That'll teach me... do any of you do this too?

freyasmum

Actually, no! My mum is though - every single gadget that comes out, she has to have it. She's awful :rotfl:

So the fact that I've seen her buy so many things only to use them once or twice and then relegate them to the back of the cupboard paired with the fact that I've never had a big enough kitchen before now means that I vet everything I buy. It has to be useful and it has to be something I would use regularly or it doesn't get bought. Fancy cake tins are lovely to look at but if I use it once and then not for another year or so then it's really not worth the use of my money - or space! Much as I love to own pretty things

The only exception is my ice cream maker (it's a gaggia gelateria and it's amazing!) and it only doesn't get used daily because, well, I'd be the size of a house if it did :rotfl:

My favourite kitchen item is a really big, really sharp knife.


I really do want a kitchenaid though :A

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Juicer for me too and a smoothie maker,both never ever been used.
I also bought one of those Kenwood mini grinder things used it once and found it such a total waste of time that I've never used it again.
I have to stop my urges everytime I see something I know is going to be totally useless :rotfl:.

celyn90

jfdi wrote: »

One thing the juicer IS good for though (Yep! I've got that one too!) is prepping all the surplus fruit for wine & cider making! (from the must, if required).

It's still very messy but it's a heck of a lot quicker - did our 26kg homegrown grapes down in no time, and the pears & apples & plums!

Cider's been drunk already, but the wine's still coming along nicely!

This is the only reason we have a juicer OH uses it to pulp apples for cider. Neither of us drink very much though, so we have gallons in the cupboard under the stairs :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The only thing I bought which I hate with a passion and is stored in it's box in the loft is a Kenwood Chef. I used it several times before I worked out it overbeats cake mix to powdery and if I wanted chocolate mousse on the ceiling I could flick it there manually with a spatula. I drag it down from time to time if I am making a wedding cake or making butter, but otherthan that I consider it a waste of money and space.

I store silicone cake tins in a vacuum bag so they don't take up too much space

BitterAndTwisted

I don't do any of this. Not because I'm particularly virtuous, far from it, it's because I have no money to buy new things with, most especially new, cheap, rubbish versions of things I already have. HOWEVER, I'm hoping to be on the receiving-end of some-one else's poorly thought purchase quite soon. A bread-maker! I've been having very serious bread-maker envy for some time now and cannot imagine that I'd never have a long-term use for it. I'm never, ever going to stop eating bread. No, I am not. *excitement*




Oh, hell. Now I've got Kenwood Chef envy.

seabright

Another one with a juicer in the back of a cupboard! Going on freecycle soon. If anyone wants one for free & is in Surrey, let me know!

freyasmum

celyn90 wrote: »

and if I wanted chocolate mousse on the ceiling I could flick it there manually with a spatula

:rotfl::rotfl:



I have one of those kenwood triblades that have been advertised recently and when I saw it, I knew I wanted it straight away. I didn't have a blender bar the jug one that sits atop the food processor (which gets used for pastry and grating huge amounts of veg for soups) and I have to say it's absolutely amazing! The version I've got mashes potato in seconds - I used to have to rice the potatoes and then mix in everything I wanted. It literally makes a whole pan in no time at all and is much easier to clean than either the ricer or the big jug blender.

So my gadgets are the triblade, a processor, a little hand mixer (I made marshmallows completely by hand before Christmas :eek:) and the ice cream machine. If I had a kitchenaid, I'd get rid of the processor and the hand mixer.

Cheapskate

The gadgets I have, I use quite a lot - food processor, coffee machine, slow cooker, hand blender & electric whisk - some get used for more than one thing, too. I also have some "elbow-grease" powered bits of kit.

The only regret I do have is letting DH talk me into getting rid of my grandad's 1930s manual coffee grinder - fabulous machine, took so little time to grind just what you needed (that got used for other things as well!) - tough little machine, new ones are rubbish, truly vintage ones cost the earth now!

D&DD

Aw and there I was kicking myself when Lakeland had those grinders going cheap and I missed getting one!! Sorry to hear it wasn't up to the job.

I can honestly say all my gadgets get used here APART from my bargain £2 brandnew at a carbootsale juicer :rotfl:
I'm seeing a theme here you know

charlies-aunt

Chocolate fountain anyone ? ? ?....it seemed like such a good idea at the time but the cost of filling it and the faffing about cleaning it .. . . not to mention all those calories!

BitterAndTwisted

Cheapskate wrote: »

The only regret I do have is letting DH talk me into getting rid of my grandad's 1930s manual coffee grinder - fabulous machine, took so little time to grind just what you needed (that got used for other things as well!) - tough little machine, new ones are rubbish, truly vintage ones cost the earth now!

Not always and in every single case. All my adult life I'd been wanting a coffee grinder with a sweet little drawer to catch the grains just like the one my German granny had. Which most likely had been a wedding-present in about 1927.

I found one! On ebay! For a fiver! Not completely and exactly a true replica but close enough considering it had been forty years of hankering.