If you’ve never used a pressure cooker before, it can certainly seem like “magic” - presto, and your food is cooked in a fraction of the time it’d normally take. There’s no more room in our tiny kitchen for yet another large pot, but I still often eye pressure cookers wistfully online. It’s a great way to quickly cook “slow-cook” food.

This is the 6 quart stainless stell variety from Presto which looks like a pretty simple device without any unneeded bells and whistles. As with most modern pressure cookers it has a lock-down saftey mechanism that prevents you from catastrophe if you try to open the lid when cooking. It also has the usual valve to release steam.

Presto, chango - instant cool griddle? Well, sort of. This is a jumbo sized electric cooktop that will give you a whole lot of room to cook hamburgers, sizzling fajitas, pancakes and pretty much anything that requires a large cooking surface. …

I’m sorta in the market for a Universal Lid that will fit on top of any size pot or pan. It’s been quite inconvenient to try and cook something that requires a 12 inch skillet or pan …

I’m always looking around for better roasting pans. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I might eventually invest in a Calphalon Roaster like this Contemporary Nonstick one that includes a baster and injector, as well as trident style lifters. I think I’d first seen good things about the Calphalon brand of roasters for doing turkey in a Slate.com article. I think the one they talked about was the Calphalon One Infused Anodized Nonstick however, which is pricier and also not a readily available it seems on Amazon.

Anyhow, this particular roaster has a really heavy duty aluminum pan with a non-stick surface and is a good size at 16 x 13 inches and four inches deep. There is a lifetime warranty against any defects. The rack is also non-stick which I’m thinking could be handy - the one I currently have is not non-stick and it is such a chore to clean if you don’t do it right away - and who cleans the rack RIGHT after the turkey comes out? The only thing I was wondering about the rack is that it is of the “curved” variety which is completely necessary in this deeper style of pan. I’m not such a big fan of curved racks, but you could possibly get another rack to use with roastables other than big birds.

I had been coveting one of these Lodge Grills for quite awhile, when I finally received one as a gift a few months ago. I had pretty high expectations and for the most part, I haven’t been disappointed.

For those who aren’t familiar with these heavy duty cast iron grills, they don’t look like a convention grill pan per se - in that it doesn’t have a circular or square shape, and it doesn’t have a standard pan handle. It does have two carrying handles on both long ends of the grill. This is a rather heavy pan and you should definitely be careful handling it, especially when hot.

It is a double sided cast iron piece with grill bars on one side to mimic a BBQ grill and a flat surface on the other to turn it into something like a diner cooking surface. The grill is very large - 20 inches by 11 inches. It is actually meant to stand over TWO burners. There are no attachments to secure it to your burners - it just sits right on top. Since it’s double sided, I had some doubts about whether or not having fire directly on the reverse side would damage that finish - but so far I haven’t seen any thing out of the ordinary.

Above is a picture of the griddle side being used to grill up some thin steak and onions for some steak sandwiches.

I’d been looking for something similar to this Toaster Rack by Duncan Hines for awhile since the current one that came in our cheap toaster is pretty shabby. In particular the non-stick …

I’ve often wondered if these stovetop grills work well or not. I think a lot of people may be wondering the same thing after seeing it used on Food Network shows (like Rachel Ray’s …

It’s extremely difficult for me not to drool when looking at all the cool Le Creuset cooking stuff they have on Amazon. These famous cast iron beauties are currently out of reach for me, at least the new ones are. I’ve still been hoping to find some Le Creuset goodness at thrift shops or garage sales one of these days. But did I mention their stuff has a 101 year warranty? Definitely a “generational” piece of cookware… and probably the reason you don’t see them for sale in the thrift shops as much.