Amazon Prime Day - July 12

[RossMAN]

Nothing beats a rice cooker, the coolest thing is how they keep rice perfect for hours after cooked, makes timing of meals a lot simpler.

My beans turned out terrible, soaked and crock pot cooked after. Some would be cooked ok, some would be half cooked. We shall see

Want to make hummus too. Have a few recipes picked out, love new kitchen gadgets.

Bought a pasta maker too, camelcamelcamel said it was 50% off. Home made ravioli, here I come.

I'd love to make home made hummus as well. Recipes?

 

[Kaido]

FYI - Kaido is MIA. He's yet to answer my PM on protein powder yogurt pancakes in the IP! :awe:

Sorry, I was out picking blueberries to put in my IP yogurt (then got sucked into checking out HDR TV's). The day was too nice outside to stay at work

 

[Kaido]

I'd love to make home made hummus as well. Recipes?

My current favorite recipe:

http://catch42.pbworks.com/w/page/109181419/Dave's Hummus

Came up with this after a fair bit of experimentation. For some reason, I love the lime in it. Note that even if the batch is liquidy in the food processor, it will set in the fridge overnight & can get very thick, so you definitely want it on the watery side. It will take you a few batches to get right to your liking (both the flavor & consistency, since it has to setup overnight), but a bag of dried chickpeas from the Spanish food section is like 90 cents or something, so it's pretty dang cheap to make a big batch at a time. Or blend up multiple smaller batches with different flavors. Here's some more ideas:

http://catch42.pbworks.com/w/page/81126680/Hummus

Hummus + baby carrots ftw. I eat that stuff almost daily as a snack, never get sick of it :thumbsup:

 

[Artdeco]

I'd love to make home made hummus as well. Recipes?

http://dadcooksdinner.com/2010/04/pressure-cooker-hummus.html/

I picked up some tahini on Amazon too, looks like you can sub peanut butter in a pinch.

Kaido, you rock, buddy

 

[Kaido]

Nothing beats a rice cooker, the coolest thing is how they keep rice perfect for hours after cooked, makes timing of meals a lot simpler.

My beans turned out terrible, soaked and crock pot cooked after. Some would be cooked ok, some would be half cooked. We shall see

Want to make hummus too. Have a few recipes picked out, love new kitchen gadgets.

Bought a pasta maker too, camelcamelcamel said it was 50% off. Home made ravioli, here I come.

I'm 50/50 on the IP with rice...I actually like pressure-cooked brown rice better than my Tiger computerized rice cooker. But the Japanese fuzzy-logic rice cooker has some kind of magic that keeps my rice good all day. I haven't kept my IP in keep-warm with rice all day yet (I usually just fill up my meal containers, let it cool, then throw 'em in the fridge or freezer). They do make high-end fuzzy-logic rice cookers that are pressurized, but those are like $500+. Rice does come out super awesome in the Instant Pot. I still use my Tiger though & usually do a meat or a veggie in my IP. When I'm feeling really lazy, I Anova some steak or chicken, do veggies in the IP, and rice in my Tiger. Perfect food with zero effort :thumbsup:

 

[Kaido]

http://dadcooksdinner.com/2010/04/pressure-cooker-hummus.html/

I picked up some tahini on Amazon too, looks like you can sub peanut butter in a pinch.

Kaido, you rock, buddy

Food bros! :awe:

fwiw, tahini is also stupid easy to make. Buy some hulled (unhulled make it kinda bitter) sesame seeds in bulk locally or online. You can optionally toast them if you want the added flavor, but all you really have to do is throw them in a food processor with a little oil:

http://www.inspiredtaste.net/26901/easy-tahini-recipe/

Lives in the fridge with a lid for up to a month. That link also has some other good uses for tahini, like salad dressing & oddly enough, cookies.

 

[Kaido]

He is busy unloading a container full of InstantPot he ordered.

I should get a medal from Instant Pot for how many I sold today.

The next company cookout is going to be awesome :biggrin:

 

[Kaido]

You're not not confusing him for PAB, right?

As long as he sells them on Craigslist or eBay for a profit I'll let it slide.

I am now famous in my family for Chromebooks & Instant Pots lol.

On the flip side, I don't have to do tech support for family anymore (RIP Windows...also set everyone up Roku's, so no more TV issues either woot woot!) & I have access to a good cooking tool when I visit relations

 

[Kaido]

We need a Kaido bat signal, something that encompasses Mac, home automation, kitchen gadgets, smoothies, fitness and wrapped with gluten free goodness.

Going to watch some YouTube reviews while I "work" ... the mouse is hovering over the order button. Must resist I don't need another streaming device.

* not gluten-free anymore

I'm on magic medicine that lets me eat dairy & gluten again. Thank goodness ()

 

[Artdeco]

Kaiden, have you ever used a pasta maker?

Am looking forward to making my own ravioli & spaghetti

 

[Artdeco]

Rossman, am flipping a couple Moto G4's on swappa as we speak

 

[Kaido]

Kaiden, have you ever used a pasta maker?

Am looking forward to making my own ravioli & spaghetti

Yes, in-laws are Italian. Like hardcore. The whole family gets together every year to make pasta. It's awesome

I've had this in my cart for awhile - Philips automatic pasta maker - haven't pulled the trigger yet ($320 for the full kit, plus anything extra you want to use like a pasta drying rack). We have a hand-machine that works great though, and for how often we use it now, it's totally fine. Plus it's pretty fun to make fresh pasta! Here's a link to the appliance version:

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-HR2357-05-Pasta-Maker/dp/B00REJMIJ6

It has excellent reviews; it's basically the bread machine equivalent for pasta. It comes with 4 stock blades:

1. Spaghetti
2. Penne
3. Fettuccini
4. Lasagna

There are two additional kits ($25/ea) that have a 2-pack of extra blades:

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-HR2401-05-Angel-Pappardelle/dp/B00UVHN1IK/

1. Angel hair
2. Pappardelle

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-HR2402-05-Spaghetti-Tagliatelle/dp/B00UVHN1NA/

1. Thick spaghetti
2. Tagliatelle

You can make flour & water pasta, egg pasta, and even do stuff like spinach (green) or tomato (red) pasta. I buy my flour in 50-pound sacks now (with 6-gallon food pails & gamma-seal lids for food storage), so it's pretty cost effective, but then again, my local grocery store does 10 boxes of pasta for $10 on sale all the time, so there's that. Plus, I love my Fasta Pasta: (microwave pasta cooker)

https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Pasta-Cooker-Original-Sticking/dp/B00WHCIEPW/

Sounds dumb (it's one of those as-seen-on-TV things), but it's legit. I prefer pasta cooked this way over the stovetop method, tbh. If I'm just doing plain noodles, I cook them in the Fasta Pasta - no babysitting the stove & it turns out slightly better in the microwave, imo (oddly enough). If I'm doing a noodle dish, I cook it in the Instant Pot (you can cook the pasta IN the sauce in the IP, which is awesome...or pasta/sauce/cheese/meat/whatever combo you want).

The one thing I'm still trying to figure out is how to create those awesome Japanese pan noodles from Noodles & Company. Not to be gross, but they are about the same size & thickness of worms. Sounds weird, but it's absolutely delicious & the texture from the thicker size is just great. I didn't try them for a long time because it looked weird, but I'm hooked now!

http://www.noodles.com/dish/japanese-pan-noodles/

 

[eng2d2]

I can't add to cart on the one item i wanted to get. says only 60 percent fulfilled

 

[Artdeco]

Kaido, I found one of those pasta makers refurbished for $140, shipped, ordered it, will return the manual unit I had ordered. Wife & I love pasta.

 

[sdifox]

I can't add to cart on the one item i wanted to get. says only 60 percent fulfilled

Amazon is being hammered. Keep trying.

 

[eng2d2]

Amazon is being hammered. Keep trying.

1.5 hours trying here. Unreal!!!!

 

[RossMAN]

Rossman, am flipping a couple Moto G4's on swappa as we speak

Congrats, how much are you clearing per phone after fees?

A long time ago when iPods were all the rage, Dell E&A sold them and accepted coupons. I listed them on eBay and made a pretty penny on each. Those days are long gone

 

[Artdeco]

Congrats, how much are you clearing per phone after fees?

A long time ago when iPods were all the rage, Dell E&A sold them and accepted coupons. I listed them on eBay and made a pretty penny on each. Those days are long gone

Don't know, swappa prices can be a bit dynamic, picked up a 16 & a 32 GB with the Amazon lockscreen when Amazon was offering them for an additional $25 off.

Those were awesome days, I should have bought a tuxedo when I had a chance from that one vendor that nearly went bankrupt. Was it buy.com?

 

[Chaotic42]

They've got MyPillows on sale, which I didn't know until now. Just picked one up.

 

[madoka]

Now that the sale is over, I'm showing 23 open orders on my Amazon account. I guess their warehouse guys are going to be working over time.

 

[Geekbabe]

All I bought was books, my kindles are loaded

 

[Fritzo]

I'd love to make home made hummus as well. Recipes?

This is pretty much the recipe I always use. A deli-owner friend turned me on to the baking soda trick:

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/israeli-style-hummus

 

[Kaido]

They've got MyPillows on sale, which I didn't know until now. Just picked one up.

I read some mediocre reviews of that, but you never really know until you try it. I'm anxious to try Casper's new pillow:

https://casper.com/pillows

"Pillow inside a pillow". I don't like any of my current pillows. I have a memory-foam bed, which is awesome, but I even tried a memory-foam pillow. Meh. The search is still on for me!

 

[Kaido]

This is pretty much the recipe I always use. A deli-owner friend turned me on to the baking soda trick:

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/israeli-style-hummus

Wow, I'll definitely try this, thanks! Interesting...over-cooked chickpeas, whipped, baking powder, and ice water.

 

[Kaido]

Kaido, I found one of those pasta makers refurbished for $140, shipped, ordered it, will return the manual unit I had ordered. Wife & I love pasta.

Wow nice, that's a killer price!