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Infrared cooking down at the Ranch

Contributed by: Fran Miller on 11/21/2007

You may be cooking your turkey over an open fire using wood pellets, but I am taking the modern 21st century approach using an infrared cooking appliance I just acquired from Ranch Foods in Colorado Springs.

About a year ago, our friends Bill and Sally told us about a food supplier they had discovered down in Colorado Springs that put Tony's to shame. Hard to believe. Well, it took us awhile to get down there and find Ranch Foods Direct. T

he company has top grade beef, fowl, and fish and they can tell you exactly how it was raised and butchered. It is individually packaged and flash frozen or fresh, which we find the best, particularly for fish.

Even sushi grade fish is flash frozen these days and if they tell you they just had it flown it, don't buy it. Better that it is frozen coming off the boat and thawed when you eat it.

Anyway, we trucked on down to Ranch Foods and we were stocking up when they showed us this new-fangled infrared oven called a Flavor Wave. Now, if you are like me you have numerous unused appliances that you bought on the come, thinking they would revolutionize your life. Other than the micro-wave, I figure life is just as good with a cast iron frying pan and dutch oven. So, I didn't bite at that time.

After our maiden voyage to stock up on vittles for the long winter in Parker, that Flavor Wave kept haunting me. I know from experience that when something triggers me at a subconscious level like that I need to pay attention. So, I went out on the internet, looked at the patents and the technology. Then I drove down to Colorado Springs, plopped down $100 and came home with a Flavor Wave. Here's why.

Infrared cooking sends waves into the meat and unlike micro waves they keep the food juicy. It does not get tough and stringy. Time-wise, infrared is shorter than direct heat, but longer than micro-waves. The really big compelling reason for using infrared is that you can cook food that starts out frozen. So meats and vegetables that have been flash frozen and are in cooking bags can go from the freezer to your plate in short order. They come out seared, cooked rare, medium or well, however you like and you can put foods together and cook them. The oven normally operates at 400 degrees and you vary the cooking time. But it has digital controls that allow you to vary time, temperature and even use delayed cooking settings.

Even if you don't buy into the notion of using a Flavor Wave, I would urge you to explore Ranch Foods Direct. I am totally convinced that the quality of their offerings exceeds other vendors.

We are rapidly coming to a point where if you don't know how your food is grown and harvested you stand the chance of becoming ill, perhaps deathly ill. Mad cow disease and a host of prion related diseases derive from food grown in containment. Even organics which use manures are suspect and I am very suspicious. The person who relies on Walmart to supply their fresh foods under some distorted definition of "organic" may wake up some day and find they have been eating tainted food. One third of all people in nursing homes have some form of dementia and it is not something to look forward to.

You can email Kindra Dale <kindra@ranchfoodsdirect.com> or call them at 719-473-2306. Maybe there's a Flavor Wave in your future too.





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Fran Miller

Parker , CO

Fran Miller has posted 106 stories and 14 comments since joining on 9/28/2007. Fran Miller 's average story rating is 4.78.
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