Archive for the 'Appliances' Category
Hard Boiled eggs are not only a great snack and side dish on their own, they are also useful in many recipes. I was recently asked, “can you hard boil eggs in the microwave?”. I honestly didn’t think it was possible to do this.
August 6th, 2008 | Posted in Appliances, Food Prep, From The Cook, Odds & Ends, Recipies | Comments Off
Some of the traffic that comes to Tinfoil Chef is from search engines. What I find interesting is looking at the search terms that they used because it’s interesting to see what kind of search terms are returning results for Tinfoil Chef. Among the more interesting ones recently was two recent visitors came here from google after using ‘cooking with tinfoil in microwave’ as their search terms.
July 18th, 2008 | Posted in Appliances, From The Cook, Odds & Ends, Quick Tips, kitchen talk | Comments Off
Welcome back!Something that you don’t see in many kitchens these days is the classic waffle iron… I’m not talking about a little bitty modern plastic thing that makes waffles for a while and then falls apart because of how cheap it’s made. I am referring to those great big heavy monsters that felt like [...]
February 29th, 2008 | Posted in Appliances, Breakfast, kitchen talk | Comments Off
From the subject of this one you’d think I was talking about an exhaust fan that doesn’t wear out however the real issue is the fact that nothings getting exhausted at all. You know the setup… a hood over a stove top that has a fan built into it. The big problem that [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Appliances, kitchen talk | Comments Off
The reason I use the microwave oven is not just because it’s fast, although that’s a good one. It’s also because when cooking in the microwave there is a lot less grease involved. What grease there is can usually be minimized. For example with bacon, you can cook it on paper towels [...]
February 14th, 2008 | Posted in Appliances, Odds & Ends, Quick Tips | Comments Off