Oh, is it time to sum up the results?
So my conclusion is
as a person who has never had experience with such a miracle, if you do not find fault, then
the unit is not worse than other equipment... That is, all my nitpicking about the instructions, the recipe book, etc., this is all just because it is necessary, that there is an opportunity to fix something, making everything "almost perfect". (by the way about the book page 8 Smoked salmon fillet. First words
Cut the fili Correct on
fillet )
Do you remember my incident?
The husband forbade to use it, he said it was a silicone gasket, which does not allow moisture to penetrate into it ... well, in general, what is on the bowl.
The husband solved this problem by somehow adding tudy silicone. I didn't see how he did it, but after a night, I got the go-ahead for use.
But while the saucepan was waiting for my husband, I managed to do another test. I put it near the sink and I don't know how, opening the water. water poured directly onto this block in a saucepan. I thought that everything, after all, the instructions say, wash carefully, and I'm a stream of water! But the battery has a day and everything works fine. I advise you not to repeat my feat, but if it happens, do not panic!
As for the smokehouse itself. We smoked in small portions, all the time reducing the number of branches. I like it more with twigs than with peeled bark. But, alas, even with a minimum count. ve, that smell of smoke, which seems very pleasant and tasty, after eating, very often leaves an aftertaste in the mouth, so to speak. That is, even half an hour after eating, it seems to me that it smells of smoke. But this is most likely the characteristics of our organisms. The guys said that this is not the kind of smoking we are used to, not shop-based. This is an imitation of food on the fire. And the most successful option was with pieces of meat fried in a pan, and then cooked on a wire rack, in a hot smoking mode. The result is a homemade barbecue. Photos ... they ate so much that they did not have time to make normal photos.
The hood copes with the emitted smoke. But since I used the smokehouse blindly, without reading the clever advice of others, I admit that I don’t know a lot and after reading everything, maybe I will get a more acceptable smoking result.
Here I made 1/4 of the nutria. Marinated for the night, then twisted, tied and laid on the wire rack.
I would like to draw your attention to this
on shelves! I am not satisfied with the dripping juice from the meat onto the bowl of wood chips, so I started to place everything on the opposite side. But alas, the hooks on which the shelves are attached are made in such a way that if you put on the edge opposite to the bowl, the grate goes down I don't know, or it will be visible in the photo
You have to balance. I think this can be solved somehow?
Hot smoking mode for 25 minutes (for nutria this was quite enough!)
Here's the result:
But as with the pressure cooker, we became 100 friends! Fast, tasty and convenient! But this is all subject to the presence of the second bowl. I don't know how to cook in a bowl with a pin. It doesn't seem convenient to me.
Therefore, I would make a note in the instructions that if you plan to use this device both as a pressure cooker and as a smokehouse, it is advisable to immediately purchase an additional bowl.
In a pressure cooker, my most popular dish is
potatoes on the bottom, meat on top. Ready dinner in one go. For example, another nutria rolled over to us and three quails.
Below is a potato
Top with nutria seeds mixed with fried onions and mushrooms
And to the very top of a quail carcass (my husband said, a striptease of clean water!)
As a result, after 30 minutes we get a delicious dinner of potatoes, quails (bread from a bread machine)
and a whole tray of stewed bones, with onions and mushrooms. Since we often have nutria, I always ask my dad to cut the carcass into four pieces of pulp and bones. A lot of meat remains on the bones, so we have this very favorite dish, stewed bones. But very often. cooking them in a frying pan, I forgot about them and they burned mercilessly. Now this problem has been solved! For which special thanks to Brand!
Extinguished and
turkey heartsFirst, in the Frying mode, I fried onions
Then I added bacon to it
When the bow was ready
I added pickled pieces of hearts, sour cream and turned on the Soup-stewing mode for 20 minutes
Also, my son is addicted to rice. Made in a pressure cooker
Fried onions for no more than 10 minutes. Cooked for 20 minutes on the Soup-Stew mode
And of course pilaf! But, although the pilaf was a whole katstryulka and ate it for more than one day (I had a lot of work and the men ate pilaf three times a day, I will note it voluntarily and with pleasure!), Not a single good photo came out. But the fact that pilaf in a pressure cooker turns out to be gorgeous, it is 100% (I will only note that I make pilaf only with long, steamed rice. Well, I wash it, but I fry it on sunflower.)
In general, all my stories boil down to the fact that
in the pressure cooker you can cook anything that requires stewing and cooking, any recipe we are used to. I repeat, the main thing that is necessary for the community is knowledge of the approximate time of product readiness. Moreover, such data are needed for two modes Hot smoking and Soup-stewing If there is such a plate, then you can cook everything! I already remembered for myself that
Stew soup:potatoes 15-20 minutes
meat from 20 minutes
porridge 20-30 minutes
Hot smoking:Meat 25-40 min
The move did not reach the fish. Rather, I just got to the market. the fish is freezing, tomorrow there will be a test of the "feather"
And yet, the biggest discovery and joy is
baking option!!!! For the summer, when we leave for the country, this is just a godsend! By the way, as far as I understand, it is not written about this anywhere? But in vain! But if you write, then it is necessary, be sure to mention that for these purposes, it is desirable to have a spare ring.
I tried to bake a cake for my beloved
Mushroom biscuit It turned out great!
In general, although testing is over, our friendship is just beginning. The smokehouse pressure cooker stands next to the stove, replacing it more and more often. Good thing. definitely! I am very glad that this is both a smokehouse and a pressure cooker, for people like me, who, as it turned out, cannot afford a smoke-filled meal. But, I reserve the opportunity to find my own, "gentle" smoke
Since I am not at all aware of all of the above, a blind kitten, so to speak, I want to ask, the ring is silicone, is there a difference, which side is inserted? There are just fine grooves on one side and not on the other. I, I do not know why, decided that the grooves should be outward. How should it be?
And again, many thanks to the firm
Brand, Elena, Vadim (and of course dopletе) I, of course! I do not regret that I was among the testers (I hope that the firm also received something from me)
Mash, and Mash, and slap me, eh? I don't mind either