How cool! Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 22, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Penny Reeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > I don't know any more about this item than the writer of the message > has shared below, but it certainly sounds interesting and like > something cooks who are blind should know about! Dale, any chance you > can procure this marvel for BlindMiceMart? > Enjoy! > Penny > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andy Lane <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:55:37 +0100 > Subject: Very O.T. New automatic intelligent grill tells you when your > food is cooked. > To: [email protected] > > Hi, So sorry to post about this here but I didn't know where else to > let people know about this amazing new product. I would seriously > describe it as life changing but as I don't know anyone else with > eyesight problems I thought I'd let you all know and you can spread > the word round the community. > > The product is called Teefal Opti-grill and its one of those george > forman style grills except it has some brains. > > It has a sensor which can tell how thick your food is and another > which senses temperature, there are 6 buttons for different foods, > Bugers, Chicken, Sandwiches, Pork (sausages/bacon), Red meat (Steak > etc) and Fish. It also has a manual button and a frozen button. > > All you do is switch it on, press the frozen button if your food is > frozen, not if not, press the button which relates to the food stuff > you are cooking then press OK. It pre heats then beeps to tell you to > put your food on, then it measures the thickness of the food and > starts cooking it. When the food is rear it beeps, then when it is > medium, another beep then well done and it beeps again. > > There is a window which displays a colour code telling you how done > your food is which all the iPhone colour identifiers will correctly > notify you which colour is showing, i.e. Blue for pre heat, yellow for > rear, Orange for medium and red, well done but as I said the beeps are > there if you couldn't use a phone to identify the colours. > > If anyone does buy this product which I can't recommend enough the > buttons run from left to right. > On/Off > Frozen > Burger > Chicken > Sandwich > Bacon/sausage > Steak > Fish > Manual/no automation/sensors > OK > > So if you wanted to do a frozen sausage, you hit On then frozen then > sausage then OK, then wait for the first beep to tell you pre heating > is done, then wait 1 beep for rear, 2 for medium and 3 for well done. > > As a bonus, its an amazing grill and on the 4 occasions I have used it > in the last week the food has been perfect. Literally perfect. Even > has grill lines which look like it is restaurant cooked. > > It isn't cheap at £139 or I think $199 but honestly it is worth double > the price for what it does. > > A couple of other bits about it, each button you press lights up red > which again the colour identifiers will show you so you know if you > have hit the frozen button for example. It has a drip tray which > catches all the nasty fat and stuff which slides in the front and the > grill plates release really easily with a button on the left hand > side, one for the top and one for the bottom then you can just wash > them or throw them in the dishwasher. Really important is never to > use metal utensils on it, use only plastic or silicon as if you > scratch the plates you would need to replace them. > > Again sorry this is so off topic but I thought it was so exciting for > blind/VI people like myself. As I don't know anyone in that community > I thought I'd let you all know. > > If you wanted to know anything else, send me an e-mail and i'll be > happy to help out. > Andy > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone > list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If > you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
