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Learning About Thermal Cooker :

What is Thermal Cooker?

Have you heard of thermal cooker? We sure did not, that is until a year ago, when we started learning more ways about cooking healthy food in shortest time possible. Let us look at what is thermal cooker and what makes it a special thing in your kitchen and cooking.

Thermal cooker is life savior of us, it is basically economical, healthy and very convenient way to cook. You place your ingredients in inner pot, place the lid and bring to boil on your stove top for about 10 minutes. Take it inner pot off the stove and place it in outer thermal pot. Forget about it, go to work, watch a movie, go for a walk or best take a nap. It is safe enough to leave unattended as there are power cord or electric… Continue reading

What Are Small Appliances?

What are small appliances?

Small appliances for kitchen refers to mostly portable or semi portable kitchen products that can be used over the table top, counter top in the kitchen. These small appliance can be electric, battery powered, gas powered or manually operated. All small appliances can be useful kitchenware and comes in home version and professional industrial version. Many small appliances come varied price range, such as simple can opener is very cheap to special espresso machines that can cost in thousands range.

Some example of small appliances for kitchen are; blenders, food processors, deep fat fryers, grills, pressure cooker, slow cooker and more that helps you cook various type of food in your home kitchen. Check out top rated and best selling kitchen appliances and our small appliance reviews for best mixer, best rice cooker, best blender, thermal… Continue reading

Zojirushi Micom 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel

Zojirushi Micom 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel

The New Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer is a three cup rice cooker. It has a micro computerized Fuzzy logic technology and is famously called fuzzy logic rice cooker type with more than basic automated features. The exterior of this rice cooker and is shiny, clean and clear-coated stainless steel which makes it unique in design. It has a automatic keep warm feature and a spherical inner cooking pan and heating system.

Fuzzy Logic Technology

This rice cooker produces a restaurant quality and fluffy rice at home. You can not burn this rice, even when you forget  it for hours as it is practically foolproof with this 3-cup electric rice cooker and warmer. Multi-menu selections using micro-computerized Fuzzy logic technology control the temperature for efficient cooking of many different… Continue reading

Food Processor Guide

Guide to Food Processor

First idea of a food processor, a helping machine came through a french catering sales man Pierre Verfun, whose clients were tired of time spent in kitchen, doing menial tasks such as chopping, shredding, grinding and mixing. In 1960s, he produced a simple machine with bowl and blade in a base to help with these tasks. It was not available to general public for a decade or so. Around early 1970s, domestic food processor called Magimix was ready for people’s kitchen in France, UK and North America. Now food processor as widely popular in available in every part of the world.

Having a food processor in your kitchen can come handy to do time consuming tasks such as chopping, shredding in short time, making whole cooking time more enjoyable. Food processor is convenient and can work… Continue reading

Kitchenaid Classic Stand Mixer: Best Mixer

Classic White Stand Mixer

This mixer from Kitchenaid is perfect for kitchens of all sizes as it does many tasks with 4.5 quart bowl size. This classic series stand mixer delivers the power and durability to mix large batches. It can hold up to 8 cup flour and has a powerful 275-watt motor to mix variety of texture. Additional function such as versatile 10 speed control makes mixing various things much easier. It is very durable, with multy function attachments.

KitchenAid’s stand mixer is top rated mixer among food critic and home cooks who use this machine. It has 275 watts of mixing power make easy job of creaming the butter, or kneading dough, and whipping cream.

You and your kids will appreciate how quick and easy it is to mix up a batch of cookie dough; the 4-1/2-quart bowl… Continue reading

Cuisinart DLC-10S Pro Classic 7-Cup Food Processor

Cuisinart DLC-10S Pro Classic 7-Cup Food Processor

Cuisinart DLC-10S , The Cuisinart Pro Classic Food Processor is not only one the top rated food processor, it also makes all your favorites, from stir-fries vegetables to main course salads to peanut butter and home-made bread dough. It is a perfect gift for your self or your friends.  The food processor has become an integral part of modern cooking, and saving a lot of time doing many task that can be time consuming. For example, this food processor has a ability to speeding up a multitude of processes, including kneading dough, slicing, chopping, shredding cheese, vegetables and meat, mincing garlic and parsley, mixing batters, and emulsifying mayonnaise. While I usually chop on a wood cutting board with a big chef’s knife, the Cuisinart makes several tasks a lot easier to cut… Continue reading

Wok Guide: Everything You Wanted To Know About Wok

How I got started to Love and Cook in a Wok

When I was in college, me and my friends used to hang out at one place after classes that served great stir fry and spring rolls. Food was inexpensive enough for students, however when we started eating out almost every day, cost added up. Friend of mine and I decided to make same stir fry at home at fraction of cost. After making several failed attempts of making a stir fry in a frying pan, stainless steel pan, I bought a thin and inexpensive wok, it did not work as well as metal was too thin, I had no real patience of seasoning the wok.

Around that time I started watching “Yan can cook” in PBS cooking show and started to learn lot more about cooking Chinese food and… Continue reading

Rice Cooker Guide

Rice cooker Guide:

Rice cookers can date it existence from earliest of times as British Museum has a ceramic rice steamer dated to 1250 BC on display. Can you imagine that?

Japanese company Mitsubishi was the first one to make electric rice cooker in mid 1940s, it was basic set electric set up and not very user friendly. In mid 1950s Toshiba created first commercially successful rice cooker. It was a simple design, with rice pot was place in another larger pot with water in it, so outer post boiled the water rice was cooked.

Today rice cooker have changed a little bit, using similar ways of way using insulated outer pot to boil rice in inner pot. Many rice cooker inner bowls are non-stick type and Teflon type of material, making easy for rice not to stick at bottom.… Continue reading

Best Thermal Cooker : Tiger NFA-B600

Thermal cooker: Best Thermal Cooker : Tiger NFA-B600

Not too long ago, I did not know what thermal cooker was and did not think I needed one either. About a year ago, we went to beach picnic with a few friends of ours and we had lugged some food and snacks to eat during the driving and at the beach. By the time we got there, our sandwiches were cold and unappealing to eat and we were ready to buy junk food at high prices at the beach! Yes, I know it is pathetic, we felt the same way but did not think of any better way to remedy the situation at the hand.Our friends had brought some large stainless thing with them, I thought they were crazy carrying that thing around until they opened it and spooned really hot… Continue reading

Top Small Appliances

What are small appliances?

Small appliances for kitchen refers to mostly portable or semi portable kitchen products that can be used over the table top, counter top in the kitchen. These small appliance can be electric, battery powered, gas powered or manually operated. All small appliances can be useful kitchenware and comes in home version and professional industrial version. Many small appliances come varied price range, such as simple can opener is very cheap to special espresso machines that can cost in thousands range.Do not let word “Small” fool you, there is nothing about it. Small appliances can do some big things in Kitchen. Some example of small appliances for kitchen are; blenders, food processors, deep fat fryers, grills, pressure cooker, slow cooker and more that helps you cook various type of food in your home kitchen. Many small appliances… Continue reading