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EatSmart Precision Pro – Multifunction Digital Kitchen Scale w/ Extra Large LCD and 11 Lb. Capacity The EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale is a versatile multifunction home appliance. Designed to be highly accurate and aesthetically pleasing, the Precision Pro is manufactured to the highest quality specifications. Weigh items up to 11 lbs quickly and accurately, with results displayed in four different units: grams / ounces / pounds / kilograms. For cooks – Weigh food items directly on… |
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OXO SteeL Garlic Press, Stainless $18.33 Pick up this garlic press and you’ll instantly recognize its superior quality—it’s heavy and solid, yet beautifully balanced. An elegant combination of zinc and stainless steel with black cushioning insets on the handles add up to a work of art. Several cloves of garlic can be pressed at once; then, swing the handle around on the smooth-as-butter hinge and forty durable plastic teeth push out… |
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Victorinox 47513 6-Inch Flex Boning Knife with Fibrox Handle $16.80 Nothing is worse than going to cut with your cutlery, and having the handle slip around in your hand. To combat this potential for injury, Victorinox has created this Fibrox boning knife. The Fibrox® handle is textured and provides a firm grip, even when wet, and does not slip or slide around. It is comfortable and fits naturally to the shape of your hand, and provides an attractive and modern st… |
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Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home $17.96 Ina Garten’s much loved cookbooks, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Barefoot Contessa Parties!, and Barefoot Contessa Family Style, offer relaxed yet stylish dishes that don’t tax the cook. Her food works wonderfully for entertaining but shouldn’t be limited to such times. Barefoot in Paris finds Garten (almost inevitably) in France, “translating” native dishes for the American home cook. The resul… |
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Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen $9.02 “I think cooking is a lot of fun and I hate to see people not having fun doing it just because they don’t have the right tools–which is not to say they need the prettiest, best, most expensive tools. They just need the tools that are right for them.” Such is the organizing principle of Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen by the selfsame Alton Brown, star of Food Network’s Good Eats as well as awa… |
Tips for cooking with a small oven?
I have just started learning how to cook the past couple of months and really enjoy it, but there’s still a lot of things for me to learn.
I recently moved and my new apartment has a smaller oven than I’m used to. It is 20 inches wide with four 7 inch ranges on top. I have a large skillet and a regular size cast iron grill that are practically useless because they are unbalanced because there’s a wall on the left and a raised counter on the right side. I don’t have anything smaller and I’m getting frustrated.
How do I deal with my current cookware? Or should I get some new, smaller cookware? If so, what type of cookware (ie: size, type)? What would be your recommendation?
ok.. first, smaller appliances is a must!!! you can get a Teflon or Tefal (maybe 20 cm diameter? – dno in inch~!!!)but teflon is really versatile and non stick. Find one that’s not too heavy or too light. Too heavy = makes you lazy to cook. Too light = you know it’s just a piece of plastic coated in ‘something’.
Many people say that teflon is carcinogenic. It’s a lie. It’s only carcinogenic if you accidentally scrap the non-stick black stuffs while cooking. So use wooden spoon to stir stuff in your teflon instead of metal one.
Get a small pot for stews and soups, with the lid. it dont matter which brand but try to buy one with rubber or plastic handle instead of the metal handle (HOT unless ure a chef like me who HAS to deal with it !!). Stainless Steel is a must. I don’t use much aluminium ones, when you drop them, they change shape (lol!).
Bakeware: if you like to bake chicken etc, small oven tends to burn the outside n leaves the inside raw. so always wrap meat w aluminium foil, cook for 45-50 mins n 5-10 mins take off the foil to get crispy skin. Remember is not just about your cookware but your trick to deal with smaller oven.
My sister bought a set of cookwares (15-20 pieces of pans etc?) from Costco for about $150ish, and I actually tried them out – NOT BAD AT ALL! so please don’t spend money on too high end cooking stuffs!
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