The Francophile has bought a new kitchen gadget. He's fond of gadgets and appliances.
This is a contraption called a Flavour Wave Turbo Oven. He saw it advertised on late night TV ... I think this was some time early in the World Cup soccer tournament, when he became largely nocturnal through watching the matches. I have to say I have always been unreasonably sceptical of anything advertised on late night TV, and freely admit this is a prejudice based on snobbery.
Anyhow, this thing arrived a few days ago in a big square carton. It is made of heat resistant glass, like a very big casserole dish, but with a heating and fan unit built into the lid. It claims to cook things in less than half the time it takes in a normal oven.
He cooked a rack of lamb in it yesterday, and I was favourably impressed. It took 35 minutes. I would have liked it a bit more well-done, but that wasn't the oven's fault. It seemed to work fine. Right now, he is in the kitchen preparing to cook a roast chicken with rosemary potatoes.
Maybe I'll have to eat my words about late night TV marketing. And no, we didn't get any steak knives.
