Can anyone who says they have had success with this product let me know what they cooked, temperature used, cooking time? My first experience was bad.
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My 1st was a 9" pizza. Great. all cooking times in booklet & youtube. 2nd was chicken. Great roasted chicken. Pork & steak great. It works great.
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I cooked a 1 inch steak, frozen solid for 14 minutes each side, perfect medium rare. I also roast raw almonds on 350 for 12 minutes, shaking half way through, turn out great.A thawed out whole chicken on bottom rack for 40 minutes on each side turns out very moist. I pour some dark beer in cavity, mm good.
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Wow, I'm far from a cooking expert. Only thing I'll suggest is if you're not already using a cooking spray (i.e. PAM,Crisco or Smart Balance) try that with just a 10 second reduction on time you're MWaving them.
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In reply to an earlier post on Oct 1, 2008 11:47 AM PDT solitaire40 says:I think it's confusing too. <snip> Tried a meatloaf and it didn't cook all the way thru.Maybe my fault - I don't remember. The cook book could be better.Reply to solitaire40's post: The cook book, charts, times and temps are only a guide. You have to use a thermometer to test for doneness...that's the only way to go.
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I haven't refridgerated mine. I must be honest, I haven't tried it again after the initial first tasting...it was THAT bad. I will try the idea below with spicy mustard and see if that improves the taste
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I suspect that you didn't have the top properly attached; it is a little tricky to get it right. I've found the best way to learn how to use it is NOT to prepare some elaborate meal where there is a lot at invested (time and money.) You know you can cook nothing, then try it till you get it right. (Tip: get a round shaped, chrome-plated heat diffuser for the bottom to cut down on cooking errors.) Good look, it's worth it to master this cooker. Lance
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Don, There are a lot of recipe out there and I think I used most of them, I think this one is very good in that it only takes 4 hours, so here it is. This recipe is from Dan Leaders taken from the internet.
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The majority of the posts are positive. However, a few fuss about "breakage" and/or the heating element dying out after a couple of uses.What model is yours? I am begining to comprehend the proper uses and the best recipes, but "model numbers" are not given with the posts.MML
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Tom, thank you for your reply. I went to Grazia's website and asked the same question. Hopefully they will email the recipes to me. We'll see. Thanks again.
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We've had ours for about 2 weeks and it seems to get pretty hot. We've rotisseried five different things and used the oven quite a bit, and everything's turned out great! Pre-heating is essential. Good luck!
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Yes. The minute you put food on it drops. I've only cooked on 5 because of this and it still doesn't come up to temp. What's worse is that when you flip food it doesn't get a good sear on the second side because the temp is so low. It's not the weather and it's not constant lid opening. So what is it? I'm incredibly disappointed so far.
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I'd send it back and get a good one. Mine works fine. I wind it up and then put what i'm cooking on it and press down and it rotates until I lift the cooked food off from it and it stops rotating. Yours should work something like this. Good luck. By the way, I have enjoyed using mine. I never had one before, but it's doing the job.
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No success so far. I have same problem with rice cookers. I positively will not buy non-stick, still looking for alternatives. Peter
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I'm sorry Sheila, I really wish I had as experience as you seem to have had, cooking for a family seems impossible since it cooks small amounts of food at a time. I found nothing juicy, tender nor crispy with the food and believe I tried various foods and temperatures before I returned it. I still feel its total waste of money a convection counter oven does a wonderful job, fast, juicy, crispy food in half the time of a regular oven and cooking spray still offers grease feel food. And takes up less space without all the clear up!
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Jason, I've had a hard time getting it up to the desired smoking temp when it's cool & windy or just cool. I think one of the problems is that they only recommending using 12 or so starter coals. Yesterday I increased this number to 20 or so and that seemed to work better. I'll keep fooling with it and could see using up to half the coals in the chimney starter. And I've found that I need to have the top holes open more than the 5/16 they recommend. I'd say open them all the way up and then throttle them down. I also think it makes a big difference and significantly slows down the process if the meat isn't close to room temp to start. But I'll tell you, the more I use the device the more comfortable I feel with it. I'm having a retirement get together this coming Sat so started preparing for that this weekend. Using a rib rack I smoked 6 full racks of ribs on Sat and 6 more on Sun. I'd never have dreamed that 6 racks of ribs would fit on the Weber but they did. I baby sat the Sat batch pretty closely but once the Sunday batch was up to speed I only looked at about once/hour to stir the coals, add water & wood. We ate one last evening and it was good but will put the rest in the oven for 2 or 3 hours to get them more tender before serving. I hope that this (long) answer is of some help and encouragement. Dave McCartney, Marion, OH dkmcpa@yahoo.com
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I have! 9 noodles, everything cooked the same as I always do lasagne. I believe I cooked it on 350*. Just cover with foil for majority of cook time. Turned out great!
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Your welcome, I always try to give honest answers as to what my experience was, hopefully it saves someone time, money and the headache of returning a item. Especially with a product that has good reviews and then I buy it because of the reviews only to find they weren't that true. I "fried" everything from fish, chix tenders, stuffed chix breasts, fries to onion rings, terrible. Can only cook very small amounts of food at a time and the bowl is extremely heavy! A Huge diasppointment!
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I have had no problems with this. I have used the sauté several times and the pressure cooker and slow cooker settings. Have not burned anything. Perhaps not enough water was used?