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skilly

morning all, i love my remoska i can cook a meal for only a few pennys .

Lily-Lu

IMadeMyOwnLuck wrote: »

I do have a kenwood chef. It makes the most excellent bread, what a doddle. All this waffle that I see about the mystery of bread making, there isn`t any. Just good fresh ingredients, a kenwood and an oven. It beast the time wasting slog of hand kneading

I have a Kenwood, too. But found it no good for kneeding bread. The dough just seems to stand up in one piece and comes right up over the top edge of the dough hook, and just gets dragged around the bowl. I had to keep stopping the machine, pushing it back down, and starting it again. This was a 3lb flour batch though, so maybe it's more due to the amount. Can't find my book to go with the Kemwood, so can't be sure that I wasn't using an excess flour weight for the bowl.
I just do the kneeding by hand now though, and really don't mind it:)

organic_wanabe

For me it would have to be my remoska (two actually - standard and grande!). However, I recently bought a Veggichop in the Lakeland sale for £12.50 and for once I have found a chopper which actually works - I love it and it is small and easy to store.

JillS_2

Lily-Lu wrote: »

I have a Kenwood, too. But found it no good for kneeding bread. The dough just seems to stand up in one piece and comes right up over the top edge of the dough hook, and just gets dragged around the bowl. I had to keep stopping the machine, pushing it back down, and starting it again. This was a 3lb flour batch though, so maybe it's more due to the amount. Can't find my book to go with the Kemwood, so can't be sure that I wasn't using an excess flour weight for the bowl.
I just do the kneeding by hand now though, and really don't mind it:)

My Kenwood Chef book states the quantity of flour should not exceed 3lbs. - so you are within quota though at the top end. The max.amount of flour I've used is 2lbs and I haven't had your problem so it just might be the weight.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I steam my spuds with skins on in the rice cooker, then drop them, skins & all into the ricer then into a very big bowl. It takes a lot less strength to squeeze them into threads than pulverising them with a thing I can't grip too well. (and I don't have to peel them first).

They are lovely just like that, or you season and tip some warm milk & butter onto them and stir.

The best mash ever, according to the DDs!


So yes, in my opinion, it's an essential. A bit messy, but worth it.

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I love my SC as its used several times a week, and when its not on then my Remoska saves me a fortune instead of putting my oven on,but the best thing I think would be my old potato peeler,(cost me 50p in Woolies about 18 years ago and getting very thin now) I even take it with me when we all go on holiday to the holiday house, I'm really a bit of a saddo aren't I

lilac_lady

I have a slow cooker that I use a lot. It's more than 20 years old - I must have been ahead of my time then. I also like my M Pierro little food blender. Great for chopping onions, breadcrumbs etc without a palaver.

A palaver sounds like another piece of kitchen equipment!

morganlefay

I see the dishwasher as 'essential' but it is a wonderful thing (and if OH wouldn't keep taking things out of it to stack even more stuff in - thus not letting it wash anything really clean it would be even better), but other than that my Remoska is a continuing and thrifty joy AND my Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker, which is new and after years of my being scared of a hissing pressure cooker cooks all sorts of things with no hissing, no fuss and no terror - I love it. Oh and my very old, cheap and now-thin spud peeler, but that's surely an essential ?

joesaunt

Non essential is my Bamix, cost me a fortune, but when I use it it does what it says on the tin. I could make do with other gadgets, but this does it all in one.

I have just won custody of it in my impending divorce :T

Essential item I couldn't live without is my cooker.

Petlamb

I'm quite surprised no-one's said a rice cooker... i adore mine, i only got it at xmas, but we use it frequently and I'd definitely get a new one if it ever died. Love it, and wouldn't cook rice without!