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Redundant Kitchen Gadgets!
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Just wondering how many kitchen gadgets you have, that are now stuck in a cupboard & never used?
To prick your memory, there are:
- Deep Fat Fryers
- Bread Makers
- Ice Cream Makers
- Liquidisers
- Food Mixers
- Candy Floss Makers
- Doughnut Makers
- Popcorn Makers
- Crepe Makers
- Potato Peelers
- Electric Can Openers
- Breville Toasters
- Electric Carving Knives
Can you think of any more?
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You forgot pasta machines, smudge ! Surely every aspiring domestic god / goddess had one of those? The miniature mangle-type things. (Never owned one myself.)
The only things on your list I own (or haver ever owned) are a food processor / blender, which I use fairly often; and a toasted sandwich maker, which I eventually threw out as it was rather past it through use. (Well, I'd had it since my student days back in the 80's !!) It's funny, only the other day I really fancied a cheese and onion Breville (with pickle !!)
I think everything else I can make do with basic equipment - a good quality knife, good quality saucepans etc.
I�ve got a gadget in the back of my cupboard for getting trilobites out of their shells, but I haven�t used it in years.....
[smudge, brachiopods somewhat resemble �shellfish�, in that they are superficially similar to the bi-valves (c0ckles, mussels and the like) but from a completely different phylum. Your average oyster or scallop is from the phylum Mollusca which also includes snails, squid and octopi.
The brachiopods have their own, totally separate, phylum, the Brachiopoda, so we�re a completely different kettle of er... shellfish.
There�s not so many of us alive these days � a great many of us became extinct at the end of the Permian, about 248 million years ago. So I'm a bit of an old fossil, really !! Here's an early portrait of me from my school days (on the right), and Here's a more recent shot of me on holiday with the family last year.]
I use my deep fat fryer more often than I should (which should be never!)
I use a liquidiser, food mixer and sandwich maker quite frequently.
But admit that my pasta maker has never come out of its box, though it has moved with me about 3-4 times - I think I'm a bit scared of it !!! One day .............
Right !!
So it's all round to Gilli's for some chips fresh from the deep fat fryer, then after that, off to delilahcat's for some home-made icecream. If everyone brings their sandwich-makers and George 'Formby' grills (ukulele optional), we can all have a packed-lunch to see us off with the next morning!
(After a post-pub brain-wave, I have now fed the results from this thread and the 'Where Do We All Live?' thread (over in 'People & Places') into my special, sooper-dooper, number-crunching, advanced data-smashing program (ie. Microsoft Excel) - so now we know where you live and your culinary speciality!!)
(We'll just have to wait 'til nettie gets over to the UK from Ibiza - don't think we can afford international trips just yet.)
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