Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.I\u2019m a suspicious cook who blames his\u00a0tools (or the ingredients) rather than\u00a0taking personal responsibility for poor outcomes. I have an oven whose thermostat is wildly inaccurate, a standalone oven thermometer whose readings I take with a pinch of salt, and a\u00a0meat thermometer that raises more questions than it answers. Have I pushed the probe in far enough? Are these pictures of chickens and cows helpful, or a mere distraction? Am I about to poison my family?The app offered me one option of \u201cwell done\u201d (reassuring)This new device by Witt assuages many of my anxieties (the rest I\u2019ll work on in therapy). Central to the accuracy of the CookPerfect system is a\u00a0probe (or, in the case of this Dual version, two probes) equipped with five sensors along its length, so the question of whether the tip is in the\u00a0correct place is moot; push it in as far as the marked line and it\u2019ll calculate the core temperature of the meat, along with the current ambient temperature of the oven. It communicates wirelessly with a small docking station (doubling as a charger for the probes) that sits somewhere in your kitchen; that station sends the numbers (again, wirelessly, via Bluetooth or 2.4GHz WiFi, up to you) to the Witt CookPerfect app on\u00a0your smartphone.\u00a0I loved this thing. Its first run was for Sunday lunch: I told the app that\u00a0chicken was on the\u00a0menu, it offered me\u00a0one option of \u201cwell done\u201d (reassuring), I\u00a0pressed go, and it displayed the oven temperature and\u00a0rising core temperature along with a\u00a0constantly finessed estimated time of completion. (Naturally, I let it go 5\u00b0C higher than the recommended 75\u00b0C, because old kitchen habits die hard.) Second run was for a previously tried slow-roast beef recipe, where the oven temperature is set absurdly low and you wait a ridiculous amount of time for the temperature of the joint to creep up to 65\u00b0C \u2013 but with the Witt probe I could monitor progress far more easily and be reasonably sure that when my phone pinged \u201cdone\u201d, everything was going to be great. And you know what? It was.\u00a0Smooth operatorYou won\u2019t hear the verb \u201cto pacotise\u201d outside a small number of pro kitchens, but it\u2019s the secret behind impossibly smooth ice-creams, butter mixes, mousses, concentrates for soups and so on. The Pacojet, put most simply, processes food that you\u2019ve frozen in special beakers at\u00a0\u201320\u00b0C, be it ice-cream mixtures, peas in stock, guacamole ingredients, broccoli stalks \u2013 let your imagination run riot. Insert the beaker into the machine, and\u00a0its blade shaves the top\u00a0of the frozen block to produce a pur\u00e9e with a texture that you\u2019d be unable to achieve even with a high-end food processor. Pacotise as\u00a0much as you need and put the beaker back in the freezer. A gateway to unique kitchen experiments. A cast-iron excuseThis is the most compact of Aga\u2019s new\u00a0cast-iron cookers with integrated induction hobs, combining their traditional radiant heat with a safe, wipe-clean surface. It packs a lot into a 100cm-wide kitchen-unit space; aside from the hot plate and the two-zone induction hob, its four doors conceal a roasting-baking oven with a\u00a0grill, a slow-cook simmering oven and a conventional fan oven with nine\u00a0temperature settings (for recipe purposes, equivalent to the gas mark) and a speedy 15-minute heat-up time. Behind the Aga-badged door sits a touchscreen panel for controlling the\u00a0zones and setting timers. The 100\u00a0comes in multiple hues, but the just-launched black vitreous-enamel version is striking. Give me some doughThe dough hooks that come with food\u00a0mixers make a valiant effort, but\u00a0they struggle to generate decent gluten development. Ooni, the pizza oven firm, has now scaled down the big\u00a0commercial machines that are used in bakeries to create a domestic equivalent: a kneading powerhouse that\u2019s only slightly bigger than the average food processor. It can work with up to 5kg of dough to create the consistency you\u2019re after (it has a timer, but human judgment is advisable in\u00a0the notoriously volatile world of\u00a0baking). Pizzas, focaccias and sourdough loaves are its forte, but its whisk and silicone beater make it an all-in-one cake-mixing marvel too. A\u00a0food processor that saves time and considerable effort. Keep it cleanHidden beneath the sink: a desktop PC-sized water purifier, a small control box and a bottle of mineral concentrate that Bluewater calls \u201cLiquid Rock\u201d. Above the sink: a wireless, O-shaped ring that glows orange when the tap dispenses mains water. Tap the ring and it turns blue, indicating that water is being sent through the purifier, with minerals added in your desired ratio (from \u201clight\u201d to \u201cbold\u201d) and back out of the tap. The purifier claims to eradicate 99.7 per cent of contaminants (bacteria, microplastics, forever chemicals) to make tap water safer to drink. I\u2019m unable to say if the filtered water is any better or worse for me than the municipal stuff, but it tastes substantially better. @rhodri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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