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Product Review: The NEW Foreman Grill

I'm afraid I have bad news for you: All of you who own a George Foreman grill or one of the myriad knock-offs need to shell out the money to replace it. I got the new "Next Grilleration" Foreman grill for Christmas, and it's a big step up. I've gone from using my electric grill every now and then to using it several times a week.

Why? Easy. The grill plates snap out and go in the dishwasher.

Do you get how cool that is? I mean, I've had two previous tabletop grills, one a gen-yew-ine Foreman and one a knock-off. Both of them worked as advertised, but they were both a pain to clean. Truly. It rapidly got to the point where I would only use it now and then, for things I knew it indisputably did better than any other tool in my kitchen - like grilling a chicken breast to go on a main dish salad. But other than that, it sat, unused, on my countertop, taking up valuable workspace, because cleaning the sucker was just a big pain - at the very least, a ten minute chore.

Furthermore, I found that the degree of scraping needed to really get the sucker clean wore off some of the non-stick coating, only making the problem worse.

But with the removable grill plates, clean up is a snap. Even without using the dishwasher, the ability simply to get the dirty surface under a running faucet or in a sink full of suds makes all the difference.

Because of the ease of cleaning this new grill, I'm using it far, far more than I did the previous two models. Pork chops, burgers, boneless chicken, now go into the grill as a matter of course.

The grill does a better job with some things than with others - while I like it very much for grilling chicken breasts for salads, for burgers, and for pork chops, as mentioned, I'm unimpressed with the job it does on steaks - I'd rather broil them. However, the Foreman grill is also great for sausage patties, and even does a creditable job with bacon. I've done good wings in it. And it's actually terrific for grilling vegetables.

All of which makes the "Next Grilleration" George Foreman grill a handy addition to the low carb kitchen. And a whole lot easier to clean than its predecessors.

Posted by HoldTheToast at January 18, 2005 09:23 PM