what's in my kitchen

[ironymaiden]

a wild meme appeared!

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don’t use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, and fondue sets

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by "sandwich makers", i mean the George Foreman grill. because that stupid thing is remarkably handy for grilling meat quickly with no fuss.

i do have a reamer, but i'm pretty sure "juicer" means a machine.

i kind of miss the fondue set, but not enough to store it.

i don't like actual martinis, and when i make myself a cocktail it's at least rocks-sized.

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Alton Brown says that you shouldn't keep a kitchen implement if you don't use it once every six months. that doesn't mean you should go get rid of those tools necessarily, it just means that you should try to use them more often. (and there are some things that just aren't going away. i have a fish-shaped gelatin mold. i am never giving it up.) he also has a thing about kitchen implements that are "unitaskers". i think you need unitaskers sometimes; and fancy appliances - i love my kitchenaid stand mixer and its attachments.

the rest of the time i could get by with a 10" chef's knife and a cast iron skillet.

Comments

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Kitchenaid stand mixers remind me of home. My mother's lasted long enough to go out of fashion and come back retro before I finally let it go in the last move.

[raevnos.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call a mixer a single-purpose appliance, considering the variety of attachements available. Even if all you have is the standard mixer whisks and bowl, if do you any amount of baking at all it's great.

I think the only things on that list I'd bold are the slow cooker and tea strainer (And a bunch of strike throughs).... I want a tagine pot, though.