Gadgetory

it sure is hard to resist the pull of nicely grilled food but if you're not that confident in the kitchen the prospect of cooking your own meat and poultry is a little intimidating the 180 dollar t-fal optigrill is an electric appliance designed to work on your countertop and it automatically will grill food to the precise level of doneness that you prefer automatically the optical senses the thickness of your food automatically and it matches that with the preset that you've selected for the type of food you're going to cook with that information it will enable you to cook food automatically and without hardly any input from you that means you can reach a certain level of doneness say you like medium well medium rare medium even just rare you can have it set and stop at that particular point in the cooking process it automatically calculates the degree of doneness and communicates this through a color shifting LED light on the front of the appliance I certainly don't like that this grill tends to overcook the meat that you cook on it essentially does not assume that you're going to let it rest and let the juices kind of redistribute inside the piece of meat and it zooms that are going to cut into it right away and to me that's a bad idea also I find that interface a little confusing because you really don't know what's happening with the cooking process because the color may be the beginning of the medium cycle or the end of it or the beginning of the rare point in the cooking or the end of it it's really hard to really know where you are unless you just sit there and watch the whole thing as it's going so if you lack lots of home kitchen experience you may have already saved a spot on your kitchen counter for the optigrill those who have no fear of grilling up a storm at home though can save a bundle going with a basic indoor grill without all the fancy electronics you