Garlic Oil - Chinese Old Style Tips and Gadgets

Bellie_2

Here is a really good chinese supermarket that deliver.

http://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/index.php

Angelselondon

Bellie wrote:

Here is a really good chinese supermarket that deliver.

http://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/index.php

Thanks for that, I like the rice cookers they have available here and I have enough pin money for one :j

Just out of interest, have you used them?

suzy_g

Wow thanks for that IM going to start some online shopping . suzy

suzy_g

Just looked, I will probably buy from both sites, the Asian had to most gluten free sauces, but I shall buy a lot of things off the other site which also had some very good recipes

urchin

Rice cookers are a godsend. My ex-MIL was malaysian and always cooked rice this way and it always tasted lovely. Boiled rice just tastes nasty to me now.

I got a rice cooker from Argos last year for £11.99 in their sale. Makes life so much easier!

eryn_kathleen

I've had a rice cooker a friend got me from IKEA for about 3 years and I really love it. It cost about £15 last time I checked, but they seem to come with a plastic lid now rather than the glass one mine came with.

I took a Chinese & Thai cooking class with a Malaysian teacher, and she gave us a great tip on keeping garlic - just peel the cloves, put them in a jar, and cover them with oil. They'll keep in or out of the fridge as long as long as air doesn't touch the garlic itself.

This also works with curry pastes, whether you buy them or make them yourself. Just top up with oil every time you take a spoonful out and they won't get mouldy or go off. And only use very, very dry spoons to get the paste out of the jar (so as not to introduce water).