Kitchen Appliances

Want Better Brown Rice? Get a Fuzzy Logic Rice Cooker

Jan — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:19:53 +0000

Zojirushi Fuzzy Logic Rice Cooker CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS

When it comes to consuming rice, brown rice is one of the healthiest routes you can take and provides more nutrition than white rice. In fact, white rice was once brown rice before it had its outer bran layers polished off. And of course these layers are where the health benefits lie. Sure, white rice is easier and quicker to prepare and even costs less, but it does not offer much to keep you healthy.

Brown rice is the way to go, but the problem many people face is the challenge of

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Why You Should Buy a Meat Slicer

Jan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:16:20 +0000

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

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Which Electric Crepe Maker? One Easy Answer

Jan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:50:01 +0000

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

Jan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:19:31 +0000

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

Jan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:37:00 +0000

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

Jan — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:03:05 +0000

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

Jan — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:03:45 +0000

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

Jan — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:44:40 +0000

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

Jan — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:44:11 +0000

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

Jan — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:23:20 +0000

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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