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Jeannette Hyde's avatar

Hi Daisy. Great post! Thoroughly recommend the Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker too. Pressure cooking saves energy bills (half an hour instead of 4 hours of electricity for bone broth). AND makes beans and vegetables much easier to digest eg the fibre easier to eat, and reduces lectins, and soapy saponins and the like aka “anti-nutrients”. I wrote about those recently and how pressure cooking helps. Also best person on Substack for tips and fast delicious recipes for pressure cooking is @catherinephipps who writes Catherine is Under Pressure. Maybe you know her already? Her books are brilliant too.

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Jill Mansell's avatar

Daisy, many years ago I read a piece you wrote about losing your house in that terrible fire. Every single day since then, once I’ve done my makeup by the window, I now think of you and turn my mirror face down so the sun can’t reach it. Thank you. Xx

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Daisy Goodwin's avatar

Every cloud …,

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Ruth2Day's avatar

I think you might have sold me on the Air Fryer with the thought of boiled eggs and soldiers. To be fair it was more reading the word soldiers, as I hardly ever hear it used these days, and it was a great moment of reminiscing

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Jenny Eclair's avatar

Ahem you need a microwave if you suffer from chronic dry eye and need to heat up eye masks which help release the clogged oil from your maeobean glands ( spelling is a prob here)

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Larissa Hennessy's avatar

I loved this!

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Wendie  Smith's avatar

Hi Daisy. You have reminded me about how useful a pressure cooker is and I am going to purchase one again. I agree about the thermomix , my go to since the mid seventies is a magimix. The thermomix hadn't come out then. I have been contemplating buying one but I don't really cook as much as I did. I agree about the ice cream maker. My new go to which is much cheaper than a thermometer is the Ninja soup maker. It chops, cooks and makes hot soup automatically. It also makes great jam , salad dressings and blends anything in a jiffy. Its a really cheap useful addition to any kitchen. Just as useful as my expensive Vitamix. I love your articles. 😘

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This coming Christmas has a fierce bang of “Thermomix under the tree” offa it ❤️

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Moiz's avatar

Fab article!!! Made me laugh and ponder buying a Thermo whotsit!

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Ingrid Haring-Mendes's avatar

I use my ice-cream maker a lot! Probably too much! Air fryer too.

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Rob Devaney's avatar

Terrific post thank you Daisy 😊

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Claire Ivins's avatar

It’s perfectly true that air fryers are much better than microwaves for heating food that you want to eat crisp, but can they sterilise a batch of baby bottles without chemicals? No, they can’t. I bought mine the week my older child came home from the maternity hospital (nearly 28 years ago) specifically for sterilising baby bottles and it has gone on to reheat countless thousands of food items without requiring a saucepan or switching on the oven. It’s virtually a member of the family.

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Daisy Goodwin's avatar

Think the thermomix can do that too!

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chris j's avatar

The thermomix link isn’t working Daisy

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Daisy Goodwin's avatar

whoops - my first foray into linkage. www.thermomix.co.uk

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Marcia Francois's avatar

I love my microwave so much that when mine exploded once (gem squash!), I drive to the mall, was in and out with a new one in less than 15 minutes. 🤗

Love my instant pot and my husband loves the air fryer but I’m going to try the egg and soldier recipe.

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