What gadgets are kept out on your kitchen worktops and why.

[booboo57]

Looking to decluuter the kitchen a bit and looking online people don't seem to have anything out . Not even a toaster! Do they just get it out of a cupboard everytime they use it? I have out toaster, nutri bullet, magimix, actifry. It feels too much. But have no room in cupboards to put it. What do you do?

Microwave, toaster, kettle, Nespresso maker, air fryer and kitchenaid. I have a lot of counter space (6 counters the width of 2 cupboards).

Too many.

Coffee machine with the beans, slow cooker, toaster, kettle, can opener, microwave and beer fridge.

In the cupboard is the toastie machine, popcorn maker, nutri bullet, rotisserie, George Forman, milkshake maker, so you can see we have too much tat that we haven't used for at least 18months

Kettle toaster coffee machine kitchenaid automatic orange juicer

Kettle, stand mixer always out.

Don’t have a microwave, toaster, blender, slow cooker, coffee machine, bread machine or bread bin. Or a tv, radio or Alexa!

Do have a smoothie maker, a waffle machine, toastie maker, and an instant pot, all in the cupboards but all used regularly.

This thread is doing nothing good for my de cluttering kitchen project. Too many gadgets I’ve avoided for decades being bandied about nonchalantly. I’m also hungry and the very thought of a toasted sandwich maker or waffle maker is proving enticing.

Nothing. The Kettle is a hob top gas kettle so that sits on the hob.

I don't have a toaster I make toast in the oven under the grill.

I don't have a microwave.

I'm not poor or anything, I just don't need one, my oven does everything I need it to do. 🤷🏻‍♀️

None, I hate clutter

but it isn't 'clutter' if it is functional appliances that are used weekly, daily, or several times a day, it is part of your kitchen

Toaster and kettle on the surface in the utility room just off the kitchen. In the kitchen I have house plants on one end of the island and fruit bowl and candles on the other. I love it being uncluttered.

Oops and Nespresso in utility room.

@Kite22

None, I hate clutter

but it isn't 'clutter' if it is functional appliances that are used weekly, daily, or several times a day, it is part of your kitchen

Quite right.

On my worktops - toaster, kettle, electric can-opener, bread bin, fruit bowl, washing-up liquid

I only listed gadgets... I didn't include tea caddies, coffee beans, Aeropress and its bits, fruit bowls, kitchen roll, spice rack, salt and pepper mills, biscuit barrels (one full of muesli), 2 types of olive oil and (for reasons best known to DH) at last count five types of balsamic vinegar.

Nespresso, air fryer, kettle and toaster.

Coffee machine/grinder, toaster, Thermomix

Blender, toaster, George Forman grill and kettle

@ErrolTheDragon

I only listed gadgets... I didn't include tea caddies, coffee beans, Aeropress and its bits, fruit bowls, kitchen roll, spice rack, salt and pepper mills, biscuit barrels (one full of muesli), 2 types of olive oil and (for reasons best known to DH) at last count five types of balsamic vinegar.

I adore balsamic, I get it

If we are including stuff that isn't meant to be there, then I also have a 3kg jar of gherkins (I need to decant it or it will break the fridge), and a cat which is not my cat

@Kite22

None, I hate clutter

but it isn't 'clutter' if it is functional appliances that are used weekly, daily, or several times a day, it is part of your kitchen

Agree completely, I find it quite odd that people don't want everyday things like kettles and toasters out. I can't think of anyone I know in real life who has totally clear counters, even a friend whose house is insta-worthy has kettle, toaster, microwave, coffee machine and fruit bowl on the counters.

Kettle, 5 canisters (tea/coffee etc), air fryer, instant pot. Our kitchen is small in an apartment.

...bread bin&board, utensil pot, knife block...

Kettle
Toaster
Coffee grinder
Knife block
Oil and seasoning
Bread bin
Magimix
Bread maker
Microwave
Chopping boards
Cereals
Cat biscuits

I hate it, the back of the whole worktop is filled with stuff and it looks really untidy. Cleaning properly means moving everything. But there just isn't the cupboard space.

Kettle, toaster, microwave, coffee machine, pot by the cooker with most used cooking utensils in, and the Google home hub speaker thing lives on a shelf in the corner, but our kitchen is nearly 20ft long and wide-ish galley style so there's a lot of worktop. When we get it refurbished I'd like the microwave to be integrated but the rest I'm ok with

Oh and bread bin!

Toaster and kettle, bread bin and bread board, fruit bowl and radio. I realise these aren't all appliances!

Next to the hob on an island I have a pot full of utensils, olive oil, salt and pepper.

I don't like really cluttered work surfaces but I like things that have daily use to be ready to hand.

Coffee machine and microwave are built in.
Have a kettle, toaster, and Alexa on one side, kitchenaid and velvetiser on another. Fruit bowl is on the island.
Everything else is in cupboards.

I have a MASSIVE kitchen, it sold the house to me. I have kitchen aid, blender, toaster, weighing scales, coffee machine and then fruit bowl and wine rack and knife block out too! But I have a whole empty kitchen island left