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What are your top three peices of equipment you couldn't live without for OS?

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  • Husband (replaced in some households with the more limited 'dishwasher', which isn't equipped with the facility for putting the laundry out or occasionally keeping the kids away from the proceedings).

    Breadmaker.

    Slow Cooker.
    Eek! Someone's stolen my signature! :eek:
  • I was expecting to see lists of things like
    butter pats
    mangle
    stock pot etc :D

    seems like we need a lot of modern equipment to live OS these days :D
  • msmicawber
    msmicawber Posts: 1,962 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Freezer - for when I cook extra portions of meals (esp. when I've found a bargain)
    Microwave - for heating the above
    Mouli - for making soups, etc. and, when my children were babies, for making HM baby food.
    Debt at highest: £6,290.72 (14.2.1999)
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  • ageandjo
    ageandjo Posts: 1,012 Forumite
    washing machine
    slow cooker
    hoover
  • Gingham_Ribbon
    Gingham_Ribbon Posts: 31,520 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Big stuff: breadmaker, hand blender, miele cat and dog vacuum cleaner (I hoover half as often now with more effect.)

    Little stuff: balloon whisk, large mixing bowl, kitchen sponges with scourers on the back.
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • tootles_2
    tootles_2 Posts: 1,143 Forumite
    In this house:

    1. Freezer, saved my sanity many a time.

    2. Bread maker - saves me oceans of cash.

    3. Pressure cooker - quick stews when you forgot to take the meat out the freezer.



    Living in the sunny? Midlands, where the pork pies come from:

    saving for a trip to Florida and NYC Spring 2008

    Total so far £14.00!!
  • ladygrey wrote:
    I was expecting to see lists of things like
    butter pats
    mangle
    stock pot etc :D

    seems like we need a lot of modern equipment to live OS these days :D

    Ah ok then.....

    Butter pats

    I had no idea what a difference these could make to butter making - got them for £3 from eBay and wild horses wouldn't make me part with them now

    Knife Sharpener

    Never had one of these before but have just bought one and they are blooming brilliant!

    My egg timer

    Saved many a cake being burned while I've been concentrating on other things

    :D:D
  • ocemeer
    ocemeer Posts: 414 Forumite
    Rayburn

    well it supplies all my hot water, heats the house without having to have radiators, helps dry the newspaper bricks, flowers, herbs, fruit etc and my washing too when it rains. Plus its use as a cooker for everything from bread to curries.


    Big heavy flat bottomed saucepan.

    doubles as a jam/pickle pan and at a push use it for bottling too, though only small batches. plus means i can make huge batches of everything i need to.

    a Stock of jam jars and glass bottles.

    well need to be able to pus the stuff i make somewhere otherwise whats the point of making it all


    I don't know was slightly disappointed that all the ists contained things like BM etc, i don't own a BM but then again use the neading as relaxation more than anything else and i dont use the kenwood chef, though i will admit to having a handblender, and that does get used.
  • Specifically in the kitchen:

    Kenwood Chef - wouldn't want to live without it! I am able to do so many OS things that I probably wouldn't do otherwise, like making homemade butter, lump free sauces and custard, mayo, sausages, mincing meat, etc! I always had trouble with pastry until I started using the Kenwood to make it.

    I have a bread machine now but before I did I used the Kenwood to make bread dough. We are lucky enough to live very close to a windmill that sells organic flour. I'm sure this is not the cheapest but the bread is filling so we eat less snacks.

    Slow cooker - not used much in summer but fab in winter, I love having all the work of dinner out of the way in the morning.

    Remoska - as we currently do not have a proper oven. This thing is great! I suspect I will still use it loads when our kitchen is finally finished. I cook everything in it that I would cook in a big over or grill.

    Household would be things like my washing machine (free), Miele vacuum (gift), steam cleaner, PC and TV.

    Also would not want to live without my dolly, tub and mangle for the big monday wash!:p :p:p
    :happylove
  • I am sorry I cannot limit it to 3, my list would be - all of equal value

    Freezer
    Kenwood chef
    food processor
    bread maker
    slow cooker
    microwave
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