Remoska cookers (merged)

Penelope_Penguin

Amanita wrote: »

I would love a recipe only thread as I hardly ever use mine. I got it a Grand ridiculously cheaply (at under £30) from Lakeland last year but it doesn't get as much use as it should.

There's a Remoska Recipes thread here

Penny. x

ubamother

Horses for courses I suppose - my personal gadget list over the years as been:

Halogen oven - just didn't get on with it - can't quite work out why.
Slow cookers - have tried several times - don't like the process, don't like the result enough
Remoska - almost daily user as I don't often do huge batches to make putting on the main oven worthwhile. Having said that, my first remoska kept tripping the electricity in the house and had to be replaced. I've heard others have had this problem.
Pressure cooker - love it, use it
Breadmaker - hated it, make my own using the adored (by me!) Dan Leppard's take on the science - bread doesn't need all that kneading after all
Mum's Kenwood chef - weekly, bit heavy for me to lift around
Kenwood food processor - use loads

If I was only allowed two of these - I would keep the Remoska first and the food processor second.

thriftlady_2

It's gadgets that do the same things as ovens I have a problem with.

I wouldn't be without my favourite appliance though -my big freezer, but then I don't have lots of other things that freeze food but not as efficiently.

I love my food processor too for chopping large quantities and breadcrumbing but I could manage without it if I had to. Don't make me have to:D

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

It's gadgets that do the same things as ovens I have a problem with.

I wouldn't be without my favourite appliance though -my big freezer, but then I don't have lots of other things that freeze food but not as efficiently.

I love my food processor too for chopping large quantities and breadcrumbing but I could manage without it if I had to. Don't make me have to:D

I was discussing this with the children yesterday - my can't-live-without-it appliance is still my washing machine :T

Penny. x

cooking-mama

MsB..I agree I think its true,my expectations were too high.
shopndrop il try scones again without preheating.
Geordiejoe I did buy a Halogen oven,got the Ideal world one last month,now it is good for grilling,baked potatoes were done nice in 30 mins,but roast chicken was either pink at 60mins,or dried out at 80min.Turkey breast joint was "rubbery"Halogen seems to get too hot,and cooks the outside before the inside,but because it is so good at grilling i decided to keep it(toasted cheese n onion on the high rack is delicious and quick) I bought the Remoska to complement the Halogen.
Thriftylady you are lucky that you have a well functioning oven,mine is rubbish and loses more heat than it retains,doesnt have a great deal of room and only 1 rack!it was cheaper to buy the Remoska(and Halogen)than replace the built in oven.Also i do realise that "old style"is about more than just buying gadgets,but i had just joined the forum and the remoska was relevant to me.
Kittie,yeh,i think i do need to get my head around the fact that its a different way of cooking,maybe my first choices to cook werent appropriate(other than the scones),il try out some of the remoska recipes first,and then some things such as stuffed chicken breasts/maybe even frozen breaded fish as these were the kind of things i used my main oven for anyway.
Penelope penguin.Thankyou so much for starting the Remoska recipe topic,hopefully there will be lots of posts with recipes specific to the Remoska which will be invaluable to newbies like myself,thankyou.
Thankyou to everyone who replied,As i said i wont give up on it yet,I do want to like it;),my main oven is rubbish,I also have problems with lifting trays from the oven ,pulling the door down and bending to get into it etc,due to Rheumatoid arthritis,so it is easier for me to cook at worktop level,(Tho the Remoska lid IS heavy!)and my leccie bills are sky high,sometimes the full oven is on just for a tray of oven chips!
I do use my slow cooker,tho eldest daughter is never keen on food from it,she seems to think it "taste funny"and veg in stews etc always end up too soft..Tho maybe thats just my cooking;)
PS,a wee footnote,please dont be arguing over what grills and what doesnt,lifes too short,and as someone else put it "horses for courses"and all that.It wouldnt be a random world if we all liked the same things

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thriftlady wrote: »

Gosh I had no idea they were that sort of price! I imagined they were around the same cost as a slow cooker or bread maker.

I do think it is a shame that so many people seem to come on the board and go away with the idea that buying a gadget that does the same things as their ovens is what Old Style is all about.

old style? well I have the t shirt both in age, the way I was brought up as the eldest girl of 7 children and in the deep down ingrained need to be the most economical I can within my moral bounds.

Explanation needed perhaps re moral bounds. I use organic ingredients when I can and I use choice cuts of meat etc. I buy rachels yoghurt and I spend on holidays and health and I don`t penny pinch. Ok that is me in a nutshell. Fortunately I do have a big kitchen and can store the medium and grande remoska in a cupboard, where they are at the front as one or other is used daily. There are gadgets and gadgets and my remoskas save me a lot of money. Now some gadgets are useless for some people but as always it is horses for courses edit as I see someone has already said

If I had to choose which two `gadgets` I would keep then it would be my chef with the processor plus the remoska all above everything else

Slinky_Malinky

I am another who was disappointed with the Remoska. I have a Grande with a rattling lid and I had wondered if that as why it was so slow - but after reading this thread it seems not. I have a halogen oven which is great for meat/baked potatoes/potato wedges etc but I haven`t tried anything in a sauce in there yet. Also love my pressure cooker and need to make more use of the slow cooker.

I had been thinking of asking to return or exchange my Remoska as I haven`t used it since last Christmas. Unfortunately life has got in the way and it is now a year old so not sure if even the lovely Lakeland will be willing to take it back.

rosieben

It's a matter of personal preference as has been said, and very much down to personal economics, family size, kitchen size and what/how we eat.

I gave away my bm as I didnt use it often enough to justify its space in my tiny kitchen but I use both my sc and my food processor several times a week, those are the 2 things I would not be without. I'm talking small appliances here as the topic is the remoska;

I shall persevere with the remoska, thanks for the new recipe thread pp, never manage to keep up with the other thread.

shellsmithcat

Just had to google what a Remoska was LOL

sistercas

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I've also got somewhere to warm my [STRIKE]bum[/STRIKE] tea towels

Penny. x

hoohaha that made me laugh:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: