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Your favourite kitchen gadget is....?

42 replies

teeavee · 21/09/2005 16:17

Mine has to be my handblender - I've had it 8 years and use it almost everyday.
It has an eggwhisk and potato ricer attachments - brill.
Also, spatulas. Couldn't live without them!
What is your essential piece of equipmment?

OP posts:
Hattie05 · 21/09/2005 16:18

Dishwasher!!

gingerbear · 21/09/2005 16:18

rice steamer

MrsSpoon · 21/09/2005 16:19

Magimix or coffee machine (although that's DH's).

expatinscotland · 21/09/2005 16:19

Phillips electric handmixer, bread machine and kettle.

charliecat · 21/09/2005 16:20

Kettle for Coffee and after that George Foreman for Cheese and Onion Toasties.

Original poster
teeavee · 21/09/2005 16:20

kettles ARE indeed brill - I wish French people would cotton on to this!

OP posts:
dillydally · 21/09/2005 16:20

a corkscrew

Marina · 21/09/2005 16:21

Runner bean slicer. It just does a batch of r/bs so quickly!

Original poster
teeavee · 21/09/2005 16:21

dilly

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marthamoo · 21/09/2005 16:21

My food processor. It's a small Braun one which I bought with gift vouchers from work when I left to have ds1. I bought it to do baby food - but I still use the tub/blades on it most days as neither of mine are keen on onions but if I chop them finely enough they don't complain. I also use it to whizz up canned tomatoes as neither of them like lumps of tomato either (don't my kids sound fussy?)

It has a whisk attachment too, and a whizzer thing which I use to blend soup - and bread hooks (which are the one bit of it I have never used). Would be lost without it - I've even taken it on holiday.

Marina · 21/09/2005 16:23

I also like our Tala garlic press, best we have ever had (and we have been through a few )

Original poster
teeavee · 21/09/2005 16:24

my handblender is a robot marie - I knackered the egg whisk thing once by (stupidly) following Delia's ridiculous advice to mash potatoes with it to make them light and fluffy - all I got were springs and screws flying everywhere.... never listen to that woman!

OP posts:
moondog · 21/09/2005 16:26

Dh
Fantastic at tidying,chopping,washing and cleaning.

gingerbear · 21/09/2005 16:32

I think my DH broke.

kama · 21/09/2005 16:41

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eefs · 21/09/2005 17:03

dishwasher - keeps the clutter off my counters
clothes dryer - keeps the laundry off clothes racks in my kitchen.
kettle - am tea addict
handblender - baby food, whisking, smothies, soups, mashing etc

Tabs · 21/09/2005 17:08

Bamix - without a doubt. Best £99 I ever spent.

yoyo · 21/09/2005 17:19

Just looking at my Kitchenaid cheers me up.

Original poster
teeavee · 22/09/2005 09:09

no-one for spatulas, then?

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tissy · 22/09/2005 09:14

A Microplane grater (from Lakeland, of course!). It grates unbelievably finely!

God, I'm sad

Littlefish · 22/09/2005 09:50

Good Grips peeler. Really effective and quick to use, and no chance of peeling a strip off your fingers!

colditz · 22/09/2005 09:53

Dishwasher is fab

Like a legal slave

edgetop · 22/09/2005 10:00

kettle
veg steamer
veg peeler (im left handed)
tin opener ( left handed)
toaster
iam a simple girl really!!!!!!!

bundle · 22/09/2005 10:03

dishwasher
kitchen scissors
magimix
hand blender
my lovely new italian stove-top espresso thingy