Playing with my mom's new toy... a pleasant surprise!

In the Burger Burger/ Ann's Dairy Bar post, I mentioned cooking dinner at home and that we did... with my mom's new toy! She made my sister carry this huge cardboard box from Hong Kong back to Vancouver... haha that's something my mom LOVES to do, make others carry her many "good finds" from all over Asia.

The so-called toy is actually a "Halogen Cooking Pot" from German Pool, I believe I have seen something similar on the countless infomercials on TV ( I LOVE INFOMERCIALS, makes you want to spend).

The particular model my mom bought came with:
- the pot itself - a staggering 12L and it can also be extended to fit a whole entire chicken
- some manuals, recipe book, and a DVD
- addition accessories as described on the website

*I did the conversion of the price from the online source (there's two prices...) and both prices are under $2000HKD which is roughly about $224 CAD ($1680HKD), not too bad from what I've observed so far. The cooking pot is really heavy, mainly because the container is made of glass and my heart nearly jumps out every time I move it around (I'm really clumsy, especially with glass, knives, etc.).

To sum it up before the pictures, we bought ~1lb of marinated pork(... not sure which part it was, I'm a noob at meat parts) and it took us only15 minutes to cook the entire thing :D!! We didn't really know how long to cook it but we followed the recipe given for BBQ pork chop. They even have a recipe for "siu yok" and according to my mom it's pretty decent!

Picture time!

The finished product, we liked it! It was really juicy inside.

When it was still cooking in the pot.

What the pork looked like when we first put it in.

Just to put in perspective how much light this thing emits. We did not turn on any lights for any of the previous pictures, the lighting pretty much came from that.

This is what you're left with after cooking. I guess it's a healthy way of cooking since a lot of oil oozes out of whatever you cook.

So far, I've tried making the pork, a cob of corn and chicken fillet (it only took 8 minutes!!). They have recipes spanning from desserts to "clay pot rice." Again, my mom said they tried the "Angel cake" recipe with my aunts (she's still in Hong Kong) and she said it was decent too!!

P.S. We had a salad... just so you know :)

*On the side: My mom phoned when we were eating our delish pork :( and she said: don't break it, the shop owner said its the only "American version" they had at the store (meaning the voltage has been changed so that it works in North America). Sort of think my mom was scammed (about getting the only one available), but she wanted one of these since last December so I guess whatever floats her boat.