Cookware – What You Need and What You Don’t

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Cookware is always a rather contentious subject. I have seen chefs turn up to even the simplest of cooking jobs carrying more than it would take to maintain your average oil tanker (though maybe this is not the best use for your cookware), when all that was really needed was a [...]

Fry Foods

I fry foods once or twice a week, as the kids love their bite-size breaded chicken wings to go with steamed rice and some mild veggie or boiled-egg curry.
Traditionally, in my mother’s household, we fry foods in a thick black wok, but you need a specific stove ring to hold up the wok firmly from [...]

Buying an Espresso Machine

As a gift for someone else, is not an easy task, especially when I am not exactly a coffee drinker.
I mean, whenever I visit friends and family, if offered coffee, I would take it, no problems.

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But at home, it is not automatic for me to have coffee in any drinking liquid [...]

Getting an Electric Rice Cooker

I thought I had finalized my decision to just get a simple rice cooker when I gave away my old simple, yet still functioning rice cooker to my daily helper. I offered to get her a brand new one, but she would have none of it. However, she insisted I get a better one, [...]

Rice and Shine

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