Stolen off Fen...
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.
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, filter coffee machines, expresso machines, 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, popcorn machines, 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, pestle-and-mortars, gratin dishes, apple corers, mango stoners, cake slices, and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the world's cupboards?
Left off this list are the two most important pieces in my arsenal... the flour sifter and pastry cutter. I challenge anyone to make a decent cake/biscuit/pastry without a sifter. While you can cut fat without a pastry cutter, it goes a lot faster with one, than without. If I had five minutes to pack equipment for feeding people, Items one and two would be sifter and pastry cutter. Item three (and nearly as important) would be a big black skillet. I can do anything so long as I've my skillet, sifter, and pastry cutter. The rest of that stuff up there? Bah. Garlic crusher? Isn't that why they give out heavy mugs at software conventions? Rice Cooker? You mean a pot with a lid, right?
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, filter coffee machines, expresso machines, 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, popcorn machines, 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, pestle-and-mortars, gratin dishes, apple corers, mango stoners, cake slices, and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the world's cupboards?
Left off this list are the two most important pieces in my arsenal... the flour sifter and pastry cutter. I challenge anyone to make a decent cake/biscuit/pastry without a sifter. While you can cut fat without a pastry cutter, it goes a lot faster with one, than without. If I had five minutes to pack equipment for feeding people, Items one and two would be sifter and pastry cutter. Item three (and nearly as important) would be a big black skillet. I can do anything so long as I've my skillet, sifter, and pastry cutter. The rest of that stuff up there? Bah. Garlic crusher? Isn't that why they give out heavy mugs at software conventions? Rice Cooker? You mean a pot with a lid, right?