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Guacamayo posted:Whats a good and inexpensive silicon spatula for doing pastries? I just got these a few weeks ago and they're pretty nice. Can't speak to their durability though. http://smile.amazon.com/Silicone-Spatula-Set-Resistant-Guarantee/dp/B00HDABAQS/
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My fiancee's birthday is coming up and she's learning to cook fancy, slowly. She keeps talking about wanting a blender and I can get her a fancy blender, but I feel like there might be better kitchen appliances or products because what the hell do you make in a blender? I've never owned one. I have a kitchenaid stand mixer we hardly use and that has a LOT of uses. Would a food processor be better, or is a blender good these days? I brought a lot of fancy cookware (allclad, 3 million tons of cast iron) to our relationship, have decent knives and spatulas, whisks, etc. Dunno what a good next step is. Help me cooking gods.
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May 25, 2014 22:52
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Not an Anthem posted:My fiancee's birthday is coming up and she's learning to cook fancy, slowly. She keeps talking about wanting a blender and I can get her a fancy blender, but I feel like there might be better kitchen appliances or products because what the hell do you make in a blender? I've never owned one. I have a kitchenaid stand mixer we hardly use and that has a LOT of uses. Would a food processor be better, or is a blender good these days? If she just wants to blend the occasional thing, consider getting an immersion (stick) blender. Easier to use/clean, less counter space. Good initial step unless there's a specific need to liquefy something.
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May 25, 2014 23:09
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Getting her a vitamix will get you laid.
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May 26, 2014 02:03
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I don't currently have a blender, my wife threw it away the Breville thing we had when I got a Bamix Swissline. The Bamix is pretty gangster, but I really miss being able to blend large quantities of stuff and dryish things like nuts. Also, spending fifteen minutes pressing your liquids/soups through multiple strainers is a pain. A Vitamix here is $780 on ebay, $1100 in stores. Should I buy this 'Kuchef' knockoff for $99? Or am I just asking for trouble? I can't find any information about it on the interbirds, so I assume it's some rebranded chinese knockoff. http://www.kuchef.com.au/product-categories/juicer/professional-blender.html
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May 26, 2014 07:13
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That will most certainly end up with one of you dying from ingesting broken metal or glass. Or it'll burn out in one use and you'll be out of $100.
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May 26, 2014 17:26
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If she wants a blender, get her a blender. I learned a long time ago not to try and second-guess my wife's preferences. I might get her the other thing that I just know she'll like more in addition to the blender, but not as a substitute.
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May 26, 2014 17:35
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Not an Anthem posted:My fiancee's birthday is coming up and she's learning to cook fancy, slowly. She keeps talking about wanting a blender and I can get her a fancy blender, but I feel like there might be better kitchen appliances or products because what the hell do you make in a blender? I've never owned one. I have a kitchenaid stand mixer we hardly use and that has a LOT of uses. Would a food processor be better, or is a blender good these days?
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May 26, 2014 19:29
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Get the blender. Anyone have suggestions squeeze juicer? The hand held ones, not the giant press ones. All the ones I've looked at on Amazon seem prone to breakage or flimsy handles.
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May 27, 2014 16:23
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Guacamayo posted:Whats a good and inexpensive silicon spatula for doing pastries? It's not inexpensive, but these Vollrath spatulas are my favorite. They have a nice sturdy handle, can handle any heat short of a brick oven, and last for years. Get a big one and a small one, along with a dozen bowl scrapers (but not from Amazon, way overpriced there).
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May 28, 2014 04:17
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WhoIsYou posted:along with a dozen bowl scrapers (but not from Amazon, way overpriced there). I have like 2 cheap ones but I swear the iSi silicon one is expensive but so loving good, I barely have to rinse bowls.
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May 28, 2014 15:59
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Anybody familiar with this brand: http://www.amazon.com/VonShef-Professional-Piece-Mixing-Stainless/dp/B00DTSNCB4? I could use some decent metal mixing bowls.
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May 28, 2014 16:37
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Zenzirouj posted:Anybody familiar with this brand: http://www.amazon.com/VonShef-Professional-Piece-Mixing-Stainless/dp/B00DTSNCB4? I could use some decent metal mixing bowls. I have some Emeril branded ones that look just like that. I dig them. The rubber on the bottom helps keep them from moving when whisking and whatnot, and the sloped bottom is pretty much perfect.
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May 28, 2014 17:02
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Zenzirouj posted:Anybody familiar with this brand: http://www.amazon.com/VonShef-Professional-Piece-Mixing-Stainless/dp/B00DTSNCB4? I could use some decent metal mixing bowls. all my favorite mixing bowls are the cheap as poo poo metal kind. I find rubber bottoms really annoying on metal bowls actually too. I'd just go to your local ethnic market and pick up the cheapest metal bowls you can, and go buy a bottle of wine with the other $20
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May 28, 2014 18:40
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Ikea has some decent metal bowls.
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May 28, 2014 19:40
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mindphlux posted:all my favorite mixing bowls are the cheap as poo poo metal kind. I find rubber bottoms really annoying on metal bowls actually too. $20 wine? Well, look at Dr. Hoity Toity over here! That's probably what I'll do, though, and will grab a rocky mortar & pestle while I'm at it. Neither of those things are probably worth giving as much thought as I have been.
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May 28, 2014 20:06
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Mr. Wookums posted:Ikea has some decent metal bowls. Yup. I use a variety of these. They are cheap (but not flimsy-cheap feeling), easy to use, and look nice (often use them for serving salads/fruit/etc...). I have a couple of the 11" bowls and a 8". I wish I could get a 10" (11" is slightly too big to cover with a single sheet of plastic wrap and 8" is too small for most things outside of whipping up sauces and smallish stuff) , but otherwise these bowls are great.
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May 28, 2014 20:39
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I third the ikea metal bowls. they're good. I used some for many years, and when I got new ones I just didn't care enough to schlep into an ikea, so stopped in a supermercado and done.
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May 28, 2014 21:55
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The Ikea bowls are nice and sturdy, but drat, not having a lip on them to grab onto really makes them unusable to me.
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May 28, 2014 22:48
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mindphlux posted:all my favorite mixing bowls are the cheap as poo poo metal kind. I find rubber bottoms really annoying on metal bowls actually too.
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May 29, 2014 02:27
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No Wave posted:I so regret getting the rubber bottom bowls. I keep wanting to use them in low-ish temperatures in the oven to do poo poo like melt butter for tossing with sweet potatoes before cooking. That's the main sticking point I had about them. If they were some kind of high temperature silicon I wouldn't worry about it too much, but I don't know what it's made of. I sometimes like using my bowls as a double boiler or throwing them into the oven for short periods of time. I don't have so much trouble with sliding that it makes the extra bulk, extra effort to clean, and lack of temperature range worth it.
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May 29, 2014 15:07
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So, I'm in the market for a pretty good rice cooker ( That can also steam veggies and the like. ) I live in Norway and the selection of rice cookers here is lovely to say the least. ( Only On/Off/Keep Warm things at 1.5-2L, for 50 - 84 USD, ( While Amazon has the equivalent for 15-30 USD. )) So I'm thinking of importing one instead, spend a little extra to get something pretty good and small that'll last me a while. The requirements are pretty much: Needs to support 220-240V 50/60Hz, like the rest of Europe. I'd prefer a fairly small one, around 1L. And instructions / buttons in english. I've been looking at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Mul...=item4180cb409c http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOJIRUSHI-M...=item19da468bf2 Although the Zojirushi(Second link) there is maybe more than I'm willing to pay, unless it's really amazing. ( I think it popped out north of 2400NOK after import and shipping, meaning 400 USD. ) Do any of you goons have any experience with Hitachi's rice cookers? It seems pretty nice, and is far more reasonable price wise than the Zojirushi. ( 1800NOK after import, I think it was. )
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mindphlux posted:all my favorite mixing bowls are the cheap as poo poo metal kind. I find rubber bottoms really annoying on metal bowls actually too.
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May 30, 2014 05:57
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SubNat posted:So, I'm in the market for a pretty good rice cooker ( That can also steam veggies and the like. ) I live in Norway and the selection of rice cookers here is lovely to say the least. ( Only On/Off/Keep Warm things at 1.5-2L, for 50 - 84 USD, ( While Amazon has the equivalent for 15-30 USD. )) The zoji you linked is 1 litre which is a rather small rice cooker, to be honest. Stick with the hitachi. I've owned that exact model in the 10 cup (2.3 litre) size, and it was around double that cost. You'll never wind up using most of the settings that come on the zoji. Unless you were like me, and had on hand literally three different varieties of brown rice alone, along with five or six different whites, just get the basic model.
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May 30, 2014 05:59
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Ordered a 'DUXTOP 1800-Watt Portable Induction Cooktop' just for shits and giggles but I think it will be nice to have around for pressure cooker use.
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May 30, 2014 06:03
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BraveUlysses posted:Ordered a 'DUXTOP 1800-Watt Portable Induction Cooktop' just for shits and giggles but I think it will be nice to have around for pressure cooker use. Those things are work horses. Had them at the restaurant, and they work extremely well.
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dino. posted:The zoji you linked is 1 litre which is a rather small rice cooker, to be honest. Stick with the hitachi. I've owned that exact model in the 10 cup (2.3 litre) size, and it was around double that cost. You'll never wind up using most of the settings that come on the zoji. Unless you were like me, and had on hand literally three different varieties of brown rice alone, along with five or six different whites, just get the basic model. Alright, sounds good, thanks for the help in deciding. It'll be nice to be able to make decent rice without too much effort, plus having a steamer might be neat.
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SubNat posted:Alright, sounds good, thanks for the help in deciding. I got this one to replace a 20yo super basic Panasonic, and it has been great so far. Maybe that will be easier to get where you are ? http://www.seb.fr/cuiseur-riz/riz-cereales-co-8-en-1.htm?famille=42-13 Also sold under other brands of the same group like moulinex. Edit: model is RK302. Spatule fucked around with this message at 06:34 on May 31, 2014 |
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dino. posted:I agree with this dude, except I'd not be spending $20 on a single bottle of wine like ms fancy panties here. Aside from just being able to throw the things in the oven, I also like to be able to put them over the stove to get things moving from time to time. Can't do that with those rubber bottoms. If you need the thing not to slide around, wet a towel, and get it done. Also, I don't want my metal bowls to be /heavy/. yeah, I agree with all this too. I forgot that I do actually put my metal mixing bowls over the stove fairly regularly too. I've defrosted frozen chunks of stock this way, melt butter this way, and a few weeks back I was making some hot wings or whatever - my sauce froze up because of the butter and I wanted to toss my next batch, it was nice to just toss it over a burner and get it liquid again. the more I think about it, rubber bottoms to mixing bowls is one of those things that you find in kitchens where people don't really cook. they sound nice in theory, but when you're just trying to get poo poo done in a hurry, gently caress a rubber bottom on a mixing bowl. you're usually holding a mixing bowl in your arm if you're seriously going at a mixing task anyways, aint no fool need no rubberized bottom on that poo poo.  I hope someone enjoys these much-too-many words and much-too-serious thought about metal mixing bowls, furnished by mindphlux™.
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mindphlux posted:yeah, I agree with all this too. I forgot that I do actually put my metal mixing bowls over the stove fairly regularly too. I've defrosted frozen chunks of stock this way, melt butter this way, and a few weeks back I was making some hot wings or whatever - my sauce froze up because of the butter and I wanted to toss my next batch, it was nice to just toss it over a burner and get it liquid again.
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Looking for a decent chinois http://www.amazon.com/Matfer-17360-...eywords=chinois is the one we use in our kitchen but what the gently caress it's 80 dollars for what seems like something relatively simple anyone have any suggestions? going to be using it for stocks, soup and yogurt. http://www.amazon.com/Rsvp-5-Ss-Conical-Strainer/dp/B0000VLZXU/ref=zg_bs_13840231_18 exists but it seems to be a bit too small and I liked the little handles the other one had on the ends to latch onto pots Also, fluted pastry cutters, do any sets with both square and round ones exist? vol au ventzzzz all day
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Jun 2, 2014 07:32
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Get thee to a cooking supply store. I've seen decent sized ones at the overpriced store in Manhattan for $50. If you don't live in the capital of price gouging you'll get it cheaper. Or go here http://www.webstaurantstore.com/12-fine-china-cap-strainer/407S5012F.html Here are the square ones http://www.webstaurantstore.com/ateco-5203-five-piece-fluted-square-cutter-set-1-1-4-3-august-thomsen/1445203.html No they don't come together with a circle one.
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Stupid GWS hivemind. I use rubber bottomed bowls all the time, and despite mindphlux's assertion, I cook frequently. I also have some wider ones god for tossing ingredients with without rubber bottoms. It's good to have options, but I still appreciate the not sliding around when i mix part. I have never felt the need to hold the bowl in my arm like a 50s housewife in a betty crocker commercial.
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Jun 2, 2014 15:05
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Ha! I bet forums user Flash Gordon Ramsay also has one of these Rachael Ray-branded "Garbage Bowls". They also have a rubberized base! And they reduce trips to the trash can while you're cooking!
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Jun 2, 2014 15:20
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... why not just move the bin nearer to your cutting board.
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Jun 2, 2014 15:57
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I just use whatever bag I brought the groceries home in.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:05
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loving rats chewing through bags. We love OXO, how are these? http://www.amazon.com/OXO-5-Piece-G...food+containers
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Jun 2, 2014 16:34
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Let me channel SubG here: GET RID OF YOUR loving RATS YOU UNCOUTH RETROGRADE CHIMPANZEE.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:44
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deimos posted:Let me channel SubG here: Tell that to my poo poo building management and NYC 
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Get a cat. And some glass jars of various sizes from Ikea.
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