Lora Brody Plugged In: The Definitive Guide To The 20 Best Kitchen Appliances - Hardcover

Brody, Lora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688149618 ISBN 13: 9780688149611

Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks, 1997

Synopsis

Based on rigorous hands-on tests, the best-selling author of The Kitchen Survival Guide selects the twenty best brand-name kitchen appliances, offering information about them, tips on their use, and 375 recipes for them.

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Review

Moving ahead from her three successful bread machine cookbooks, Lora Brody assesses and advises on a total of 20 popular kitchen appliances in Lora Brody Plugged In. For each one, she tells what it does, why you might need it, how it works (in perhaps more detail than you may want), and which (size, type) would be right for your needs; explains care and maintenance; provides tips and rules for use; and gives recipes. The recipes range from the obvious to the eye-opening; for example, she includes recipes for lasagna in a slow-cooker, soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles) in a bread machine, and mashed potatoes in a rice cooker. Meticulous to a fault, Brody has made sure that every recipe works and tastes marvelous. Reading Lora Brody Plugged In may provoke an inexplicable urge to acquire new kitchen hardware such as a water smoker or rice cooker.

From Library Journal

Brody, the "bread machine queen" (Desserts from Your Bread Machine, LJ 4/15/94), and her team had fun playing around with all the latest kitchen appliances, from immersion blenders to electric water smokers. They chose their favorites, which include both old reliables like the food processor and the pressure cooker, as well, somewhat surprisingly, an electric tortilla press (it's more versatile than you might think); electric sifters and peelers (!) were among those that did not make the cut. Each chapter includes a general description of the appliance (What Does It Do? Why Do I Need This?) and a listing of helpful tips, sometimes including uses that won't have occurred to most cooks, followed by an interesting mix of recipes that use the tool to its best advantage. There are suggestions for what features to look for and so forth, but no brand name buying guide (however, the introduction does single out the clear winners in some categories). Overall, this may be more valuable for its recipes than as a consumer reference; recommended for most collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0688149618
• ISBN 13: 9780688149611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384