Foodie meme

[julesjones]

Gacked from lexin 

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.

"I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers (you will have to prise my breadmaker from my cold dead hands), 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 (which actually gets used for grinding whole spices, not coffee), 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, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards."


I'm not counting a few items which were lost or abandoned during inter-continental moves and not replaced. I'd still be using them if I had replaced them, which  is why I didn't  -- I'm at high risk for diabetes and I don't need the temptation offered by a deep fat fryer or a toastie maker.

The juicer and blender came with the heavy duty food processor, which does get used regularly. I wanted them available in case I had another bout of dental woes necessitating a pureed diet, but fortunately so far I haven't needed to use them.

The piping bag -- I haven't used my piping bag in years. That's because I do my once a year cake decorating elsewhere and use someone else's...

On the other hand, I do have a number of foodie kitchen gadgets not mentioned in the above list, many of which have not been seen outside the cupboard since I moved into this house. Some of them are simply too difficult to use with the level of RSI weakness I have these days, others are fairly pointless if you're not feeding several people and thus preparing food in bulk (my mandoline is brilliant if I'm making food for ten, but a waste of time on food for two). I haven't got that many which were bought for faddish purposes and then abandoned, but I do have to admit to a shameful weakness for the Lakeland Plastics catalogue that would have led me astray had I had more money and kitchen space fifteen years ago. :-)

Comments

[mishalak]

I will be posting my own version soon. Though it will be with notes about actually borrowing juicers and gravy strainers. If what is meant by gravy strainer is the thing for separating the fat from the juice so that the fat can be used to cook the flour before adding in the juice for gravy.

I would use a mandolin, I think, for prepping massive amounts of cabbage for winter. Though long before I get on I need a new blender. A more powerful one.

I need to use my martini glasses at some point or get rid of them.

[julesjones]

Mandolines are extremely handy for prepping massive quantities of veg, but they're enough trouble to clean that it's not worth it for small quantities.

[watervole]

I have to avoid reading Lakeland catalogues. They have the terrifying ability to make me realise that something I have managed perfectly well without for thirty years is in fact essential.

[julesjones]

I did wonder whether to add a further comment to my post about the way we occasionally sit there, one with the Lakeland Plastics catalogue, the other with a different sort of plastics catalogue...

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I think the only things on that list that I've ever owned are a garlic press and a double boiler. And I don't have the double boiler any more.

[julesjones]

My generation of university student was heavily into toastie makers as a way of getting cheap hot lunches without much of a kitchen, and judging by what's on the shelves in the student-town Sainsbury's, it's still a popular item.