when you get home late and just want to eat quickly." This is silly. If you really can’t wait for the water to boil, invest in an electric kettle. It will boil the water very fast and save you the trouble of needlessly...

use an electric kettle)...However, saying all this, it IS very convenient when you want just one cup of tea. I also use paper filters and the filter insert for one cup...all systems work well.

and 220 the whole time. I had a probe thermometer in the roast to check the internal temperature... after about 9 hours, it was finally at 165. Books I’ve read haven’t shown it needed that much time... so once I...

I got an electric tea kettle and two coffee grinders. That was by accident but one has various settings so I’ll use it for coffee and the other is just a plain jane version that will work great for spices! Oh not necessarily...

Den, I purchased a Cookshack Smokette electric smoker a few months back, and liked it so much that I brought it up to our country house and ordered an AmeriQue, also from Cookshack, to keep in the city. I make the most incredible...

smoker are you using? See the pic of a brisket on my Weber Kettle. Whatever the cooker, it must be low (200-250 chamber temp) and slow (about an hour per uncooked pound... yes, 14 hrs or so for a 14-lb “whole packer”...

. Of course, the most foolproof pot of all is an electric rice cooker!

commented to me some time ago that surprisingly the hotels here give a ''small quantity of ICE'‘ when we call for it, and ’'we love loads of ice''. Would suggest that you carry with you the following stuff: A) A two cups...

As mentioned below, you want to keep it large. However, if you have a full shoulder (the butt and the picnic), at about 12-14 lbs, you can separate into the two pieces of 6-7 lbs each. What grill do you have? If a Weber Kettle or...

We are fortunate to have a small kitchen in our offfice. I’m able to keep my electric tea kettle there, as well as a small 2-cup teapot and a good supply of tea. On my desk I have an electric mug warmer. My teapot fits...

That’s a new idea, mordacity... if it doesn’t stop the fire alarm for going off when a real fire hits. I had a house burn down years ago (I wasn’t there... electrical fire) so I’m a bit shy to disable the...

. profoundly regional, profoundly american, i’d emphasize. to your electric smoker example— electric smoker, propane smoker, kettle smoker, barrel smoker, rig smoker, off-side tower smoker, smoker made from an old...

in the microwave, and all of the others uses mentioned I find easier to do on the stove. I wonder how many people who heat up soup and water for tea in the microwave have electric ranges instead of gas? If I had to wait for a...

Electric kettle. I use it several times a day. Silicone whisk and silicone tipped tongs from the dollar store George Foreman grill—almost daily Peppermill Rubber/silicone scrapers

bases for tom yum and others. There are always scallions in the veg drawer. Sometimes it’s leftover rice and green tea. So using the hot water in the electric hot pot, or nuking the dashi, I can have a nice soup put...