/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5107256]

does /ck/ have any experience with george forman grills?

i just got one NIB from the thrift store for $6

gimme some ideas, you pudgy bastards

[Anonymous No.5107258]

[Anonymous No.5107268]

Burgers

[Anonymous No.5107271]

It's a decent sandwich press. That's it.

[Anonymous No.5107272]

>>5107256
great for chicken

[Anonymous No.5107275]

>>5107256
>season chicken breast
>place on grill
>eat

>put cheese in between two pieces of bread
>place on grill
>eat

>make a pb&j
>place on grill
>eat

I owned a GF for years and that was literally the three things I did with it (I did use it almost daily though)

[Anonymous No.5107279]

>>5107256
its a dumb thing designed to drain all the fat (read flavor) out of things. cook a burger on it and it will turn out dry

decent sandwich press, but thats it

no way to control the temp either

[Anonymous No.5107284]

>>5107279
That's why it's not bad for chicken breasts. No fat to begin with. Still better done yourself in a pan for a cheap college appliance it got the job done

[Anonymous No.5107291]

tuna melt (chicken melt, whatever melt)
need: bread, sliced cheese, mayo and (cooked) meat.
mix the meat with the mayo
put 1 piece of cheese on 1 piece of bread
then put meat/mayo mixture on bread with cheese on it, put another piece of cheese on that
put the other slice of bread on that
then spread a lil mayo on the top slice of bread
turn on the frying pan
quickly flip over the sandwich to the side with mayo on it on the pan
then while the mayo'd side is cooking add mayo to the dry side, watch so it doesnt burn and the cheese starts to melt
then flip and watch and wait
when its cooked to your satisfaction remove it and cut in half
recommended with pickles and potato wedges

[Anonymous No.5107292]

>>5107275
>I owned a GF for years and that was literally the three things I did with it (I did use it almost daily though)
>I owned a GF

You dont own GF, GF owns you

[Anonymous No.5107296]

>>5107291
>fish + cheese
costanza.jpg

[Anonymous No.5107317]

>>5107292
>You dont own GF, GF owns you

>tfw

[Anonymous No.5107326]

>>5107279
actually, that button on the right is the temp control. button on the left is timer.

its not just an on and off type thing

[Bound2 No.5107332]

Someone gifted me one of the first ones with no temp control or on/off switch. Even though I see a spark every time I unplug it, it's very useful.
I've made
cookies
frozen pancakes
burgers
kebabs
veggies
sandviches

Good Lord, man just do whatever you want.
It's a beautiful thing

[Anonymous No.5107333]

>>5107326
>its not just an on and off type thing

Most of the originals were. You would plug it in. A light would turn on. When the light turned off that meant it was pre-heated. You'd put whatever in, the light would turn back on. When it went off again typically whatever you had put in was done (not always)

[op here No.5107340]

>>5107333
yeah, i have an old ass sandwich maker like that. the kind that splits the sandwich into 2 triangles

[Anonymous No.5107341]

>>5107268
THIS FUCKIN' GUY

[Anonymous No.5107343]

>>5107275
omg you can't own your girlfriend that's awful

[op here No.5107363]

just dug through the freezer/fridge

i have bacon, eggs, pepper jack, some frozen burgers, jalapenos and for bread i have one bagel and half a loaf of rye

i think its burger time

[Anonymous No.5109383]

I used mine almost continuously to make pork chops. If your deli has standardized its meat thicknesses, you can experiment a bit and figure out the exact amount of time it needs to stay on the grill. Thing seemed to be very consistent. I would cook the same chops for the exact same amount of time and they would always come out exactly fuckin delicious.

Agreed, I wouldn't cook a hamburger on it. Hamburgers are delicate and anyone who smooshes their burger down with a spatula for god know what reason is a faggot that doesn't know what they're doing. There is zero point to that, unless you like dry burgers. The GF grill is like one long continuous press of the spatula. Stick with chops/cuts/sandwiches hotdoge, sausages, and maybe some onions.

[Anonymous No.5109389]

I make burgers on it all the time, after marinating the meat and they never come out dry. also make chicken on it and fish. I love it

[Anonymous No.5109396]

I use mine just for steak

[Anonymous No.5109399]

>>5107363
Cook the burgers in the bath with the gf balanced on the side.

[Anonymous No.5109430]

It cooks bacon pretty reliably.

[Anonymous No.5109435]

>>5109389
>burgers
>marinating

[Anonymous No.5109439]

>>5107256

It's only good for making paninis! Anything else - and it sucks the juices right out!

It's designed like that, though. George was a boxer and people like that fucking eat like 3 pounds of lean tuna and a 12 pack of raw eggs before working out.

He designed the grill to take all the fat (flavor) out of food so what's left over is lean mussle-building protein.

It makes burgers dry as turkey...

But you can make some nice toasty sandwiches on it.

[Anonymous No.5109440]

I always want to use mine as a panini press but I don't eat bread anymore really and when I do I forget that I have a George Forman grill. If you try it let me know how it works out.

[Anonymous No.5109447]

>>5109435

marinated burgers are delicious. If you don't have super fresh and good beef, they are better then non-marinated.

They taste a little different though. Kind of meatloafish.

I dunno im lying i never had a marinated burger. sounds good though.

[Anonymous No.5109454]

>>5107363

Dude.. make the frozen burger on a cast iron skillet. Trust. Throw in the jalapenyo in there too so it gets grilled.

But you can probably make the bacon on the george forman grill and save all that delicious bacon fat. That's probably somethign it can do real well.