Category: Daily Living
Ok, I know this is totally sad, but I have this real issue with turning food over. I can never catch it! Any suggestions that don't involve me burning myself? lol
Really depends what it is you're turning, if you can be a little more specific with what you have trouble with then possibly I can help.
Don't feel bad about that, so do I. I especially hate frying things like hamburger patties and just usually won't cook something on the stove that requires turning things over because I have a hard time getting it on the spatula, and I don't want to put my hand on the food or the pan to do it. When I get the food on the spatula, depending on what it is, and how wide the pan is, sometimes I have a hard time flipping it back into the center. The only thing I usually cook (that I still sometimes have trouble catching), are tortillas, but I like them burnt anyway, so to me that's not much of a problem to do. *smile* However, if I'm cooking something in the oven I just take the sheet out and turn the food over with my hand or a spoon. Anyways, I think there are these double spatula or spatula-tong things that they sell in some blindness catalogs, and maybe at some stores, although I've only found regular tongs at the stores. I know if I could get something like a spatula-type turner it would make turning over food easier for me anyway.
Ah yeh, I can do all the oven stuff, but when it comes to turning bacon, or turning something over in a frying pan, let allone catching it first, it just doesn't happen! lol
Well, I never fry anything, never used a frying pan, when I did fry I used deep fat, so never cooked stuff like bacon that way, did it on what we call a grill, what I believe the Americans call a toaster oven. and for stuff like bacon and burgers steak and the like, use your fingers, or a fork, or anything you can. use what we call a fish slice, and a fork if you need to hold it steady. The only thing I ever had problems with was sausages, they always seeemed to roll back to the cooked side, and you end up with one side over cooked and the other side under cooked. In the end I baught some skewers and put at least 2 sausages on and a skewer either end, then you turn the skewers, and the whole lot gets turned, and stays turned.
Another suggestion pertaining to sausage specificly. If you are cooking a few links at a time, I have found that by hooking them all together with 2 or 3 toothpicks will make it so that they are both easier to flip, and also won't role around. The doulbe spatchula has been a friend of mine, though I also avoid cooking stuff in frying pans if at all possible.
ok, but if you're frying chicken say. The heat is full on, an you need to turn this thing over. So you get it on a fork, and try to turn it. it flipps of the fork but doesn't turn. lol. When I use fish slices or spatulas, i usually succeed in pushing the food out of the pan before catching it underneath to turn it. lol. See? Just bloody hopeless........ hahahahhahah
use a double spatula
I don't know about double spatulars, but Danielle though I've never fried chicken as the idea is just nasty to me, I'd hold it still by just holding a fork or spoon or something on top, chile sliding the spatular or whatever underneath. you can then use a combination of that device to help turn it.
By the way, I hate eggs, and so have never tried this, but I also knew a blind guy who could flip eggs in a frying pan quite successfully. so anything is possible, as I'd say something like egg would seem pretty difficult.
Just get a foreman grill and make regular use of it. That's what I got for my birthday and you rarely have to flip sausages and stuff over when you're cooking them. Very quick, very simple and very neat.
ok, let's try this agin. my first one didn't post for some reason. Danielle, I had this problem before. I then bught a double sided spatula. It's kind of like tongs, but has a spatula on each side instead. so yeahk, I pinch the meet together and flip the spatulas then let the meet go. am i making any sence? hehehe. If I have a hard time getting the meat in the spatula's i put the fork at the edge of the meat then spatual it. hehehe Let's see if Shea makes any sence. ehhehe Cocoa cocoa chicky. Smiles, Shea
Yep. I use the double spatula too. Yayayay! And it makes flipping much easier! And Scott. I'm going to try your idea on toothpicking the sausages together. lol I can't believe I never thought of that. hehe
Michelle
Hmm, you may have to send me one then, lol. Coz I've never seen them over here.... Shan? I thought you guys always ate out? hehehehehe jk smiles
coco coco huggles
lol, we do eat out a lot. but i do cook too. heheh i will get one and send it to you! Smiles,
Danielle, this is kind of a work-around to the chicken issue, but I never fry chicken. I bake it in the oven at about 425 F. (Sorry, can't convert to metric.) Anyway, I make up a coating with breadcrumbs and whatever seasonings I feel like throwing in. a really unique twist is to use taco seasoning mix. Some people do this and butter the chicken. I think my way is a bit healthier. Now short of murder, can anybody keep a damn cat out of the fry pan or baking dish? I start with four chicken pieces and wind up with three.
Lou
Danielle I'm almost certain RNIB or another similar company here sell the double spatula, if you call them, if they don't, they will probably know who does if it's available.
A tool that I have found helpful is a bacon press.
It is a metal piece that is about the size and shape of a small plate. It has holes in it to allow grease to pop normally.
You set this device over a few pieces of bacon in a frying pan, and as the bacon cooks the bacon press allows it to cook on both sides. So the only time you have to mess with the hot pan is to remove the bacon.
Bob
Okay this is what I'd use. There is a device that looks like a pair of teeth on the end. You can open it and close it. You can grab the chicken with it and turn your wrist. for bacon the best and healthy way is to get a micro wave bacon cooker. You don't have to turn it and it cooks crisp and all the fat falls into the bottom of the cooker, so all you need do is drain it into a can or something.
Sugar I don't have a problem turning my food over at all. When I'm ready I just give her leg a little shake..
danielle, i have something similar to a double sided spatula it is a tong on one side and the flat thing on the other side, works great! also a george forman! love it!
yah Krystel, need something like that. I have a george forman, but when you're working from recipes that say, fry meet for so long, bla bla, or seer meet. yeh. lol
yes bacon presses are flat and I think they come in different sizes. However, they don't work on everything. Hamberger paddies for example don't get cooked throughout.
Bob
hmm, nice misunderstanding while it lasted then, lol
At least that was my experience with the patties. But, give it a try and let us know what you think.
Bob
I am one of the ones that loves a george foreman grill. I never turn sausages over when i'm cooking them, as they do do both sides. i don't fry either, i was recommended not too. but, if you have too, i find a fork easiest. just, find the food, ok, i'll use the example of a sausage, find where it is, i tend to find stabbing the end of it helps then flicking it over, there, i'm done.
still a little nervous around the stove The only thing I'm comfortable with is turning it on, then I let someone else do the rest. Actually, I take that back, I've only made macaroni and cheese once.
O, simple. Just open a tin of maccaroni cheese and bung it in the microwave for two to three mins, stick a couple of nice bangers in the George Foreman to have with it.
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i see this post was from a while back but on flipping stu8ff in a pan, i bought the double spatula contraption too and the problem is there is a lip on my pan so i can't use them the way they were intended unless i want a nasty burn and to push the meat out of the pan and usually close to if not on the burner which then i decide to cook something else :p
i find my george forman grill very very handy for porkchops and burgers but the only thing i hate about it is..lanyone want burgers or other stuff with lines in it?lol
and yeah, depending on your likes, burgers need more than 5 minutes if the grill has not been used, kind of turns out rather raw, yeah some pink is ok but if i wanted a raw burger, i'd open a pack of meat and just chow down right then and there lol
I use the grill exclusively because it's the easiest and the stuff I eat, I can just as well cook it on the hamilton beach grill. I love that thing.
Kerby