Breakfast Archives - HLCooking https://hlcooking.com/category/get-cooking/hotlogic-recipes/hotlogic-breakfast-recipes/ Mastering Your HOTLOGIC® Personal Oven Wed, 22 May 2024 03:49:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/hlcooking.com/wp-content/uploads/untitled.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Breakfast Archives - HLCooking https://hlcooking.com/category/get-cooking/hotlogic-recipes/hotlogic-breakfast-recipes/ 32 32 215873330 Overnight Bacon https://hlcooking.com/overnight-bacon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overnight-bacon https://hlcooking.com/overnight-bacon/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 01:20:07 +0000 https://hlcooking.com/?p=2316 Yes, you can cook bacon overnight in your HOTLOGIC® and have crispy bacon the next day. Usually, everyone who has tried cooking bacon says that it comes out floppy and unappealing. This is true when the raw bacon strips are sealed in a container and placed in the HOTLOGIC® for cooking. Because of this, nothing […]

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]]> Yes, you can cook bacon overnight in your HOTLOGIC® and have crispy bacon the next day. Usually, everyone who has tried cooking bacon says that it comes out floppy and unappealing. This is true when the raw bacon strips are sealed in a container and placed in the HOTLOGIC® for cooking. Because of this, nothing wrapped in raw bacon is an ideal choice to cook in a HOTLOGIC®. Let me show you how to cook bacon in a HOTLOGIC® and have it come out crispy.

Method to Use

The way you cook bacon is make a tray of aluminum foil to set directly on the heating plate. Then lay the pieces of bacon on it. Be careful to not puncture the aluminum foil. Otherwise, the bacon grease will leak out. I, also, lay a piece of parchment paper over top without touching the bacon. If the parchment touches the bacon, it tends to stick to the bacon. I am not certain that the parchment is necessary. I do it to keep any condensation that forms on the HOTLOGIC® lid from dripping onto the bacon.

The bacon is cooked for 8 hours or overnight. After one hour I checked the temperature of the bacon in the HOTLOGIC® Mini’s and found the bacon to be within a few degrees of the temperature of the heating plate, in the high 190’s°F. The aluminum foil is an extremely efficient heat conductor. Whenever I check the temperature of my HOTLOGIC® Mini heating plates, I find that they are typically around 200°F.

Thin and thick cut bacon cooked overnight in two HOTLOGIC® Mini's
HOTLOGIC® Max filled with bacon that was cooked overnight

If you are able to look closely at the picture of the bacon in my HOTLOGIC® XP Max, you may notice that the bacon on the lower left and on the top does not look to be as well-cooked as the rest. It is not. I took temperature readings and found that they reached 150°F to 170°F after about 1 hour. This does prove people’s belief that the HOTLOGIC® Max does not heat their food as fast as the HOTLOGIC® Mini. It cannot if the heating plate is not uniformly hot across the surface. If you find that your HOTLOGIC® Max has the same issue, you may wish to lay your bacon in a different pattern, so that each piece has a portion laying on a hotter section. By doing this, the heat may transfer from the hotter section to the warmer given enough time.

What Bacon is Best?

I tried thick cut and regular cut bacon. In the pictures the thick cut is on the lower left and the regular cut is on the right. In another test I cooked lower sodium bacon. No pictures are available of the low sodium bacon cooking.

All of the pieces were greasier that oven cooked or pan fried. The thicker cut did not have crunch, but it would work well in a breakfast sandwich. The regular cut had crunch. The lower sodium bacon has the best crunch of all of them. When my No. 1 Taste Tester was testing the results, I heard the crunch six feet away. The optimal crunch was probably due to it being an even thinner cut that regular cut bacon.

box of lower sodium bacon
holding a piece of crisp bacon baked overnight in a HOTLOGIC®

Now you know how to cook bacon in your HOTLOGIC®. You can make it overnight and have it ready to serve in the morning or add to a sandwich.

Breakfast Recipes

tray filled with bacon cooked in a HOTLOGIC® overnight
Thick Cut Mini-Thick Cut Max-Regular Cut Max-Regular Cut Mini

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]]> https://hlcooking.com/overnight-bacon/feed/ 0 2316 Sausage Egg Bake for Travel https://hlcooking.com/travel-sausage-egg-bake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travel-sausage-egg-bake Fri, 24 Mar 2023 03:03:14 +0000 https://hlcooking.com/?p=1387 I wanted to see if a Sausage Egg Bake could be assembled, frozen and later cooked overnight in a HOTLOGIC®.

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]]> I wanted to see if a Sausage Egg Bake would make a good menu item for travel. Two of the common questions I have seen repeatedly are: “What can I make for breakfast?” and “What can I take on a road trip?”. I thought an egg bake would be an answer for both of these questions, that it could be assembled, frozen and then cooked overnight in a HOTLOGIC®. So I did an experiment.

I assemble a double portion of the Sausage Egg Bake. Instead of placing it in a dish to bake, I poured it into a silicon mold. I used the one pictured. The silicon has heft to it, and the rim is steel reinforced.

Kinggrand Kitchen 2-Cup Silicone Freezer Tray with Lid - 2 Pack - Make 4 Perfect 2-Cup Portions - Easy Release Molds for Food Storage & Freeze Soup, Broth, Stew or Sauce
Kinggrand Kitchen 2-Cup Silicone Freezer Tray with Lid – 2 Pack – Make 4 Perfect 2-Cup Portions – Easy Release Molds for Food Storage & Freeze Soup, Broth, Stew or Sauce
Frozen sausage egg bake in a glass dish on a countertop before being cooked in a HOTLOGIC®.

This mold froze the food into a shape that fit in a 4-cup or 6-cup container for cooking. The egg bake came out the same as if it had been cooked immediately after assembly.

Taking It on the Road

So now the question is how this would work to bring on a road trip. Once the uncooked egg bake is frozen, place it in a freezer bag or vacuum sealed in a bag. You can carry the frozen egg bake in a cooler bag. If you are using a cooler without ice, you may only be able to have it to bake the first night. If you are supplementing your cooler with a combination of dry ice and water frozen in a block, then you should be able to keep food frozen for 2-3 days and still be cold at safe temperatures for a day or two more. This would allow you to have an egg bake for several breakfasts.

For baking, remove the frozen egg bake from the bag and place in a container. I like to use the collapsible silicone container I found on Amazon for cooking in my HOTLOGIC® while traveling. My mold makes a block that fits in this container. You will need to select a mold that produces a block that will fit in your preferred container. If you have enough space, you may choose to use disposable, aluminum or plastic food prep containers for both freezing and cooking.

This method will work well if you need your breakfast ready as soon as you wake up in the morning. If you can get up in the morning and wait two hours before eating, you can still use an uncooked egg bake or you can re-heat a precooked egg bake that has been portioned and frozen.

The egg casserole recipe will also work with this method of food prep.

Sausage egg bake in a red silicone dish on a countertop after being cooked in a HOTLOGIC®.
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Sausage Egg Bake

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 hours
Servings 2

Ingredients

  • 3 lg eggs
  • 1 T milk
  • 1/4 c sweet onion, diced
  • 1/4 c carrots, peeled & diced
  • 1 c frozen broccoli, chopped
  • 1/2 c mozzarella, shredded
  • 1 ea sausage, diced

Instructions

  • In small bowl crack eggs and add milk. Whisk with fork. Set aside.
  • In medium bowl combine vegetables, cheese and sausage. Stir.
  • Add egg mixture to vegetable mixture and stir until coated.
  • If doing meal prep, pour into selected mold and freeze. Once frozen, placed in sealed bag to store in freezer.
  • When ready to bake, remove from bag and place in a 6-cup, heat-safe dish. 
  • Place the dish in the HOTLOGIC®. Plugin the HOTLOGIC® and zip shut. Cook overnight. It will actually be done in 2-3 hours, but still be moist 12 hours after being placed in the HOTLOGIC® to cook.

Breakfast Recipes

Hot Logic Sausage Egg Bake

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]]> 1387 Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal https://hlcooking.com/apple-cinnamon-oatmeal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-cinnamon-oatmeal Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:11:56 +0000 https://hlcooking.com/?p=671 For breakfast in a HOTLOGIC® you can make apple cinnamon oatmeal. This recipe comes from the makers of the HOTLOGIC®.

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]]> For breakfast in a HOTLOGIC® you can make apple cinnamon oatmeal. This recipe comes from the makers of the HOTLOGIC®. I have included the ingredients and instructions below for your convenience. This recipe will fit in a 3-cup container. You can add a trimmed down version of the Egg Casserole in another 3-cup container and have a hearty breakfast or breakfast for two.

The makers of the HOTLOGIC® have made several recipe videos which can be found at Hot Logic – YouTube.

Recipe

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Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Hold Time 6 hours

Ingredients

  • 1/2 c oats
  • 1 c milk
  • 1/2 c apples, peeled, diced
  • 1 t brown sugar
  • 1/8 t cinnamon

Instructions

  • In 4-cup, heat-safe dish, add all ingredients and stir.
  • Place covered dish in the HOTLOGIC®. Plug in the HOTLOGIC® and zip shut. Cook for 2 hours.

Breakfast Recipes

Hot Logic Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

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]]> 671 Egg Casserole https://hlcooking.com/egg-casserole/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=egg-casserole https://hlcooking.com/egg-casserole/#respond Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:51:25 +0000 https://hlcooking.com/?p=407 ...three eggs will coat 3 1/2 cups of vegetables, cheese and/or meat, so the variations for this recipe are endless...

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]]> When experimenting to find breakfast dishes that can be cooked overnight, I tried an egg casserole. The recipe turned out well on the first try. It is flavorful and moist the next morning.

Basically, three eggs will coat 3 1/2 cups of vegetables, cheese and/or meat, so the variations for this recipe are endless. For the vegetables possible choices are onions, leeks, bell peppers, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and spinach. I have even used green beans when I was cleaning out the refrigerator. Reconstituted freeze-dried broccoli can be used. For potatoes, diced, canned potatoes will work. I haven’t tried frozen shredded potatoes or reconstituted dried, shredded potatoes to determine how well they cook.

There is an endless choice in cheeses. Goat cheese crumbles or feta cheese would add an interesting flavor. Then there are the typically used cheese of mozzarella, cheddar and colby-jack cheese. You probably have other favorite cheeses that would work well.

For meat, bacon and ham are a staple. Then there are the many types and flavors of sausages. The spicy sausages add a nice punch of flavor to the casserole.

If you reduce the egg casserole recipe starting with using only 2 eggs, then you will be able to fit the mixture in a 3-cup container. Two 3-cup containers will fit a HOTLOGIC® Mini. In the other container you can make Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal for a hearty breakfast.

Bakeware example, two 3-cup bento boxes fit inside a HOTLOGIC® Mini for cooking meals.

Plated serving of egg casserole just removed from the HOTLOGIC®. Grab the fork to eat a piece.
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Egg Casserole

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Hold Time 10 hours
Servings 2

Ingredients

  • 3 lg eggs
  • 1 T milk
  • 1/2 t thyme
  • 1/4 c sweet onion, diced
  • 1 c carrots, peeled & sliced
  • 1 c frozen broccoli, chopped
  • 1/2 c sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 1/4 c cooked bacon, chopped

Instructions

  • In small bowl crack eggs, add milk and thyme. Whisk with fork. Set aside.
  • In medium bowl combine vegetables, cheese and bacon. Stir.
  • Add egg mixture to vegetable mixture and stir until coated.
  • Lightly grease a 6-cup, heat-safe dish. Pour in the casserole mixture.
  • Place covered dish in the HOTLOGIC®. Plugin the HOTLOGIC® and zip shut. Cook overnight. It may actually be done in 2-3 hours. It will still be moist 12 hours after being placed in the HOTLOGIC® to cook.

Notes

To adapt this recipe to use different vegetables, cheese, and meat; you need to know that three (3) eggs will coat upto 3 1/2 cups of the vegetable mixture.

Breakfast Recipes

Hot Logic Egg Casserole

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]]> https://hlcooking.com/egg-casserole/feed/ 0 407 Clotted Cream https://hlcooking.com/clotted-cream/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clotted-cream https://hlcooking.com/clotted-cream/#respond Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:19:14 +0000 https://hlcooking.com/?p=195 Clotted cream is a delicious condiment to spread on scones (biscuits in the US). It tastes like buttery, whipped cream.

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]]> Clotted cream is a delicious condiment to spread on scones (biscuits in the US). It tastes like buttery, whipped cream. I enjoyed this condiment when I visited Europe and wanted to be able to enjoy it again in the United States. It is super simple to make, especially in a HOTLOGIC®.

First, you need to locate heavy cream that is NOT ultra-pasteurized.

Then pour about an inch of cream in a heat safe dish placed in your HOTLOGIC®.

Zip the HOTLOGIC® shut and leave for 12 hours. It will look similar to the picture.

Place in the refrigerator for 8 hours.

Scrap out the solids on top.

You can mix the yellow solids with the white cream for smoother, clotted cream.

The remaining liquid, whey, can be put back in the HOTLOGIC® to get a bit more clotted cream.

The whey can be used as a substitute for water in smoothies or baking.

Half a gallon of heavy cream made about 2 cups of clotted cream. If you don’t use it too fast, it will last for a while in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will, also, freeze well.

Scones are something that cannot be made in a HOTLOGIC®, but they can be warmed up. If you would like to make homemade scones in a conventional oven, try Gemma’s Best Ever Irish Scones – Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking.

Spoonful of clotted cream made in a HOTLOGIC® and ready to spread on biscuit.
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Clotted Cream

Course Condiment
Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 12 hours
Rest in Refrigerator 8 hours

Ingredients

  • 2 c heavy cream (NOT Ultra Pasteurized)

Instructions

  • In 4-cup shallow heat-safe dish pour 1" of heavy cream.
  • Place dish in the HOTLOGIC®. Plug in the HOTLOGIC® and zip shut. Cook for 10-12 hours.
  • After 12 hours, place the dish in the refrigerator for 8 hours.
  • Remove from refrigerator and scrap off the solids on top to place in an airtight container. Stir, if desired.
  • The remaining liquid is whey. It can be cooked again for 12 hours and cooled for 8 hours to get the last bit of cream.

Notes

The whey (left over liquid) can be used as a substitute for water in smoothies or baking or can be discarded.
Half a gallon of heavy cream makes about 2 cups of clotted cream. If you don’t use it too fast, it will last for a while in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will, also, freeze well.

Breakfast Recipes

Hot Logic Clotted Cream

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