What are your favourite kitchen gadgets (electric or not)?

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I have a cupboard full of crap that I hardly ever use.

What are the things you get the most use out of? (apart from the obvious, like kettle/coffee machine/microwave)

Mine are:
Soup maker
Slow cooker
Stick blender
Coffee bean grinder
Panini press (in the summer!)
Smoothie maker
Hand food chopper

Everything else is just taking up space - cake pop maker (!), toaster, mincer, sandwich toaster, food chopper, potato ricer. I never use them.

Actifry and slow cooker.i use both all the time

Slow cooker
George Foreman grill
Stick blender
Tassimo coffee machine (probably use this more than the kettle!!)
Soda Stream

Toaster gets used constantly! I use a small George foreman as a sandwich toaster my kids love toasties. Hand mixer for baking, cuts 10 minutes off prep time whipping up eggs. Oxo good grips garlic press. I want to change all my utensils to Oxo ones they are fab.

Hand blender, mandolin and instant pot/slow cooker.
I could feasibly throw 90% of my other shite away.

Sandwich toaster (you can do a lot, not just sandwiches...)
Sandwich press/grill
2/3 good knives
Slow cooker
A couple of good silicone spoons for cooking
Long cooking chopsticks.

Bread maker
Slow cooker
Toastie maker
Toaster
Tassimo machine

Mophead what are cooking chopsticks? Are they just huge normal chopsticks?

My velvetiser.

George Foreman grill: We use it for toasted sandwiches, hamburgers, bacon and DD's various vege grills/burgers etc. It's much easier to clean than a sandwich toaster.

Pyrex bowls (round and rectangular) with clip on plastic lids that are great for batch cooking.

Sistema plastic containers: Such an array of sizes, shapes, colours and so cheap!

Pressure cooker
Stick blender
Good quality sharp knives
cooking tongs
Good pans

Stick blender (actually I have that brawn multi-quick one which has blender/ricer/mini processor/ attachment and it’s fab), slow cooker. I don’t use it as often as I should, but every time I do I find myself wondering why I don’t use it more. Sharp knives, my lecruicet (sp?) saucepans which I got for Christmas one year about ten years ago and don’t even have so much as a scratch on them. Electric steamer for veg/fish. I used to have an optigrill but I found I wasn’t using it much and now the slow cooker is where it was on the worktop.

Bought a sandwich toaster but tbh it’s impossible to get bread to fit into any of them so on the whole I think they’re pretty crap.

I have veyr few electric items, and could live without most of them.

My must haves are:

decent knives
big and small wooden spoons
spatula
tongs
decent saucepans
good frying pan
Large pan, high sided, very thick bottom, used for everything. Rare to find in the UK. Called a Kazan.

Things I couldn't live without:
good knives
silicon tipped tongs
silicon covered balloon whisks
toaster
slow cooker
microwave
Things I use regularly:
popcorn maker
panini press
stick blender
hand mixer
electric scales
screw in corn cob holders
silicon egg rounds to make neat eggs for muffins and burgers
Things I use irregularly:
food processor/mandolin
crab crackers and picks
Electric Chinese hotpot
Things in the back of the cupboard I haven't used in the last year:
bread maker
ice cream maker
I bought an Instant Pot. It sat in its box for 18 months or so unused. Sold it on ebay for £30 more than I'd paid. I'd do the same with the others but they were used for the first few months after I got them. Shame really.

Corkscrew

Yes to lots of the above ... but for something simple that to me is revolutionary...

these

Charles Viancin silicone lids. Only this make. Put on top of a bowl and they suction. Primarily I use them instead of saucepan lids. They're heat resistant to 230, can be used in oven, microwave, fridge, freezer. Apart from my Le Creuset I have literally chucked out all my saucepan lids. Don't need them anymore, they take up too much room when all I need is one of these.

My DD went to a Food & Drink Fair and bought me one. I was straight onto google buying two more in different sizes!

Cheese grater