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How to Choose an Electric Plates: Quick and Safe

Most people would choose a gas cooker for the cooking heating device. However, even though the gas cooker is a popular option, it has several concerns over safety, taking time to heat up, and a troublesome cleaning issue. The gas cooker works with gas so it might be an issue for the explosion and you’d always need to prepare the gas for it, which costs extra money. And If you have been dealing with cooking, you must have known that the gas cooker takes time to heat up, and the uneven heating is also the problem you can’t avoid. After cooking, the most irritating procedure is to clean everything you used, and you won’t clean the cooker until it gets so dirty and greasy that you can not stand it anymore and it also becomes too difficult to clean up. To sum up all the concerns above for gas cookers, the alternative option is the electric plates.

When you choose an electric plate, you need to remember two keywords: Quick and Safe. The CERAMIC made one is the right solution for that.

To choose an electric plate that heats up quickly, the ceramic made one is what you should look for. The class ceramic can heat up and cool down more quickly than the gas cooker. With the glass-ceramic surface, it also has the feature of heating evenly thorough the heating zones.

The ceramic electric plate covers the heating element under the surface, which makes it safe for the users. It is always equipped with the overheating prevention thermal fuse so there will not be an explosion.

When it comes to cleaning, the glass-ceramic and stainless steel made are not easy to be tarnished or scratched, if you use it properly, so it requires minimum cleaning work. You should be aware that some models will require certain detergents for the cleaning purpose.

In short, cooking is not only a matter of making delicious cuisines but a matter of making a quick and safe, and the cooking plate with ceramic can be an alternative option. (QASA Ceramic Cooking Plate)

How to Cook Jollof Rice easily with A Rice Cooker

Making a nice dish of Jollof Rice could be troublesome and it could take more than an hour to finish it besides the preparation and the clean-up. There are a lot of reasons that we don’t have much time to do it. Some people are too busy with works and family, like taking care of children to do the cooking, or not ready for standing next to a stove or a pot, or just being lazy. Moreover, even after the one-hour hard work, you could possibly fail.

In short, we just want nice food that could be done by ourselves, and we want it to be easy and quick.

Let’s try with a rice cooker for your Jollof Rice. In the process, most of the works you need to do is preparation and cleaning up at a minimum level, and let the rice cooker do the rest.

There are plenty of tutorials on the internet, each one has its own special treat. In this one, I’m trying to provide a general tutorial that has a high chance to succeed.

Ingredient

Rice 1kg

1.5 can of chopped tomatoes(You can use 3-4 fresh tomatoes)

1-2 Scotch bonnet pepper(It depends on your tolerance of spicy)

1 Onion

120g Tomato puree

1tbs Thyme

½ cup Olive Oil

3-4 Maggi cubes(For salty flavor)

3 cups of Water

Method

It can be divided into 3 parts: Rice, Seasoning, and Cooking.

First, wash the rice repeatedly for 3 to 4 times for washing out the starch, which could affect the taste of the Jollof rice. Rinse the rice and put it in the cooker. Put Maggi cubes, you can choose to use salt, into the cooker, and then use a spoon to crush it into the rice. And don’t start cooking it yet.

The second step, let’s mix the seasoning. You can do it in 2 different ways. One, you can slice it into the proper size and put it into the pot along with the tomato puree, sliced pepper, and a few olive oil, boil them together to get the flavors. However, if you don’t want to stand near to the pot for not having any chance to burn yourself, then simply blend the sliced onions, chopped tomatoes, , the tomato puree, and the bonnet pepper with the blender. After blended it, pour it down into the cooker and properly stir the rice in order to mix the rice and the blended ingredients.

*If you cook those ingredients, the flavors could get stronger than brew it in the cooker.

At this point, put the thyme and oil into the cooker, and stir it gently to properly mix all the ingredients. Add water into it and make it just above the rice. Final step, turn on the cooker, let it do the rest of the work for you. (Get yourself with a fine rice cooker)

You can check the result back and forth until it suits your taste after around 12 minutes. Remember to gently stir whenever you check it.

The Jollof Rice is Done! You can put your side dishes, like salad, chicken, and delicious dodo.

See! That’s easy and quick, right?

Jollof Rice with Dodo and chickens. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

*Excuse me with the photos, my phone was broken at the time I started making the dish and all my pics are gone.

6 Tips for Choosing Rechargeable Light and Lantern

This is an article to help you choose carefully for an affordable and durable rechargeable lantern and torch.

Light is a basic need whenever you’re at a household, working places, or even camping, but if there’s a sudden blackout or constant electricity shortage, especially it constantly happens every day in your place, the general lights won’t be able to work for you. So a flashlight, torch, or lantern which is designed to be RECHARGEABLE could be the ones to help you deal with such conditions.

There’re so many brands and types of products you can choose in the market, here are some tips showing how you can choose a useful, durable, and also affordable rechargeable lantern and lantern yourself.

LED

LED lights are, compare to other types of lights, performing much higher light intensity with low power cost and longer life span. When it comes to finding a rechargeable light that can last longer when it’s in use without charging, it is better off that you choose the one with the LED.

Battery charging time

The factors that affect charging time could be variable due to the volume of the battery, quality of the battery and the volume of a voltage transformer that could provide. So the time for charging a battery could also be variable. The average charging time should not be longer than 9 or 10 hours for a lantern or a torch that can provide more than 15 hours in the lowest usage.

Warranty

A responsible brand that says providing quality products should offer at least a one-year warranty for its users. Because in the process of manufacturing, there could probably be a few defective products that are also delivered to the market or the products could be damaged during the delivering. With the warranty provided, the users can return the damaged one and exchange for a non-damage product without any kind of charge, especially for an electric product like the rechargeable lantern that contains a battery and LED which could not be recognized by its appearance.

Battery Protection from Over- & Dis-charging

A Battery is a consumable product that will gradually decrease its volume over time with the cycle of recharging. Therefore, to extend its life span, it should have the basic function of overcharging and discharging protection from damaging itself by automatically indicating the low and high charging level which could damage the battery, or automatically switching off when it’s above or below the secure level. A product which could help users use in the right way can be identified as DURABILITY.

Portable

Whether it’s a lantern or a torch, it should be lightweight for users could easily carry it from one location to another.

Design

Design is not an essential factor that affects the functionalism or the durability of one product, even for the rechargeable lanterns or torches. But it’s nice to have one that can be placed on the table and also be considered as a decoration in a house or in a working place. (QASA Different Models)

Conclusion

In the market, there are a lot of types of rechargeable light products so the prices are also variable. Although a fancy, usually expensive, product could help you deal with a range of different situations, the basic one that can provide the functions to solve the daily inconvenient situations is enough for most of the users’ expectations, especially when you’re at a tight budget. Therefore, with the 6 tips provided above, you now know how to choose the right lantern and a torch for yourself.