So what kind of kitchen gadgets do you have?

[Origam]

I was puttering around the kitchen and using a few different gadgets and it got me to wondering how many and what kind everyone else has (toasters don't count unless it's a toaster oven).

We have 1 convection oven, 1 pizza cooker, 1 rice cooker, 1 older slow cooker, 1 pressure cooker, 1 dehydrator, 1 food processor, 1 pasta maker, 1 mixer, 1hand mixer, 2 roasters (1 huge, 1 small), 1 electric skillet, 1 electric wok, 1 slow cooker (6quarts that can be turned into two 3 quarts), 2 brick (or maybe clay) roasters, 1 magic bullet.

Heh. WE have to many toys.. and this doesn't include or play gadgets like the pocket makers and zesters. :yikes

[not2late]

1 Kitchen Aid Mixer
1 Food Processor
1 Blender
1 Coffee Machine (only use it for company)
1 Ice Cream Machine (electric)
1 Ice Cream Machine (hand-crank---inherited this from an auntie)
1 Mandolin
1 Coffee Grinder (electric---I use it for nuts and seeds)
1 novelty hand crank Coffee Grinder (that really works, but it's an "object d'art" in my kitchen)
1 Rice Cooker
1 George Foreman Grill
1 Belgian Waffle Iron
1 Regular Waffle Iron
1 Ice shaver
1 cooking scale (electric)

Smaller stuff includes but not limited to...
1 mortar and pestle (marble)
1 mortar and pestle (ceramic)
1 wooden lemon reemer
1 hard boiled egg slicer
1 melon baller
1 microplane grater
Different sized ice cream scoops
And a drawer or two of other assorted gadgets.

Don't get me started on my baking paraphenilia....I'm a recovering home-baker and I have, umm er, alot of stuff. :sarcasm

[CherTLC4u]

I have the standard stuff. But I have to tell you about my new favorite kitchen gadget.

I have a hard time eating chicken breast because they are so thick. I used to get the butcher to run it thru the tenderizer for me. But they stopped doing that because the pieces get stuck in the machine and then they have to clean it before they can run beef thru it -- which is what it really is for.

Yes I can do it myself with one of those little hammers or one of those rolly things, but I really dont have that much strength when I get home from work and all that seems to take so long.

So ........ I went on ebay and searched for meat tenderizer. I found this thing that looks like two rollers with spikey things on them that you place on the edge of the counter and run the meat thru. Its amazing! It is the BEST thing I've ever bought!!

[Pau]

1 Food Processor, 1 coffee machine, 2 blenders, 1 mandolin, 1 pasta machine (manual, not electric), 1 cooking scale, 1 toaster, 1 microwave, 1 sandwich machine, 1 "piedra" (cooking stone) and as Not2late a drawer of manual gadgets: grater, ....

[Heidi3]

I have several mortar and pestles
food processor
garlic press
cleaver
cutting boards
kitchenaid mixer
many types of coffee pots, chemex, french press italian pot, perk, Vietnamese pots...drip name it I do have a lot of coffee pots!
I have a whisk!
blender
hmmmmm a hand grater
I really do not have many gadgets I like being physical in the kitchen...chopping by hand, or grinding in my mortar and pestle...whisking....

I am still looking for a garlic slicer but kind of do not mind if I never find one!!!!

Megs I really want to see a pic of your museum!!!!

oh yeah I want a mandolin..someday those are expensive!!!!

[Kent]

Waring Pro Deep Fat Fryer (supposedly the best)
Ultrex Convection Over (as well as pieces to three Jet Stream Ovens I have owned over the years -- great oven, poor reliability)
Kenmore Stand Mixer
Food Scale
Old (15 year old wedding present) blender
Toaster
Coffee Grinder only for Flax Seed

That's pretty much it.

[not2late]

Nursey, it's a good thing I have 2 kitchens in this house. The former owners were a Jewish family, so they had a Kosher kitchen and a "dairy" kitchen. :yes

[Heidi3]

Nursey, it's a good thing I have 2 kitchens in this house. The former owners were a Jewish family, so they had a Kosher kitchen and a "dairy" kitchen. :yes

you have no idea how your torment me woman I have to see a picture!!!!!.You have EVERYTHING!!!!! and I am itching to snoop .....and btw what makes me want to see it more now>.you know I am half Jewish??????......we are putting a second kitchen in downstairs and I am seriously thinking of a B and B here ..the view
the location....but I suck at breakfast!!!! I can ruin an egg...my son is a chef working as a salesman ...but maybe I could convince him ensive


anyway I want to see...just a tiny look I promise I will only look in drawers you say I can!!!!.....

[Pau]

I want to see the kitchens as well :guns

[not2late]

The house is a typical split-level 1960s home. The "upstairs" kitchen was the dairy kitchen (I think)---totally 1965. The kitchen has a little dining room area off to one side. Pre-Atkins this was my "baking" kitchen. The "downstairs" kitchen was alittle more modern. From what I gather, it was originally a utility room with a washing sink, a stove, refrigerator and freezer, a counter with cabinets and a dining table. Then sometime in the early 90s they re-did the downstairs of the house, rearranging it. So the downstairs kitchen is an open kitchen with a dining area. They put in more cabinets and counterspace too.

[Heidi3]

Pau!!!!!!!...... Megs is still torturing me!!!!!!

[Pau]

Pau!!!!!!!...... Megs is still torturing me!!!!!!

Me too!!! :no :no :no

[cleochatra]

I used to be gadget girl, but I've either sold or am going to sell the yogurt maker, cookie press, dehydrator, rosette irons and the bread machine before we move (I'm keeping the cookie cutters and cake decorating supplies because they were my mother's).

This leaves me with a kitchenaide mixer and a blender and a microwave.

I like simplicity in my life. :^)

[Pau]

I used to be gadget girl, but I've either sold or am going to sell the yogurt maker, cookie press, dehydrator, rosette irons and the bread machine before we move (I'm keeping the cookie cutters and cake decorating supplies because they were my mother's).

This leaves me with a kitchenaide mixer and a blender and a microwave.

I like simplicity in my life. :^)

I´d like to buy the Kitchen-aid. I think it´s great! :nod

If I live near you I´d buy your dehydrator :sadblinky :anger

[cleochatra]

If you lived near me, I'd give it to you Pau! It's already gone! I love my kitchenade. It has a lot of attachments, and I use it a lot. I loved the bread machine, but making low-carb breads just ain't happening, and the last 2 loaves of whole grain bread went moldy. Soooooooooo, buh bye mr bready machino!