"hopitus" wrote in message
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On Nov 19, 7:55 am, Lesley wrote:
On Nov 18, 8:52 am, "Christina Websell"

wrote:
I think what you might be saying is that you don't

I like cooking when I have time to do it properly like at weekends
but
our cooker is too big for day to day use it takes ages to pre-heat
and
that adds to the electric bill also the halogen oven stands on the
worktop Dave can use it. He can't bend down enough to get trays
etc
in and out of the oven without there being a possibility he could
fall
over or drop things so it would be better for him to use- he's the
better cook out of the pair of us!

and if so I would just

use the microwave without spending 200 on a halogen oven.

We weren't going to go for the 200 models- you can get them much
cheaper than that and the cheaper ones perform just as well in
tests.
The microwave is fine for some things but it doesn't brown things

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

You are not kidding....if "crispy" is what you want, forget the
nuking
machine, LOL. I nuke many, many things that ordinarily folks use
other countertop or freestanding kitchen appliances for....but have
to abandon my usual standby, the microwave, for browning.
Luckily, about the only time this issue looms its self is the
holiday Thanksgiving with all that oven roasting, etc.
To each their own....for what they need in food prep.
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I really get the use out of the microwave on Thanksgiving as a way
of bringing everything back up to serving temperature at the same
time. I don't know how my mother managed to get everything on the
table, hot at the same time. But she did.

Now I say something in the store a few days ago that looked a little
strange to me. It was a fat free turkey deep fryer. I didn't check
out the price. To busy thinking of what are they going to dream up
to misrepresent something for marketing purposes next.

It was an infrared cooker, but designed so you can drop the turkey
into it from the top so you will 'feel' like you are deep frying it.

Strange.

Jo