Should I go microwave free and buy an air fryer?

[Dave7]

There are much better ready made pizzas out there.

That will fit in a draw ?
Yes, I can cut a full pizza in half but CT pizzas are just an easy, simple option.
BTW..... which pizzas do you have in mind ?

 

[CentralCommuter]

Hold the bus.

Now that Accy has come out as a vegetarian I will revise my original advice and say DON’T buy an air fryer! Without using it for meat, what is the actual point other than chips?

In fact, I now change my advice to buying an airfryer and abandoning vegetarianism!

 

[Webbo2]

That will fit in a draw ?
Yes, I can cut a full pizza in half but CT pizzas are just an easy, simple option.
BTW..... which pizzas do you have in mind ?

Crosta and Molliar. That might not be the correct spelling but if you stick it google it will come. They sell them in the coop.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Here's links to our fryer (single drawer plus window), the oven temp/time conversion fridge magnet for air frying and a mini rack my better half bought for the fryer...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09CLGXXFV
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BLHPMGCC
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BRBBWJG1

And a random link to the Barry Lewis yootoob cooking channel we've been watching for at least this year, self-taught cook who is fairly watchable even to someone like me who isn't a wizz in the kitchen, it's what tempted us to get an air fryer (he mixes up what kitchen stuff he uses to make things)...
https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarrylewis

 

[Mike_P]

I only have a 2 litre one which is usually used for chips, frozen roast potatoes, potato rostis, scampi and bread and butter pudding. The latter needs to to have a small metal stand, the cover of a tea strainer fir example, over the handle of the removable shelf so the pudding can be put in level

 

[presta]

Making porridge in a pan involves heating up a liquid mixed with oats so that oats soften and break down in the liquid.
Making porridge in a microwave involves heating up a liquid mixed with oats so that oats soften and break down in the liquid.

The only difference is the speed of heating and the amount of mixing.

To cook porridge you need to simmer it for several minutes until it softens (unless you like uncooked porridge). If you try do that in a microwave, it boils over within seconds unless you stand there peering in the window waiting to catch it just in time and give it a stir. I did mine that way for years until I asked myself why I kept bothering with all the palaver.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Making porridge in a pan involves heating up a liquid mixed with oats so that oats soften and break down in the liquid.
Making porridge in a microwave involves heating up a liquid mixed with oats so that oats soften and break down in the liquid.

The only difference is the speed of heating and the amount of mixing.

and the time it takes
The oats take time to absorb the liquid and do whatever they do
and the microwave doesn't speed up that bit

My wife gets round this by mixing the 2 together early so by the time the mixture is zapped they have already been soaking for an hour or so

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To cook porridge you need to simmer it for several minutes until it softens (unless you like uncooked porridge). If you try do that in a microwave, it boils over within seconds unless you stand there peering in the window waiting to catch it just in time and give it a stir. I did mine that way for years until I asked myself why I kept bothering with all the palaver.

that is why my wife uses a wide bowl with side that curve outwards
when it boils it goes out on to the lips but never goes over the side


Oh - and using a pan requires a lot of cleaning that the microwave method does need

 

[glasgowcyclist]

that is why my wife uses a wide bowl with side that curve outwards
when it boils it goes out on to the lips but never goes over the side


Oh - and using a pan requires a lot of cleaning that the microwave method does need

But then the bowl's too feckin' hot to hold so you either sit it inside another one or decant it, giving you two bowls to clean.

I find it easier, and produces better porridge, to use a pot.
Like normal people!

 

[lazybloke]

It will be the stirring that makes the difference, though you would think somebody calling themselves "lazybloke" might not want to do too much of that

I see the smiley, but it's not laziness in this case. I prefer the bother of using a pan at the hob, even though that means more washing up!

 

[Webbo2]

I find that making Banana porridge is better in the microwave rather than a pan. The banana go much more mushy.

 

[Dadam]

But then the bowl's too feckin' hot to hold so you either sit it inside another one or decant it, giving you two bowls to clean.

Do they not sell oven gloves in Glasgow?

 

[MontyVeda]

Who'd have thought porridge would be so polarising?

Dare I ask... salt or sugar?

 

[Pblakeney]

I find that making Banana porridge is better in the microwave rather than a pan. The banana go much more mushy.

Eeeeuuuuuwwww! Sliced banana goes in after cooking and the residual heat of the porridge is sufficient,
Yes, porridge is polarising. Salt and sugar, or honey. Unless adding a banana or sultanas.

 

[Red17]

Who'd have thought porridge would be so polarising?

Dare I ask... salt or sugar?

Or made with milk or water