Kitchen Appliances

Why You Should Buy a Meat Slicer

With meat slicers costing a hundred dollars or more you may need some justification for buying one at the moment, but actually you can easily gain back the cost of your meat slicer within a very short time, especially if you buy an effective yet cheap meat slicer like the one below. A meat slicer saves you money in a number of ways.

Slice Your own Meat

Of course, you want a home meat slicer to slice meat but perhaps you don’t appreciate quite how much you could save by doing so. Just compare the price of a joint of beef you cook and slice yourself with one that the store has pre-sliced. It is a huge gap. If you buy an electric meat slicer like the fantastic low cost Chef’s Choice meat slicer that you will see below, the job can be done in no time and you will have perfect slices as quick as a flash and at a fraction of the price.

Buy Meat on Sale

Whereas sliced meat has to be used when it is fresh for best results, you can buy joints of meat when they are reduced and freeze them for later cooking to turn into your own cold cuts.

Chefs Choice 610 Premium Electric Food Slicer
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Slice Only What you Need

Once you open a packet of sliced meat, it has to be used pretty quickly otherwise it dries out. If you have a whole joint you only need to slice a few slices at a time, keeping your slices fresher and less food gets thrown away and wasted.

Apart from the financial advantages there are other reasons why you might buy a meat slicer

No additives

If you slice your own meat, you get only meat in your salads and sandwiches. If you buy cold cuts from the store, you get all kinds of sugars and preservatives which do you no good at all. And presumably you don’t pump your joints of meat full of water to make them weigh more…

Control the Quality

When buying your own joints of meat, you control the quality of what you buy, how much lean meat or fat there is and the cut of meat you choose. There is so much more choice and as you are paying less you can go for a more premium cut if you like.

Trying New Meats

Once you have your new meat food slicer you can buy all sorts of delicatessen type sausages and new meats and use them in sandwiches and charcuterie platters without being charged an arm and a leg for a few slices.

Which Electric Crepe Maker? One Easy Answer

CucinaPro 1448 12 Inch Griddle & Crepe Maker (Click Image for Details)

If you just want to know which electric crepe maker to buy, see the image below for our recommendation. If you want to know why we recommend it so strongly, read on

There are two types of electric crepe maker. There is the type which looks like a concave skillet or frying pan and the type which is more like a round griddle with an element underneath.

Dip, Flip and Cook Style

With the type which is like an upside-down frying pan, you switch it on to heat up the “pan” and then dip it into a shallow bowl of

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Perfect Crepes without a Crepes Maker

Anyone can make perfect crepes if they have a crepes maker but not all of us have the funds for such a kitchen appliance (or the space to store yet another gadget). If you were a chef, you would also have a special large diameter crepe pan for the task, which was kept only for crepes, but that takes up space too and needs a spreading tool to make sure the batter reaches the sides and you end up with a smooth circular shape. So we are going to make do with a decent skillet that you can use for

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The Best Crepe Maker

VillaWare V5225 Crepe Maker (Click Image for Details)

Any chef will tell you that the best crepe maker is a large skillet set aside purely for making beautiful crepes and nothing else. It will have a thick base, a non-stick coating and sloping sides so that the crepes slide out easily.

That is all very well if you are a trained chef, but many of us mere mortals struggle to cook the delicious thin crepes that you get everywhere in France and in some great restaurants everywhere and we would like to be able to serve them up to family and friends.

If it was all so easy, there would

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KitchenAid 600 Mixer Review

Kitchenaid Professional 600 KP26M1X 575 watts stand mixer (Click Image for Details and Discount)

KitchenAid 600 is the top of the excellent range of KitchenAid stand mixers and head and shoulders above other mixers in its class giving you a huge number of reasons to buy. There’s plenty of proof for all to see. It has been tested by America’s Test kitchen and came through all tests with great results and hundreds of consumers have put finger to keyboard and rated the machine five out of five. (See the hundreds of KitchenAid 600 reviews HERE). It is almost difficult to know where to begin describing the finer points of the KitchenAid Professional 600 mixer

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Save Money with a KitchenAid Meat Grinder

KitchenAid Meat Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers (Click Image for Details)

If you are thinking of buying an electric meat grinder, you can save a lot of money if you have any of the KitchenAid stand mixers, by buying a KitchenAid meat grinder instead. Good quality electric meat grinders are around $100 but you can pick up a KitchenAid attachment which is very likely to do everything you need (and probably more) for around half that cost. It will grind meat, no problem at all, and if you buy the optional sausage stuffer attachment, you can also create your own wonderful tasting sausage links too.

Of course, you will already

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Electric Meat Grinders? Why Buy One

Make Your Own Healthy Burgers With an Electric Meat Grinder - 52 Easy Burger Recipes for Year-round Cooking

There are a host of reasons why everyone should own an electric meat grinder. I have to admit I had no idea before I started researching these machines why I might need one but it’s quite clear to me now that it has to be one of my next purchases. Here’s why electric meat grinders are so essential.

1. The Dubious Quality of Store Purchased Ground Beef

The ground beef which you purchase in a store is far more likely to be affected with E-Coli or other nasties than a piece of beef you buy and grind up yourself. For one

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Electric Meat Grinder Reviews

Maxi-Matic HA-3433A Elite Platinum 550-Watt Stainless Finish Meat Grinder, Gray (Click Image for Details)

An electric meat grinder is a great buy if you care about the health of you and your family, but there are a lot of these machines around so you may be puzzled at which one to purchase. Here is our review of the best electric meat grinders available today but also guidelines for choosing meat grinders so that you can see why we have picked these six as the best from all the meat grinder reviews we could have done.

Electric Meat Grinder Parts

If you look at each of the parts of a meat grinder, there are particular things

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Which Egg Poacher

Oster 4716 Egg Cooker (Click Image for Details)

If you still can’t manage to cook your eggs perfectly with all the tips in How to Poach an Egg, you can always buy an egg poacher for a fail-safe solution. Where there’s a will to serve up poached eggs, there’s a way!

There are several different types of egg poacher available. No one type is better than the others. The best egg poacher for you very much depends on your requirements, such as how you like to cook and how many people you regularly cook for. Here are the different egg poachers for sale at the moment – new innovations

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How to Poach an Egg Without an Egg Poacher

Fusionbrands Poach Pods - silicone egg poacher (Click Image for Details)

Poaching eggs is not easy. You may waste a lot of eggs before you get the hang of it but nevertheless no self respecting chef would use an egg poacher to poach an egg and after a bit of practice you will manage to do it. You get much softer eggs which taste great. They look the real deal too rather than a standard give-away shape. Once you master the technique, you’ll never have to think about buying an egg poacher again.

Poaching an egg simply means cooking it gently in boiling water until the white solidifies. You add water

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A Potato Slicer to Improve Every Potato Dish

Presto 02970 Professional SaladShooter Electric Slicer/Shredder (click Image for details)

A potato slicer is great little kitchen gadget – another one that you don’t really miss until you have one in your possession and then you would never be without it. These great machines chop, cut and slice your potatoes with great accuracy giving you perfect potato slices, chunks or fries every time and whats more they make them uniform in size so that your food looks better and cooks better too as everything is the same size.

Potato slicers are so simple, anyone can use one. Although they all work slightly differently it is no more difficult than popping in

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Breville Juice Fountain Elite (Breville 800JEXL)

Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite (Click Image for Details)

If you want to juice fruit and vegetable you need to buy a quality juicer otherwise you are leaving yourself wide open to frustration and annoyance. The Breville Juice Fountain Elite 800JEXL is a great choice for many reasons which we will look into in a moment. It is not only our opinion that this is a great machine, many buyers think so too. You can see over a three hundred and fifty Breville Juice Fountain Elite reviews HERE and the average scores they give the machine are over 4 out of 5. Given that it is quite difficult to

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The Best Tomato Juicer

When it comes to the best tomato juicer, there is no “one size, fits all” and that’s because we often want different things out of crushing tomatoes. If you just want juice rather than paste from your tomatoes, for example, and you want to juice other fruits and vegetables, you are better off investing in a multi-purpose electric juicer, the most powerful you can find. If, on the other hand, you simply want a machine to deal with the glut of tomatoes you have every year in your garden so that you can create beautiful organic tomato juice and tomato

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Dough Mixers - Reviews and Guidelines

KitchenAid Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixers (Click the Image for More Details)

If you have ever tried to make dough for bread, pizza or even cookies by hand you’ll know what an arm-aching experience that can be. After you have mixed the ingredients and kneaded them for a 5 minutes stretch you are worn out. My Gran used to say that she made better bread when she was angry about something because she put more power into the kneading! You can take the effort out of making bread, however and save time too by using a dough mixer.

When you start looking for one you’ll find very few manufacturers actually call their mixers

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Cordless Knife : Review of the Best

Sonic Blade Cordless Knife (Click the Image for Details)

If you want to be able to carve a joint of meat or the turkey right at the dining table you better be either highly skilled with a carving knife or have a handy electric cordless knife on hand. Any electric knife cuts through meat with ease as its double blades move smoothly back and forwards and slice through anything like butter (well almost anything you are likely to need to carve). They cut with clean lines too without damaging the food and with them, you can carve straight even slices one after another. The additional advantage of a

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