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.

[rose2008-2008]

Probably my Potato Peeler as i like Mashed potatoes so much!!!!!!!!!.

[dr-whos-assistant]

Not really a gadget but I do have a kitchen devil knife I got 24 years ago that I use for everything numerous times a day, I lost it 2 years ago and had to order the nearest one to it but it wasn't the same it was very similar but just different!
Then 2 months later I found it in the back of the dishwasher. I was so pleased it made my day.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I actually miss the smell of food cooking with the Aga, you can't smell anything.  It's a bit of a nuisance because if you forget to set the timer, or miss the timer ringing, things can burn and you don't smell it.

We also have cheese toasties in the George every Sunday Gina.  That's the only thing I use it for.

[ilove2patch]

I only use mine for toasties or paninis too.

[chickengrandma-2008]

It was you who suggested it to me Maggie.  We've had them every Sunday since!  

[*pixachu*]

I could not live without my blender - my kids won't eat pasta sauces with lumps in, I have to blend it. It's crazy, but if it means they will eat the hidden veg in there, I don't mind.

My aspie son would otherwise pick out the onion 

[sharewizfox]

For me it's my steamer. It goes whereever I go and ensures my clothes look great all the time.

[four_mid_able]

My chainsaw.

Although the neighbours would be happy if it went because the smoke alarm goes of every time i do a Sunday roast.

[insidethe93]

Nice to have a gadget that works especially if it feels satisfying and maybe fun to use. I love gadgets but long ago donated my jar-opening gadget (and I have a weak wrist due to an old injury) because I found that a rubber glove does the job just as well. The rubber gives you grip and thus leverage when twisting the top.

Difficult jar - hold a rubber glove (in the hand you're twisting the lid with).

More difficult jar - wear a rubber glove on the hand you twist with.

Most difficult jar - wear both rubber gloves, for maximum grip.

[insidethe93]

I hide my long-handled pastry brush, or rather the replacement I had to buy, after hubby borrowed it without asking to use as a paint-brush and ruined it. Annoyed as a long-handled pastry brush is quite a specialist thing, not easy to find, not easy to find a good one.

I buy and keep extra parts of certain gadgets to ensure said gadgets will remain complete, and thus usable, as hubby somehow separates and misplaces the parts.

The problem is he's always ahead of me, losing different items so I'm unprepared, but I do my best to keep secret stashes of items that hubby tends to borrow (never asks first) and lose. I check early so as to re-stock. (How can you lose a large saucepan lid or clothes pegs?!)

[insidethe93]

Ice cream (and sorbet) maker for when the youngsters visit. They like hearing the ice cream van jingle when it finishes. I've made ice cream by hand but it's a faff.

My old-model Thermomix for mayonnaise (and thus aioli etc) - it has a magic lid and trickles the oil in by itself. To get perfect results every time and even be able to leave it unattended, all I had to do was save up for 15 years to buy it 🙂

[sunflowers4me59]

My glass rolling pin, I can't get on with the wooden ones. It's now 39 years old and I'm scared that I will break it, never seen another one.