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VictualSquid posted:I got a Thermapen 10ish years ago for almost 100€ including shipping. Now it is breaking and I wish I had bought 10 cheap pens instead. Their service line is cool so they'd probably help you out. Lots of repair videos online. Thermapens have a metal wiper contact which is the weakest part of the unit. It enables the "open probe to turn on" function so they keep it. Especially if you bake, fine powder can get in there and disrupt the contact. Now it's a moisture magnet so it's eating the metal. It's pretty easy to open up. De-crap it like any old electronic. Reassemble. Lots of guides online about cleaning contacts. I had a 3rd? gen model go wonky after a baking spree. It's not 100% reliable even after some fixes, but opening and closing it a couple times is usually fine. Got a 4th? gen because lots of improvements. Kept the 3rd gen for road trips or whatever. You don't need a thermapen in the same way you don't need some expensive hand-forged Japanese chef knife. But having it does make your day that much better. And the quality really is there. smackfu posted:Yeah, just funny that it says exactly what a fake site would say. Counterfeit All-Clad really is a huge problem right now. Which is not helped at all by their factory sites often looking like you're using the wayback machine to view a scam from 1990's.
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Fists Up posted:I have a Puegeot adjustable grinder (googling seems to suggest it might be something like the Peugeot Paris u'Select Manual) and it's lasted me very many years with no problem. Although I hear there are a lot of knockoff/fakes now across the internet Peugeot and Unicorn have been top of the pile for a long time. Unicorn is badass and reliable. While the refill is not as easy as some, people vastly overplay the potential for accidentally opening the mechanism mid-grind. Not instantly adjustable, but for a coarse cooking grind, who cares. And the storage is huge so how often do you refill it anyway. Peugeot is beautiful. But I had a bad habit of holding it by the adjustment ring which inevitably snapped. Adjust it once, then grip it by the barrel. So a Peugeot with adjustment really is the perfect grinder for the table. Having the ability to instantly dial it to the "dust" setting for omelettes was lovely. Steve Yun posted:Okay hear me out. The rice function sucks on IP Lots of people have bad opinions about rice. Especially people who grew up with improperly cooked rice so they think it should have a bite like cheap grits. Zojis are truly worth it for anyone who knows rice. But the point about IP being good for quick brown rice is spot on. A zoji takes forever because it's making perfect brown rice, while a pressure cooker gets most of the way quickly. If I'm in a pinch for quick rice it's regular pot for white or IP for brown. Otherwise throw the rice in the Zoji two hours ahead. It's not just that the Zoji makes truly perfect rice (dial the water up or down a bit for texture). It's that it holds it safely forever. It'll even start on a timer and just presoak your rice while you're at work so it's ready when you get home if you want. Brother Tadger posted:Vitamix recipes Top of the pile for most people is blending whole fruit (pieces) from frozen. The Vitamix site will have a sorbet recipe that's amazing, and when you put booze in a sorbet hey look strawberry daiquri. And make smoothies from whole fruit. Protein junkies, it'll blitz a whole banana and ice into a professional-quality smoothie. The party piece is soup. Toss in some onions and whatever. Set it on high until it's steaming ~10min. It's totally impractical and stupid. But it's fun. In the camp of people who don't need a Vitamix, just in case it hasn't been mentioned recently - Vitamix is way too powerful for things like salsa. If you mostly make salsa, food processors or bullets are great. Everyone who has a Vitamix probably also has a food processor.
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