Unused kitchen gadgets

freyasmum

lostinrates wrote: »

the thing I would like, tht my parents used to have, is a really good self freezing icecream maker. It was used often but also needed expensive repairs often. it made throwing together a pud for unexpected guests very easy and made really good luxury icecream very much cheaper to have. Its on my ''one day'' list

I have a gaggia gelateria and it's totally fab :j

I also have a food processor. Handy for doing big batches of pastry or grating lots veg. And a George Foreman. I wouldn't get rid of either.

Though I do love having a very, very sharp knife and just chopping away. It's therapeutic :A

My mum has every single gadget going and most of them turn out to be predictably guff! She bought an electric potato peeler for around £50 (?!) and used it once :doh:


Edit:
Saying that, she did discover this useful little thing

It's a garlic crusher and does away with stinky hands :T

CupOfChai

Electric potato peeler? :think:

Nope, not a clue. Please enlighten me?

freyasmum

CupOfChai wrote: »

Electric potato peeler? :think:

Nope, not a clue. Please enlighten me?

I'm not entirely sure you want to know..!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-White-Potato-Peeler-Spinner/dp/B000OVSN54

It's like a drum with rough insides that is supposed to peel the potatoes and leave them ready to cook. In reality, it's a drum with rough insides that takes off too much valuable useable potato on one side and leaves skin on other bits. Total waste of time :rotfl:

lostinrates

freyasmum wrote: »

I have a gaggia gelateria and it's totally fab :j

My parents' one was a Gaggia too. I think we over fed it vodka . The freezing compartment got holes in it.:(

Swan_2

I gave away my slow cooker, everything tasted the same & had the same mushy texture, I'm really not into falling-off-the-bone-meat, especially chicken _pale_ ... it did make good soup though, but I couldn't justify the space it took up just for that purpose

also binned two ice-cream makers, one electric & one hand-cranked, all that pre-freezing etc, what a pain, just as easy to freeze it in a tub & stir from time to time ... if I ever come into money I'll have one of those Gaggia-types that freezes as it goes along

a George Foreman with detachable plates, they just don't get hot enough, meat stews rather than grills, nasty ... I've gone back to an 'old-fashioned' fixed-plate one & it's sooo much better

popcorn maker, it went all over the place, never in the bowl, it was almost as bad as my first attempt making it on the hob in a pan when I took the lid off to see how it was doing :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:



I do have gadgets I like, but if it came down to choosing just a few things to keep, like others here I'd not part with the simple things ... my proper drop-forged French-made Sabatier knives, Alan Silverwood baking sheets & tins, & the selection of good heavy pans I've collected over the years

I really do want a pressure cooker though


PS ... I've gone back to making popcorn on the hob in a pan, with the lid on!!! :eek:

seraphina

For those of you lusting after a pressure cooker, I believe you will be after the Kuhn and Rikon one that Lakeland sell:D And if you don't get on with the pressure bit, it makes a fab normal pan as well.

I'm convinced ours has paid for itself in gas savings every time I have a Christmas pudding steam-a-thon!

CupOfChai

freyasmum wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure you want to know..!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-White-Potato-Peeler-Spinner/dp/B000OVSN54

It's like a drum with rough insides that is supposed to peel the potatoes and leave them ready to cook. In reality, it's a drum with rough insides that takes off too much valuable useable potato on one side and leaves skin on other bits. Total waste of time :rotfl:

:rotfl:What a load of carp!

LondonDreamer

Slow cooker, have used it twice. First was for chicken which came out fine, but DH hated the bolognese - too sloppy and not much flavour, even though it was the same recipe I would use on the hob (but with less liquid in the SC) with good results. So all it does now is take up a good chunk of my tiny utensils cupboard. Think I might go dig it out now to give to a friend who is wanting one. She may have more luck.

Swan_2

freyasmum wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure you want to know..!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-White-Potato-Peeler-Spinner/dp/B000OVSN54

It's like a drum with rough insides that is supposed to peel the potatoes and leave them ready to cook. In reality, it's a drum with rough insides that takes off too much valuable useable potato on one side and leaves skin on other bits. Total waste of time :rotfl:

what a weird thing :eek:

or maybe I'm the weird thing ... I love peeling potatoes


mind, I do use one of my favourite gadgets, a Good Grips peeler

Pink.

The weirdest gadget I ever had was a hamburger maker, given to us as a wedding present twenty five years ago......I'm a hoarder by nature so to my shame, I still have it, unused and still in the box. It is shaped like a giant hamburger, and was designed to grill the burgers and warm the buns.

The most recent gadget I purchased that I rarely use is a breadmaker...it was helpful when I first bought it to get me used to making bread, but bread mixed by hand and baked in the oven tastes so much better than anything my breadmaker ever produced.

There's an earlier thread on this same subject so I'll add this one to it later to keep the replies together.

Unused kitchen gadgets


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