What do you cook when your left arm doesn't work?
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I think mine has stainless in it, because it’s cheap. If you have brass on hand, why not? I think it’ll be strong enough, I’d just wonder about corrosion at the point where it meets the board
I’d have to buy the neils either way. Brass is food safe and more antimicrobial than stainless. And would look better with the wood I would use instead of plastic. Wood is also naturally antimicrobial. A small amount of Titebond III and the join would be water proof.
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I’d have to buy the neils either way. Brass is food safe and more antimicrobial than stainless. And would look better with the wood I would use instead of plastic. Wood is also naturally antimicrobial. A small amount of Titebond III and the join would be water proof.
I knew you’d know if it’s suitable, haha.
The one thing I hate about the one I have is that it’s made of plastic. You’ll have to share pics when you have made yours!
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
Split pea and lentil soup. Get dried green split peas and dried red lentils. Put them in a pot, pour in water, add stock or salt and some dried parsley and thyme, bring to a boil then simmer for 1~1.5 hours.
Cheap, filling, healthy, and a lot of filler ingredients work in it if you want to change it up. I’m recovering from a crushed ankle, on a crutch so I’ve had to figure out one handed recipes to a degree.
Another good one if you have a rice cooker - coconut milk, lime juice, peanut butter and some sugar. Melt it all together, have it on rice. Again, something that’s adaptable for adding other ingredients.
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Split pea and lentil soup. Get dried green split peas and dried red lentils. Put them in a pot, pour in water, add stock or salt and some dried parsley and thyme, bring to a boil then simmer for 1~1.5 hours.
Cheap, filling, healthy, and a lot of filler ingredients work in it if you want to change it up. I’m recovering from a crushed ankle, on a crutch so I’ve had to figure out one handed recipes to a degree.
Another good one if you have a rice cooker - coconut milk, lime juice, peanut butter and some sugar. Melt it all together, have it on rice. Again, something that’s adaptable for adding other ingredients.
I tossed the rice cooker 16 years ago. Never as reliable as a pot and took up space.
We were also in a time crunch because we had to eat and drop a kitten off for transport to their new rescue home.
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I knew you’d know if it’s suitable, haha.
The one thing I hate about the one I have is that it’s made of plastic. You’ll have to share pics when you have made yours!
I can’t afford the nails right now but I could take one of my existing unsold boards, build the wals out of scrap and have the whole thing done in under 12 hours if I could.
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
My first thought: how’d you open the cans? But I guess you must have an electric can opener.
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My first thought: how’d you open the cans? But I guess you must have an electric can opener.
I can’t stand auto can openers. They take up space and break.
I have a very ergonomic OXO manual that is easy to do with just one hand.But I did ask my wife “why didn’t we buy cans with pull tags!” Her “because we buy whatever is cheap.”
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
Husband use to make a lot of frozen dinners when he was a bachelor. He also made a lot of pasta though. He has access to about 1.5 arms with his cerebral palsy. Use useless arm to hold pasta sauce to chest, twist open with good hand. Everything else was easier to open and cook.
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
Break your other arm and have your stepmom cook for you.
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Break your other arm and have your stepmom cook for you.
Sir this is a Lemmy’s. Not a reddit.
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I tossed the rice cooker 16 years ago. Never as reliable as a pot and took up space.
We were also in a time crunch because we had to eat and drop a kitten off for transport to their new rescue home.
A pressure cooker is also great for cooking rice if you have one. I used to swear by cooking it on the stove, but now my pressure cooker rice is just as good as the stove but way more hands off.
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A pressure cooker is also great for cooking rice if you have one. I used to swear by cooking it on the stove, but now my pressure cooker rice is just as good as the stove but way more hands off.
Can you provide the timing and water rice ratio? A pressure canner doesn’t release as much steam so I’m thinking less water? But also it only takes about 15 minutes of zero stress in a pot but if you get distracted with a pressure canner on such a small amount of time it’s going to burn.
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Can you provide the timing and water rice ratio? A pressure canner doesn’t release as much steam so I’m thinking less water? But also it only takes about 15 minutes of zero stress in a pot but if you get distracted with a pressure canner on such a small amount of time it’s going to burn.
I do 1 part rice, 1.5 parts water by weight. My usual recipe is 400g rice, 600g water. Rinse the rice until it doesn’t make the water cloudy when you mix it anymore and drain thoroughly, then add your recipe water. For my instant pot I do 6 minutes and let it do a natural pressure release which takes about fifteen minutes, so it does end up with the usual twenty minutes at temperature. I don’t think I would bother using a stove top pressure cooker for rice, though.
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I do 1 part rice, 1.5 parts water by weight. My usual recipe is 400g rice, 600g water. Rinse the rice until it doesn’t make the water cloudy when you mix it anymore and drain thoroughly, then add your recipe water. For my instant pot I do 6 minutes and let it do a natural pressure release which takes about fifteen minutes, so it does end up with the usual twenty minutes at temperature. I don’t think I would bother using a stove top pressure cooker for rice, though.
Ah. All my 5 pressure cookers are stove top. I don’t trust appliance based ones to live longer than a year or two because the heat destroys the electronics in them. A stove top one is a BIFL item.
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I can’t stand auto can openers. They take up space and break.
I have a very ergonomic OXO manual that is easy to do with just one hand.But I did ask my wife “why didn’t we buy cans with pull tags!” Her “because we buy whatever is cheap.”
With pull tabs you’d still need to hold the can down anyway.
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With pull tabs you’d still need to hold the can down anyway.
The SPAM can had a pull tab. I was able to pull it with leverage and just the one hand.
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
I never have needed to cook with jist 1 arm, but I guarantee if I had to, I’d be making crockpot meals. Just dump everything in the pot in the morning, turn it on, let it slow cook all day.
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I never have needed to cook with jist 1 arm, but I guarantee if I had to, I’d be making crockpot meals. Just dump everything in the pot in the morning, turn it on, let it slow cook all day.
The problem in my kitchen is that you look around and there’s nothing to eat, just stuff to make food from. I don’t have a lot of the ingredients you can just dump into a crock pot. Everything needs some kind of treatment before it can be used as an ingredient in something else. It’s part of how I keep my cost so low.
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
Mashed potatoes seems like it would be pretty hard to stir one handed, so credit to you for that. Thinner soups or things you can boil and drain would probably be an easier choice, so you don’t have to keep hold of a pot while stirring.
Things which keep their shape and that you can fry in a large flat pan and use tongs to move about, like the spam, are probably going to be much easier and safer overall though.
If you can afford one, a mandoline that is heavy or you can fix to a surface is something that will be useful even if your arm improves, they make chopping vegetables fast - but can be risky if you’re not paying full attention. I have one similar to this, but the more industrial ones are even sturdier.
If that isn’t an option, pre-cut frozen veg are usually not hugely more expensive than fresh, and are often more nutritious than stuff on the supermarket shelves. Tinned tomatoes or sauces are easy to throw on pasta too, which doesn’t need any real stirring - just be sure to only cook smaller pots so they’re lighter to deal with. Tinned beans are also great, my go to meal is that plus tinned tomatoes, a bunch of dried herbs/spices, and whatever veg I’ve got around at the time. You can fry some meat, throw in the rest, let it heat through and you’re good to go.
If you have an oven, a whole cob of corn in-husk is 30 mins. You can throw it in there, walk away, then after 30 take it out of the oven. Just gently tug the silk out from the top, which will now come out easily with no real mess, and you can then pull down the husk to use as a handle while eating.
Don’t write off microwaves either. Washing a few potatoes and nuking them for a few minutes per potato will get you a perfectly good meal base that you can load up with whatever. Microwaves are my go to for the frozen veg to help bulk out anything else I cook too.
My speciality is not arm-based problems but I’ve had to change a lot about how I cook for medical reasons, so hopefully some of this is helpful to you too. Good luck and I hope you don’t need to adapt for long!
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Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.
This is where pantry clean out met up with my upcoming Sunday edition Heathcliff edit. I can cook spam with just one arm.
The only scratch made element in this is some mustard seed caviar I made a while back. I put some of it in the spice blender to cream it up a little. It went excellent with this otherwise depression causing meal.
Cost per person: $4
It is very expensive to cook from completely prepackaged foods.
You can make pasta. Take the pasta out of the water with a pasta spoon, throw it into the pan with premade sauce and veggies. Tadaaaa
