Lakeland products

cuca

Or here we have the 'one egg pan' - its a frying pan so small that it only hold one egg to fry - but it costs the same as a full size frying pan :rotfl:

babyshoes

Blimmin 'eck, it is amazing what people will buy, isn't it? On the opposite end of the scale, a gadget I have which looks and sounds useless but actually works well is my avocado slicer (it is called a 'flexicado'). Sounds pointless, but if you eat loads of avocados it is really useful as it removes it from the skin and slices it all in one movement. I know it can be done just as well with a knife, but I like using it! I bought one for my MiL as she lives in a country where Avos are cheap as chips, and they eat at least a couple a week.

zippychick

Hi Debbie:hello:

I have added your thread to the one which discusses Lakeland Jam maker and various other gadgets This means we keep all the information together

I could see my Mum being bought into something like this sadly. People just assume stuff like this makes life easier, and they try to go for the easier option or seemingly the "labour saving device" I would talk her out of buying it, but i know it would more than likely attract her

We now have Lakeland over here, so I hope to make a trip soon and see what the fuss is about myself:j:eek:

Zip:)

bitsandpieces

paulwf wrote: »

Lakeland have a coffee bean roaster for £150. It only roasts 300g at a time and the green beans are really expensive and in a year or two if they stop selling it getting hold of more green beans will be difficult.

You can buy cheaper (and, I suspect, better) green beans from companies like Hasbean. It would likely work out slightly cheaper to buy good green beans and roast yourself rather than buying very good quality freshly roasted beans. That £150 will take a long time to make back, though, so unless you enjoy roasting coffee...

Primrose

I'm amazed that anybody would pay £100 for a Lakeland jam maker although I can understand how, if they lead busy lives, they could be fooled by the claim that you don't have to spend time standing over a hot stove stirring it all the time. You can just as easily make jam in a microwave for the expenditure of a fiver on a really deep sided Pyrex bowl which is tall enough to stop the liquid boiling over, and you don't have to stir it either, as liquids don't burn in a microwave.

zippychick

Actually you made a fabulous post earlier in this thread, I made a mental note to come back to it yesterday. Primrose microwave jam method here :j

tomterm8

primrose, thanks for your post - is your soft fruit recipe right? It doesn't specify any water, and I was wondering if it might burn? All the others have some water.

Primrose

tomterm8 - Yes, it sounds strange but perfectly correct. You don't need to add any water to the soft fruit recipes I've given as they generate enough liquid of their own as you cook them until soft. Thank you for querying this as I've gone back and added this explanation to the original recipe in case anybody else was wondering about it. (In an ordinary jam making pan, a lot of the water you add initially is boiled off in evaporation. In a microwave, because the mixture boils to setting point more quickly, there is less evaporation so consequently less need to add a lot of extra liquid.).

tomterm8

Thanks, Primrose.

jexygirl

a bit off topic I guess, not a kitchen gadget, but still a "gadget" in one of those famous "catalogues" that come with certain sunday papers that made me giggle.

It was slippers, not JUST slippers, but slippers with TORCHES ON THE TOES, so you could as advertised "See under the bed". Now, bearing in mind, that they needed your weight to light up, I had visions of standing at the side of my bed, torches lit, but needing to be a contortionist to see under it!
I realise these could perhaps have uses, however the advertisement saying you could look under your bed was what got me going!
Jex
PS. Why do I now want a strawberry slicer!!!!