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Someone’s in the basement with Dinah…..

June 16, 2009 by Lauren 11 Comments

Remember how I bought that roaster last summer to bake bread in and only used it once? That was stupid.

Well, I’m giving it another go this summer. In the interest of cheap heat management (i.e. ‘I’m not cooling this house down only to have a giant box of heat in the kitchen ruin everything’-craziness), I’m going to see how many things can be successfully baked downstairs….. right alongside the tools and spare lumber.

Not quite brown enough.

Enchiladas were a success, as were brownies.

Breakfast bars were so-so – the first batch was overdone and the second was underdone. (I blame poor basement lighting for that. “Is it brown or just shady?”)

A frozen pizza took forever. (I blame operator error for that – I didn’t have the heat turned up high enough.) I even had a preheated flowerpot saucer turned over on it for it’s thermal mass, but something went wrong. I’ll have to try it again sometime.

See, the problem with this system is that every time you lift the lid to check on your food, the heat goes right out of the thing. Oh well – a whole summer of dinners will work out the kinks.

Sorry, Lloyd.

Filed Under: Cheap, Cooking

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  1. Kristi says

    June 17, 2009 at 6:44 am

    I’m sure YOU can rig up some kind of little peep-hole window to check on the done-ness of your meal, right??

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  2. Peggy says

    June 17, 2009 at 6:54 am

    That looks delicous!! Maybe you should eat in the basement too…then the color would continue to look right!

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  3. Brad says

    June 17, 2009 at 8:58 am

    You should cook a turkey in there. That would only take, what, 72 hours or so?

    My suggestion? Eat breakfast cereal. No heat generated. Plus, it’s fortified with essential vitamins and minerals.

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    • Lloyd says

      June 17, 2009 at 10:44 am

      How would we decide who gets the toy surprise?

      Reply
      • Beth says

        June 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm

        It’s always Lauren’s. Always.

        Reply
  4. christina says

    June 17, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    I use mine on the back porch…it’s like a million degrees out there anyway, so when you open the lid the temp doesn’t change. The only reason we even use the cooker is so the dog doesn’t eat it first.

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    • Lloyd says

      June 17, 2009 at 3:04 pm

      Ha. You funny girl (seriously, I laughed out loud).

      Reply
  5. Amy says

    June 17, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Wait, you don’t have an oven? I don’t think I could live without one.. : (

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    • Lauren says

      June 17, 2009 at 6:09 pm

      We have an oven, but it’s in the kitchen and makes the first floor so HOT when it’s on in the summer. My deepest wish is to have an adorable apartment-sized oven that lives in the basement to use in the hot months, but that’s not gonna happen.

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      • Amy says

        June 17, 2009 at 6:44 pm

        ohhh, ^_^ that’s cool then, I never thought of anything like that. Maybe you could find a free stove on freecycle.

        Reply
  6. Karla says

    June 18, 2009 at 6:07 am

    Have you given any thought to a toaster oven? I love ours.

    Reply

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