To ask you to name top three really useful kitchen gadgets?

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Mine are:

Potato ricer - makes fab lump free mash so creamy you may not need to add milk

Hand held blender diver chopper thing with enclosed bowl

Those red plastic lidded Pyrex dishes on offer from tesco's a while back with tokens .

Over to you!

Slow cooker
Battery operated salt/pepper grinder
Electric tin opener

DP does all (and I mean all, as in ... he rarely lets me in the kitchen!) our cooking but a few ideas when I'm allowed in there:

• mini balloon whisk, its a dinky little thing but great for instant porridge and custard when you only want to do a mug-ful

• Joseph Joseph chopping board (nice colours, fits onto the countertop next to the toaster)

• stonkin' knife sharpener - cost an arm and 3 legs but very very good for veg knives

I'm sorry TalcandTurnips I had to LOL - DP's meaning of straining greens is very different (I daren't think what he does at the kitchen sink when I'm out of the room)

Oops, #4 - a tin opener that works really well

Decent sharp knives, microplane grater, cast iron griddle plan, garlic press, hand-held blender.

Toaster
Kettle
Hand Blender
Slow Cooker

(I can't count obv)

Potato ricer
Slow cooker
Fancy knife sharpener (cheap knives but they are lovely and sharp).

ItsAll - I do like to time a piece to coincide with the water boiling and the kettle pinging; I have found that pages one and two of In a Monastery Garden are about right.

If not, I just extend the last note with a bit of left-hand tremolo a la Liberace until kettle reaches orgasm.

Nice try Talc but we all know you're rinsing your tights through in the colander....

Rice cooker (lost at moment as mine has died)
Wok
Knife that works..

Potato masher, mine is a sort of L shape, so handy for hooking those hard to reach things at the back of the cupboard.

Pampered chef knife sharpener.

Radio.

Wally - nah, I'm just wiping my grubby spuds with a flannel, which I will use later to clean round the back of the taps and wipe DH's mug.

Tin opener

Potato masher

The thingy that you use to get fried eggs out of the frying pan

Oh yes, a microplane grater.

I've never seen the point of garlic presses, you waste so much garlic. I just chop it finely by hand.

Food processor
Knife sharpener
Good chopping board

Super-flat metal tray thing for sliding under pastry

Small wooden spoon (I mean really small, long handle but small spoon part – great for smaller pans/small amounts)

Boiled egg slicer – kids love using it, so I can give them a job when making salad.

Thermomix
Pressure cooker
Very sharp 7" chef's knife

Magimix
Panasonic bread maker
Actifry

Yes, I like a gadget.

I have a pressure cooker but it's never left the box because I dint know how to use it or any recipes to do in it.

Butler
Cook
Potato peeler

Everything in my kitchen is essential yes even the Tepanyaki grill that I have used all but twice in seven years but if I really had to choose it'd be:

Rice cooker
My hard anodised pan set
Tassimo coffee machine

And if I may have one more, my KitchenAid (I coveted it for so long and spent far too much on it so by default, it must be indispensable).

Wine fridge
Bottle opener
Wine glasses

In that order...

Kitchen Aid
Apple corer
Dh

Good quality knives and a sharpener
Potato ricer
Ceramic frying pan

My ladle- gets used for everything
Silicone cake cases-make brill little jelly mould
Dd-fantastic at drying up

Pasta server, v good garlic press, microwave.

Talc you have a piano in the kitchen?

Mini chopper
Swiss coffee maker
Perforated pie dish