Halogen cookers

[gazza1960]

Thank you so much for the heads up on these appliances ,we have luckily been given one by Jude's mate at work as she had 2,,,,so far have cooked a whole,chicken,chicken breasts,pizza,French sticks and roasted all manner of veggies.......   Very tasty results albeit we are learning our way with our new kitchen toy......you know what ....even though we're short a normal oven I'm not in so much of a hurry to get one fitted whilst we're having fun with other appliances.

Cheers

Gazza

[gazza1960]

[manicscousers]

Brilliant, aren't they 
We use it, lots more than the big oven. Roast potatoes and veggies are great in it, only putting bigger items and lots of baking into the oven. Also use the pressure cookers lots more, half a ham into it for 1/2 hour, yellow mustard seeds and an onion, ham for slicing and pea soup with the liquid 

[rosebud]

 I am ashamed to say we were bought one  before Christmas & I haven`t even opened it yet but I shall from tomorrow. Do they cook stews ok not to fast? Any advice would be very welcome  Thank you.

[gavinjconway]

brilliant for anything roasted, toasted, chips, grilled etc... but not for stews..

[tricia]

I was just going to post a question about cooking a ham in a pressure cooker Manics! But you have almost answered my question. I bought a one kilo ham fillet this week and was thinking of using the pressure cooker. How long do you think I need to cook it for? My Sicomatic has various inserts, perforated and solid. Which one do you use?

Thanks, Tricia 

[manicscousers]

Just used the halogen to warm through a fish pie, crisps the top up, too 
Tricia, we use the perforated one, ours was 1 1/2 lb and we cooked it for 30 minutes, it's beautifully cooked. Stews only take 20 minutes   

[tricia]

Thanks Manics!

Tricia

[gavinjconway]

Hi Manics - how do you cook a stew in it?? cant work this one out...

[manicscousers]

When we do hotpots we do it in a casserole dish in the halogen.
Sorry, gavin, I was talking about the pressure cooker for the stew

[Yorkshire Lass]

I unpacked mine to use at Christmas but haven't touched it yet. To be quite honest it looks really complicated to use,  The booklet which came with it doesn't seem all that helpful either.  Must try and have a go with it.

[gavinjconway]

They are so easy.. but I find the roasts get a touch too well done on the outsides so I put a bit of tin foil on top skewered down with tooth picks to stop it. My favourite is chicken cut in half, smeared with garlic and herbs etc. and cooked for an hour, turning a couple of times whilst cooking. But they are so versatile..

And they use a fraction of the electricity compared to the normal oven...

[Jayb]

I got one following all the helpful reviews on here  http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,76999.msg782465.html#msg782465
Have to say it's brilliant, not used it to it's full potential yet but I'm getting there. Fabulous at roasts whether meat or veggies, wicked for homemade oven chips or wedges, grilled bacon yum yum! Chops are a delight and sterilising jam jars and things a doddle.

Yum, like the sound of

My favourite is chicken cut in half, smeared with garlic and herbs etc. and cooked for an hour, turning a couple of times whilst cooking.

[gavinjconway]

JayB you have the same tastes as us with your things you do in it.. 

Heating pancakes/crumpets before spreading home made jam and dashing on squeeze cream, toasting hot x buns, baking spuds and sweet spuds - the list is endless.. We use ours every day, sometimes twice a day.. 

[gazza1960]

I'm pleased I started this thread now as it's drawing out all the users who get their foody fix from
This Versitile piece of kit.

We had large chicken breasts that I got from Wimborne market in it yesterday ,nothing clever
Just butterflied,smeared with tomato purée and garlic purée then added 2 large slices of
Buffalo mozzarella and wrapped in Parma ham,it's something we've always done under the George foreman cooker but it's equally scrummy cooked in the Halogen cooker.

Please keep adding your meals you've tried in them as it'll add to my things to try plus it'll be fun to do recipes in it once I've got the hang of how best to use it.

Gazza

[Digeroo]

I was in a real hurry so I pressure cooked chicken and gave potatoes a quick zap in the microwave.   Then all into the halogen for a quick brown.  Roast chicken in 30 mins very succulent.

[macmac]

Between my halogen and my slow cookers I seldom use the big oven. Even baked a loaf in the slow cooker, so simple no proving , the s.c. does that for you 

[pumkinlover]

Between my halogen and my slow cookers I seldom use the big oven. Even baked a loaf in the slow cooker, so simple no proving , the s.c. does that for you 

More info. please!!

[macmac]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/slowcookedwonders/search/?query=bread
got my info from this group and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/slowcookersaddos/

[lillian]

Between my halogen and my slow cookers I seldom use the big oven. Even baked a loaf in the slow cooker, so simple no proving , the s.c. does that for you 
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Between my halogen and my slow cookers I seldom use the big oven. Even baked a loaf in the slow cooker, so simple no proving , the s.c. does that for you 

More info. please!!

Youtube have loads of videos on making bread and cakes in a slow cooker.

[Paulines7]

I am so pleased that you now have a halogen cooker, Gazza and that you now find it useful. 

I mainly use mine for grilling as it is more economical than my electric oven grill and certainly easier to clean.   I don't think I have yet explored it to the full.  I haven't made cakes in it yet.  My OH does most of the cooking and he tends to use the main oven or grill, mainly because that is what he is used to.  However, as time goes on he is using it a bit more.

In the future it will be interesting to read any recipes that you cook in your halogen, especially when you have been fishing and returned home with with your catch.