My Single Mom Life

The NuWave Oven Pro people that is.
I used to be in sales, a long time ago, in another life it seems like now, I did sales, I did sales training of new associates, I hired and fired people, I knew my stuff.
Anyway, I could totally sell this product for them.
I absolutely love my NuWave Oven Pro, it is so awesome, it cooks every single meal that we generally eat aside from some skillet meals, and I could totally be a sales person for them showing people how to really use it, not like the infomercial people do, but how normal every day people can cook with it.

Ever since getting it, I have NOT used the regular oven, not even once.
I took a board and laid it on top of the stove burners and put the NuWave right there because I don't have a ton of counter space in my kitchen, and we have been cooking with it ever since getting it, and I have not even opened the regular oven door again.

On the weekends, there's not a whole lot on tv, so we watch a lot of the infomercials and laugh at them and the super bad acting, but every time the NuWave Oven Pro one comes on, we watch it even though we have it.
The infomercial is totally cheesy, really bad acting, and they never actually show you how to cook with it.
Sure they throw some food in it, tell you that it will take 15 minutes for a frozen steak and 2 sweet potato halves to be done, and then they walk away to show you some salmon, or the turkey that cooks in just 2 and a half hours.
But they don't show you how it really cooks, how really easy it is to use.
Honestly, I should make my own video with this bad boy one of these days because it is just an awesome cooking appliance, and you do have to read the instruction manual carefully, but so far, I have not burned a single thing in it, and I will be making a turkey in it very soon.
I think that "chef" who tested it for Fox, simply didn't follow the instructions, because I have cooked a 10lb chicken in it, it fit perfectly with room to spare, and it cooked it all of the way through to perfection.

Last night, I had totally forgotten about dinner, so at about 7pm, the teens started giving me the feed us or die stare, so I opened the freezer, took out a package of chicken legs, and grabbed a box of shaken 'n bake, and made dinner.
In 35 minutes.
The legs were frozen solid, it took a minute or 2 to snap them apart from each other, I ran each leg under some water so the coating would stick, and then laid them out on the cooking racks that I sprayed with a light coating of non-stick cooking spray.
I put the dome on, pressed the cooking power button once, pressed cooking time once, pushed the 3 and the 5, and then pushed start, and walked away.
After 35 minutes, it beeped, and I went to check on them thinking they might need a few more minutes, they were frozen after all, and this is what I saw when I looked through the dome.

They were completely done, well done, all of the fat and grease had drained off into the bottom pan, and I served them up with some rice a roni I had made in the skillet on the counter top.

They were perfect.
They were plump and juicy, and incredibly tasty.
I asked the teens how they were, and the most they could manage was a few grunts, some "mmms", and a couple of thumbs up.
After they finished eating, I asked again for a more verbal reply, and they told me the chicken was really fantastic, they loved it, that I needed to make them more often exactly the same way.

This afternoon, we were watching some cooking shows on PBS, like Every Day Food and a few other cooking shows, and one of them was about burgers, so the teens decided that we were going to have bacon/blue cheeseburgers for dinner tonight.
I didn't have any of the stuff to make them, so the teens went to Publix and picked up the Bubba Burgers, an onion, a package of ready cooked bacon, a tomato, some regular cheese, and also some lunch meats for later on in the week.
I already had a package of blue cheese from when I went shopping the other day.
I also had them pick up a pound of roast beef sliced sorta thin, so I could test out the NuWave's claim to making beef jerky in 1 hour.
My mom used to have a food dehydrator, and I would borrow it from time to time to make the teens some jerky and dehydrated apples, orange slices, banana chips etc.
It would take all night to make jerky and dried fruit.
The NuWave says it can make it in 1 hour, so I'm going to give it a try.
I had them grab a bottle of teriyaki sauce, I'll marinate the roast beef while the burgers cook, and after I clean up the NuWave from dinner, I'm going to make some jerky.
I'll let you know how it goes.

Also, the NuWave infomercial has been updated, they have added a special pan for cooking frozen pizzas, which I do admit is a bit odd to do with the NuWave right now, but that new pizza kit looks like it works, and it also has a cutting board and some other new utensils to go with it, that aren't available on the site yet.
I am going to write to them and share my experiences with it, maybe make that video, and maybe they'll send me the new pizza kit stuff.
Hey, it could happen!