What kitchen gadgets do you not have that "everyone" has?

[xsquared]

Inspired by the airfryer and Asian way of cooking rice thread, I thought I'd ask which ones you don't have and do you think you're missing out?

I have a student sized airfryer which I use a lot in place of the oven.

I don't have:
• A rice cooker - Having eaten rice everyday growing up, my diet has changed since I left home. I don't miss it and I don't think I'd use it enough to need one. Boiling the rice in a pan of water works perfectly fine for me.

•Slow cooker

• Kitchen Aid - The only time I feel I'm missing out is when recipes talk about using a certain paddle or using a dough hook, but it annoys me because it's an assumption that it's a commonly found kitchen item.

•Bread maker - We probably would use one, to avoid UPF bread, but we lack space.

My kitchen aid is a beautiful ornament tbh

So many people without microwaves for many years.

I don't know anyone without a microwave.

I don't have a dishwasher or a tumble dryer. Never needed them. OR an air fryer. OR a coffee maker.

Some posters say they don't have a breadmaker or a rice cooker. Neither do I. But this is about gadgets that 'everyone has' (meaning most people!) I would imagine most people don't have a bread maker or a rice cooker! 😆

Parallel world of Mumsnet strikes again.

That's why I've put quote marks around "everyone", as I know it's silly to use the absolute.

Plenty of posters on mn do appear to have breadmaking though, and I know they were trendy in the early 00s.

Just because you don't know anyone in rl who owns those things, it doesn't mean others don't!

We have a lot of kitchen equipment but no air fryer. Can’t see the point, sorry, plus seems to take loads of space.

I have an air fryer but it’s just gathering dust. I hate it. I feel like Mrs Doyle with the Teasmaid. Just those two words, air, and fryer, put together annoy me.

Microwave - I hate them!

I don’t have a microwave, food processor, bread maker. I do have a toaster and a kitchen aid - I eat lots of toast and bake so they’re well used.

Our microwave us used bout 5 times a day as a minimum! Probably because I'm really disorganised. But use it to defrosted frozen berries for breakfast, heat up lunches (for school pack lunch flasks), then my lunch, usually to reheat a coffee or two during the day, then one-off the older kids will use it to heat up leftovers and then to defrost peas/broad beans for tea. Then inevitably 2 people will be out at work/playing sports and will eat later so used then. Only 5 of us in the house but out timetables are a bit mental.

I don’t have an air fryer.

It’s just another gadget to turn on me and I don’t need that! 😀

A dishwasher.

I don’t have a kettle.
The microwave or induction hob are fine for the times I need boiling water.

I only have a microwave because it’s part of a combi oven which looks great but never gets used.

I don’t have an air fryer or a kettle (quooker)

I’ve bought and given away three bread makers over the years.

Love my rice cooker - was cynical before I got it but maintain it’s one of my best ever purchases.

I have some pans, knives, big spoons and a hand blender that comes with an attachment for chopping nuts. Gave the microwave away because we hadn't used it for years and there may be a sandwich toaster at the back of a cupboard somewhere. I came to the conclusion that gadgets take up far too much space and are a bugger to clean.

Not limited to the kitchen but a pre-dishwasher shaped like a labrador. Best investment to save emptying the filter.

I came to the conclusion that gadgets take up far too much space and are a bugger to clean.

I agree. We got given a 3 tier electrical steamer for Christmas but it resides in its original box and packaging on top of our fridge. This one comes with too many parts for what it is, so it will be a faff to clean, put back together and tidy away.

The only kitchen gadgets I own are a microwave, fridge, oven, and an electric jug (kettle I guess you call it). Oh, I do have a toaster but rarely use it as I don't eat bread now.

Most of them.

I only have an espresso machine, kettle and Nutribullet.

Edit: I also have a fridge, cooker and dishwasher if we’re counting those as gadgets.

But not microwave, toaster, air fryer or anything like that.

Can opener.

Only because it broke yesterday.

We probably have more than most, going by this thread.

We couldn't live without the air fryer, dishwasher, toaster or microwave. DP couldn't live without his coffee maker but I CBA the faff of the coffee machine.

I have a microwave rice steamer, which is great and used quite frequently. I realise we also have 3 'blender' type things, (a stick blender, an electric hand whisk and a small food processor, all of which get used fairly frequently and I'd be loathed to get rid of. I did have a big Kenwood Chef but used it twice and it sat in the cupboard for at least 10 years until I took advantage of the early COVID craze for baking and sold it on eBay for more than I'd paid for it.

We have a slow cooker, sandwich toaster and a breadmaker, all of which get used once in a blue moon but are useful to have. Could let go if we moved to somewhere with a smaller kitchen. Wouldn't replace if they broke.

What surprises me is how many people on MN don't have a decent freezer. To me a standard fridge freezer is a ubiquitous household item, I don't know anyone who doesn't have one and my circle is typically far less affluent than the average Mumsnetter. Yet on here you see so many people saying they don't have a freezer or only have a tiny one so can't freeze leftovers, batch cooking or yellow sticker purchases, bulk buy or keep a couple of frozen pizzas in to avoid takeaways. Ours is quite small - the fridge is 2/3 of the height, but it has 3 drawers in so plenty of space for the above mentioned things and it saves so much time and money.

Air fryer

I have two slow cookers and I despise the food that comes out of both!
I have a bread machine - I don’t use it very often but I have loads of cupboard space so I te d to keep things I don’t use - stupid really!

i dont have
air fryer
bread maker
soup maker

coffee machine broken and chucked out
dishwasher is broken but remains

Don't have an air fryer or a bread maker. I make all my own bread. You don't need a machine to do it.

A toaster

Our microwave gets used regularly - mainly to reheat drinks that have cooled down. I also use it for making porridge, defrosting, heating milk for hot chocolate, melting butter, melting chocolate, reheating leftovers, starting off baked potatoes and a myriad of other things.

I enjoy cooking so I admit to owning and using lots of gadgets but there are some I don't have room for or don't see the point of which is why I don't own a soup maker or an air fryer.

I make all my own bread. You don't need a machine to do it.

I suppose not, but it is much easier to lob all the ingredients into a bread maker and come back 3 or 4 hours later to a loaf of freshly baked bread rather than faff around with kneading (which I hate doing) and proving then baking. I mean, why get a washing machine when you could hand-wash everything?

Air fryer. In fact I don’t really understand what they are.
Microwave
Rice cooker
kitchen aid

I have a bread maker but it’s in the loft.

Best gadget- warming drawer