/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10257917]

Do you have current-gen high tech kitchen gadgets?

[Anonymous No.10257928]

>>10257917
I have a knife with a dull point so I can't stand any bloke.

[Anonymous No.10257942]

>>10257917
It's not high tech but I have one of those air fryers. I very rarely use it.

[Anonymous No.10257967]

>>10257942
I had never heard of this, and don't get the point. Is it meant to reproduce deep fried foods, but without submerging in oil? Does it pull it off?

[Anonymous No.10257978]

I got one of these now

[Anonymous No.10257987]

>>10257978
My mother bought one of these and it is honestly incredible. The next microwave as far as I'm concerned

[Anonymous No.10257991]

>>10257978
you can make wine in those

[Anonymous No.10257997]

>>10257978
>>10257987
>>10257991
A generic crockpot slowcooker?

[Anonymous No.10258000]

>>10257967
It's supposed to replicate the deep fryer. But in my experience it only is really good for cooking things that arent normally deep fried. It's basically a tiny convection oven. I've used it to cook some things but it's more of a novelty than anything. Anything cooked in there for the most part can be cooked better and easier another way.

[Anonymous No.10258003]

Used to use one of those vintage wooden/metal handle coffee-grinders with the little collection drawer. Grinding time 2+ minutes and a sore arm.

Then jerryrigged the grindshaft to connect with a cordless drill. Was loud but funny as fuck to watch. Grinding time <1min.

Flatmate then got an electric coffeegrinder...well "blender" essentially, which is loud but grinds a load in under 15 seconds.

[Anonymous No.10258004]

>>10257997
Instapot. My mother has one. I think it's more versatile than a normal slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.10258013]

>>10258004
I have a slow cooker, and I've used it maybe 5 times. Biggest waste of money, and now, of space. Even just making rice is faster and easier on the stove top hotplate.
Give me some advice on how to make it work for me.

[Anonymous No.10258014]

>>10257997
It is a pressure cooker with a bunch of other settings including slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.10258019]

>>10257997
Generic pressure cooker. Big difference.

[Anonymous No.10258020]

>>10258013
Slow cookers are for slow cooked meals while you are gone for the day.

[Anonymous No.10258023]

>>10258013
Cook and prepare in parallel. Its not the device that takes too long, but your objectivity in the process which perceives everythibg as taking too long.

Cook and prepare in parallel. The slowcooker is meant to take over a portion of work leaving you to prepare other stuff.

[Anonymous No.10258026]

>>10258013
You can make a pretty good pulled pork if you don't have a smoker.

[Anonymous No.10258030]

>>10258020
So setting it up at 8:00 in the morning, and coming to a meal at 19:00 in the evening?
Seems dodgy, a mini oven working in my empty apartment on its own. Also won't the electricity bill go up? Won't bacteria love the warm but not too hot environment rich in food sitting out there all day? Won't the meal itself collapse into porridge if its soaked in hot water for so long?

One of the few meals I made had chicken breast fillet wrapped around some vegetable paste, and the thread I used to tie it actually dissolved and it all became sludge. My rice and potatoes also melted into a goo after left in "waiting" mode for about 10 hours.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, give advice. I want to make this $50 purchase work, it hurts seeing it abandoned in my kitchen for a year.

[Anonymous No.10258047]

>>10257917
I've got a Nutri Ninja. Mostly for frozen fruit smoothies, the reduced cleanup for bullet type blenders is convenient.

[Anonymous No.10258048]

>>10258030
>Seems dodgy, a mini oven working in my empty apartment on its own.
It doesn't get that hot to begin with, you don't need to crank it up to max heat, and lots of them come with automatic shutoff/"keep warm" features.

>Also won't the electricity bill go up?
Probably a little bit, but not by much, see above.

>Won't bacteria love the warm but not too hot environment rich in food sitting out there all day?
Apparently not. Lots of traditional stews and things are cooked/braised over low heat for hours and hours, if that reassures you.

>Won't the meal itself collapse into porridge if its soaked in hot water for so long?
This can be a real issue, yes. Personally, I find that the best way to use a slow cooker is to make a big batch of stewed/braised chicken or beef about once a week and portion it out with whatever vegetables and whatever starches for meals over the course of the week.

[Anonymous No.10258051]

>>10257917
Didn't someone figure out you can just squeeze those bags with you hands and almost as much juice comes out as when you use the press?

[Anonymous No.10258057]

>>10258004
Post her feet.

[Anonymous No.10258078]

>>10258051
The machine supposedly scans the package to give you recipes, expiry dates, etc stuff like that.
I think they meant for people to order juice packs, bring them to the cafe, have them Juicero'd and prepared there by the staff, so you can have your juice in Starbucks.

[Anonymous No.10258098]

>>10258030
Most of them are automatic now. They cut themselves off when it's done.

[Anonymous No.10258158]

[Anonymous No.10258163]

[Anonymous No.10258183]

>>10258163
>Mark of the Tide Pod

[Anonymous No.10258251]

>>10258158
what exactly is that thing supposedly detecting?

[Anonymous No.10258267]

>>10257978
I'm hesitating to get this for its pressure cooker function and to replace my old cheapo rice cooker.
How does it compare to a stovetop pressure cooker? Also does it cook decent rice?
I don't care much for slow cooker functions.

[Anonymous No.10258292]

>>10258047
I went with this bad boy

[Anonymous No.10258297]

>>10258292

Ninjas are such garbage. Should have got a vitamix.

[Anonymous No.10258298]

>>10258163
>actually buying a $170 notepad

[Anonymous No.10258299]

>>10258251
Tomatoness.

[Anonymous No.10258338]

>>10258251
one model detects radiation... the other does phosphates or some shit

[Anonymous No.10258352]

>>10257978
I just got one too, it's actually great

Not the second coming of Christ as some bloggers make it out to be, but if you want to cook a big hunk of meat fast you can't go wrong

[Anonymous No.10258365]

>>10257967
It's a con. It's really just a poor quality convection oven aka a fan assisted oven.

It bakes food, it doesn't fry it.

[Anonymous No.10258372]

>>10258292
Sorry to tell you this OP but it's rubbish. Vitamix or Breville Boss.

[Anonymous No.10258396]

>>10258292
Not to add to the chorus but you should have bought a fucking vitamix.

[Anonymous No.10258508]

>>10258251
harmful substances, duh

[Anonymous No.10258511]

>>10258163
you could get this on your phone for free, or like $2 if you want all the voice recognition bullshit

[Anonymous No.10258520]

>>10257967
No such thing as frying in air. Its just a fucking oven with a fan in it. You can get the same thing by putting it in the toaster oven

[Anonymous No.10258522]

I got one of these. Works well but holy fuck is it annoying to get the bowl to lock in place.

Mostly use it as a pasta maker to be honest

[Anonymous No.10258746]

>>10258365
>>10258520
Whats the point then? I don't get it at all.

Also, somewhat related video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wthCn0u3M4A

[Anonymous No.10258824]

>>10258338
>a geiger counter for fucking food
fucking what

[Anonymous No.10258829]

>>10258396
Read the customer reviews on the cup blender accessories for the Vitamix.

Excellent blender, shitty cup blender.

[Anonymous No.10258841]

>>10258297
>>10258372
>>10258396
>nah bruv your $50 blender is shit, lemme shill you this $400 blender with diminishing returns

[Anonymous No.10258875]

>>10258051
>Didn't someone figure out you can just squeeze those bags with you hands
Yup.
That product is among the most over-engineered, ridiculous pieces of shit ever marketed, and morons STILL bought the damn thing.

[Anonymous No.10258921]

>>10258522
>Works well but holy fuck is it annoying to get the bowl to lock in place.

You're a woman, aren't you? Only people I've met who have trouble with these are girls. Here's how a man does it:

1. Hook one pin on
2. Press the bowl stud in the back under the spring
3. Push in and hook the other pin on

You're not supposed to hook both pins and then push down on the spring.

[Anonymous No.10258929]

This count?

[Anonymous No.10258931]

>>10258841
>diminishing returns

[Anonymous No.10258960]

>>10258163
I want this

[chop No.10258981]

>>10258931
Assuming he's talking about increase in quality vs. increase in price the use of the term seems acceptable to me.

[Anonymous No.10258984]

>>10258960
Protip: The expert installation is worth it.

[Anonymous No.10258988]

>>10258981
>chop

[Anonymous No.10259013]

>>10258824

Because

[Anonymous No.10259069]

>>10258929
Konichiwa, Ken-Sama.

[Anonymous No.10259105]

>>10259069

Ohayo, anon-kun.

[Anonymous No.10259131]

>>10258931
Vitamix motors burn out from basic half loads of stuff
>but you can heat up soup in it
If i want lukewarm puree or soup I can do that on the stovetop not the blender, Ninjas don;t burn out pureeing parsnips and need to sit in the freezer for ten minutes while my parsnips sit in the temperature danger zone because the blender motor is designed to go fast instead of having any durability.
Vitamix blenders are useful don't get me wrong but for the high as cost they should be a better value and while the motors run faster than any other blender on the market they run too hot and need resting between tasks which is bullshit you don't need to blend things that fast if it cost you time letting the motor cool down. Ninja is a good value that it does what you need it to do without fucking up too much for the price but it isn't the best around either just the second best known brand.

[Anonymous No.10259137]

>>10258981
Why are you tripfagging right now? For what purpose? N

[Anonymous No.10259145]

>>10259069
Have a little respect for the dead.

[Anonymous No.10259281]

>>10258921
>mansplaining

[Anonymous No.10259292]

>>10259281
You don't have to congratulate him, it's our duty as men to educate retarded women.
>Men teach women
>Women teach the children
This is how society works.

[Anonymous No.10259389]

>>10258875
The guy who made it is a big proponent of “raw water” now.

[Anonymous No.10259409]

>>10259389
>“raw water”

[Anonymous No.10259470]

One of the best investments ever.

[Anonymous No.10259510]

>>10259470

A client of mine has one of those. She spends mountains of money on totally useless shit every day so I kinda tuned her out when she was telling me about it.

What exactly does it do? Some kind of refrigerated blender?

[Anonymous No.10259529]

>>10259510
So a pacojet?

[Anonymous No.10259580]

>>10257991
you can make wine in an empty soda bottle

[Anonymous No.10259595]

>>10259131
what are you, kenny loggins?

[Anonymous No.10259615]

>>10257917
a microwave?

[Anonymous No.10259617]

I own a bit of weird shit for the kitchen.
Pizzazz pizza oven
>God's gift to frozen pizza
>give pizza pockets great texture
>stick lunchmeat on one slice of bread, cheese on the other, and get warm cheese and warm meat on toast for sandwiches in 5 minutes
>sucks ass making fries and tater tots
>makes great cookies but you have to watch them like a hawk.
Induction Cooktop (Rosewill)
>Can't use it with 90% of my cookware
>but holy shit does it work great with the stuff it can use
>huge cast iron pans and pots will heat up really fast
>will burn the non-stick coating off ultra thin shit tier cookware in seconds. Literally seconds.
>I use it with a massive 14" lodge wok, it's an amazing combo
>avoid using it for anything greasy since there usually isn't ventilation above it like a normal stove top
>great alternative to a hot plate and easier to clean
Ninja Blender
>motor is a separate assembly you put on top of the container
>blends stuff really well
>but good luck finding a happy medium between "kinda blended" and "puree / powder"
George Foreman grill
>angled surface means fat drips off and collects away from food as advertised
>but I can't keep if from burning the hell out of everything and making meat dry as fuck
George Foreman rotisserie
>Similar problem as the grill
>but not as bad
>when done right makes amazing chicken
>pain in the ass to clean

[Anonymous No.10259831]

no

[Anonymous No.10259848]

yes

[Anonymous No.10260019]

>>10258520
I know this is a matter of semantics, as frying is a defined cooking method, but you can bake bacon in the oven or even the microwave and it basically fries itself.

[Anonymous No.10260034]

>>10257978
My mom got one. She made some beef stew in it and it was amazing. Softest and juiciest meat I'd ever had.

[Anonymous No.10260041]

>>10257917
>open juicer door
>take packet out
>wring it out by hand into glass
D E V I L I S H
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[Anonymous No.10261763]

>>10260041
Thats illegal.

[Anonymous No.10261793]

>>10260041
>drink it directly from the packet

[Anonymous No.10262043]

>>10259389
Does that mean untreated full of disease water?

[Anonymous No.10262085]

>>10258338
that's not what a geiger counter looks like

[Anonymous No.10262524]

>>10259409
>not activating your almonds in raw water

baka

[Anonymous No.10262529]

>>10262043
No, it means natural water free from tge poisons the government put in:

fluoride
antibiotics
phytoestrogens
radon

[Anonymous No.10262547]

>>10262529
>waaah why does the government purify water waaaah i want to go back to dysentery and cholera days waaaah

[Anonymous No.10262559]

>>10262524
>activating your almonds

[Anonymous No.10262560]

>>10257917
>adult capri sun
>sells an expensive machine to go with it too instead of just selling juice boxes
who buys this

[Anonymous No.10262888]

>>10259292

People forget that being an elementary school teacher at the turn of the century was like being a maid or a nanny. Something poor unskilled women with no other options did. They were barely paid for it and definitely not appreciated.

It's only recently that parents have given up raising their own kids and teachers are suddenly important.

[Anonymous No.10262896]

>>10262560
Capri Sun packs are juice with additives.
Juicero packs are pulp without additives.

[Anonymous No.10262907]

>>10259281
Okay, someone help me with this. I'm just old enough I missed out on going to a liberal arts college with today's (((students))).

Did they really make up a negative word for when a man explains something, and the person listening is a Stronge Empowered Womyn who's sure she knows fucking everything already?

[Anonymous No.10262911]

>>10257928
OI! BIN IT!

[Anonymous No.10262914]

>>10259470

Please tell me your blender doesn't have a touchscreen.

[Anonymous No.10262921]

>>10262911
;_;

[Anonymous No.10262940]

>>10262914
>his blender doesn't use an iPad
Lmaoing at your life poorfag

[Anonymous No.10263005]

>>10262907
Yes, where the fuck have you been? That shit's been all over the internet for like 5 years now.

[Anonymous No.10263009]

>>10262888
I didn't say anything about those welfare leaches, fuck teachers.

[Anonymous No.10263061]

>>10259580

[Anonymous No.10263071]

>>10263009
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.10263086]

>>10262907
Mansplaining is for when a man excuses misogyny. You know, "I don't hate women, but..." type statements. Then ironic use, and retards use, of the already dubious phrase turned it into a joke.

[Anonymous No.10263111]

>>10263071
Fuck a child, you drain on society.

[Anonymous No.10263117]

>>10258047
yeah, i've had a bullet for going on 4 years, and it's the best kitchen tool i've ever bought. i use it every day and the fucker hasn't even thought about cutting out on me.

[Anonymous No.10263128]

>>10263086
>being this wrong
Mansplaining is the word women use when a man explains something to them that they didn't know but is blatantly obvious and deducible using common sense. They feel stupid afterwards so instead they become hostile and defensive about it and that's when they drop that buzzword. What you're thinking of is a "microaggression," another bullshit word.

[Anonymous No.10263134]

>>10263111
Nice trips but you're still a dumbass. Seems like you had some shitty teachers.

[Anonymous No.10263175]

>>10259145
did he commit sudoku? haha

[Anonymous No.10263207]

>>10263128
>calling others wrong, when you are part of the troglodytes that misused the word

The words meant a man explaining/rationalizing discrimination of women, justifying it, mentioning historical or cultural reasons, or biological facts, etc.
Then special snowflakes of both sides of the barricade started misusing it, either to make outrageous claims or to bait and pretend to be retarded.
And then actual retards like you started believing the former, and the word unofficially switched meaning to the one you morons decided it needs.

I hope you realize that you are doing the same thing that was done to "literally".

[Anonymous No.10263230]

>>10263134
No I had some decent teachers, but you all bitch about being overpaid for a part time position, kys kiddie diddler.

[Anonymous No.10263322]

>>10263230
>overpaid
Ahah yeah sure, 5+ years uni + 2 years basically unpaid for a job that doesn't even pay that well without real chances to move up.
>part time
Heh sure thing kiddo, you go ahead and try a single week, it's usually more than 70 hours.

[Anonymous No.10263458]

>>10263322
I used to teach, dipshit. It's a part time job, and if you did 5 years at university, you are as dumb as you come across.

[Anonymous No.10263468]

>>10258988
Based slowjack poster

[Anonymous No.10263471]

>>10263458
Ah wait I forgot about the murrican system. Nevermind, yet another utterly fucked aspect.

[Anonymous No.10263586]

>>10259389
He drinks untreated sewage?

[Anonymous No.10263745]

>>10263207
Would you please Google mansplaining and tell me why not a single fucking result supports your claim, yet they all support mine?

[Anonymous No.10263860]

>>10259510
It can blend, stir, heat up things (you can do sous vide cooking in it), scale and other different stuff I'm too lazy to write here. Only issue is it costs 1200€

[Anonymous No.10263871]

>>10258841
I had a ninja and the cup thing broke because it clips in with plastic. You use the setting where the blender starts and stops and starts... auto IQ or whatever, and the force of it quickly stopping and starting is enough to wear away at the plastic mechanism holding the cup in place. It broke after like 60 days. Refunded it and bought a vitamix. Yeah I know... muh cup. It still makes a better product. If I really wanted to I could just put it in a cup. But I just drink from the blender idc.