George Foreman We Love You

[Diabeticliberty]

My secretary suggested that as I am now single once more I might consider a George Foreman fat reducing grill. She sold me on the concept that it was bomb proof, idiot proof, burn your own house down proof and most importantly I was very unlikely to give myself food poisoning cooking with it. I have in the last week chucked just about everything in it. Steak, chicken, pork loins, salmon, trout, sea trout, cod and prawns. I have found that chopping up fruit and vegetables and just tossing them in the grill with the meat offers some surprisingly decent results. Last night after I got home I decided to chuck a bacon butty together which it cooks in about 5 minutes. The real eye opener for me is putting the grill on a slight angle with the fat catching dish below it just how much crappy fat is in food. This appears particularly bad with bacon and sausages. I have never been massively into bacon or sausage and I am really glad having seen what drains out of it when cooking. The upshot is George Foreman gets a massive thumbs up. Not only can he deliver a right cross making you feel like you have been hit in the face with an anvil he also endorses a half decent grilling machine that may help me from starving myself silly 🙂

 

[Martin Canty]

Ahhhhh, and then put the bacon drippings into a jar to use for cooking later!!!!

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Ahhhhh, and then put the bacon drippings into a jar to use for cooking later!!!!

I think I am going to 'honk up' at the very suggestion. The stuff looks bloody vile. Cooking bacon without one of these suggests people are actually eating it . I will never eat bacon again that hasn't been cooked using one of these machines.

 

[Northerner]

Get yourself some Black Farmer pork sausages - virtually no carbs and virtually no fat 🙂

 

[Copepod]

Save fat that drips off, mix with breadcrumbs / seeds and feed to wild birds.

 

[Robin]

If you get proper butchers' dry cured bacon, the fat that comes off it is delicious. What comes off the average supermarket rasher, unfortunately, normally resembles white scum.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

If you get proper butchers' dry cured bacon, the fat that comes off it is delicious. What comes off the average supermarket rasher, unfortunately, normally resembles white scum.

Thank you for your suggestion but personally find the concept of fat being delicious quite repugnant 😱

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Get yourself some Black Farmer pork sausages - virtually no carbs and virtually no fat 🙂

Yes this sounds like a go to. Have you tried them? Do they taste like toenails?

 

[Northerner]

Yes this sounds like a go to. Have you tried them? Do they taste like toenails?

They are delicious! I was gutted when they stopped selling them in my local Co-op, now I have to go on foraging missions to the big Sainsbury's a couple of miles away! 😱 Worth it though! 🙂

 

[Robin]

Thank you for your suggestion but personally find the concept of fat being delicious quite repugnant 😱

Have to disagree, bacon fat is the only thing to fry an egg in. Mind you, I have cut back on my pork crackling habit since I broke a tooth on it last week, so maybe all this fat malarkey really is bad for you!

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Save fat that drips off, mix with breadcrumbs / seeds and feed to wild birds.

I don't feed bread to birds as it doesn't do them any good. I do buy fat balls which they absolutely seem to love. I have them coming into my garden at timed sittings for meal worms. The cheeky sods now thumb up their noses at wild bird seed and hold out for the meal worms. Dumb animals? I really don't think so

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Have to disagree, bacon fat is the only thing to fry an egg in. Mind you, I have cut back on my pork crackling habit since I broke a tooth on it last week, so maybe all this fat malarkey really is bad for you!

I don't eat fried eggs. Boiled and poached only for my delicate palate. Will do scrambled as an absolute last resort but I wouldn't eat scrambled every week or even every month

 

[Martin Canty]

dry cured bacon

Hmmmmm....... Gotta look out for some of that...... Apparently both of our supermarkets sell that

 

[Copepod]

I don't feed bread to birds as it doesn't do them any good. I do buy fat balls which they absolutely seem to love. I have them coming into my garden at timed sittings for meal worms. The cheeky sods now thumb up their noses at wild bird seed and hold out for the meal worms. Dumb animals? I really don't think so

The crumbs are only to hold the oil / fat, so they are eating high calorie food, not naked bread. I also feed mealworms to wild birds, but keep a few for my harvest mouse - and today was able to borrow a male for a stud visit to her travel case, as we're house / pet / livestock minding in Norfolk. He goes back to his home on Saturday when we head north. They've had an exercise session climbing up a few barley stalks pilfered from a field, set up in bath, as they can't escape, unless they climb up plug chain, which I put away from their paws. Female will be getting extra mealworms during her pregnancy.

Otherwise, oil should be allowed to cool and then poured into a bottle or pot for disposal in regular waste, but it's better not to go to landfill, where it will make methane.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

The crumbs are only to hold the oil / fat, so they are eating high calorie food, not naked bread. I also feed mealworms to wild birds, but keep a few for my harvest mouse - and today was able to borrow a male for a stud visit to her travel case, as we're house / pet / livestock minding in Norfolk. He goes back to his home on Saturday when we head north. They've had an exercise session climbing up a few barley stalks pilfered from a field, set up in bath, as they can't escape, unless they climb up plug chain, which I put away from their paws. Female will be getting extra mealworms during her pregnancy.

Otherwise, oil should be allowed to cool and then poured into a bottle or pot for disposal in regular waste, but it's better not to go to landfill, where it will make methane.

I expect lots of pictures of the little critters after they are born. As many as you can stump up will be fine by me 🙂

 

[Ljc]

I expect lots of pictures of the little critters after they are born. As many as you can stump up will be fine by me 🙂

Me too

 

[Copepod]

All depends if the two of them get on OK. But if there are babies after 17 - 19 days gestation, of course I'll post photos.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

It's a man mouse and a lady mouse. They will get on like 2 beautiful meeces and then there will be a whole house full of meeces 🙂

 

[DeusXM]

Thank you for your suggestion but personally find the concept of fat being delicious quite repugnant 😱

Actually (and this may seem counterintuitive), it's fat that's almost entirely responsible for making meat delicious and juicy. No good chef ever orders fillet steak as it is very lean - they will always order a well-marbled ribeye as the marbling is the fat, which gives the steak its fine flavour. Similar principle behind wagyu beef - it's exceptionally well-marbled which makes it taste astonishing. Fat on its own, I can understand as not being appealing (although you can't beat a nice crispy bar of fat on a lamb chop or a bit of pork crackling).

The truth is, fat isn't actually bad for you provided you're metabolising it. In fact I would say it's probably better for you (and certainly better for your diabetes) to eat some bacon rashers on their own, fried in butter, than it is to GF the rashers and serve them in a sandwich with low-fat spread.

I pretty much fry all my meat, never touch low-fat stuff and use real butter and cream. My triglycerides are lower than those of someone without diabetes.

Don't fear fat. It's what makes food taste good and if you take it out, you have to replace it with the other nutrient that influences flavour - carbohydrate, which doesn't produce nearly as much satiety as fat, so you also end up eating more too.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Tell you what Deus, if you like it then you eat it. Not for me though thanks very much. I don't fear fat I just really don't want to eat it.