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We all know what a cement mixer looks like - just look at any cement truck. I propose a cooking vessel with a similar curved drum shape, which is likewise tilted at an angle and likewise rotating around that tilted axis. The rotating vessel is heating from below, enabling it to cook food placed within
it.
The rotating action during cooking provide a natural stir-frying action, ensuring the items being cooked are mixed and coated from all sides.
Originally, I was thinking of this device as a gourmet popcorn maker. You could put the kernels and oil inside, and after the popcorn has all popped, the continuing rotating would allow you to further coat the popcorn - not only with soil and salt, but with whatever tasty mixture you cared to pour in there to coat the popcorn with.
But afterward I thought that this kind of rotating vessel could be more broadly used for cooking in general.
EDIT: When cleaning the vessel later on, keeping it rotating could make it easier to clean the vessel.
Rotating Candy Maker (similar shape, geometry)
https://www.youtube...watch?v=YEC2ng0QIL8
[sanman, Jun 17 2024]
OK, OK - I found one that works like I imagined
https://www.youtube.../shorts/FZ_kvwF7C2s
I'd like to buy one of those - but it looks too industrial - need cheaper home model [sanman, Jun 17 2024]
Worth Reading - Just for the Comments
https://www.reddit..../stir_fry_machines/
Some sound like Halfbakery people [sanman, Jun 17 2024]
cooking a drum
https://pdgood.us/drumshed/steambent.html
for [a1] [pocmloc, Jun 18 2024]
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I hadn't seen anything on Amazon when I checked.
Googling around doesn't show anything that's a home kitchen appliance. Sous vide cooking was around for a long time too, before someone decided to make devices priced for the home. |
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Okay, I just found something called the Tongdori - it seems to be a home appliance - but you have to put it on top of a burner stove. |
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Regarding induction, that's one possible method. What about microwaves even? Imagine a microwave oven that has this rotating drum carousel instead of usual horizontal rotating carousel. So we all know how microwave food tastes - not that great - but what if our rotating drum had some sections that were transparent to microwaves and some sections that absorbed them to produce conventional heating? So that would allow your food to be both microwaved and fried at the same time, while also being tumbled by the rotation. |
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Regular conductive heating tends to cook the surface first, while microwaves are somewhat more penetrative. Perhaps this could reduce cooking time?? |
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@ a1: Well, let's consider this idea of combo-cooking by doing conventional frying/searing and microwaving both together at the same time. That could be something different and useful. Has it ever been tried? |
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@ a1: Fine - I'll make a new separate submission for "Tumbler Carousel Microwave " |
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