Must have kitchen gadgets

mardatha

:D:D yer all very BAD! :rotfl: Still looking !

anguk

If you make a lot of soup maybe a processor to chop your veg and a cheap stick blender to wizz the soup smooth? Or if you really want a special gadget how about a soup maker which will cook and blend for you?

I've got the older version of this and it does just about everything:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4226859/c_1/1|category_root|Kitchen+and+laundry|14418476/c_2/2|14418476|Food+preparation|29619252/c_3/3|cat_29619252|Food+processors|14418606.htm

mardatha

Yep Ang, that's just the very thing I decided to get- or something close to it. Although I got it on Sainsbugs site for £55. I do make a lot of soup and in summer a lot of salad. so thanks everybody yer all amazing :T:T:T
- even if you did all fall about giggling at my choppy nukey thing

Swan_2

mardatha wrote: »

Yep Ang, that's just the very thing I decided to get. Although I got it on Sainsbugs website for £55. I do make a lot of soup and in summer a lot of salad. so thanks everybody yer all amazing :T:T:T
- even if you did all fall about giggling at my choppy nukey thing

choppy nukey thing sounds perfectly reasonable to me

in my kitchen I have a scary slashy sticky thing, a churny burny thing, a high pressure hissy fitty thing, a ricey spicy thing, a brighty blinding bakey thing among others :whistle:

artichoke

daska wrote: »

Ooh, lucky you.

If I got £50 I'd buy either
1. a spiralizer to make veg noodles. Even DS2 succumbed to courgette noodles last night, a couple of very hesitant and unwilling mouthfuls and he was woolfing them down.
OR
2. a dehydrator so that I could store whoopsied and home grown food and veg.

wow i had never ever heard the word spiralizer but i've googled and i MUST HAVE one.....

which ones are good? what else can you noodleize as well as veg?

wow - do they really work? do kids eat noodle veg? off to read more..

this forum is so NOT MSE when these gadget threads appear...
Art

daska

artichoke wrote: »

wow i had never ever heard the word spiralizer but i've googled and i MUST HAVE one.....

which ones are good? what else can you noodleize as well as veg?

wow - do they really work? do kids eat noodle veg? off to read more..

this forum is so NOT MSE when these gadget threads appear...
Art

TBH I've never used one, I already have a mandolin (the oblong type with a diagonal blade, but I really fancy a spiralizer LOL. BUT... having looked at them I'm wondering how you can exert enough pressure on the sideways ones so I think I'm leaning toward http://www.ukjuicers.com/benriner-cook-help-vegetable-slicer And I made a wicked bolognese type sauce to go on top so the difference between the courgette and wheat pasta wasn't huge. (steamed it for 5 minutes to soften)

mardatha

QUOTE
"a high pressure hissy fitty thing"

Aye, I've got one o them as well. I married it.

Swan_2

I don't think I want one, but I had food in a restuarant that had use one on potatoes, the dish was seared scallops & pancetta with pumpkin veloute

it was served in a large deep pasta/soup dish, it was presented as 3 huge scallops on a bed of tiny roasted pumpkin cubes, assorted tiny seasonal roasted vegetable cubes, roasted pumpkin seeds, shards of crispy pancetta, all held together by by a net-like ring of potato 'spaghetti' with the pumpkin veloute poured around it at the table

it was one of the most supremely sublime things I've ever eaten

Swan_2

mardatha wrote: »

QUOTE
"a high pressure hissy fitty thing"

Aye, I've got one o them as well. I married it.

ha ha love it :rotfl:

I'm gonna show mine (Ex now so I can get away with it )

mardatha

Oh swan that sounds gorgeous - I'M HUNGRY NOW!