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| Cooking on toy stove with a Staub tiny pot |
Yesterday was a lazy day. After all that Sunday drilling I decided to rest my wrists and take a day out. Inter alia, I experimented with my toy stove. Could I cook an apple on it? I had done it before, but not inside a receptacle, and the mess had been considerable. So I decided to try to do it inside a small pot.
Well, the smallest saucepan I have looked too big on the tiny stove. So I gave my tiny Staub casserole a go. I bought a few of them in a moment of madness - I have many such moments - and have been trying to use them ever since, with mixed results. Coddling eggs, mainly.
Anyway, last night I used them for baking an apple. The pot was too small for an un-cut apple, so I cut it into pieces, added butter and sugar and cinnamon and raisins, and put it on the stove. Which was heated by a super large tea light.
Four hours later .... Time to go to bed. Huge lump of soot under the stove top, and apple pieces only marginally cooked.
I was trying to replicate the results presumably obtained by using one of these apple bakers, who also claim to cook the apple with only a tea light.
Well I am not convinced. Notice how the photo only shows the uncooked apple?
Reading the description in detail, I notice you are supposed to first microwave the apple.
Like what?!?!?!?
Call that an apple baker?
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| Tasty crusty rolls |
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| Made in a Wagner Viennese Rolls pan, circa 1930 |
