a teflon pan may have a problem with the coating). Try lowering the temp and checking the bottom of the pan and the burners first, then contact the manufacturer if nothing else helps. Good luck!

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Kitchenaid Food Processor

admin — Tue, 17 May 2005 03:30:08 +0000

Are you a Gourmet?

What exactly does it mean to be a gourmet? Does watching public television cooking shows on Saturday morning while folding the laundry count? How about being fascinated with Julia Child and having all of her cookbooks on your Amazon wish list? Knowing what zest, garam marsala and charcuterie mean, does this qualify you as being a gourmet? Where did the term come from and what exactly does it mean?

A gourmet is someone with a discriminating palate who is savvy when it comes to fine food and drink. The word comes from the French word groumet which defines a person in charge of the wines at a meal. While this definition is a start, most people think they have a discriminating palate, but discriminating between a Big Mac and a Whopper probably doesn't count. What exactly are gourmets discriminating about? Who decides what is and isn't gourmet? From my research, I have come up with three things that qualify a person to call themselves a gourmet. While not an exhaustive list, qualifying in each of these three categories is a good indication that you can call yourself a gourmet.

If you still don't own a blender because you are saving up for a Waring or refuse to brown your bagels in anything other than a Dualit toaster, you are good in the first category of gourmet, knowing your equipment. Note that I don't say you need to own this equipment to be a gourmet, just know what it is and have a sincere desire to own it all someday, like when you win the lottery and can actually afford it. A few of the necessities in a gourmet kitchen include a Cuisinart food processor, Emilie Henry bakers, All-Clad pots and pans, Viking range, SubZero built in refrigerator, Kitchenaid mixer, Espressione espresso machine, Wusthof knives, and a Polder thermometer and timer. You will also need to include fine china, silver cutlery and beautiful table linens. Doing some calculations from the Williams Sonoma site (which should be one of your favorite places to shop), a fully equipped gourmet kitchen including service for 8 would come to over $25,000.00 This figure doesn't even start to cover the many food items you should have.

That brings us to our next category, food. Do you know terms such as foie gras, sevruga, gravlax, fleur de sel, truffles (not the chocolate kind) and herbes de provence? Have you ever eaten any of them? If you can answer yes to most of these, you are a definite gourmet. A good gourmet kitchen will be stocked with the finest wines, caviars, cheeses, produce, meats, breads and pastries. It will also have multitudes of herbs and spices as well as liqueurs and natural extracts. Hundreds of volumes of cookbooks are also a necessity and must include authors such as Jacques Pepin, Simone Beck, James Beard and of course, Julia.

The last area that defines a gourmet is drive. This means wanting to constantly learn more about fine foods and wines. Taking vacations to France and Italy are a start as well as visiting wineries, fish markets and farmers markets everywhere you go. Food should be an obsession, not just a past time. Magazines such as Saveur, Cuisine, Cook's Illustrated, Fine Cooking, Gourmet and Bon Appetit should dot the landscape of your home. You should also have a strong desire to take cooking classes and cooking vacations and your ultimate dream would be to one day attend "Le Cordon Bleu" cooking school in Paris. Yes, knowing French is a strong plus.

If you can say you qualify in even two of these categories, I would say you are a budding gourmet. Three would mean you are definitely a gourmet. Now that you have qualified yourself as such, don't hesitate to share it with others. Remember, however, that they may want you to actually cook something for them since they assume all gourmets can cook. This, however, was not one of the qualifying factors, so don't feel pressured if actually using your gourmet items scares you. Instead invite them to a gourmet restaurant and correct their pronunciations of items on the menu. Knowing the equipment, understanding the names and tastes of the foods and having the desire to cook someday is all you need to be a gourmet. Besides, who has time to cook when you are so busy learning to be a gourmet?

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About the Author:
Emma Snow is a gourmet and freelance writer. Writing for Gourmet Living http://www.gourmet-living.com and BBQ Shop http://www.bbq-shop.net .

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