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Customer Reviews of Calculated Industries KitchenCalc 8305 PRO Master Chef Edition Recipe Conversion Calculator with Dual Digital Timer
Customer Rating:  Summary: Calculator looks like a great addition Comment: I love gadgets and will buy any I do not have. I have to admit the calculator looks like it will be something I will get a lot of use out of. I have often wished for something that would calculate larger or smaller portions and was happy when I found this. Customer Rating: Summary: Birthday gift for my beau, a CHEF Comment: My boyfriend is a chef (a graduate of Johnson & Wales U). He was executive chef in Providence for a few years and now has started his own catering company. He did not even know such a calculator existed. Nor did I. He wanted a calculator to take with him to meet clients at their homes and come up with some quick estimates. Now he can do so much more! Customer Rating: Summary: Good Stuff Comment: This calculator does everything I wanted. Easy to use, easy to understand manual, very good product.Calculated Industries KitchenCalc 8305 PRO Master Chef Edition Recipe Conversion Calculator with Dual Digital Timer Customer Rating: Summary: a gift worth giving Comment: I bought this item for my sister for Christmas because she found it quite laborious converting measurements. Standard, metric, liquid, dry, it can be daunting and scaling a recipe up or down can be confusing especially if fractions are involved. She was so thrilled with the calculator I may just have to get one for myself. Something to fiddle around with during TV commercials. Someone else complained about the plastic cover fitting too tightly and forcing keys down. My answer to that person is a resounding NO. I do NOT use any electronic device in the food preparation area. I do my conversions and put them on paper to refer to while actually cooking. I can't imagine doing it in the midst of actually cooking the food. Sort of like writing the recipe while you are cooking the dish. Maybe that makes sense to me only because I am a retired chef. I highly recommend this product based solely on my sister's opinions. She also found the dual timers convenient. Customer Rating:  Summary: Works well but problems with the cover Comment: The KitchenCalc does conversions as promised and is very good at them. The timing functions also work. But, the device came with a flexible plastic cover to allow it to be used in a cooking envronment. To put the cover on, you need to stretch it to the point that several keys at the edge are forced down. This keeps the calculator from working. How can a product be sold without even minimal functionality testing? Yes - it calculates. But, no, the KitchenCalc is not splashproof. Didn't anyone try using the calculator with the flexible plastic shield on? It's worth buying, but keep it clear of the cooking area. Rated 2 stars because the lack of a functional cover keeps it from being used in the food-preparation area. More Reviews If you are a busy cook, or even slightly mathematically challenged, you'll love this device. It allows you to scale recipes up or down, easily calculating increases and decreases in portions. If you have a European cookbook or two, it cuts through all that metric confusion - coverting weights and measures quickly in fractions or decimals. Enter and convert between teaspoons, tablespoons, fluid ounces, pints, millileters, even dashes and pinches! Finally it's a digital timer that will keep track of elapsed time even while you perform other calculations. 
Choosing Appliance -> Cutting boards There seems to be little difference between hard wood and plastic cutting boards from a safety standpoint, as long as they are properly washed and sanitized after each use. Personally, I like the feel of solid wood. One piece of advice--buy large cutting boards. Don't bother with these tiny boards that everyone seems to have in his or her kitchen. They are not user friendly. Once you get down to serious cutting or chopping, the small boards are always woefully inadequate and downright maddening! Choosing Appliance -> Cooking Pans This is another area where spending money is justified. The best pans combine different metals like aluminum or copper on the outside and stainless steel on the inside. Aluminum and copper are valued for their ability to spread heat evenly over the entire pan, and stainless steel is valued for its non-reactive qualities. Buy pans which are heavy and thick with solid handles that are well fastened to the pot. As with knives, buy the highest quality cooking pans you can afford one at a time, starting with a saute pan and a 3 qt. sauce pan. They will last forever. At some point, a stock pot (which will be especially pricey) should be considered for serious cooking. Calculated Industries KitchenCalc 8305 PRO Master Chef Edition Recipe Conversion Calculator with Dual Digital Timer
Kitchen tips -> Vegetables cooking water The cooking water from most vegetables can be added to soups and gravies for extra flavor |
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