Lesley wrote: > Does anyone here use the above or have any experience of them? > We're considering getting one as our oven is really too big for the > two of us
> Lesley
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
Never heard of them! They must call them something else, here in the U.S.A. (Was it Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw who described England and America as "two countries divided by a common tongue"?)
> Lesley wrote: >> Does anyone here use the above or have any experience of them? >> We're considering getting one as our oven is really too big for the >> two of us
>> Lesley
>> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
> Never heard of them! They must call them something else, here in the > U.S.A. (Was it Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw who described England > and America as "two countries divided by a common tongue"?)
Is the magazine "Consumers Report" available to you? It is a good guide to purchasing products. If not, perhaps you could find its report on Google. MLB
> Does anyone here use the above or have any experience of them? > We're considering getting one as our oven is really too big for the > two of us
The ad didn't work for me, but I'm assuming its based on infrared technology. Whilst I've never used one for cooking food, I have lots of experience with one in an industrial setting.
Yes, its true that it will heat up things very quickly. Its also true that it will take less energy than a convection oven.
But I can imagine[1] that since it works in a similar way to microwaves (using particular wavelengths to excite molecules and therefore making them heat up) that the food would come out cooked much the way a microwave does - that is, cooked but with no browning and little opportunity for flavours to blend. I'd also hazard guess that much like a microwave, you'd still run the risk of having it overcooked onthe outside and still icey cold onthe inside.
Yowie [1] I could be horribly wrong, too -- If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.
> > Does anyone here use the above or have any experience of them? > > We're considering getting one as our oven is really too big for the > > two of us
> The ad didn't work for me, but I'm assuming its based on infrared > technology. Whilst I've never used one for cooking food, I have lots of > experience with one in an industrial setting.
> Yes, its true that it will heat up things very quickly. Its also true that > it will take less energy than a convection oven.
> But I can imagine[1] that since it works in a similar way to microwaves > (using particular wavelengths to excite molecules and therefore making > them > heat up) that the food would come out cooked much the way a microwave > does - > that is, cooked but with no browning and little opportunity for flavours > to > blend. I'd also hazard guess that much like a microwave, you'd still run > the risk of having it overcooked onthe outside and still icey cold onthe > inside.
> Yowie > [1] I could be horribly wrong, too > -- > If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many > pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.
I agree with what Jo posted. I, too, stay up really late and see people dragging delicious looking food out of these hunks of plastic that cost about a hundred bucks here. You can do all kinds of tricks in tv commercials, LOL. Outside of that, I was thinking ihe thing would make a great little litterbox (no spillage) if there was a bottom to put litter in (but then there's the hundred bucks). There are all kinds of hysterically funny ads on late night tv Like Yowie, I take them pulling out perfectly grilled steaks from this item with a big grain of salt..... Let the buyer beware.
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Along the lines of taking these commercials with a grain of salt...My sister once bought a flat griddle of some sort. She said the ad showed that it would immediately melt an ice cube without any preheating. She found that it worked perfectly to melt the ice cube, but did nothing for frozen meat or veggies!!
> Does anyone here use the above or have any experience of them? > We're considering getting one as our oven is really too big for the > two of us
Well, I've seen them but I don't want yet another appliance sitting on my worktop. I have a full-sized oven with hob and I don't find it too big for me but I like to cook. I think what you might be saying is that you don't and if so I would just use the microwave without spending 200 on a halogen oven.
<t...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > I think what you might be saying is that you don't
I like cooking when I have time to do it properly like at weekends but our cooker is too big for day to day use it takes ages to pre-heat and that adds to the electric bill also the halogen oven stands on the worktop Dave can use it. He can't bend down enough to get trays etc in and out of the oven without there being a possibility he could fall over or drop things so it would be better for him to use- he's the better cook out of the pair of us!
and if so I would just
> use the microwave without spending 200 on a halogen oven.
We weren't going to go for the 200 models- you can get them much cheaper than that and the cheaper ones perform just as well in tests. The microwave is fine for some things but it doesn't brown things
Lesley wrote: > On Nov 18, 8:52 am, "Christina Websell" > <t...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I think what you might be saying is that you don't
> I like cooking when I have time to do it properly like at weekends but > our cooker is too big for day to day use it takes ages to pre-heat and > that adds to the electric bill
I very much regret agreeing to an electric oven when I had a new kitchen. I hate it. I had a gas one before which was much better.
also the halogen oven stands on the
> worktop Dave can use it. He can't bend down enough to get trays etc > in and out of the oven without there being a possibility he could fall > over or drop things so it would be better for him to use- he's the > better cook out of the pair of us!
> <t...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I think what you might be saying is that you don't
> I like cooking when I have time to do it properly like at weekends > but > our cooker is too big for day to day use it takes ages to pre-heat > and > that adds to the electric bill also the halogen oven stands on the > worktop Dave can use it. He can't bend down enough to get trays > etc > in and out of the oven without there being a possibility he could > fall > over or drop things so it would be better for him to use- he's the > better cook out of the pair of us!
> and if so I would just
> > use the microwave without spending 200 on a halogen oven.
> We weren't going to go for the 200 models- you can get them much > cheaper than that and the cheaper ones perform just as well in > tests. > The microwave is fine for some things but it doesn't brown things
> Lesley
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
You are not kidding....if "crispy" is what you want, forget the nuking machine, LOL. I nuke many, many things that ordinarily folks use other countertop or freestanding kitchen appliances for....but have to abandon my usual standby, the microwave, for browning. Luckily, about the only time this issue looms its self is the holiday Thanksgiving with all that oven roasting, etc. To each their own....for what they need in food prep. ******************* I really get the use out of the microwave on Thanksgiving as a way of bringing everything back up to serving temperature at the same time. I don't know how my mother managed to get everything on the table, hot at the same time. But she did.
Now I say something in the store a few days ago that looked a little strange to me. It was a fat free turkey deep fryer. I didn't check out the price. To busy thinking of what are they going to dream up to misrepresent something for marketing purposes next.
It was an infrared cooker, but designed so you can drop the turkey into it from the top so you will 'feel' like you are deep frying it.
<t...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > It might work for you then.
We'll probably give it a try especially for Dave during the week- I take sandwiches or eat out I don't like to eat after the early evening and certainly not something heavy because I can't sleep if I do so if I eat when I get home after work then it'll be something like rice cakes or cheese and crackers but Dave has to eat something when he gets up and I'm away and since he can't use the oven safely it tends to be soup or a ready meal so I figure with the halogen oven he might be able to do something a little more satisfying
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