Recently on my journey of discovery of Kitchen essentials and luxury gadgets I was really excited to try out Salter’s Heston Blumenthal 5-in-1 Digital Thermometer and Duel Digital Timer.
Dual Digital Timer
I totally loved the idea of this as It has been known that I am utterly rubbish at remembering when I have popped something in the oven and with being really grateful to have a range cooker .. Having things in both ovens has led to disastrous dinnertime when I have completely forgotten!
The Heston Blumenthal Dual Digital Timer comes with a unique Heston turn reminder to help with even cooking, it has the option of being magnetic and freestanding and not only does it count up, it can count down too! .. oh and it has a 2 year guarantee too! But for me it was so easy to use it’s a certain keeper in this house!
5-in-1 Digital Thermometer
The Heston Blumenthal 5-in-1 Thermometer is my all time fave item right now!
I often stress when cooking that its been cooked long enough or hot enough and this machine eliminates all that worry.
It comes with a in intelligent roasting feature already built-in and with dual sensors it allows for both the food and the oven temperatures to be measured!
With some preprogrammed recommended temperatures inbuilt and a really long probe to ensure you can pretty much measure any temperature for any food its makes for a really versatile product.
Competition
So not only have I enjoyed putting these to the test, I have one lucky reader who will be selected randomly in the rafflecopter widget below to win one of these items!
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Disclaimer: These items were given for me to give an honest review and a set has been given for the purposes of running a competition. All thoughts and opinions are made independently by members of not THAT Jaime Oliver.com
This is a must for me, it would take all the guess work out of my meals !!!!!!
I regularly burn cakes and I had no idea about cooking pork this afternoon
When I first met my husband I invited him for a meal but I fell asleep and burnt it. I was so upset I cried. However he took me out for a nice meal instead.
I put a chicken curry in the slow cooker one morning, went to work and they asked me to stay late, which I did (forgetting the slow cooker), then went out to a pub after work. When I got home the house smelt fab but the curry was burnt. It had only just burnt on the edges but the burnt taste was throughout so it had to go in the bin.
I often overcook cakes so they end up dry.
When I 1st moved into my husbands house I decided to cook a chilled garlic bread but instead of reading the chilled read the frozen and when I came to check on it 20 mins later it was black and like a house brick
Plenty of over and undercooked barbecues.
I was boiling eggs for the following days lunch boxes and forgot all about them until I heard loud banging noises from the kitchen. Exploded eggs make such a mess – had to deep clean from floor to ceiling (and the smell…..)
My cooking disaster is leaving rice on and forgetting about it – went back to it completely stuck to the pan!
Trying to impress so I cooked a lovely meal everything was going to plan I just had dessert to do. We were having baked Alaska which I’ve made umpteen times before …it was a disaster , the meringue slid off and stuck to the bottom of the oven followed by melting ice cream
I regularly under cook Turkey and have thrown many away
I’ve burnt everything from lasagne to bread, from rice to pasta! I need help!!!
I always overcook pasta
Like the time I burned the chocolate making crispy cakes? I’ve never lived that one down!
Banana cake!! Not very nice if it’s not cooked through!!!
Super giveaway, thank you 🙂 xx
I often undercook or overcook boiled eggs! I never know how long to keep them boiling for!
I always overcook meat. I’m scared that I will make someone ill if its undercooked. Winning this would realy help.
I always overcook meat. I’m scared that I will make someone ill if its undercooked. Winning this would really help.
It took me three weeks to clean the pan the first time I made toffee – nearly threw it out but no burnt on sugar gets the better of me!
Had loads of mishaps when cooking, usually was undercooking so now I am the opposite and overcook or forget I am cooking as get distracted by something else
I’d love to win this I haven’t got one. I’ve been known to burn fairy cakes that my kids have made and yes I felt bad about it.
I have undercooked a chicken which I daren’t serve
I overcooked some cookies with marshmallows and peanut butter. They spread and a toffee like substance oozed out. Once cool they were very strange looking and very crispy, but tasted just like crunchy nut cornflakes.
Never cooked a roast in my life for fear of undercooking!
eggs.. I like them runny not hard boiled
Undercooked chicken, it was raw in the middle….awful
I always end up over cooking beef and it ends up being too tough
I once undercooked pork so much it delayed dinner by almost an hour as it had to keep going in and out the oven until it wasnt pink!
Have burnt numerous slices of toast and crumpets due to multi-tasking and I can never get boiled eggs just right 🙁
I have a habit of overcooking rice till it becomes welded to the pan! 🙂
Pork sausages all the time!! eek!!
Pasta. I often leave it too long. I get distracted and realise it has been cooking for too long.
I have undercooked a few chicken pieces unfortunately and often I don’t notice until it’s all on the plate with salad or veg. Really annoying.
Can never cook sausages to perfection!
Once with my first Christmas turkey, it was virtually raw in the centre!
none that come to mind 🙂
As I mentioned on your Facebook wall, the Hoff gave me Listeriosis.
That may not be entirely true but I undercooked chicken years ago and the food poisoning it gave me led to me spending a sleepless night with a bowl, the loo, the sweats and only a Baywatch Nights marathon on the TV for company.
I undercooked a chicken once….sad thing about it was I didn’t realise until I tasted it….sooo gross!
always worried about undercooking roast chicken so sometimes overcook it
When I was in secondary school, I undercooked some jam tarts in cookery class. Only my Dad and I ate them and we were both sick all night and the next day. I had to take the day off school! The next week it was sausage rolls, and I poisoned us again!
Had to throw out a few pans by burning food to the bottom of them
I cannot remember any incidents but does not mean they have not happened! I am not a natural cook and am actually doing a cookery course at the moment.