Which kitchen gadget could you NOT live without

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Barring the usual kitchen essentials - oven, fridge, freezer, kettle, microwave....which of your extra kitchen gadgets could you NOT live without.

Mine would have to be the slow cooker. This time of year my slow cooker is used 4-5 times per week.

[notgrumpyreally]

Gaud Stan he'd be on your doorstep in a second! Just you mind!

[the-ginger-ninja]

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

What's the difference between stew and beef casserole with veg?  I thought they were both the same??  

I have two knives (both the same) that I use to peel veg with.  I've been looking for replacements for years and just can't find any the same.  They're falling apart and   I can't use any others without having 1/4" peelings. 

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They are but don't tell my girls that 🙂

[cookiecookuk]

my electric steamer is also one of my top things but also would be lost without my icing things that i use alot at work.

[twishy123]

Silicone tongs...use them every day for one thing or another...

[ilove2patch]

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@twishy123 wrote:

Silicone tongs...use them every day for one thing or another...

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Not going to ask! lol  I am the only person on here that doesn't like her slow cooker. I have had mixed results with it & it fill the house with the smell of cooking food all day.

[notgrumpyreally]

Not your rice pan then?

[ilove2patch]

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@notgrumpyreally wrote:
Not your rice pan then?

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I did get all the burned bit off in the end! lol

[notgrumpyreally]

Do you mean one of those rubber things that peel garlic, I've been looking at them, or do you mean a garlic crusher?

[millielilac]

Have you tried bashing a garlic clove .....the skin then just falls off......

Jamie Oliver just puts a whole clove in the garlic press and the skin is left behind ( so he says ) .....

Bought a garlic press after seeing him on TV . It lives in the drawer as I still chop it by hand ......

[twishy123]

I've just found out that you can make bread in a slow cooker 

Guess  what I'm doing tomorrow....

[cookiecookuk]

i am with you patch i bought a slow cooker but then to do food that you can do in less time in normal oven,????? used it about 3 times the give itr away.

[duck_a_lorange]

Veg peeler - a cheap thin plastic swivel-blade one I got from a street market.  I don't get on with the fixed-blade ones at all.  (Anybody remember scraping carrots with a knife? Orange walls.....)

And the microwave.  The last two that went got replaced in under 24 hours - and I realised that the cheap ones last just as long as the brand names, if you really hammer them as I do.

[rainydaywoman11]

My kitchen paring knife - like CB OH threw an identical one out in the rubbish, so I have him check it's in the drawer every night - honest - well, most nights (he washes up).  Also, bought in Italy, a little grater (assume it's really for parmesan) I grate garlic and ginger with it and if I don't use the whole clove, I throw it back into it's (covered) pot.

[dazypichu]

My ceramic coated frying pan, needs no or hardly any oil and cleans in seconds:-)

[wizilizi]

Pressure cooker & a cast iron rice pan which OH sorts for me

I guess that includes OH then.  He cooks things which need care - like steaks, fish, rice - time sensitive cuisine!!

I overcook (aka burn) stuff if I can't sling it in the Aga/pressure cooker & let it cook

[ginap.123]

My George Foreman. It's probably used at least 5 days a week. Typically bacon for butties on a saturday lunch, toasted cheese sarnies on a sunday. Steaks, chops & sausages during the week & also mushrooms & halved tomatoes.
Paid well over £100 for an actifry, used it twice & gave it away.

[guardpig]

Kitchen gadget - hmm I'd vote for the local takaways and/or pub.  

Lost the potato peeler the other week - OH found it in his workshop a week or so later(I didn't ask) so if he wanted potatoes he got sent along to the chippy.

[shelly180]

Slow cooker for me too, I love the fact you can bung everything in and come home and dinner is ready!

I love when you open the front door and the house smells delicious!

[ilove2patch]

You see that is what I hate Shelly. The house smelling of food. 

[shelly180]

Isn't it funny how we are all different.

I think it reminds me of being young and trying to guess what was for dinner from the smell!