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    My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

    Admitted kitchen gadget fiend here. Kitchen stores rank right up there with shoe stores. But my chopping gadgets are outta business now ...

    I've fallen in love with a Santuko knife. It's like a chef's knife, but thinner and with scallops in it so it gliiiiiiides through everything. I think I make salad more often just so we can spend time together.

    Also love the bacon tray and egg poacher. Very handy for an ATkinsy girl.

    What's your favorite gadget?

    Heidi, how's that mandoline working out for you?
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    Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

    May favorite tool is this


    The Cuisinart Smart Stick Hand Blender. I use it for all kinds of things.

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    • #3
      Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

      Ever since they reviewed immersion blenders in Cooks Illustrated last month I've been saying that's my next new toy! It looks like a great way to thicken soups and sauces without using flour or guar gum or whatever. Is it hard to clean?
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      • #4
        Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

        I find it hard to clean when I use thicker ingredients. Stuff gets stuck underneath the blade, but an old toothbrush does the job easily.

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        • #5
          Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

          Well I finally caved and got a kitchen aid food processor. Yeah, it was a lot of $$$$ that I don't really have, but I love it.
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          • #6
            Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

            I absolutely love my mortar and pestal for pounding ..herbs and spices into ...you guessed it ..curries

            second is this mandolinne I figured it out!!! I make a perfect jullianne with it now and I love it it comes apart easily and goes right in the dishwasher!!! I am so happy with this I can not tell you!

            then ask me next week and it will be something else ..I go through phases depending on my cooking style for the moment

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            • #7
              Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

              Ok, this is more of an appliance than a gadget, but I saw it in a catalog this week and MUST have it! I'll be dropping hints to my dear boyfriend from now until my birthday. Fresh herbs in the kitchen year round!
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              • #8
                Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                My olive oil "drizzler". I was hard pressed to come up with a favourite, but thats the one that gets a lot of use.
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                • #9
                  Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                  What is that thing H2Ohh?

                  I still say my salad spinner as it goes for a whirl every day. I also love my stick (immersion) blender. It's not hard to clean if you do it right away. I stick it in something full of water, like a measuring cup or bowl - whatever's handy and turn it on. It "blends" the water and cleans under the blade.
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                  • #10
                    Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                    OMG Lady it took forever for me to be convinced a salad spinner was worth it...now I have two ...a little one for herbs that I use all the time and a big one for lettuce.... they are awesome I am always stunned at the water I find on those leaves ....I used to go out side shake them all over the place now it is all easy in the spinner!!!

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                    • #11
                      Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                      Originally posted by H2Ohhh
                      Ok, this is more of an appliance than a gadget, but I saw it in a catalog this week and MUST have it! I'll be dropping hints to my dear boyfriend from now until my birthday. Fresh herbs in the kitchen year round!
                      looks like a little grow shop

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                      • #12
                        Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                        Originally posted by ladyinred
                        What is that thing H2Ohh?
                        It's the AeroGarden indoor herb garden -- new in the Sur La Table catalog. All you do is drop in the seed pods, and then it takes care of light and watering.

                        But when I first saw it I had the same reaction as Heidi
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                        • #13
                          Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                          This is really neat. What catalog is it in?

                          Deborah

                          Originally posted by H2Ohhh
                          Ok, this is more of an appliance than a gadget, but I saw it in a catalog this week and MUST have it! I'll be dropping hints to my dear boyfriend from now until my birthday. Fresh herbs in the kitchen year round!
                          Deborah
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                          • #14
                            Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                            cute as it is ...no growning pot in that thing ok?

                            unless you live in Canada

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                            • #15
                              Re: My favorite cooking utensil/gadget

                              LOL. Thankfully that is something I never tried (growing or smoking). Gosh, I would weigh 400 pounds if I had...everyone I have ever known to do it was a muchie machine.

                              Can people really grow it in Canada? WOW...
                              Deborah

                              Originally posted by Heidi3
                              cute as it is ...no growning pot in that thing ok?

                              unless you live in Canada
                              Deborah
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                              First weigh in on April 30, 2006 with a Goal of 280
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