George Foreman

[Cutiebolic]

grill

Anyone own one?

Like/no like?

More annoying to clean than it's worth? I eat more chicken than I feel like cooking but my diet is strict so it's hard to order out.

Oven too smokey for little apartment.

Discuss.

 

[johnnyrockit8665]

I have one and I use it everyday it will cook 2lbs or so of chicken in about 10 min. If you get one spend a little more and get the one that the plates come off its easy to clean you can throw them in the dish washer even. My Foreman Grill and Magic Bullet mixer are my two favorite kitchen utensils! Hope this helps cutie.

 

[cindylou]

I have one that has the trays you can slip into the dishwaser but I still think it's easier, cleaner and faster to just boil my chicken. I barely use it.

 

[jjtt]

grill

Anyone own one?

Like/no like?

More annoying to clean than it's worth? I eat more chicken than I feel like cooking but my diet is strict so it's hard to order out.

Oven too smokey for little apartment.

Discuss.

I have one I use when I'm not using the BBQ. It's great- easy to clean, there's no problem there because it's non-stick. If there any meat stuck on it after I just put a little hot water and soap on it for five minutes and it wipes clean afterwards.

 

[jjtt]

I have one that has the trays you can slip into the dishwaser but I still think it's easier, cleaner and faster to just boil my chicken. I barely use it.

The scum on the side of the pot puts me right off of boiled meat.

 

[musclemom]

I have the one that the plates remove. The only problem I really have is sooner or later grease gets down into where the hinge is (especially if you ever cook any red meat) and there's simply no way to clean it out and it smokes a bit. I just gave up and live with it.

I have a convection toaster oven. I'll cook the chicken in that. I'll whirl up a couple of pickled jalapeno peppers and olive oil with my stick blender and coat the chicken and the bottom of the cooking dish with that, keeps it moist, gives it a little kick.

 

[TableFun]

pos

 

[AFeedz]

The scum on the side of the pot puts me right off of boiled meat.

Me too, plus boiled chicken tastes a little too bland to me, I guess from sitting in water.

But you can poach chicken by wrapping boneless chicken breast and spices together in saran wrap. Then if you bring a large pot of water to a simmer and turn the stove off, you can drop the saran-wrapped chicken in and it'll come out cooked, moist and delish in 15-30 minutes...plus, no weird filmy stuff in your pot.

And in reference to the original question, I'm not really a fan of chicken cooked in George Formans. I think it's kind of tough on the outside after cooking in one of those.

 

[cindylou]

The scum on the side of the pot puts me right off of boiled meat.

lol yeah, that does not bother me

 

[cindylou]

Me too, plus boiled chicken tastes a little too bland to me, I guess from sitting in water.

But you can poach chicken by wrapping boneless chicken breast and spices together in saran wrap. Then if you bring a large pot of water to a simmer and turn the stove off, you can drop the saran-wrapped chicken in and it'll come out cooked, moist and delish in 15-30 minutes...plus, no weird filmy stuff in your pot.

And in reference to the original question, I'm not really a fan of chicken cooked in George Formans. I think it's kind of tough on the outside after cooking in one of those.

I don't use saran wrap but I'll add spices and sometimes fat free, low sodium broth to the water

 

[Cutiebolic]

This is all very helpful! Thank you!

I am living in a tiny studio apartment for now and whatever I cook is what my bed and clothes smell like, which kinda grosses me out so I have been doing more preparing than cooking.

Trader Joes makes some fairly healthy precooked chicken but the quality is inconsistent (sometimes it's mostly gristle). I definitely need to figure something else out.