Let’s have a cookout!
on January 12, 2020 at 1:01 amChapter: Walkercise
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
I stopped the standalones and went to the next storyline ‘cuz this strip came up. It’s only a dozen or so later than the New Years strip, and so it FEELS like it’s out of season, even though “a dozen later” counted weekly is… several months. Anyway, it’s spring now, apparently!
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Ah, the Foreman. Made every food leather-dry.
And it named all of its children George
I mean they are still a thing. I use mine regularly, and I don’t think I’ve ever made anything leather-dry.
How do you do it? I’ve had mine for a while but I only ever managed to cook ok burgers, everything else comes out dryer than if I baked them in an oven.
The thing I make most often is grilled chicken breasts. I apply olive oil and seasoning to them about 5 hours before cooking to tenderize them and then cook them on 300 F for 6 min (one I currently use has a digital temperature setting and timer).
Looking up traditional cook times for grilling puts chicken breasts at 8-15 min on medium (350 F) on a normal grill. So yeah, I’m cooking for potentially half the time at a lower temperature, but it works because the second plate is increasing the amount of heat applied drastically.
So I guess experiment with cook times? Or I check the manual? I got my 6 min time from the manual of my first George Foreman Grill.
Oh, a temperature setting, I guess that explains that. Mine just cooks at default temperature and calls it good enough. And doesn’t even have an off-switch, let alone a timer.
(this is meant as a response to Rex despite being a response to my comment since we’ve apparently hit max responses)
I mean the temperature setting isn’t exactly necessary. You just need to figure out the proper time and use an egg timer or microwave timer to get it right. Did a quick search and found this listing of times which appears to be for non-adjustable models: https://foremangrillrecipes.com/foreman-grill-time-chart/
Yeah, the instruction booklet that came with the grill has that too. Followed it, invariably ended with dry stuff except when cooking burgers.
Try a drained can of mixed vegetables on it. It’s pretty good considering how cheap it is.
Sounds like you’re over-cooking things. I cook lots of things on mine, and they usually come out good. For things that do tend to come out a little dry, such as chicken filets, I usually soak them in marinade overnight first.
My wife and I were given a Foreman grill long ago.
We still have it.
I don’t think it has ever been removed from its box.
… no, there wasn’t really any point to this story. Why do you ask?
Back when we roomed with my BIL, he had one of those, and when I was cleaning the kitchen, I found a (live) roach under it. When he got back, I told him about the roach, and he made a disgusted face and IMMEDIATELY threw the George Foreman thinger in the trash.
Like, NOPE
…What did that have to do with the GFG at all? Aside from your need to clean underneath it more often?
If a bug crawled out from under your microwave, would you throw out the microwave, or just remember to clean under it occasionally?
Why use the perfectly good grill you already have that doesn’t require an extension cord when you can use the George Foreman thinger instead?
Because technology makes everything easier! No need for charcoal, propane (and propane accessories), or fire! Just plug boxing man’s fancy waffle iron in, slap the burgers on, and dry them right out!
Because that “perfectly good” grill is uncovered and exposed to the elements, so very likely rusty, and with iron chips coming off its grill rods, and that’s not what “getting more iron in one’s diet” is supposed to mean. It was probably not thoroughly cleaned after it’s last use, leaving dried greasy bits of old hamburger all over it, to be crawled over by bugs and animals later that night, or birds the next morning, who stopped to have themselves a shit on your cooking surface.
Vs the GFG, where the non-stick grill panels pop off and can be washed in the sink.
I think the main thing we used our George Foreman grill for was making toasties (grilled cheese sandwiches to Americans). And it … wasn’t great at it. Generally the cheese would melt, and then burn, and then evaporate, and the bread somehow wasn’t even crisp. It did an okay vegeburger, but the micro is faster.
So eventually, we made the decision to ditch it and get an old-fashioned Breville sandwich toaster instead.
I know that Joyce saying it’s a beautiful day outside is meant to be happy in this context, but I can’t help but think of the third panel of this DoA strip and it’s kinda killing the happy for me.