Fri, Sep 26, 2008
White Kitchen
Posted to Technology category
The new dishwasher is amazingly quiet.
The new range hood is now installed. It has two bright, halogen lights (with two settings) and a stronger fan than the old one. Its filter screens go the full width of the stove, and can be cleaned in the dishwasher.
The kitchen looks very clean with all white appliances replacing the almond range and hood. It will look even nicer when the matching fridge finally arrives.
I have a chicken breast with apricot-cashew-fennel-couscous stuffing in the oven.
The stove rings a chime when it finishes preheating, and seems to cycle frequently when maintaining temperature, so the temperature swings should be shallow.
I don't know whether I am using the convection feature or not. (I think probably not, this time.) I need to reread the owner's manual, which is huge because of all the features. Besides the breadproofing mode and baking and broiling with and without convection, the oven can act as a food dehydrator: I think that is basically a combination of breadproofing temps with the convection fan turned on.
There is a complicated feature called sabbath mode which I will never need. And a section on the oven control panel will calculate the time and temperature changes for convection cooking.
I bought some egg whites at Whole Foods today, so this weekend I will try pancakes or waffles made with eggwhites instead of shole eggs. I think I'll add some vanilla to compensate for the missing richness from the yolks.