Remoska cookers (merged)

Blunder_Woman

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

Hi Piquant! Welcome to the thread! of course you can join in, the more the merrier!

Hi Newleaf, thanks for the cake tips, I was wondering about doing this years xmas cake but they usually need long, slow cooking, this recipe could work with a few tweaks...

Hi Blunderwoman, welcome to the thread, did you do the almond cake out of the recipe book?

Hi 1carminestocky, as far as i know there isn't a separator pan for the remoska but others on this thread have found ovenproof containers that fit inside the pan so you can cook 2 things at once.

Hi Pennypincher, How about roasting the veggies in the pan and put the chicken legs on the top of them if you haven't got a rack? The meat juices will add a lovely flavour to the veg.

For lunch today I did a lovely frittata, I cooked some chopped red onion in olive oil and added some leftover boiled new potatoes and about 1/3rd red pepper and some mushrooms. When this had cooked for about 10-15 mins I added 4 beaten eggs, butter and peas, I also plopped some lumps of cheese that was lurking in the fridge! It was very nice and we ate the lot!

Tonight I am going to do a risotto and have some courgettes, sweetcorn, peas, pepper, bacon and some interesting looking Egyptian rice that I got from the asian supermarket (BTW translated instructions are a wheeze 'place rice in a large bowel..') I was going to do stuffed peppers too but its too much rice/couscous so a nice big bowel (!) of risotto will do nicely!

Hi There,
Yes, the almond cake recipe is in the 200 Recipes Remoska cookbook. DH and I have eaten the lot!

Penny-Pincher!!

LouiseJ wrote: »

My lid is level! Check how things cook as it may be a faulted one..

It seems to have cooked the chips ok and the fishfingers. I used the rack and placed the fishfingers in a sandwich tin on the rack and placed the oven chips in the bottom. The chips were quite soft so took out the fishfingers for 10mins whilst they browned a little. In total it all took about an hour which seemed ages...maybe it will be worth buying the shallow dish

PP
xx

Hippy110

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

.. but as a bonus -on the despatch note, not only have I got the free utensils.. but they are sending me a trial of there foil -4mX30cm..and in the box is a 99p MOC for the full sized foil :j has anyone else had this? I know my mum did -but i thought it was an error

Got all of the above plus a £5 discount coupon for a phone or mail order - think that will be used against a rack

Garden_Girl

Hi guys

I went to Home Bargains after work and got a silicone muffin tray and they still had packs of 3 timers for £3.99 so I treated myself to a set of those! They also had glass worktop savers for £1.49 which I have put on the top of my gas hob, so Mouska has pride of place on top of the cooker now!

I decided to cook toad in the hole - 2 x sausages and onions in oil. I cut the separate "holes" out of the muffin tray so I have individuals now. When the sausages cooked I cut them up and put them into the base of two of the silcone trays and put yorkshire pud batter on the top. They went in with cubed potatoes in the bottom of the pot, still with oil in. I also cut up fresh courgettes and tomatoes, popped a bit of oil on the top and piled them all into a ramekin. The yorkshires rose really well and the potatoes were nice and crisp on the outside and lovely and soft on the inside. Yummy! Whilst I was eating that I put an apple chopped up and half a dozen blackberries into two more silicone cups and with some squirty cream that was pud!!

I know many of you are cooking for families but I find it really difficult to motivate myself to cook full meals regularly, and I am finding that by using mouska, cos she is on I can do everything together. Not only that I am able to put together meals from the freezer, storecupboard and lottie.

Keep the ideas coming - you are all a wonderful inspiration!:T

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Again!

I am just par-boiling the spuds to roast in the Remoska. Do I heat a little oil first in the bottom and should I let the spuds cook for a while then add the chicken thigh pieces or put all in together?

Thanks
PP
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Sunnyday

Hippy110 wrote: »

According to the hoorayforhomecooking website it can go in the dishwasher.

Another who is currently re-arranging kitchen so Remoska can be out permanently but now have other things needing new homes :rolleyes:

Thankyou

I`ve just bought a chicken on the way home and i shall be up early in the morning so i`ll try it in the remoska when i`m still on economy 7 time so it will be even cheaper:j

I was going to put the timer on it but i`ve been using that to charge the lappy overnight on the cheap rate electricity and i discovered this morning that it switches on ok but not off again :eek: good job i found out before using it on the remmy! My chicken would have been a pile of burnt bones:D

My workmate has ordered one today so that`s another one in the remmy club:D

SD

mummysaver

I poured a bit of oil over the pots, and tossed them about in the moski, then stuck the chicken in with it all. You may need to turn it all half way through though.

mummysaver

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

It seems to have cooked the chips ok and the fishfingers. I used the rack and placed the fishfingers in a sandwich tin on the rack and placed the oven chips in the bottom. The chips were quite soft so took out the fishfingers for 10mins whilst they browned a little. In total it all took about an hour which seemed ages...maybe it will be worth buying the shallow dish

PP
xx

Penny, I've got the grand and use the rack with a round pizza tray on it for chips and bits, cooks them a lot quicker than just putting them in the bottom of the pan. Also good for sausages, as the fat from them drips through the pizza tray!

prudencekitten

I'm a convert to Remoska - bought mine a couple of weeks ago. My gas oven has had its day - the door doesn't shut right and everything was taking AGES to cook. So I went for it. My husband thought it a complete waste of money, but I love it. So far I have made cheese scones twice (lovely and fluffy), muffins twice with cut up silicone cases, baked potatoes (started off in the microwave and crisped up beautifully in the Remoska), a casserole (not too sure about that one - it was a bit tough. Slow cooker might have been better), garlic bread (nice and quick), frozen chicken nibbles, roast potatoes (needs a bit of practice, as they tend to be soggy), roast chicken (pretty small one, cooked in a bag), an apple sponge and a loaf of banana bread. (I have been busy!)

When I bought it, I accidentally picked up a Grand rack with it, and when I returned it I decided not to buy a rack. I didn't buy the small pan either, but I did buy Magic Liner. I find a circle of that in the bottom of the pan, an upended seven inch cake tin, topped by another cake tin works well as a shallow pan as it takes it near the element. Good for crisping. I also bought some foil dishes in Lakeland, oblong ones like you get in a takeaway. Good for baking.

Isn't it fun? I get quite excited thinking what to cook next!

Penny-Pincher!!

Thanks guys!

In the end I par-boiled the spuds and added a little oil to the Remoska, then added the spuds after shaking them up abit and left for 20 mins. Then I put the spuds in a cake tin and put the chicken in the bottom and put the cake tin on the rack. The chicken pieces took about 35mins to cook in total. So Remoska was on for just under an hour...so under 10p!!

OH is going to look in Poundland to see if they have any silicone baking stuff.

My FREE clothes are amazing too.

PP
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