Cooking with Halogen Cookers

[kiptower]

anyone who has access to MAKRO from the 6th of Jan they are doing the JML one for £29.99 + vat ( MAKRO original price £39.99 +vat )

 

also all other JML products are 25% off for the two weeks

[kiptower]

on offer in ALDI next week same as JML one , similar etc

 

£29.99 all in

 

ALDI - Sunday Special Buys 17th January 2010

 

xtra bits for it a kit for £14.99 Coopers of Stortford google it

[kiptower]

here we go , tried the Icelands uncooked saus rolls > 4 large for a £1

 

however the other 2, I ate , pastry just melted in the mouth

 

took 20 mins @ 200c

 

[kiptower]

free download for halogen cookbook

 

http://www.halogenovenrecipes.co.uk/Halogen_Oven_Recipe_Book.pdf

[fivenecks]

another chicken

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2010 by fivenecks
changing pic

[kiptower]

Blunt Knife or hackshaw used to cut that ?

[fivenecks]

was one that you sharpened for me ....lol

[kiptower]

here we go battle of the roast chickens

 

1 chicken and I will raise you a plate of sausages also done in the halogen by Mrs Kip for sarnies later , both today

 

PMSL

 

[ukaviator]

here we go , tried the Icelands uncooked saus rolls > 4 large for a £1

 

however the other 2, I ate , pastry just melted in the mouth

 

took 20 mins @ 200c

 

 

 

GANNET. . . .

 

 

I don't like the colour of the food in the above post, looks like its been fried in lard. .

[kiptower]

nope nothing added, they just melt in the mouth , pic is a bit bright on the colour though

 

and any fat that was in the pastry comes out and goes to the bottom of the Halogen,

 

nope not gannets but we do like our food, inc the dogs even their food real chicken and sausages etc is cooken in the Halogen now ( now there is someone on this thread that does eat extra large meals, but I wont mention him ) a pic says 1000 words though

[ukaviator]

nope not gannets but we do like our food, inc the dogs

 

You eat the dogs food?

 

I rest my case, guilty as charged . . . GANNET . .

[kiptower]

you silly old sod , we dont actualy buy dog food, our two have real food and most times the same as us, including sirlion steak she feeds them , and I get the sausages ,

 

go off and eat your nuts , are they fried or boiled

[ukaviator]

Roasted. . .

 

Mind you they will be later when Tilly catches up with me . . check out her Happy Birthady thread. .

[woody1066]

I actually got brought a halogen cooker just before Christmas. I have to say that I am a little dissapointed. The instruction booklet you get with it is vague and there are only about 4 or 5 recipes. I have tried to find halogen cookbooks in the shops to no avail and the one that I ordered on Ebay took 6 weeks to arrive and when it did had recipes that either came out burned to a crisp or raw

[havinastella]

I actually got brought a halogen cooker just before Christmas. I have to say that I am a little dissapointed. The instruction booklet you get with it is vague and there are only about 4 or 5 recipes. I have tried to find halogen cookbooks in the shops to no avail and the one that I ordered on Ebay took 6 weeks to arrive and when it did had recipes that either came out burned to a crisp or raw

 

 

Stay with it Woody.

 

It's trail and error to start with, but once you know how long, the food is SO much better than cooked in a normal oven!

 

JOgs

[kiptower]

first HL where pics of what you have done

 

woody a book here > http://www.halogenovenrecipes.co.uk/Halogen_Oven_Recipe_Book.pdf

 

woody if you have a problem shout me or sheba dog or fiveneckes we all use them all the time , I would say get the extra's etc > here Coopers of Stortford Halogen Oven Accessories from Coopers of Stortford

 

you do need the extender ring with some cooking , and the bits in the extra's kit are very usefull

 

when cooking from a recipe , reduce the heat by approx 25c and time by about 10% , there is 2 guides few posts back you can print

 

but as said try different things and shout first if your not sure

 

Kip

[havinastella]

Thanks for that link Kip

 

Jogs

[woody1066]

Thanks for that I will give them a go

[kiptower]

try some of the things posted where times / temp are showing

 

it is a bit of trial and error , first time I did a beef joint i have to admit it was cooked too high and wan'st that tender, but its best to use a lower temp to start you can always turn it up a bit etc,

 

we had ours for a few months just doing the odd thing now and again, but we soon got the hang of it, I am forever running out of the Iceland uncooked saus' rolls, every visitor we have asks for a demo then eats them all

[JonCris]

My BH loves her HO

[kiptower]

Woody try these

 

uncooked from Icelands

 

and the saus' rolls are the ones i put a pic up of

 

without extender ring use the low tray about 25 - 30 mins on 175 -180

 

wife and sheba-dog had the steak and onion slices here one evening and said they are really nice ( i missed out cant have onions )

 

[ukaviator]

wife and sheba-dog had the steak and onion slices here one evening and said they are really nice

 

You have a talking Dog Kip?

 

I haven't tried the Sausage rolls from Iceland yet they look ok.

[kiptower]

omg here we go the user Sheba dog might want a word in your ear UK with a lump of lead out the end of his 410 remmington

[sheba-dog]

This is my entire fault I took my halogen over to kips so he could see how well it worked he has not stopped talking about it yet, with good reason. You see what you are cooking at a glance; yes I am the one with big meals. 1 meal a day. It’s so easy to use and clean so far I have not messed any thing up fingers x I have not used my gas oven since by the time the oven heated up the meal was half cooked in the halogen

 

Gas cooker 30 mins to get hot for cooking 30 mins of gas wasted before you start to cook 7 days a week 365x30 = 10950 mins 182.5 hours of gas wasted in one year that’s a lot of gas tell me I am not saving

Halogen aprox 2 mins to be at full heat.

 

Keep Cooking it’s only Practice. Sheba dog

Edited February 22, 2010 by sheba-dog

[ukaviator]

omg here we go the user Sheba dog might want a word in your ear UK with a lump of lead out the end of his 410 remmington

 

Oh. . .

 

:grin: