The Remoska Cookery Book

paddy's_mum

Well .. it worked quite well! One or two minor mistakes on my part but the quality of the cooking is perfectly acceptable.

I made the dough earlier today but as I had not got my 'thinking head' on at the time, I weighed out one and half pounds of flour. Rather than try to scoop some back into the bag, I simply adjusted all the other ingredients up to match. All fine so far. Let it rise, divided into two, placed in the Remoska and left to continue proving. Then I switched the pan on ... that's when I realised my error of judgment.

Put simply the dough rose too far up in the pan so that the tops were turning brown before the loaves had had enough time to finish cooking properly. Being nothing if not resourceful (for which read tight-fisted or doesn't know when beaten!) I simply turned the loaves over and continued cooking. They are out now and hubby just sliced one - perfectly acceptable bread, only one big pan to wash and not had to heat the full oven.

Lesson to self is to make a smaller amount of the basic dough so as to leave plenty of head room in the Remoska while baking. No complaints at all. Hope that helps or encourages someone else to have a go. Many thanks to you all for help in getting this type of baking started.

squeaky

Didn't I see, while scouting around somewhere, that turning the dough over is exactly what you're supposed to do?

So you got it right

champys

Could I ask Remoska users a question please - rather a stupid one, maybe. Can anyone tell me whether you can make toast in a Remoska? I'm about to order one but this is something I have been wondering about....... thank you!

antronella

can i ask a question too please!?
Does it take roughly the same amount of time to cook in the remoska as a conventional oven? eg..say you bought a quiche, which said cook for 20 mins..would you cook it for the same time as this? and does it crisp the base of things or just the top? thanks.

paddy's_mum

I can't see why you couldn't do toast in a Remoska, especially if you also have the steel wire grid for it that lifts food up nearer to the element, which is in the lid. However, I suspect that a normal toaster would be quicker and more miserly with the electricity.

I find things cook at pretty much the same timings as using a normal oven. The Remoska is a smaller vessel than a domestic oven but with a similarly smaller (500 watt) element, it heats the internal space quickly. Again, if you have the steel wire rack, the bottoms of things get cooked at the same time as the tops.

I think that if you can realise that the Remoska, pure and simple, is a small, table top oven with the heat source at the top of the unit (as it is in many domestic ovens) you will be able to see that almost anything you can do in the big cooker can be done in the Remoska.

The only governing factor is size but on a daily basis, we work out what size saucepan or bowl we need for any particular item to be successfully cooked. It is exactly the same with the Remoska. Size would mean that I couldn't cook a turkey in it (though it will take a 4 person meal sized chicken) but equally, I wouldn't attempt to cook enough potatoes for six people in a milk pan.

It comes into its own during the summer months. Slaving away in a hot kitchen and then turning on the oven is miserable for the cook. How much easier to bung a quiche and jackets into the Remoska, go sit in the shade outside somewhere and come back in to find everything cooked, ready to serve. I wouldn't be without mine and believe it to be well worth finding kitchen space for.

champys

paddy's_mum wrote: »

I can't see why you couldn't do toast in a Remoska, especially if you also have the steel wire grid for it that lifts food up nearer to the element, which is in the lid. However, I suspect that a normal toaster would be quicker and more miserly with the electricity.

Thanks paddy's mum! I was asking because I am buying the Remoska (mostly) for use in the camper van. Our previous camper had a gas oven/grill which i used for the toast. The French ones almost never have an oven fitted. So now I am hoping the Remoska will do all the duties! There is very little stowing space on board a camper so cannot take a toaster as well. And I haven't found an acceptable way of making toast on the hob yet.

dibblersan

I know this is an older thread, but i just wanted to say both how wonderful the remoska is and how wonderful lakeland are.

I've had a remoska for years - 2006 at least - and I was very distressed when my remoska started acting up - the lid had a rattle to it and it started cooking unevenly

I contacted lakeland to ask if they knew of any people that repaired remoskas (I couldn't afford a replacement and wouldn't expect them to hold any liability) and I was told to take it into my nearest store and they'd replace it for me free of charge.

I emphasised I had no reciept and that it was very old - they said it didn't matter.

so I have a new remoska again!

how wonderful is that.

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I too am a delighted Remoska owner I have had mine for around 3 years and find it the next best thing to sliced bread .I have cut back on using my big oven and in fact used my oven yesterday for the first time this year as I was batch baking.Remoska cooking is great fewer pand to wash up and so much cheaper than using a big oven ,especially if like me, you live alone.I must admit I would be lost without mine.My SC and my 'moska are the most used machines in my kitchen