If you just want espresso and have it cheap, I can recommend Bialetti.



Not a machine obviously. But makes decent coffee, usefull for camping trips as well, pretty cheap and a breeze to maintain.

For those that have not tried using a Dutch Oven before I highly reccomend a high quality cast iron one. This is something I didn't skimp om and we use ours weekly. A 7 quart one might run you up to 400 dollars but it's been well worth it.

We cook everything ours from chowder to roasts and hams. We even do our weekly pizza night in it by making dough, spreading it to size on parchment paper, making the pizza on the parchment paper and dropping the entire thing with parchment paper in the Dutch oven. Gives almost a pizza stone crust.

We make deserts in ours as well. It gets endless use.

increase the fat in/on your dough, pre-heat the dutch oven (if you aren't already, which you certainly should be) and get rid of the parchment paper

you want your dutch oven above parchment paper safe temps before the dough goes down

had a nice top sirloin last night. wasn't huge, got it on sale. baked it to perfect rare. it was really really good
doing a big salmon for first breakfast now

It's preheated to 450 F for an hour while the dough finishes rising. Parchment paper does just fine at that temp. You think I should be above 450F?

ham sandwich avec legumes for lunch
hope it's good

Ah I've had parchment ignite at 450 but it sounds perfect if it works out !!

Now that we're back in lockdown, I bought a bunch of culinary stuff to use. First made in the USA product too, a Microplane grater (it's really dang good I gotta say). Also ordered a pizza steel to use in our oven. Also got a few more addons for the stand mixer, a pasta attachment and a meat grinder. I'm tired of supermarket ground meats that are full of moisture.

pizza steel or pizza stone? because stones are legit af.

Its a blended scotch but moderately priced and decent Monkey Shoulder