Replies to Post #35444 onGot A Great Recipe To Share???? (FOOD)

Replies to #35444 on Got A Great Recipe To Share???? (FOOD)

03/04/26 11:14 PM

I dunno... I don't plan ever to buy a sous vide, or to replicate what they do using other equipment. But weren't they invented by professional chefs?

As for the Instant Pot the author doesn't even SAY it's a pressure cooker. The one thing people who love Instant Pots usually say first of all ia that it can cook relatively complicated dishes on a weeknight. That's because is a pressure cooker. And people seem to feel more comfortable with them than we did with our mothers' stovetop pressure cookers because we feel they're safer. And probably they are. I wouldn't get one because I have plenty of free time.

The convection toaster ovens may already be out of style. At first they were very expensive. Over a thousand bucks. And you can't made a real pizza Napolitano in your regular oven. But now, it seems you can buy an indoor pizza oven that heats to 800 degrees, and it costs less than $100. So that seems to be a game changer. Your Napolitano will be ready in three minutes, they say. I am REALLY tempted.

Oh, and my home oven doesn't have a convection feature. I assume that's true for many people...

The Food Processor: Definitely worth having. I in fact have two: big and small. I rarely use the big one nowadays, but if I had a family, or if the guests I used to entertain weren't dead or much less healthy than once upon a time, that would be different. The small ones are consistently helpful.

I haven't made bread in decades, so I won't be getting a bread machine. And even if I decided to bake three times a week, I don't think I'd feel I needed one. Popcorn popper? Any large pot with a lid will work just fine.

janice shell

03/05/26 7:41 PM

#35447 RE: k9narc #35444

What puzzles me about the article is that it says you don't need a food processor. What are you supposed to use instead, for some jobs? If I'm cooking a stuffed bird, using it to dice onions and celery saves me an hour. Everyone uses a food processor. The first home processors appeared in the '70s, and their popularity has never waned, nearly 60 years later.

And why IS the article pitched as what kitchen stuff CHEFS say people don't need. Chefs are not home cooks. They cook different stuff, often in different ways. They need at least some different things. Like sous vides. Obviously, chefs do not use Instant Pots. I don't really think of pressure cookers as part of a real chef's equipment. But many home cooks who have them--home cooks who work and need to provide a meal for a partner and kids every night--say they're life savers.

I just bought a rice cooker. It's small, meant perhaps for two servings at most, depending on what you consider a serving. Again, whether they're really useful or not depends on the home cook. Many Asians and Latinos eat rice every day, or almost every day, and find rice cookers a necessity. And apparently some take them to work for lunch and on vacation when they travel. This is one of the suggested models: