Overview of the market of cooking devices: features of the device and the principles of operation of rice cookers, cooks, pressure coarse, steamers and eggs
Among the variety of "-war" there are instruments of narrow specialized (for the preparation of rice, eggs), more universal (cooks) and multifunctional (pressure coarse, steamers). All of them to one degree or another can make kitchen troubles are easier and more pleasant. The choice is yours.
Forty porridge cooked ...Porridge is one of the most beloved and popular dishes of Russian cuisine. Love for it is reflected in folk creativity. We all know the proverbs "soup yes, our food" or "Cashier do not cook with him." Aldly, how in a fairy tale soldiers poring porridge from the ax? Such increased attention is explained simply: porridge is very satisfying and has always been affordable eating even for poor families. But it does not mean bad. Porridge is very useful because in the croups from which they are prepared, contains a whole storehouse of substances necessary for a person: carbohydrates, proteins, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, vitamins.
One of the first electrical devices for cooking, or rather, rice has become a rice cooker. Her homeland is Asia, known for his respect for this cereal. Correct rice is not so easy. It requires special attention: after all, it is a little more or a little less to hold it on fire, and it will boil or negotiate. The reverent attitude to the rice, its widespread prevalence in Asia and became a reason for creating drafts. Satim Device You do not have to make special efforts, and your participation in the preparation of rice will be minimized. The unit is clearly traced over time and temperature.
Pluses of cooking
2. Low-calorie dishes are performed because it is not necessary to add oil.
3. It is formed carcinogens.
4. Appearance appearance, taste and aroma of products.
The rice cooker device is extremely simple. It consists of a plastic body-bowl, in the bottom of which the heating element is built. We study the removable pan (as a rule, from aluminum with a non-stick coating), where rice is laying. Standard loading of the instrument - 3-7 dimensional cups (servings), and 1POs is approximately 180g. As a rule, all the aggregates are installed on the kitchen table on rubberized legs.
But that's not all. Risovarka is not limited to the preparation of rice alone. Main help can be done and a pair of dishes: fish, meat, vegetables IDR. For this, the kit includes special baskets. Place the products in the basket, and pour water into the removable pan. Then set the basket at the top of the pan, close it with the lid, turn on the instrument, and after a while you taste dietary food.
There is a more universal aggregate cook. She knows how to cook almost all kinds of porridge. Device device is identical to rice cooker. But an improved electronic filling allows you to adjust the temperature and time in a wider range. That is why cooks will prepare not only rice, but also buckwheat, peashed, pearl and other porridges on water, and even with various additives (meat, vegetables, dried fruits IT.D.). We just need to put all the necessary ingredients in the removable container (water, cereal, salt IDR), turn on the device, select the name of the porridge and press the button. The microprocessor will decide how much time this cereal should be cooked, and with the help of an indication, the cook will tell you about its readiness. You can prepare a half-mile porridge, a bay of 2/3 of water and 1/3 of milk. Avot make porridge completely on milk it is impossible, as it turns out too quickly. Most models, like rice cookers, are able to serve as a steamer.
Almost all devices after cooking dishes go to heating mode, and in some models, CR-0331 (Cuckoo, Korea), RZ-AM10Y (Hitachi, Japan) - there is a deferred start function (2-12h), which will allow you to try porridge immediately after Awakening. Power rigs and cooks - about 700W.
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1. Ware Hitachi RT-12ay
2. Whoshell Hitachi RZ-AM18Y
3.Multiwater SR-TBM18 (Panasonic) is ready to please you with a variety of dishes. She knows how to cook, cook for a couple, stew and even stove. Special steam valve makes it possible to prepare dairy porridge and does not allow liquid to spill up
4. Receiver RSCG-1801 (BINATONE) is capable of quoted and rice, and steamed vegetables. The power of the device is 700W, and the capacity is 1.8l.
Speed mattersIf for one porridge you are not ready to buy a whole device, look at the multifunctional aggregate-pressure cooker. She is ready to cook not only cereal and dishes for a couple, but also soup, put out meat, make roast and warm up cooked dishes.
Initially, the pressure cooker was a saucepan of a special design. Invented her physicist Denis Papen back in 1679g. Principle action Next. On the stove heats up a hermetically closed vessel with water. The resulting steam when boiling does not have the exit, and therefore, high pressure is created, the temperature of the steam increases and the cooking time is reduced. To avoid excessive increase in pressure, a special valve was installed on the device cover for partial release of steam. Once the pressure cooker was a dangerous device, since the cover screwed up tightly, the valve for the release of the steam was sometimes clogged and the device could explode under the action of high pressure.
Features of the workshop
2. Frozen products do not need to be pre-defrosting.
3. Double cook any products, except those that give a lot of foam and splashing (barley, oatmeal, pasta), because the working valve can clog out.
4. The maximum filling volume of the pressure cooker should not exceed 2/3 of the capacity of the device; If products can swell in the cooking process (for example, dry vegetables), no more than half of the volume are filled.
But the current pressure coys are safer. Now there are two options for the instrument: one heats up on the stove, and the second - by the Tane, built into the bottom. Both aggregates work on a similar principle and externally resemble a saucepan. On a lid, a tightly pressed to the container, reliable valves are installed, which adjust the working pressure, and also serve to release steam after cooking. AU of electrical models There is a deferred start function. The power of the device is about 1 kW.
On all pairsAnother wonderful multifunctional instrumentaries are useful to adherence to a healthy lifestyle. By the name it is not difficult to guess that the unit prepares food for a couple. Votychychi from the pressure cooker, which "locks" all pairs inside, there is no tightness, and couples can partly go out. Therefore, the preparation time of products increases in comparison with a pressure cooker by about 2 times. When cooking in a double boiler in food, harmful carcinogens are not formed and more vitamins are preserved than, for example, with frying.
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5. Steamer FS20 (Braun) with two oval baskets of 3.4l. Thanks to special separators, different dishes can be prepared at the same time, and their smells are not mixed. Complied with a separate rice bowl. The power of the unit is 850W.
6. PFS 0302D PFS (POLARIS)
7.Parque VT-1550SR (Vitek)
8.Arrigark Vitacuisine (Tefal) with two independent baskets, and therefore the smells do not mix
A steamer can be called a conventional saucepan with a special capacity with a perforated bottom for products. But now we will talk not about it, but about electrical analogues. The essence of the work of those and others is the same, but the latter are automated. Water poured onto the bottom of the panaristers, where the heating element is built. When boiling, part of the water turns into a pair that rises up, penetrates through the holes of the basket and heats the products. In this case, part of evaporation condenses and flows into the pallet.
Design of the steamer
1. The main part is the basis. It is the heating-tel, water tank, as well as the entire electronic "filling".
2. Control panel.
3. The pallet collects condensate and juice flowing from products.
4. Steam baskets with perforated bottom, in which products are laying. One put on the other, and the top covers the lid.
5. Cover.
The dyeing devices are 1-3 levels-baskets, each of which can be prepared, and even at the same time. Keep in mind that with a large number of baskets also increases the cooking time, since the volume is increasing, which should be filled with hot steam. It's better to put vegetables (they reach ready for readiness faster), and down-meat, fish IT.D. If you cook a few dishes, know that the products at the lower level will absorb food from the top. Sometimes it is good: let's say meat, impregnated with vegetable juice. But there are models and with independent baskets, where the smells are not mixed. So, in the vitacuisine pairing (Tefal, France), two baskets are located nearby. Baskets of steamers are usually made of transparent plastic, and an illusion is created that you can observe the process of cooking, but in fact the walls during operation fogging and wonderful transformation you will not see.
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9.Parque SC 1701 (Smile) with two tanks, bowl for rice and pallet for eggs. The power of the unit is 600W.
10-11. The steamer kit usually includes a rice cooking bowl, although other cereals are boiled in it, as well as soups. There are no holes at her day, so water can be poured into the bowl. Food is preparing due to the fact that the couple heats the water, which is filled with cereals
Note that for normal operation of the device, it is necessary that the heating element is immersed in the water completely or at least half. If the water is too small, the device will automatically turn off. To add water, you need to remove the bowls, and for this unit should be turned off. Waterly models - PFS 0201 (Polaris, United Kingdom), USC-181 (Unit, Austria), VT-1550SR (Vitek) - There is a special hole through which water can be addressed right during operation, so you do not need to shoot bowls. Many devices - FS-404 D (Binatone, United Kingdom), PFS 0302D (Polaris), DG 3083 Profi Cook (Clatronic, Germany) - equipped with an external indicator of water level indicator, thanks to which you will always see how much water in the device.
As for the technical equipment of the steamer, then they, like the previously described devices, have features of a deferred start and maintenance of temperature. The average power is 900W.
Perhaps one of the best "boiled" sweets is jam. There is a device designed primarily for cooking jam and jams - VitaFruit (Tefal). But he is also able to make jelly, compote and cook porridge. One of its undoubted advantages is the function of automatic mixing during operation, due to which the jam will not be worse than grandmother.
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Jelly from blackberry
Basic ingredients: kg Blackberries, 1 Pack of Vanilla Sugar, 600-1000 g of sugar.
Cooking. Wash the blackberry. Specify the juice cooking program (30-40 minutes). When the juice is ready, remove the sieve and select Jelly Preparation Program.
Confiture from Luca
Basic ingredients: 1kg onion, 120 g of butter, 100 g of sugar, 2 tbsp. l. Pomegranate syrup (optional), 300 ml of strong red wine, 100 g of sherry-based vinegar, 2 pinching salts / pepper.
Cooking. Clean and slightly cut down onions. Select a traditional cooking program. Put onions and butter into the bowl. After 15 minutes, add the remaining ingredients and boil for another 15 minutes.
Skump, in a bag or screwed?Complete the list of "-Varok" eggs. What could be easier and at the same time harder cooking eggs? Here is a paradox. It seems to be put in a saucepan- and that's it. But after all, in order to get the desired result (skey, in the bag, screwed down), you need to calculate the term of cooking up to minute, so that the necessary "steepness" requires time and attention. You have to continuously look at the clock so as not to miss the right moment. Distracted literally for a minute - and the egg was already welded, and not in the bag. In addition, the shell is often bursting during cooking. So that there are no such annoying misses, the manufacturers of household appliances are proposed to look at the electrical appliances. They are capable of 100% probability to cook at the same time 1-7 eggs shatter, in a bag or screwed and independently control the temperature and cooking time.
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Externally, such aggregates resemble a big egg. The bubility is poured water, eggs are inserted into special recesses and covered with a lid, that is, they are not cut in water, but by steam. But first need a needle (it is included) to pierce the shell from a stupid end to equalize the pressure outside the shell and inside it so that the egg is not cracked and not flowed. Through this hole is discharged by excess pressure, which is formed when heated. After the operation is completed, the instrument will inform you about the availability of the product with a sound signal. Under the cold water, the eggs can be substitched directly in the eggs. This is one of the most economical devices: its power is about 400W.
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12.Sytsevka EK3060 (Severin) with stainless steel lid. Power of the device - 400W.
13.Yaytsevka Tek 1101 (Bosch)
14.Yaytsevka EK 3052 (Severin)
Inacontal, another argument in favor of the eggs. The taste of the product prepared in it is different from the "pot" option. The fact is that in the first case, the egg is boiled into a pair, and in the second the shell penetrates water, making a protein as if "rubber".
ConsiderAll "-varki" are quite affordable appliances. Thus, rice cookers cost about 1 thousand rubles. They are released by SEVERIN (Germany), Binatone Idre. Cooks (Cuckoo, Hitachi Idr.) Several more expensive - prices range in the range of 2-4 thousand rubles. Cost of pressure stories (Cuckoo, Unit IDR) - about 2.5 thousand rubles. As for the steamer, even the most expensive products of well-known manufacturers- Braun (Germany), Binatone, Tefal Idre.- Most by the pocket: they will cost 2-3 thousand rubles. Aza 1-1.5 thousand rubles. You can buy Scarlett devices (United Kingdom), Unit, Vitek IDR. It all depends on the design features of a certain model and the presence of additional functions. The price of the egg-bosch, CLATRONIC, SEVERIN (all Germany) IDR. is 600-1100rub.
The editorial board thanks the representative offices of the BSH household appliances, "SEB Group", Binatone, Braun, CTC CLATRONIC INTERNATIONAL, HITACHI, POLARIS, SEVERIN, VITEK INTERNATIONAL, VITESSE, UNIT for help preparing material.