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lynzpower

retiredlady wrote: »

Yes the Remoska is brilliant - I rarely turn on my big oven now as almost everything goes into the Remy! I recently bought an actifry, I love it just as much as the Remoska! I can make lovely SW chips, roast veg etc for only a teaspoon of oil which I syn. It is great at cooking meat as well - all the fat just melts off.

I am so interested in buying an actifry! Do the chips take ages? I read it can take a while? Is that in relation to normal fryer ( ie chips take 3 mins lol ) Can you do other things like bhajias, samosas, onion rings, etc?

Do I need more cooking equipment!? I am v tempted by this as I just cant seeem to make SW chips everytime Ive tried they end up really burned.

retiredlady

lynzpower wrote: »

I am so interested in buying an actifry! Do the chips take ages? I read it can take a while? Is that in relation to normal fryer ( ie chips take 3 mins lol ) Can you do other things like bhajias, samosas, onion rings, etc?

Do I need more cooking equipment!? I am v tempted by this as I just cant seeem to make SW chips everytime Ive tried they end up really burned.

The chips take about the same time as they would in an oven, and of course depends on how chunky you make them. I cut normalish size chips out of one large potato, make sure you dry the potato off as that slows down the cooking time. Put in the actifry with a tsp of oil and chips ready in about half an hour. Frozen chips such as the McCains Rustic are done in about 20 minutes and you do not add oil to these, they are only 1 syn per 100g. You can cook semosa, but I have not tried them. Onions rings - if you are talking about onions rings dipped in batter then no you could not do uncooked batter like that as the food is not immersed in oil, it just has the hot oil/air mixture blow around the food while the centre paddle slowly mixes it to ensure it is cooked on all sides. You can do frozen ones though!
If you google tefal actifry you should be able to find loads of info about them.

MRSMCAWBER

Retired lady-
My remoska is my most loved kitchen item -it cooks everything beautifully and its rare for me to put the oven on -I have the standard one -well I actually have 3 :rotfl:
Im not as mad as it sounds...I only paid for 1 :T-Lakeland sent me one out that never arrived so they sent a 2nd that didn't arrive so they sent a 3rd THAT ONE ARRIVED ..2 weeks later one of the 1st to be sent arrived and when I contacted Lakeland to let them know-they told me to keep it for having waited so long :j...I have both out as sometimes If I wan't to do meat in one I can stick roast veg or a yorky in the other ... and about 1 month ago I contacted them to let them know that some of the coating on the lid was peeling and even though I told them it was still usable they sent me a replacement :eek:-so THAT one is still boxed up and in the spare room..

I would be interested to hear about the acti-fry as we don't like oven chips -not sure where I would fit one though :rotfl:-oohh and a question whilst Im at it... does it make a smell? only I even remember deep fat friers stinking out the place when my friend had one

Sashanut -I hope it was the little bar too.. if so its not that bad is it :T

got-it-spend-it

I know this is a bit of a subjective question, but does anyone have any rough idea how much weight loss equals a drop in dress size? What are other people's experience of this?

I'm now comfortably fitting in 14s (rather than squeezing myself in, and wearing some 16s as I was when I started SW six weeks ago) but I'd like to know when I might hit the 12s!

bright_side

I've lost 11.5 pounds so far and I'm still in the same clothes as before. Albeit some are so big that anymore weight loss off my hips and I'm sure they'll just fall down!! Others are just fitting a lot more comfortably. Of course a lot of it depends on where you shop because sizes vary so so much. I may now be able to squeeze into say a New Look size 12 but probably not from anywhere else and when I buy my new size 12s in the not so distant future (hopefully) I want to be able to breathe in them lol.

aliscrapper

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

I know this is a bit of a subjective question, but does anyone have any rough idea how much weight loss equals a drop in dress size? What are other people's experience of this?

I'm now comfortably fitting in 14s (rather than squeezing myself in, and wearing some 16s as I was when I started SW six weeks ago) but I'd like to know when I might hit the 12s!

I've lost 5 stone 12 pounds and have come down from a size 24 to a
size 18. I have noticed that other people seem to drop sizes quicker than I do with their weight loss.:(

~daisy~_2

i have to confess to the cardinal sin and had a sneaky weigh this morning - im a pound heavier than i was when starting on wednesday

gutted - that'll learn me .......

TakeItEazy

Been catching up with thread again, very busy forum just lately :T

Counting syns -- I do count syns daily normally but if I go over I will also work it out over the week as weekly count is 105 and I hope by the end of the week NOT to have gone over it . HTH

Water -- I am rubbish at drinking ANYTHING so water is a real problem. I take a 500ml bottle to work every day and feel chuffed if I drink it all. Sometimes I managed to finish it on the walk home but recently I still have more than half left . When I look at how much I drink I should hide my head in shame. Average day = coffee [1] few mouthfuls water at lunch, about the same in diet cola with tea. I can't cope [bladderwise] with much more or am up during night for loo and am usually bursting before the alarm goes off in the morning.

Remoska sounds great BUT the PRICE ..........OUCH :eek:

Wi today and STS, not unexpected as * week and usually have a 'heavy' day [lots of pain and bloated] one of the days and today seems to be the day . BUTTTTTTTTTT could have been worse and gained so must take some comfort from that. :rotfl:


Oh and as this thread is so long can someone link me to the recipe for chilli please.

retiredlady

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Retired lady-
My remoska is my most loved kitchen item -it cooks everything beautifully and its rare for me to put the oven on -I have the standard one -

I would be interested to hear about the acti-fry as we don't like oven chips -not sure where I would fit one though :rotfl:-oohh and a question whilst Im at it... does it make a smell? only I even remember deep fat friers stinking out the place when my friend had one

:T

I find the only things I put the oven on for now is pizza and Christmas dinner (turkey). I have both the standard and the bigger one. I bought the standard first but found with 4 of us at home plus a few of the girls friends that I needed something bigger on weekends! So during the week I use the smaller one and on the weekend the bigger. I also take the standard out with us when we go off in the campervan - what a difference that makes to camping trips!

No smells from the actifry at all - it is brilliant! I found it a little noisy at first (the fan) but once I got used to it I never noticed it. The timer that is built into it is a bit useless because unless you are actually in the kitchen you wouldn't hear it when it goes off, plus the timer doesn't actually switch it off - it just makes a little "ding" noise. I just set the timer on my oven when I put something in the actifry - you can hear that next door:rotfl:!
I have just made egg and chips for my lunch - lovely! I don't like oven chips from the oven either but in the actifry they take on an entirely different taste!

Marion

Sian_the_Green

I just had egg and chips too, baked the eggs in with the chips for the last 5 mins. We have a Teflon non stick baking sheet and that is brilliant for cooking most things to stop them sticking, it was only a couple of pounds from Home bargain but you have to use so much less fat for baking anything, nothing sticks to it