Is this the ponciest item of kitchen equipment ever to be purchased by a mumsnetter?

[celestialsquirrels]

I have just ordered a couscoussier from amazon.

In my defence, I was partly seduced by the word. Couscoussier. Ahhh...
(Also it is lovely and shiny and can cook a tagine and couscous for 20 people in a single pot.)

Can anyone top that for utter poncetastic-ness?

I really hope it's good for something other than just cooking couscous, otherwise you're going to eat couscous 3 times a week for the next month (if that), then it'll make you feel guilty until spring, whereupon it'll be relegated to the back of a cupboard, to languish with you ice cream machine and the slow cooker.

Ooh I've fancied one of those for ages! I googled them and looked for them on amazon several years ago but couldn't find one. Was it hideously expensive?

£55 aurgh!

Yes I think you are quite right - it can be used as a steamer but frankly I expect it will only come out for party cooking!
Still I love it.
Couscoussiere...

Ahhh. Isn't the best bit about couscous that you don't really cook it? It's like pot Noodle only edible

I think it is necessary to link to this item so we can all marvel at it.

Isn't it just a very large steamer? Sort of like this?

It isn't that actual one but as near as dammit (but cheaper!). It I slime asteamer but with smaller holes so the couscous doesn't all drop through. Some bits do though and thicken the tagine underneath while it steams...

It is like a steamer...
Not slime steamer...

I think a slime steamer would be truly horrific, so pleased to hear that it's not that

This will come in really handy when there's some kind of emergency situation requiring you to feed the entire neighbourhood from a single pot - like the plague or something, where you all have to be shut away from the rest of civilisation, with only bags of couscous being thrown over the fence week after week.

this would do the same job surely at a fraction of the price ?

Does look lovely though..... kitchen porn

So it is to a steamer way a sieve is to a colander? Ok, well it sounds more versatile than my terracotta bean sprouter - see my thread on kitchen gadgets, obviously inspired by your couscoussier (saying that in my head with a heavy Moroccan accent, obviously). And, if you only use it twice, nobody else will be able to see your shame. They'll just assume it's a saucepan, rather than every visitor to your house asking about that weird terracotta thing on the windowsill

Oi Tribpot- I would have thought you, of all people, would be able to appreciate a fellow pot.
Or should I call you Tribtribiere?

I'm afraid I am crying with laughter over the juxtaposition of my extreme wittiness and BrownSauce's terracotta bean sprouted...
Oh god that's funny!

Well, i've just bought a mini blowtorch which i thought was quite an extreme bit of kitchen kit. Not sure it's poncy though.

No Herald, everyone has one of those . We were looking for something really pointless with a silly name.
Like a terracotta bean sprouter

Tribpot is an abbreviation of tribunicia potestas, that is the power of the tribunes of the plebs in Ancient Rome. Er, it's not about an actual pot

Ah ok well i cant help there.
I just want to BURN STUFF

Narrrrrr. I bought a device that cuts hard-boiled eggs into cubes. Bit like Pointless only not on TV.

Oh you are a plebby pot, not a poncey pot, I see. There there tribtribiere, I'd still give you space on the dusty top shelf of my larder beside the ice cream maker

That designer washing up bowl that got stained a couple of weeks ago was very pretentious!

Woah Hoboken...

You have a device that makes square eggs??? Really? Someone thought that up, invented it, manufactured it, persuaded some shop to stock it, where you saw it and thought "just what I need"????

Hoboken, you know you can get stuff that moulds hard boiled eggs into cubes.

For those of you who are wondering, I haven't got one of those!

Oh, but look, it gets worse... mykitch3n.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/whats-this.html

Oh my god! Bunny eggs! How...WIERD

I possess it only to show it off when I am drunk if there is a remote possibility that the conversation at my table might flag. Hardly ever happens.