by pots and pans on December 27, 2009
With eager imaginations and enthusiastic spirits having your children help you in the kitchen can be easier than you think. With the chaos of making sure you get dinner on the table on time, keeping everyone happy and cooking healthy meals it seems like challenge to integrate your child in meal preparations. Ways of letting your child help in the kitchen is always in perspective of age and abilities. So given your child is capable and ready to help you in the kitchen it can be a great learning experience for them. With some simple tips your little chef will be on their way to culinary brilliance.
One great way to get your kids involved in the kitchen is to let them feel involved. Allow them to do simple tasks like opening packages, measuring liquids and dry ingredients and fetching bowls and pots for you. This can give a child a really great sense of involvement by helping you. One great way to get your kids involved is to find out what your kids favorite recipes are.
Kids love things like cookies, cakes and desserts obviously so why not let them get in on the fun of baking. One great all time baking classic are Rice Krispies Treats. This recipe is quick, simple and most of all fun. One great idea is to have a separate batch for you kids to cook with while you do your own. Set out everything they’ll need like sugar, butter, oil etc. and let them follow along with you that way when you pull their batch out of the oven they’ll be able to see how all their hard work paid off. Seeing what they’ve baked can be very big reward for the child, not to mention they get to lick the spoon! This idea can work with any of your child’s favorite snacks such as chocolate chip cookies, cakes, muffins or cupcakes. This idea is also perfect for the holiday season!
When it comes time to make ginger bread houses and ginger bread men don’t forget to let the kids get in on all the holiday cheer. Kids can also be great helpers for the Chanukah feast, whether its matzo balls or latkes kids can be a helping hand with all the festivities.
Hands-on in the kitchen is not the only way to get a child excited about cooking and baking. You can also incorporate the fun in the kitchen into their everyday imaginative play. Alex toys has a wonderful 13 piece stainless steel cookware set that includes everything from a whisk, tea kettle, frying pan and oven mitt. Also Melissa and Doug make a great wooden slice and bake cookie set for your little future bakers. This fun set includes a tube of 12 sliceable cookies with 12 decorative toppings, a kitchen mitt, wooden cookie sheet, knife and spatula. It’s all the fun without all the mess!
Finally, what better way to complete your child’s play kitchen experience than with a delightful chef’s costume. This costume has all your little chef will need, like a white shirt, checkered skirt, chef hat and mittens. With all these great ideas, simple tips and toys your child shall be off to wow even the greatest chefs in no time!
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by pots and pans on April 18, 2009
Farberware Nonstick 4 Cup Egg Poacher
Ideal for eggs Benedict or corned beef hash, this pan poaches four perfectly shaped eggs at once and, when the egg cup tray is removed, also serves as an 8-inch skillet. For easy cleanup, the pan and the tray are nonstick both inside and out. The cups lift out of the tray with easy-grip handles so eggs can be served with care. Both the lid’s knob and the pan’s handle are highly polished 18/10 stainless steel. The handle is hollow to stay cool on the stovetop, nicely rounded on its underside for comfort, and has a notch in the end to facilitate hanging on a hook or peg. –Fred Brack
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Don’t buy this! FALSE ADVERTISING – eggs stick to plastic cups!
The plastic cup recepticles are NOT non-stick in anyway. We have tried coating them with butter, oil, spray, etc. but the egg white always sticks and has to be scrubbed out with steel wool for 10 minutes. Soaking does not help. How can this company get away with saying this product is “NONSTICK?” Sure, the boiling water won’t stick to the pan, DUH ! what a dud. Don’t buy from this company.
1 Star FarberWare Egg Poacher
I was so excited to buy this, but it is the biggest failure of anything I have bought for a long time. I have tried using it 4 times but the eggs stick, no matter how much butter, etc. you use. Hard to lift the little poachers out. I wish I had my old one piece poacher back. I will definetly not use the Farberware one again! If I could, I would give it NO stars
2 Stars Waste of money
Why did they spend the money to make the pan itself non-stick and then make the egg cups plastic? Will be sending this back. Packaging leads you to believe that the entire unit is non-stick, until you open the pan. Even if you grease the cups, the eggs stick. Plastic does not conduct heat well, so the eggs take twice as long to cook. Removing the eggs is tedious at best. Cleaning the egg cups is very time consuming. Not worth the money.
2 Stars Not recommended
Like other reviewers here, I’ve had problems with a disconcerting plastic smell when using this thing, and (perhaps? I’m not sure) a faint plastic taste in the eggs themselves. I’ll keep the pan, but I’ll be looking for another egg poacher. How could something like this pass QA?
1 Star Amazon should be ashamed for selling products that don’t work
I hate returning items – because I was too dumb to read and trust the reviews but, this bad product makes me think twice before ordering from Amazon again. Amazon betrayed a trust by selling this product with this many negitive reviews. So I was wrong to trust that amazon cares about it’s customers and stock owners. Fooled me once! Please forgive me for being harsh, Amazon is mostly responsible. A Amazon buyer needs to be fired over this prodct choice. I bet hunderds of Amazon loyal customers have been lost over this oversight.
Buyer beware!!!
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by sansanbirds on March 4, 2009
Author: greasechef
Keywords: Oil & Alcohol)
Added: March 3, 2009
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