Remoska cookers (merged)

ghp

I agree with you about the taste, morganlefay. I made a pasta sauce tonight with tomatoes from the greenhouse, and it tasted so much better than it would have cooked on the hob, because the Remoska gave it a lovely roasted flavour.

Tomorrow, my first meatballs. :j

zappster1966

I must be anally retentive or summat but I've the most terrible reluctance to cook chilled supermarket food in the Remoska. But I've thrown all caution to the wind and used it 3 times today ... supermarket lasagne, cornish pasties & a chicken curry.

And everything came out great, that's the thing I'm so surprised about (as a new owner). The pasties were nothing special, just the Ginsters ones which seem to be permanently on sale at a quid each (and which taste nothing like real cornish pasties, but that's another story) ... but they came out the Remoska & the pastry was just perfect. The lasagne was great too, the rice for the curry was a bit dry but no worse than using an ordinary oven.

This Remoska thing is a brilliant piece of kit. I'm totally hooked now & see it as a failure if I have to use the ordinary oven at all.

^heavens I'm becoming a Remoska nerd^

AlwaysHappy

Am I write in my assumption from some of the above posts that I can literally take a hm (frozen) meal out of the freezer and pop it in the remoska without defrosting it - that would be great!

crockpot

Well I have had a Remoska nightmare!

Cooked a beef joint, on top of my pots etc and the meat was tough!

Could not even bit it! my teeth are not the best in the world though!

I have sliced it up and I am going to put it in the slow cooker with gravy and veg next week in the hope it can be saved.

Maybe I am just rubbish with meat we don`t have joint often.

I have a grand and joint was under a kilo, cooked it for 1hr 30 mins ish.

Veg was over cooked.

newleaf

I must admit crockpot, I think beef is always best cooked slowly and it was a brave experiment to do it in the Remoska. Hope you can manage to rescue something of it in the slow cooker.

I baked a fruit cake in mine on Sunday and it's lovely according to mr newleaf. I sort of made the recipe up after finding a container of mixed dried fruit past it's best at the back of my cupboard. I haven't been in my baking cupboard for 6 months as I have been dieting (lost nearly 2 stones!).
Anyway, for anyone interested, it's another of my Bung Ho cakes:

1lb mixed dried fruit
half a mug cold black tea
slosh of whiskey
4oz brown sugar
4oz melted butter
2 eggs
8oz self raising flour

Soak fruit and sugar in tea for a couple of hours in a mixing bowl, until it swells a bit. Stir in a slosh of whiskey - about a couple of tablespoonsful. Stir in melted butter and 2 beaten eggs. Add flour and mix well. Tip into a parchment cake liner in the Standard Remoska, cover cake with a disc of parchment or buttered foil and bake for about 40 - 45 mins. I removed the foil for a few minutes at the end to even up the browning. Keep your eye on it though, because it happens very quickly - like watching toast under the grill! Cool on wire rack, cut into 8 wedges, it seems to be storing well in a lock & lock container.

charlies_mum

Garden_Girl wrote: »

My next purchase will be a timer plug so that she can come on automatically so I will have a hot meal ready and waiting when I come in from work. (Argos have a pack of two on offer at around £4.50!)

A couple of weeks ago they had a pack of 3 for £3.99 in Home Bargains :T

Garden_Girl

Ooh - thanks for that Charlie's Mum - I shall pop in after work to see if they still have them.

Hilary1 - thank you for the tip about the silicone bakeware - I shall look for those too.

Oliveoyl & tvt - well done on your bargains - that will make cooking even sweeter!!

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Hi Morganlefay, I am going to try a rissotoo in mine tonight, I'll do the recipe out of the book and chuck in whatever is hiding in the fridge.

Crockpot, I did a beef curry the other day and it was a bit on the hard side but I thought it could have been me not cooking it for long enough. In hindsight I would put more liquid in and cook for longer.

Thanks for the cake recipe newleaf I wonder if it would pass for a xmas cake if you chucked a few nuts in?

trying-very-trying

oliveoyl wrote: »

Why can't you still? Ignore if I'm being nosey/it's private.
I thought I did well... free is even better! Well done :beer:

I have ms and can no longer stand very long or "walk the length of myself", but I get around the house not too bad and see my limited cooking skills and the budget cutting tips I get from here as my contribution to the family household.
I have found that charity shops, though, aren't really suitable for access with a mobility scooter, but on a good day, I can still leave the scooter outside and have a wee walk round.

morganlefay

Crockpot, your beef sounds very sad, but I find beef really hard to get right too (and I cook it quite often as OH loves it) I find it depends on the cut, as Mr T now sells joints of beef 'for roasting' that my wise old Mum used to say were never any good for roasting, and should be gently pot roasted or they would be tough as old boots. Also I've only learnt in past couple of years that all meat gets more tender after cooking if left to stand at least 15 mins, and more if possible. I wonder if it would be possible to pot roast in the Moska? I don't see why not, lots of tasty veg and herbs etc,and lots of water but perhaps the SC would be gentler.
And thanks for the cake recipe newleaf - I have a cupboard of old-but edible dried fruit too, and the tea and whisky trick sounds v good. I shall give it a whirl. You see the Moska not only produces v tasty food but also encourages us use up stuff we might have thrown away: what a fabulous money-saving device it is.
I realise that I'm a Moska nerd and proud of it. I was talking about it to some friends in the pub on Monday and I think they all thought I'd gone mad. It sounds so unlikely, and I could see I hadn't persuaded any of them. Their loss, eh ?
We're off on hols tomorrow and Moska's coming with us, so be good while I'm away, I shall look forward to catching up in a couple of weeks' time and I'll let you know if she liked French food !