favourite kitchen gadget?

[iwastooearlytobeayummymummy]

I love my lemon zester!
I love my hand held blender!
I have married my dishwasher and given birth to his progeny!
(he's now automatic btw)

what's yours?

i would say, my electronic kitchen scales.
but i dont own many kitchen gadgets.
i would like a kenwood chef food processor and mixer thing.

joseph joseph bowl nest

not exactly a gadget, but brilliant and I love it.

My potato ricer

Hand-held stick blender

Another saddo vote for lock n locks - I have LOTS!

Oh, and a brilliant balloon whisk with a smaller wire ball and ball bearing inside - absolutely fab and I have not seen another like it in any shop - would actually be rather lost without it! Now that is surely the height of sad!

I forgot how much I love my potato ricer

my bread maker
russel hobbs water kettle - it*s really fast

I got a free surgical steel paring knife at a demo in Debenhams about 2 years ago (I think it's called forever sharp). I nearly chopped my thumb off not so long ago, but it is fab!

My thumb healed eventually, but it's the best little knife I own.

My Kitcheaid. It's so very very pretty.

Microplane grater!

This thread reminds me we really need some better / sharper knives.

Busymummy (nearly had a typo then and you'd have been bustymummy! ) I have one of those knives too, and it's fab. Esp for strawberries. I have a pampered chef gadget for paring strawberries, but it's nowhere near as good.

My favourite gadget would have to be my Tefal one cup kettle type thingy. So nice not to wait for the kettle to boil, and environmentally friendly too!

Pampered chef chopper and oxo peeler would be close seconds though.

No actually... changed my mind. Dishwasher comes first, but is that a kitchen gadget, or a kitchen appliance?

My Lakeland hand-held steamer. Makes very short work defrosting a very heavily iced-on freezer and cleaning my microwave

i love my hand held blender - a dualit one in sky blue!
just as good as but much smaller than proper food mixer.
although i would love one of those

microplane grater is fab too!

my julienne grater - love it to bits.
A recent acquisition - amazing silicon lids that fit over frying pans and pretty much any other vessel. They form a seal that allows you to lift the vessel by the centre of the lid but if you pick it up by the edge it comes straight off - saves a fortune in clingfilm! And because they're silicon they don't melt. very happy with them.
I quite like my mini-chef food processor as well but it's not quite as brilliant as I'd like it to be.

thumbwitch where do you get amazing silicon lids? They sound great!

just checked 'posts i'm on' and have become disturbingly excited by some suggestions (self help thread anywhere/anyone )

must look out the microplane grater and hand held steamer
and silicone lids
and new knives
and a new life.

My Kitchen Aid. It looks lovely sitting in my kitchen although I've never actually used it

amazing silicon lids, called ezi-seal - however, I and they are in Australia and I couldn't tell you if they ship overseas but you could contact them if you want and ask.

The lids can also be used as pot stands to protect work surfaces/tables - they are great, imho.

Breadmaker without a doubt!
Used nearly every day for 10 years and still going strong!

• George Foreman grill
• Apple slicer
• My pineapple corer/slicer (even though I don't use it much - it still amazes me every time I do!)

Norma
i've got one of those pineapple things too, and it's bloody brilliant, if i can ever find it, that is.

Ooh, I'd like a pineapple thing too. Does it take the outside off?

DH

four arms
you cut the top leaves off and then 'screw' the thing in a bit lke a cork screw.
It leaves the skin intact,like an outer shell
I have often thought it would make a great humongous pinacolada glass

Slow cooker.

i love my slow cooker, too.

i use it at least 3x/week.

also use my collection of ice cube trays to make ice cubes of all sorts for smoothies - coffee, juice, even freeze bits of lemon or lime in ice cubes to squeeze into your Coke or sparkling water.

oh, and i used shaped ice cubes to make chocolates.

I have so many gadgets its hard to pick my faves ... But I will try

Halogen oven has to be top its beyond awesome
Also love my electric egg boiler
Pineapple corer is brilliant pineapple link for who asked
Y potato peeler I use a lot
George Foreman is an essential

Oh and the apple corer and divider has finally got DS eating apples- by the tonne as it happens