Does it dry the food out when cooking? Does the grease pan lock on the grill,or just sit under neath it? Lenore
-----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Helen Whitehead via Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 6:20 PM To: cooking-in-the-dark Subject: [CnD] Fw: Teefal Opti-grill 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 _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
