Kitchen gadgetry meme

[perennialanna]

Via oursin andmme_hardy 

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.  As suggested by both of them, there are additions.

I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers [does chip pan come under this heading?], egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, fondue sets, healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, mouli mills, cake testers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.

I do like my gadgetry (but I don't tend to keep things I don't use. Small kitchens, too many house moves).

Comments

[oursin]

Oh, gosh, yes, mouli mincers! and I think I may still have a good old fashioned mincer (that weighs a ton) at the back of some cupboard.

[perennialanna]

I bought the mouli mill to wean the previous baby, since my mother (and others) assured me it was essential. Unfortunately, the child hadn't read the memo and wouldn't eat pureéd foods, only such solid solids as rice cakes and sliced bananas, so I never used it. Her brother seems to be following in her footsteps too - four days into solid food and he's demolishing toast.

I mince most things in a ten year old Magimix bought with my student loan.

[mme_hardy]

The mouli mill is fantastic for dealing with things like tomatoes or cream-of-leek soup, when you want to leave the fibers and seeds behind. It's a lot of work, though.

[antisoppist]

I decided it might be time to introduce solids with Daughter 1 when aged 4 months, she grabbed a gingerbread man at Christmas and bit its head off.

By the third, I had abandoned the gunk phase completely, as none of us seemed to enjoy it, and went straight to breadsticks, toast, cheerios and large pieces of fruit that they can gum to death but not choke on.

[mme_hardy]

I forgot my mouli mill and my cake tester! My brooms are never, ever clean enough to use the broom-straw method, which I used growing up.

[nineveh_uk]

What on earth is a bacon press?

I don't think a chip pan counts as a deep fat fryer - I assume they mean the plug-in stand-alone sort.

[perennialanna]

A bacon press is a large lump of cast iron with a wooden handle (like and old-fashioned iron, but rectangular), which you lay on top of your frying bacon to make sure it emerges really crispy.

My mother gave it to me. I never once used it, because I ensure crispy bacon by just frying it a bit longer.

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you for the explanation! I too manage by simply frying my bacon for longer.

[antisoppist]

For his last birthday, husband wanted a mouli mill and a lime squeezer and uses both frequently.

I shouldn't have read him the list as he now wants a tortilla press, a pasta maker and a mincer. I suppose that is Christmas sorted.

I think the only "have got, don't use" things in the house are the deep fat fryer that my sister bought us, which is in a carrier bag full of grease in the shed, and the various accessories for making sausages that came with the Kitchenaid, though I do use the dough hook all the time.

[turkeyplucker]

The juicer should be crossed out too.

[perennialanna]

No, that was an extraordinarily over-engineered lemon squeezer. We've never had a juicer.