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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 26/6/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by Merry on 26/6/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 25/6/2009

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I pour a can of baked beans into a pan, put the pies on top of the beans, and then heat the pan with a lid on.

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I'm liking this idea, sounds a lot tastier than my thought which was balancing the pie on top of some scrumpled up tinfoil inside a lidded pan. Roughly how long does it take to warm up your pie'n'bean fest?

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Let the beans simmer for two or three minutes and the pies are hot enough to eat. 

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Sounds an excellent idea - may have to work on this one to do a family of 3 sized pie.

Mushy peas will tend to stick to the bottom of the pan if not stired regularly, but the idea works very well with a tin of Veg soup and gives you a gravy element as well as some veg!

Pies can also be wrapped in foil and heated in one of the three tier steamer pans, you can add veg and potatoes if you like to cook on the same ring at the same time making a snack into a full meal.

Whichever method you use make sure that they are heated through to 70c in the middle to kill off any bugs and prevent them from giving you a stomach upset.

Julia

Just thought - we use Baco Cook-in-Bags (alternative: Baco Easy-Roast bags ~ Ocado website says that they can also be used for boiling) for cooking several things together in the same pot as they are water-tight and you don't have any cross-contamination.

We have cooked fish this way but it just didn't click that the same process could apply to pies. I guess that you could put an individual pie in one of these, add the tie and put the bag and pie into any saucepan containing liquid (e.g. whilst cooking your veg or spuds) keeping the top out of the water and the cooking liquid outside the bag would heat through the pie. The size of the pie would be determined by the size of the bag and saucepan - but we find them incredibly flexible and useful for all sorts of food and one/two pot cooking.

Quote: Originally posted by gina_g on 26/6/2009

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Why not just buy a mini oven? £13 at the minute at argos. I've just purchased one for the same reason, pies, garlic bread roasts etc

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We used to have one of those.  Does Pizza too!

Quote: Originally posted by Ronni54 on 15/12/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by gina_g on 26/6/2009

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Why not just buy a mini oven? £13 at the minute at argos. I've just purchased one for the same reason, pies, garlic bread roasts etc

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We used to have one of those.  Does Pizza too!

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...if you are on electric

Double skillet for me.

To answer Knockaloe it's aluminium, so no good for an induction hob.

Saxo1