You'll Be Eating Grilled Food A Lot More Often With This Grill
Written: Aug 12 '02 (Updated Mar 21 '03)
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Pros: Inexpensive, Quick-Cooking, Great Tasting Food, Easy Clean-Up
Cons: Quite small for more a meal with more than 1 or 2 people
The Bottom Line: It’s not going to replace your barbeque, but it makes it easier to get that grilled flavor whenever you want it and without the hassle of a regular grill.
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What can you say about a grill that takes up about as much room as a frying pan or a large pot that can help you finish any meal in about 10 minutes? This little guy can almost replace that frying pan and makes you want to use that pot a lot less often. You’ll find yourself grilling everything – from steaks and chicken to vegetables and breads. The George Foreman Grill is just simply amazing if you know what to use it for. It makes tasty grilled dishes in minutes and cleanup is a snap.
The grill has space for about 2 regular size hamburgers, one or two chicken breasts, or one or two pork chops. All three choices will come out wonderfully on this grill. Because the grill cooks from both sides, there is no flipping involved and everything is cooked evenly. The wonderful thing about the grill is that because you have high heat and you are cooking from both sides – the food is seared and all the juices stay inside while you are cooking. You don’t get that dried out hockey puck type meal that you can sometimes get when you use a regular grill or your oven with this grill.
There is no temperature control on the grill – one setting fits all. Honestly though, it’s not something that you really have to worry about. Temperature is not what you should be concerned with, it’s the length of time you are cooking something. Thawed steak or chicken usually takes about 10 minutes, if that, depending on the thickness of the cut and pork chops and hamburgers take a little bit longer because you want to make sure that it is cooked throughout (well-done, we don’ want anyone getting food poisoning or trichinosis here).
When you are cooking something, the grease from the material slides down the no-stick interior of the grill and drips out into a little catch-pan. The catch-pan is probably the least well thought out portion of the grill. Several times I have set up the grill and started cooking, only to realize that I had forgotten to put the catch-pan underneath and I had grease dribbling out on the counter. So be forewarned – make sure you set it up right beforehand.
You don’t quite get an outdoor grill taste with this grill – it’s in between that taste and the taste you get from roasting something in the oven. However, the tenderness and juiciness you get, I haven’t seen replicated very often in other cooking methods. For foods to cook, I would say that chicken breasts and hamburgers are the best to cook on this grill, followed by small steaks and pork chops. If you do decide to do pork chops, go with the boneless kind (that goes for any cut of meat – no bones). The bones prevent the grill from closing all the way and can scratch the Teflon interior of the grill.
Another great use of the grill is to create hot pocket type meals. If you take two pieces of bread, fill them with whatever you want (chicken and cheese, ham and turkey, etc…) and then put it in the grill – after a few minutes, you open it up and voila, you have this grilled sandwich sealed in between the two pieces of bread. It’s great to pack away and then heat up at lunchtime in the microwave while you are at work.
This was the first George Foreman grill I purchased and I faithfully used it quite often to make myself a quick hamburger in the evening or even a small steak if it was just me eating. The quality of this grill and it’s great performance make me confident that any other George Foreman product will be just as good (see my review of George Foreman Indoor/Outdoor Electric Bar-B-Que Grill GGR50 to see how much I like that one: http://www.epinions.com/content_72657636996). I honestly cannot say enough good things about these products. They make life easier in the kitchen, while not sacrificing taste or food quality.
It’s not going to replace your outdoor barbeque, but it sure makes it a lot easier to get that grilled taste and flavor whenever you want it and without half the hassle of a regular grill.
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