Redundant Kitchen Gadgets!

[smudge]

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? 

                                  

[brachiopod]

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.

 

[smudge]

Thank you brachiopod & oh - I also forgot:

• Meat Mincer!

(Where does your name originate from brachiopod?)

[SteveD]

• Yoghurt maker
• Hamburger maker
• Thing for making pressed meat
• Thing for poaching eggs in the microwave

The breadmaker is definitely NOT on the list - it gets used about twice a week.

[smurfchops]

How about the George Foreman Grill?  And going further afield, what about the Footspa?

[smudge]

My husband bought me home a George Foreman Grill & guess what - it's in the garage!

judiewudie - you really made me laugh - I could just imagine standing at the kitchen sink with my feet in the Foot Spa!

[silly moo]

And the fondue thingy !
I use 4 things on your list regularly.
items 1 , 2 , 4 , 5

Must get out the pasta machine again

[brachiopod]

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.]

[Woodstock]

What about juicers?   Great idea - shame about the washing up!!!

[smudge]

I love the family album brachiopod - so now I know!

My husband's a keen fish person too. I've asked him what it is & he's told me too - knowledge eh!

silly moo - I thought those fondue thingy's were for posh dinner parties!

[delilahcat]

Have to say I use my ice cream maker all the time, i make the best ice cream in the world(IMHO!)

[Gilli]

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 .............

[Robinia]

I've managed to avoid buying most of those smudge 'cos I've a small kitchen & not a lot of storage space.  However, you've reminded me that one of my sons borrowed my electric carver at Christmas (I hadn't missed it) - knowing him he'll have been using it to prune the roses!!

[Sammy Snake]

My food mixer gets used regularly, nearly as much as my George Foreman grill.  My Breville Sandwich Toaster gets used whenever I can rememberr that I've actually got one!

[brachiopod]

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.)

[Dom Tuk]

Pressure Cooker

Egg Slicer

(I do use my potato peeler regularly)

Coffee maker

Ice cube tray in freezer is never used.

[gazzawazza]

What about a SodaStream... Get busy with the fizzy!

[crisgal]

coffee grinder

electric knife sharpener

potato ricer

cherry stoner

bacon crisper

plastic icing set

wok

[Eeeek]

OMG Sodastream thats hilarious! Personally I couldnt live without my George Foreman grill but i am generally a sucker for "make your life easier" kinda gadgets. This is a great thread :-)

[corganiser]

Tennis racquet shaped splatter guard for the frying pan and a yellow curved piece of plastic that slices a whole banana in one go!

Couldn't live without my Big George though - perfect grilling evey time.