Would you buy this? A friend's invention. Kickstarter has gotten off to a terrific start, but I'm

It would certainly take the guess work out of things, but I bet it would not work

on my crappy rental-apartment stove!!

 
Sounds like a neat gadget, and it does exactly what I do manually when cooking

I'd probably start out using it with pasta sauces and soups, to get the hang of it. Now, if it only had a stir feature.

 
I think one problem and it isn't addressed is the quality of the cookware it

is monitoring and where. Unless it is a "clad", the temperature isn't the same. But wait, maybe that probe is IN the liquid--that would solve that.
Not for me but interesting.

 
If I had a gas stove, I'd get one just for sugar stages (candy) and frying,

By the way, I have 5 thermometers.

 
My new place has gas. First home I've ever had w/ gas. Shamefully, a couple months ago

a friend of mine gifted me a pig head to make headcheese. Once it was thawed, I noticed the head still had a bunch of hair on it (not cool when you're covering the head in liquid for a long, slow simmer.) A chef advised burning the hair off. Since I'd just moved, I searched high and low but couldn't find my blow torch. It was getting late, and the head had already thawed. I couldn't wait another day. What to do? I tried using matches to burn the hair off, but you'd be surprised how those coarse hairs do not burn easily. (Think thick like boar brushes.) Finally, I cranked up the gas on the stove, took off the grate and singed off the hair over that flame. The worst part? Sticking my thumb in the pig's ear for leverage. Ewwww!

Midway through, my roommate came down and witnessed me with a pig head over the open gas flame. He shrugged and said, "Don't burn yourself," and promptly went back to playing video games. No big deal. smileys/smile.gif

 
PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!! I am trying to imagine the scene....

... and if it was Phil who caught me burning a pig's head over the flame!

I must try that sometime.... you know, a test for the strength of our relationship... smileys/wink.gif

 
The girl who gave me the pig head, told me his name and said, "Honor him." I felt so guilty singing

off the hair over an open flame! But then, if I didn't do it that night, it would have been in the 'danger zone' for too long. I honored him with the best resources I had available, but I'm determined to find my blow torch or buy another one before I try this again. Let's just say... contours and eyelashes are especially tough to get.

 
Reminds me of a "fun" story.....

...in which one our graduate student set a mouse on fire and ran away like a maniac around the lab with it

the mouse was already dead before it all happened, he had opened the mouse to get its liver, and while flaming the instruments ended up with the burning mouse fiasco

fun times!

 
I singed my arm and one eyebrow lighting a recalcitrant griddle on a flatbed of a

chuckwagon!! I was cooking for 60 and whoops, boom. That was a fun summer...

 
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