Hello Andy, Currently, I am using a George Foreman Evolve grill. This is probably a step down from this one. On the Evolve model, one is able to set the temperature from 300 to 425 degrees. You mentioned a manual button to turn off the sensors. So, how does the grill function in this mode? Here are some other questions I have: 1. Is there a knob or lever to keep the grill straight or tilted? 2. If not using the sensor mode, Are there buttons to time the food items? 3. Are there different lower plates to exchange with? I have a deep dish and pancake grill that I can swap out with the lower grill and use them all the time. 4. I didn't hear you say anything about a button for vegetables. How are they cooked on this grill?
Please forgive me for this long post, but I work with the visually impaired and mostly with the seniorpopulation, so it may be possible for one of them to receive this product and for me to purchase to demo for them. Thanks and I look forward to your next post. Kind regards, Eileen Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2014, at 6:55 AM, Andy Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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