What useful OS equipment do you have?

Jo_R_2

Hello everyone!

A quick question...

Am working hard in my quest to be OS. Doing little bits here and there and feeling very positive about it

In my OS quest, can people recommend any useful 'stuff' that will help? For example, I have a breadmaker already, and am thinking of buying a slow cooker. Though not just electrical stuff, but anything useful along these lines.

Any other bits and bobs people can suggest?

Quasar

I bought a slow cooker about a month ago. It has changed my life! I live alone and work irregular hours as I'm self-employed, and when I'm out all day it's nice to come home to a freshly cooked stew or soup. I definitely recommend it, also because it encourages one to use lots of fresh vegetables in the cooking, and that can only be good for health.

This particular one I bought is also a steamer, so I can cook many vegetables without leaking their nutrients into the water, and a rice cooker, although I haven't used this latter facility yet.

squeaky

Here ya go...

The Complete Kitchen Equipment and must have OS gadgets Collection

thriftlady_2

For baking decent tins and baking trays really make things easier. Reusable non-stick liner that you can cut to fit your trays is very useful and easy to clean.

If you fancy having a go at making jams and jellies then it really is worth getting a preserving pan and jelly bag plus stand. Once you have them, you don't need to think twice about making a batch.

If you like yogurt then a simple electric yogurt maker gives consistent results for a fraction of the price of shop-bought yogurt.

Jo_R_2

Quasar wrote: »

I bought a slow cooker about a month ago. It has changed my life! I live alone and work irregular hours as I'm self-employed, and when I'm out all day it's nice to come home to a freshly cooked stew or soup. I definitely recommend it, also because it encourages one to use lots of fresh vegetables in the cooking, and that can only be good for health.

This particular one I bought is also a steamer, so I can cook many vegetables without leaking their nutrients into the water, and a rice cooker, although I haven't used this latter facility yet.

Hi Quasar

May I ask what brand/make slow cooker you did purchase?

Jo_R_2

squeaky wrote: »

Here ya go...

The Complete Kitchen Equipment and must have OS gadgets Collection

Well there you go, I must have missed that (been trawling through loads of threads this last week) but there really is a thread for pretty much everything isn't there?!

luxor4t

Could not manage without my sewing machine as I can make curtains, bedding, gifts and clothes.

In the kitchen my food processor takes the donkey work out of chopping veg etc

I don't have a slow cooker, maybe next winter?

unhappybuuny79

I know its strictly not old style but my mobile phone with built in diary is a lifesaver for me, as it carries with me all the information i need, reminders, birthdays, etcx, i can also compose my shopping list on it and it updates the one on my PC that my partner starts, that way i only get what we need.

Its organising that makes me OS

Quasar

Jo_R wrote: »

Hi Quasar

May I ask what brand/make slow cooker you did purchase?

It's a Tefal Electronic 4 In One Rice Cooker. It has the settings for rice cooking, steam cooking and slow cooking, plus a keep warm facility, and of course timer. I bought it in John Lewis for £34.99.

Not the cheapest around but given my irregular work schedule I have to buy things where and when I can. Ordering online is not practical for me as I'm never in, so I'd have to trek to the sorting office which is quite a way from where I live.

That said, the healthier meals I can now cook are well worth the money I spent.