"Mary" > wrote in message ...
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > badwilson wrote:
>> > >> My mom is constantly bugging me to use a pressure cooker and I've
>> > > always refused. I think I'll send her this link to get her off my
>> > > back.
>> > > --
>> > > Britta
>> >
>> > My mom was a big pressure-cooker fan, too. I imagine it was a real
>> > innovation to the 1950's homemakers. Kinda like the crockpot frenzy in
>> > the 70's, by that time all the moms were working. Imagine! Cook while
>> > you're at work. Then the 80's, and the microvave, and you could cook a
>> > baked potato in 8 minutes after you got *home* from work. My family got
>> > real sick of baked potatoes. :-)
>> > Now around here the favorite gizmo is the George Foreman grill.
>> >
>> > Sherry
>> >
>> Yeah, the good old GF Grill, which isn't a grill at all (but then, I'm
>> rather fond of real grills). I was given one and tried to cook a
> hamburger
>> in it. It basically steamed the burger. I tried a boneless chicken
> breast;
>> same thing. Uh, no thanks. As I do with most gadgets I'm given and find
> no
>> use for, I cleaned it up, set it out by the curb and stuck a note on it
> that
>> said "TAKE THIS, IT WORKS" and it disappeared. Hope it found a forever
>> home!
>>
>
> The foreman grill is great in that it squeezes much of the fat out of
> whatever you cook. The bad thing is that it compresses the meat
> so much it gets pretty hard.


Simply put a block under your frying pan handle just enough to lift the
handle about 1 inch. This facilitates the fat running off to the side so
that the beef patty does not cook in its own oils. No compressed meat as
with Foreman griller.