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I am a suspicious chef who blames his tools (or ingredients) instead of assuming personal responsibility for bad results. I have an oven whose thermostat is very inaccurate, an independent oven thermometer whose readings take with a pinch of salt and a meat thermometer that raises more questions than he answers. Have I pushed the probe far enough? Are these photos of chickens and cows useful, or a mere distraction? Am I about to poison my family?
This new device with Witt Assumia many of my anxieties (the rest I will work in therapy). The Cookperfect system accuracy center is a probe (or, in the case of this dual version, two probes) equipped with five sensors along its length, so the question of whether the tip is in the correct place is debatable; Push it to the marked line and calculate the core temperature of the meat, together with the current ambient temperature of the oven. It communicates wirelessly with a small coupling station (duplicating as a loader for probes) that is somewhere in its kitchen; That station sends the numbers (again, wirelessly, through Bluetooth or 2.4Ghz, to you) to the Witt Cookperfect application on your smartphone.
I loved this thing. His first execution was for Sunday’s lunch: I told the application that Chickn was in the menu, offered me a “well done” (reassuring) option, I pressed GO and showed the oven temperature and the temperature of the growing nucleus along with a constantly estimated completion time. (Naturally, I let it go to 5 ° C higher than 75 ° C recommended, because old cooking habits die hard). The second execution was for a recipe of slowly plated bee What took me, what did. It will be great. And you know what? Was.
Soft operator
He will not listen to the verb “Pacotizar” out of a small number of professional kitchens, but it is the secret behind impossible ice cream, butter mixtures, mousses, soups concentrated, etc. The Pacojet, puts more simply, processes the foods that have frozen in special vessels at –20 ° C, whether ice cream mixtures, peas in broth, guacamole ingredients, broccoli stems, let your imagination be rance. Insert the beaker into the machine, and its shave blade the upper part of the frozen block to produce a puree with a texture that could not even achieve with a high -end food processor. Pacotise as much as you need and place the beaker in the freezer. An entrance door to unique kitchen experiments.
A cast iron excuse
This is the most compact of the new cast iron kitchens with integrated induction plates, which combines its traditional radiant heat with a safe and clean surface. Paste a lot in a kitchen units space 100 cm wide; In addition to the hot plate and the induction plate of two zones, its four doors hide a roasted oven with a grill, an oven over low heat and a conventional fan oven with nine temperature configurations (for recipe purposes, equivalent to the gas mark) and a rapid heating time of 15 minutes. Behind the AGA door is a touch screen panel to control the areas and configure timers. The 100 come in multiple tones, but the Black Vitreus-Enamel version of Black Vitreous-Enamel is surprising is surprising.
Give me some mass
Mass hooks that come with food mixers make a brave effort, but fight to generate a decent gluten development. Ooni, the pizza baking firm, has now reduced the large commercial machines used in bakeries to create a domestic equivalent: a kneading power that is just a little larger than the average food processor. It can operate with up to 5 kg of mass to create the consistency you are looking for (it has a timer, but the human judgment is advisable in the world notoriously volatile baking). The pizzas, the focus and the breads of the mother dough are their strong, but its silicone whipper and blender also make it a wonder of a mixture of cake all into one. A food processor that saves time and considerable effort.
Keep it clean
Hidden under the sink: a water purifier of the size of a desk PC, a small control box and a mineral concentrate bottle that Bluewater calls “liquid rock”. On the sink: a wireless ring in the form of or that shines the orange when the tap dispens the water from the network. Touch the ring and turn blue, indicating that water is being sent through the purifier, with aggregate minerals in its desired relationship (“light” to “bold”) and get out of the tap. The purifier claims to eradicate 99.7 percent of pollutants (bacteria, microplastics, chemicals forever) to make the tap water safer to drink. I cannot say if the filtered water is better or worse for me than municipal things, but knows substantially better.