Krups High Performance Deep Fryer

Forget about eating healthy. Lets talk about eating fried foods. This deep fryer can cook over 2 pounds of food at the time. The dial adjusts temperature settings from 300°F to 375°F and LED .ights up when oil reaches the proper temperature. There is also a 30 minute dial timer, and it comes with a fry basket.

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Sanyo ECJ-PX50S 5-Cup Micro-Computerized Pressure Rice Cooker and Steamer

We're always looking out for a really well reviewed rice cooker, and this Sanyo has the stars. This micro-computerized cooker makes up to 10 cups of cooked rice, and also functions as a slow cooker, pressure cooker, and steamer. We like multi-function appliances, and getting a bit of all of them into one is going to save counter space. It also has a nonstick inner pot, and 1-touch cooking options including a 24-hour timer. measuring cup, spatula, and manual with recipes are included with this rice cooker and steamer.

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SousVide Supreme - The Pros and Cons of Cooking from the Inside Out

We've been covering the first "affordable" home sous vide cooking machine, and are pretty excited about it. We also are very excited about the uber review just published over at Gizmodo. If you don't know what a SousVide oven is - it offers the product of decades of refinement by top chefs, the SousVide Supreme Water Oven cooks sealed food at precise preset temperatures for consistent cooking, and wonderful flavors. Vacuum-sealed food loses virtually none of its flavor or nutrients during cooking, and the pressure encourages flash marinating, naturally enhancing the delicious tastes and aromas of the food with little added seasoning.

What does Giz thing about the SousVide Supreme over?

Pros:

• Extremely easy to use, and works exactly as billed
• It will not make you a great cook overnight, though it will help you achieve goals you may already have

Cons:

• $450 is still too much for most home cooks, especially for something that they might not use often enough
• Vacuum sealer equipment sold separately (and can be costly)
• As large as a bread-maker or turkey roaster, equally hard to store when not in use
• Interface not great; display lacks count-down timer, and buttons are sometimes unresponsive

We encourage you to click on through to see al the amazing items they made in the SousVide Supreme, and hopefully we'll have our own review soon as well.

Via Gizmodo at At SousVide Supreme Water Oven

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Oster 5712 Electronic 2-Tier 6-Quart Food Steamer - Perfect Steamer at a Perfect Price

We've had this steamer now for just over 2 years, and have to say - it's amazing. We cook rice, vegetables, and fish in this, along with occasionally steaming hot dogs and buns. The 2-Tiered 6-quart capacity steamer creates instant steam for preparing all kinds of food. You can delay cooking up to 12-hours, and the LCD display with 95-minute timer is easy to read and use. The other thing we like - it cleans up really easily - allowing you to empty the water and refill between meals keeping the steamer clean and fresh.

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Make Healthier Meals with a Pressure Cooker

New York Times guest blogger Paula Crossfield relies on her pressure cooker to make everything from soup to risotto, and says she regularly marvels at the better flavor this method of cooking produces. The key to pressure cooking is in the liquid you add to your grains, beans, veggies and meat. Liquids heat fast, and the steam produced helps build pressure in the sealed pot, quickly tenderizing the fibers of the food inside. The result of that contained cooking holds other surprises: intense flavor, and more nutrients maintained in the food. We like our food rich and intense, thus this article holds true to our ideals.

Want to learn more about the pressure cooked meals? Check out the full article at The New York Times.

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SousVide Supreme Water Oven – Cooking Perfection

This SousVide Supreme Water Oven combines a thermostatically controlled, touchpad enabled, super slow cooker function with vacuum packed foodstuffs and water to deliver perfectly cooked fish, vegetables, and other sealed items of your choice.

The product of decades of refinement by top chefs, the SousVide Supreme Water Oven cooks sealed food at precise preset temperatures for consistent cooking, and wonderful flavors. Vacuum-sealed food loses virtually none of its flavor or nutrients during cooking, and the pressure encourages flash marinating, naturally enhancing the delicious tastes and aromas of the food with little added seasoning.

We've never used a SousVide Oven ourselves at home, but we have cooked in this style using our slow cooker and some vacuum sealed bags. Given how nerve racking that was, we pretty sure if we'd like a no fuss solution.

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Morphy Richards Intellisteam - Steamer Makes a Complete Meal

The Morphy Richards Intellisteam features a backlit blue LCD allowing you to control three separate steaming pods, each with their own steam controls. The Morphy Richards Intellisteam comes loaded with a ton of presets that make steaming various different foods simple. It also features a visible water gauge, auto-off when water runs out and up to 40 minutes of food warming.

What's amazing about the different compartments is that they allow you to make a meal for up to 4 people. We can imagine doing exactly above - some potatoes, rice, and a nice piece of salmon in the Intellisteam.

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T-fal Actifry - Frying With a Little Bit of Oil

We've featured the T-Fal Actifry in the past, and we really liked the promise of no-oil frying. The T-fal Actifry promises to fry your favorite foods using just 1 tbsp of oil - so there is oil in this frying method. The price is $300 - and it's been out for about a year in the UK, and is now just hitting the US market.

What is the T-Fal Actifry? Basically, it's a big nonstick pan equipped with a constantly rotating silicone stirrer. You load all the food into the pan, drizzle it with a relatively small amount of oil and then close the clear lid. The controls include just two buttons—one for on/off, one for a timer. Fired up, hot air blows around making it sound, as you might expect, like a weak hairdryer. The idea is that the air blows the oil around and cooks the food while the spatula keeps everything cooking evenly.

Click on through to Gizmodo for the rest of their review, but in the end the results were mixed.

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Cuisinart Green Gourmet Electric Skillet

This ceramic based electric skillet is environmentally friendly. The surface is petroleum-free and contains no PTFE or PFOA. You can use the skillet to sear, fry, griddle, simmer, or braise. The skillet has six temperature settings, an indicator light that turns off when the temperature is reached, and a glass lid.

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SousVide Supreme Water Oven

Water cooking is the new rage. It involves slowly heating vacuum-sealed food in a water oven at low temperatures. The method allows the food to stew in its own juices and so locks in flavors and the pressure encourages flash marinating. This water oven cooks at preset temperatures, so there is no need to stir or monitor. Food can be cooked for hours and not be overcooked.

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Cuisinart Elite Die-Cast 12-Cup Food Processor

Nothing wrong with a sold food processor. This Cuisinart includes a locking lid with a rubber seal for liquid processing and two nesting bowls with spouts and locking blades. In addition, the processor has a wide-mouth feed tube that accommodates larger ingredients and reduces the need to cut food into smaller pieces first. The touchpad control panel offers three selections for on, off, and pulse.

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Rival 22qt Roaster Oven - Perfect Roast Turkey for the Holidays

We're soon heading south to the relatives for the Holidays, and we're thinking we need to invest in a roaster. The oven gets overwhelmed, and our Aunt Connie used to have one of these in Indiana before becoming a snowbird thus making the making of the sacred turkey much easier. We think the Rival 22qt Roaster in Stainless Steel will fit the bird of our desires - as it fits up to a 22 Pound Turkey. Stainless Steel Roaster Oven Body, plus a removable Enamel-on-Steel Roasting Pan, plus it features a lid rest. Birds don't that brown in a roaster - but they do stay moist. Can't wait to see if we can find a roaster when we arrive next week.

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PBeaba BabyCook - Make Your Own Babyfood and Save Money

Baby food is expensive, and there's the other bit of not knowing exactly what's in there. The Beaba Babycook is a one-of-a-kind, patented compact countertop appliance that functions as a steamer, blender, warmer and defroster to prepare fresh, healthy meals for baby - thus you can now make your own baby food.

It starts by steam cooking vegetables, fruits and meats in less than 15 minutes, while preserver their vitamins and flavors. It then purees and blends them to the desired consistency. Parents can also use the Babycook to quickly reheat or defrost precooked foods. The bowl is made from unbreakable Polysulfone (PSU) and the cooking basket from transparent polypropylene (PP). It comes with a 2½ - cup capacity bowl, cooking basket, spatula and recipe booklet. The bowl and basket are top-rack dishwasher safe.

We think this is a great alternative to a blender, strainer, food processor - you name it. Sometimes having a dedicated device such as this for the year you'll need it and then for the following kids is well worth the money.

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Salter Perfect Temp Food Warmer

Need to keep food warm for your holiday party? This food warmer keeps prepared foods at ideal serving temperatures for up to three hours. It has two racks, so you can keep two layers warm. And it has an AC adapter, so it can be used in the car.

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