- A few months ago, we introduced you to the wild world of dishwasher cooking. Poach salmon while cleaning dirty plates? No problem.
But some of you expressed concerns about having your sockeye sit so close to soapy water and the high energy cost of running a dishwasher.
Well, we've stumbled upon another wacky cooking method that may overcome these issues: using your coffee maker.
From steamed broccoli and couscous to scrambled eggs and poached salmon, the possibilities appear endless.
That's what I'm doing, -heat gun + probe thermometer, but with the bread maker instead of dog bowl. I own a bread maker that never gets used already, and it has an automatic arm that stirs the beans during the roast so you don't have to do it manually. I can just mount the gun above and pretty much stay hands off the whole time if keep the temp consistent. I'll probably have to move the gun manually though to adjust the roast profile, but if I get good results with a steady heat setting, then I'll rock it that way I'm sure. I'm gonna drill into the side of it to mount the thermometer. They even have open source software that records the profile, -but I don't know that I'm that geeky about it. Yet.
Sounds like you could come up some idiot-proof recipes with this method. It kinda inspires me to revive the old rice-cooker I have with a steaming basket, since my crock pot died. You can always find these drip coffee makers at thrift stores. I think you'd want a separate one to avoid salmon coffee.
Did you study in the US? I only ask because here (US) Ramen is synonymous with poor college students. It's inexpensive food and easy to make. But in China, they actually take Ramen very seriously and you can even go to Chinese grocers in the US and get some pretty good ramen. -You can make it in a coffee pot still, if you'd like.
Well that'd be one way to use the coffee pot that's sitting unused in my kitchen. One thing I always hated about drop coffee machines is that - at least the ones I've had - don't heat the water hot enough to make 'perfect' coffee (my snob is showing). And while it's a creative use of an otherwise mundane kitchen appliance, I'm still partial to stacking bamboo steamers to cook multiple things at once.