Random Food Questions Thread

[Rambo]

Doesn't anybody just grill any more?

 

[impolyt_one]

grillinfool does

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by Rambo

Doesn't anybody just grill any more?
Thats's barbaric! Seriously, i would if i had a nice coal grill but im in an apartment.

 

[braised]

Originally Posted by Manton

(echo)

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by Rambo

Doesn't anybody just grill any more?

[sigh] me. i keep looking at those things and remembering the early days of the microwave (yes, i'm that old). if they get it down to where the whole package is $250 to $300, maybe I'll consider.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by foodguy

[sigh] me. i keep looking at those things and remembering the early days of the microwave (yes, i'm that old). if they get it down to where the whole package is $250 to $300, maybe I'll consider.

Or build your own. I'd build you one if you pay for the materials, only $75 total. I owe ya one from the books anyway.

 

[otc]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Probably some of both.

But the real things are pretty inexpensive, around ~$100, I wouldn't take the chance.

kwilk: 1 me: 0

bought a thift store sealer for $5 yesterday, bought a roll of bags from target, get it home...and it doesn't work. It has suction on the accessory line...so I will try to fix it. It is an off-brand though...I will try again if I see a real used foodsaver...but after that I am going to have to pay closer to retail price.

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Or build your own. I'd build you one if you pay for the materials, only $75 total. I owe ya one from the books anyway.

did you use the 3xnorpro heaters? With the likelyhood of at least one of them failing eventually, I am thinking about finding a better heating element (and I will rig it with the controls in a separate box with outlets so I can also use it if I want to build a DIY smoker).

 

[SField]

I think the price of the machines will drop significantly over the next year or so.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by otc

did you use the 3xnorpro heaters? With the likelyhood of at least one of them failing eventually, I am thinking about finding a better heating element (and I will rig it with the controls in a separate box with outlets so I can also use it if I want to build a DIY smoker).

I am so incredibly technically uninclined, that this is like reading German to me. I just bought everything it told me to and did exactly what it told me to. I'm still not certain how it works. But it does. Hopefully it doesn't kill me someday. But if it does, I suppose there are worse ways to go.

 

[gomestar]

I put one on my registry less for the novelty and more because I can't have a grill, I don't like to pan sear in the apartment too often, my oven sucks for temperature consistency, and my stove is 24" so space is limited. I figure it'll give me a broader scope of cooking methods I could use, and as Matt pointed out to me a while ago, something that gets consistent results and is good for entertaining.

 

[SField]

O believe me, sous vide is THE way to cook if you live in an apartment. Unless you live in a pretty high end place, you are not going to have good ventilation. Cooking on high direct heat in an apartment sucks. All of your **** smells for days. I think with the cooking boom, sous vide is going to become popular among younger people purely for that reason.

 

[gomestar]

^^

right. I do have ok ventilation (better than a lot though far from high end), but I still don't like to use the stove for high heat stuff with guests around. Or even without guests but I still do. That one time I experimented with grilled sardines?? Not so good.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by SField

O believe me, sous vide is THE way to cook if you live in an apartment. Unless you live in a pretty high end place, you are not going to have good ventilation. Cooking on high direct heat in an apartment sucks. All of your **** smells for days. I think with the cooking boom, sous vide is going to become popular among younger people purely for that reason.

i spent more on my hood vent than i did on my stove. makes all the difference in teh world.

 

[otc]

Originally Posted by SField

O believe me, sous vide is THE way to cook if you live in an apartment. Unless you live in a pretty high end place, you are not going to have good ventilation. Cooking on high direct heat in an apartment sucks. All of your **** smells for days. I think with the cooking boom, sous vide is going to become popular among younger people purely for that reason.

This is exactly why I want it although I hadn't quite formed it into such a succinct opinion.

Even pan frying a chicken breast has a pretty big effect in my apartment. It is not large and is basically an open plan. With no hood to vent outside, the smells make it throughout everything except the bathroom and bedroom (which have real doorways located far from the kitchen).

If it were an old-style chicago 2-3br apartment layout (with all rooms coming off one long hall and the kitchen at the far end), this wouldn't be an issue but depending what I cook...it sucks to not have exhaust (at least the layer of oil that coats the top of cupboards between cleanings seems to confine itself to the kitchen).

 

[Manton]

My hood sucks, or rather doesn't, and it was expensive. I want a new one.