Remoska cookers (merged)

morganlefay

:j Mine arrived last night, and I have planned and bought the weekend food which includes NOTHING I would cook in Remoska (salad, a stir fry etc etc) However I may have to alter the menus, I'm so excited ! But please can someone tell me - I went for the Standard with the rack and half-pan, and am planning to go and get a cake tin instead of the shallow pan (stupidly expensive I thought) but when you've got the cake tin instead of a shallow pan, and found one that fits, are you sitting it on the rack ? If you just sit it on the base of the normal pan, then it wouldn't be any higher, or am I being very dim ?
My OH is not even disapproving this time as he's delighted at the thought of the big expensive oven not being on......
Are we all very sad to be so excited by a kitchen gadget ? Well if so I [EMAIL="DON@T"]DON'T[/EMAIL] CARE :j :j :j :j :j

mummysaver

Ok, decision made I'm going to get one, and a big one at that lol!

Have been freezing lots of ready meals, or leftovers as ds insists on calling them, in foil trays, so it'll be great for reheating them, and for the individual pies I've been making - some things just don't work in the microwave!

I have silicone sheets and silicone bakewear, for anyone considering some I got mine in poundland, they don't always have them but they're quite often in there. Like the sound of the individual cake cases though, dd2 and dd3 are always making fairy cakes, and the Asda ones are very cheap compared to others I've seen, will be spending my cooking savings on petrol to get to Asda instead lol!

Will see how I get on without the rack and try out using a cake tin as someone else recommended, luckily have a lakeland about half and hour's drive away, close but not too close.

Looking forward to trying foccacia in there though, oh it's the little things in life!

Thanks for everyone's tips and advice.

mummysaver

Darn, delivery wouldn't be till after 15th for the big one, and I'm far to impatient, guess where I'll be going tomorrow!

sallyrsm

I think I was the original cake tin lady.. I have a cake tin with a wider lip than normal it's about 1cm wide, that sits perfectly on the indentation round the top of the deep pan... I think the tin came from TK Maxx I was just really lucky I guess.

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lol. We`re a sad bunch!!! well not really. I went around with a tape measure looking for a 7" cake tin that wouldn`t be too tall for the deep pan. I went from shop to shop and found one

This morning I made a lovely bean and veg casserole topped with crunchy breadcrumbs mixed with cheese and as always it turned out fab. Riverford sent me 3 wacking big flat stalkless mushrooms yesterday so I stuffed them with herb butter, breadcrumbs and stilton and they are sitting, squashed into the shallow tin waiting to be cooked this evening. What an absolutely fabulous and versatile device this remoska is. The upside is that it has made me enjoy cooking again because I was getting bored of it after 38 years

ghp

All sounds delicious, kittie. My culinary offering from the Remoska tonight is ... chips! :rotfl:

However, they'll be Remoskan ones and therefore absolutely fabulous.

Muppet81

ghp - do you just cook chips or can you get away with cooking other stuff at the same time? Also are they just in the base of the standdard Remoska or in a shallow pan?
My attempt were soggy and dissapointing

Muppet81

PS .... Cooked a foccaccia in mine last night and it was fantastic. Made the dough on the pizza dough setting of my Panasonic BM and put the dough into the bast to prove for a few hours. Stuck my finger in the dough a few times to make the necessary dints and filled these with lemon/basil oil and baked for 20 mins or so.
Used the leftovers for a tuna sandwich today. Very very nice :j

ghp

Muppet81 wrote: »

ghp - do you just cook chips or can you get away with cooking other stuff at the same time? Also are they just in the base of the standdard Remoska or in a shallow pan?
My attempt were soggy and dissapointing

Hi Muppet - just chips, because I tried to put them in just a single layer and that was a bit of a struggle for three people. They were the McCain ones in the blue bag (Home Fries?), in the standard Remoska pan, and they did turn out crisp. I haven't tried real home made chips yet, though.

I thought the rack would be handy for cooking something above the chips, but I'm wondering if it would keep the heat from getting to the chips properly and make them less crisp. Trial and error, I suppose!

I've made a foccacia too, Muppet - it was fab. :T I'm using the Remoska every day at the moment - the novelty definitely isn't wearing off at all.

Clutterfree

morganlefay wrote: »

tee hee, have just phoned Lakeland and ordered mine. I looked online to see the full range of racks and bits, and then phoned and told them that I had been going to order it from the Out of the Kitchen catalogue (you can still see this one online, and I did have the catalogue but threw it away as being full of things I'd like but don't need). I said I'd noticed the price difference and please could I have it a 79.99 and not 89.99. She nicely said that she 'could do that for you' so that's the 'old price' which I think they have to honour until end August. It's 'only a tenner, but that's - ummm - about a thimble full of petrol these days, or three minutes of heating your house, but a tenner anyway. Can't wait for it to come. BTW Lakeland (again) used to do a very odd thingy in silicone for lifting your Xmas turkey without dropping it, a silver foil strip would be much cheaper for lifting dishes etc, but the silicone thingie might work too ? Thank you for all good ideas for meals cooked in the Remoska, I shall be using all your ideas. THANKYOU !:T

Thank you so much for this post!
I did as you said and they honoured the old price! :j

Not ordered the rack, shallow pan or recipe book yet but may do at a later date.

Got a free melamine utensil set too! :T