Kitchen gadget meme
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicise the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of, underline ones you haven't got but want.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, crepe makers, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, pie 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, stand mixers, mincers, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestles-and-mortars, gratin dishes, apple corers, mango stoners and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
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Since I can't resist the urge to elaborate, I shall add that at least two of the 'did have but got rid of' things were got rid of because they broke, and if I still had them I'd still use them. The coffee grinder gets semi-regular use, but it's as likely to be for spices as coffee these days. The cake tester is a metal skewer I use to poke in cakes to see if they're done, and was originally bought to poke string through apples so we could hang them up for people to try to eat. The apple corer also peels and slices and is utterly fab. We don't have a pizza stone but we do have a dedicated metal pizza baking tray, with holes in the bottom, and it's great.
I'm not even sure what several of the things I don't have actually are. A mouli mill sounds like something Rambling Syd Rumpo would have.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, crepe makers, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, pie 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, stand mixers, mincers, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestles-and-mortars, gratin dishes, apple corers, mango stoners and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
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Since I can't resist the urge to elaborate, I shall add that at least two of the 'did have but got rid of' things were got rid of because they broke, and if I still had them I'd still use them. The coffee grinder gets semi-regular use, but it's as likely to be for spices as coffee these days. The cake tester is a metal skewer I use to poke in cakes to see if they're done, and was originally bought to poke string through apples so we could hang them up for people to try to eat. The apple corer also peels and slices and is utterly fab. We don't have a pizza stone but we do have a dedicated metal pizza baking tray, with holes in the bottom, and it's great.
I'm not even sure what several of the things I don't have actually are. A mouli mill sounds like something Rambling Syd Rumpo would have.