Remoska cookers (merged)

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

I have made a lovely veg lasagne in my remoska today, I got the recipe out of the daily mail. Basically you fry/roast some butternut squash in olive oil, grate 2 oz parmesan into a tub of creme fraiche and add chopped fresh sage leaves. Layer the squash with lasagne sheets, and the cheese mix (it said to use ricotta too but I only had natural yoghurt so put that in instead) I made a cheese sauce with blue cheese to top it off (stirred an egg in) and pour over the top. I layered it straight into the remoska pan and its cooking now, i reckon 1 hour should do it in the standard, serving it with broccoli yum!

pawpurrs

That sounds yum!
I am having chicken breasts split with cream cheese, garlic and herbs wrapped in bacon with veggies and roasted Butternut Squash.

npsmama

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere in this amazingly long thread but...
for someone like me who is a very, very keen baker and uses her oven at least once a day, how long would it take for the Remoska to pay for itself?

And can you really bake in it (spinge cake, brownies, cookies, etc...)?

lizzyb1812

Yes you can make sponges, cookies etc. But you can only do one tin/layer at a time as you are limited by the space in the bottom of the Remoska pan. I do a victoria sponge single tin mix every week and make a half-a-cake - great for just the 2 of us. And half Twink's hob-nobs recipes, cooked in 2 batches, works well as well.

But getting the cost of the Remoska back in saved electricity is another matter. I've calculated that it saves me - approximately - 20p per loaf I cook in the Remoska as opposed to cooking it in the oven. If I'm honest and add up all the bits I've bought for the Remoska, as well as the grand itself, then I've spent about £150 altogether (grand Remoska, shallow pan, rack, cookery book, liner, etc). So it would take me 750 loaves to get the cost of the Remoska back - at 5 a week that would be nearly 3 years.

BUT - I never made cakes before I got the Remoska. I used to buy them or do without. So I now spend less on buying cakes and have a happier OH

I use the Remoska for other stuff than baking - haven't put the oven on since I got it.

It makes really good roast chicken with no effort - unwrap chicken, put on rack in Remoska, cook for 90 minutes, done - moist chicken with lovely crisp skin.

And, though I haven't seen it mentioned here before, it seems a lot easier to cook in a little oven that sits on the counter than bending over to use the big oven so I use it a lot. Sounds daft, but it works for me. It has definitely made me more interested/enthusiastic about cooking.

So to cut a long drabble short, payback will take quite a long time, but it will be enjoyable and tasty :T

Zziggi

Daft question I know, but can i make HM chips in the remoska? if so how?

Muppet81

I am really fancying a "Mini Me" Baby Moska.

I have a standard and use it just about every day.

Mr Muppet eats meat but I don't. I have the seperator pan but really fancy the idea of a Baby Moska as well.

I have just given up work and think that lunches for 1 cooked in a 300 w baby would be great value.

I also fancy being able to do a big veggie dish in the standard and the occasional casserole in the baby for Mr Muppet. I would not want to run 2 of the 450w Moskas at the same time as we could be getting up to similar power consumption to using the oven?

I have seen comments about the baby being a bit too small to be really practical but I THINK it would be good for us.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

If you have one, what do you cook in yours? Is the lack of a viewing glass a problem?

newleaf

Muppet81 wrote: »

I am really fancying a "Mini Me" Baby Moska.

I have a standard and use it just about every day.

Mr Muppet eats meat but I don't. I have the seperator pan but really fancy the idea of a Baby Moska as well.

I have just given up work and think that lunches for 1 cooked in a 300 w baby would be great value.

I also fancy being able to do a big veggie dish in the standard and the occasional casserole in the baby for Mr Muppet. I would not want to run 2 of the 450w Moskas at the same time as we could be getting up to similar power consumption to using the oven?

I have seen comments about the baby being a bit too small to be really practical but I THINK it would be good for us.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

If you have one, what do you cook in yours? Is the lack of a viewing glass a problem?

I'm also interested to hear from anyone with the mini moski, as I'm just about to buy one for my mum for Christmas and debating which size to get. She's a lone pensioner with a tiny kitchen, space at a premium. She likes jacket spuds, a few chips or roast 'taties, but would be unlikely to roast a whole chook, so the small sounds ideal, but do they do a rack or shallow pan for the small? Am also concerned about lack of viewing window.

Muppet81

They do a rack but I don't think they do a shallow pan.

Naseby

I have the standard and the baby remoska so I should be able to answer your questions about the baby. The reason I bought the baby was that my husband who is disabled hasn't got a very good appetite and sometimes eats something different to me. I thought the baby would be a good idea even although I have got the separator pan for the standard.

Muppet 81 - I do use the Baby for different things for my DH and that works quite well. I can never get on terribly well with the separator so tend not to use it in the standard. I also cook things like veggies in the standard pan and heat up a casserole, chilli, spag bol etc in the Baby and I find that works quite well. I also tend to do chips in the standard and breaded fish in the Baby although if it is a fillet I have to cut it in half to fit it in to the baby. Would I buy it again or would I have been better buying a grand? I don't really know the answer to that. Maybe I should buy the grand and then I would have all three!!!!! LOL

Newleaf - I wouldn't buy the Baby for your Mum if I were you because it is very small and you are limited to what you can cook in it. I would definitely go for the Standard because she will be able to do so many more things in it. The lack of the viewing glass is not a problem if you have had the standard first but if you were just learning your way around then I think it would be.

I hope this helps you both but if you want to ask anything else just ask.

npsmama

Thank you so much for such a great reply. :beer:

I've calculated that it saves me - approximately - 20p per loaf I cook in the Remoska as opposed to cooking it in the oven.

Would this mean that the Remoska saves about 20p per 30min compared to oven cooking (obviously the calculation would change if you cooked several loaves in one go in the oven - something I rarely do)?

I'm asking bc I use the oven at least 1hr a day....I must admit since stumbling across this thread yesterday I feel guilty every time I even think of turning on the oven.