Kitchen toys...

[21TonyK]

Just showing off my new toy I bought second hand from the local butcher last night...



Now all I need is a water bath to go with it.

Whats you latest or best toy?

Edited by 21TonyK on Thursday 4th November 10:40

[R500POP]

We have filtered boiling & chilled water on tap & an infra red soap dispenser.

[Melman Giraffe]

Sous Vide I presume!!

[Andrew[MG]]

What is it?

[R500POP]

Looks like a vac packing machine.

[escargot]

Not quite as technologically advanced as your vac packing machine but I finally bought a potato ricer last weekend. Bloody brilliant invention.

[R500POP]

escargot said:

Not quite as technologically advanced as your vac packing machine but I finally bought a potato ricer last weekend. Bloody brilliant invention.

Lovely creamy mash.

[21TonyK]

Melman Giraffe said:

Sous Vide I presume!!

Thats the one. Already got some peri-peri chicken legs and carrots in at 85 degrees for a few hours.

/top tip, oranges don't like packing on max. vacuum

[CommanderJameson]

Sometimes the simplest are the best.

I fkin' love my potato ricer.

[jenpot]

Don't try and vac pac custard.

It was a disaster. A total, messy disaster.

[Cotty]

latest is a mandoline with multiple blades but not yet used it.

[Simpo Two]

Cotty said:

latest is a mandoline with multiple blades but not yet used it.

I like that. Disguise yourself as a musician, then let 'em have it. Bloodbath.

[Melman Giraffe]

21TonyK said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Sous Vide I presume!!

Thats the one. Already got some peri-peri chicken legs and carrots in at 85 degrees for a few hours.

/top tip, oranges don't like packing on max. vacuum

Interesting!

85c being the optimum temp where Salmonella isn't being cultivated?

Let us know your results

[21TonyK]

Cotty said:

latest is a mandoline with multiple blades but not yet used it.

For Gods sake I hope you've got the additional guard/holder thing! I have one missing finger tip, one which has regrown diagonally and a finger nail with a very strange kink where the third tip regrew.

And, yes, it took three separate mishaps until I bought a guard!

[Cotty]

Yep it comes with the holder with spikes for the veg.

[Pferdestarke]

Cotty said:

latest is a mandoline with multiple blades but not yet used it.

Don't 'shave' your fingers. It hurts.

[Cotty]

It was only a cheap one but has the food holder
http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~140380~Kitchen+Craft...

[shirt]

CommanderJameson said:

Sometimes the simplest are the best.

I fkin' love my potato ricer.

this, plus my mandolin, and good knives. spent over £200 on knives last weekend and i love my new 9" damascus steel blade. it doesn;t like me though, as the plasters on my fingers demonstrate.

[Piglet]

I'm contemplating a dehydrator to use up the garden produce. Has anyone used one?

[21TonyK]

Melman Giraffe said:

21TonyK said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Sous Vide I presume!!

Thats the one. Already got some peri-peri chicken legs and carrots in at 85 degrees for a few hours.

/top tip, oranges don't like packing on max. vacuum

Interesting!

85c being the optimum temp where Salmonella isn't being cultivated?

Let us know your results

I'll post some pics when I get round to eating it, but, in theory 50 degrees for long enough will destroy Sal. (it's pretty fragile as bacteria go) and 75 will knock most things on the head in 10 minutes. 85 was chosen as this was the recommended temp for root veg and with cheap imported chicken I wouldn't take the risk