ActiFry is like a Roomba for cooking
I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about a kitchen appliance before, but in my opinion Tefal’s new ActifFry multicooker qualifies as a gadget. It makes cooking easier, and gadgets are all about making our life’s easier, right?
The ActiFry is a hot air over that stirs your food while frying it. All you need to do is put stuff into the circular pan and press to ‘on’ button. If some of your ingredients needs to cook longer than others you might need to add things later on, but other than that you can just sit back and watch things unfold. The rotating vanes will make sure your food gets cooked evenly, and there’s a timer so you can go do something else while it does the work for you.
The main limitation is that you can only use food that’s ‘stirable’. Meat needs to be in small dices, and large potatoes also won’t work. It’s ideal for cooking things you would normally stir fry. I just ate a very tasty Thai meal that my wife actifried. Yum.
Another thing that’s really impressive is that this machine can prepare potato chips that are only half as fat as regular ones, and still taste very nice. In fact, You can simply dump up to a kilogram of frozen chips in there and cook them without adding any fat. Chips from the freezer have usually been pre-fried, and contain enough fat for the ActiFry to make them nice and crispy. Other meals need a single spoon of your favourite oil. Still pretty healthy.
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Facts related to unlawful infringement by the ActiFry from Groupe SEB and T-Fal. FACT 1: SEB’s T-Fal ActiFry lacks issued patent clearance in the USA or Canada. FACT 2: SEB refuses to provide details to refute multiple patent claims in which SEB is alleged to clearly infringe US Patent 6.845,707 and issued Canada Patent CA 2,641,181. FACT 3: SEB made forward looking statements to shareholders that lack supporting patent clearance required in order to lawfully distribute in the USA and Canada. FACT 4: SEB has applications that may be fully denied, partially denied, or granted with minor claims carved out that will not alter the alleged infringement by SEB’s T-Fal ActiFry. FIND the improved and genuinely patent supported Stir Oven at http://www.StirCook.com and select retailers.
Comment by Jeff Vicars — September 14, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
It’s a fryer Jeff Vicars, get over it LoL
Comment by McDuffy — January 26, 2010 @ 8:14 pm
Hi Roy,
PhotoWidget sounds very promising to me – thanks!
Not quite sure if I’m the dummy here, but … what does it take to get the Photo Widget working in a regular HTML webpage? Your example is evident, but despite the links mentioned in de XML, they are not clickable. Are you saying I need to add extra stuff to catch the click or …?
Cheers, René
Comment by René — January 27, 2010 @ 1:18 am
Rene, did you upload the files? Different security restrictions apply when the movie is playing locally. Flash is weird that way. Also, links may need to point to the same domain as where the swf is.
Comment by Roy — January 27, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
Hello Roy,
That’s the trick – many thanks!
On experimenting a bit around I noticed that with FrontPage (how dare I say it), in preview mode, it does work locally. Dunno why, but this mediaeval stuff seems to rock ‘n roll alright using backdoors???
Thanks again,
René
Comment by René — January 29, 2010 @ 10:26 am