Foodie meme
Sep. 24th, 2012 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanSo there's a meme going around about kitchen appliances.
For those of you that haven't been in my kitchen - I am a shameful kitchen gadget addict. My cupboards are cram-jam full, though mostly organized, of things that I thought would be useful, and that I've used maybe once since I purchased them. At least most of them were acquired as gifts or at a discounted price, whether by markdowns or garage sales.
The saddest truth is, I enjoy cooking, but in order to do so I need a clean kitchen, time, and energy - a lack of Imperial interruptions is a bonus - but the confluence of those events is unfortunately rare. So my big, beautiful, well-stocked kitchen is mainly used to boil pasta, cook hot dogs, and nuke things in the microwave. *sigh*
Meme!
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders*, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
*Two of them, one for coffee and one for spice grinding.
In addition, I have a yogurt cheese maker, mandolin, bean frencher, dehydrator, corn cob stripper, sausage grinder, apple peeler, mini food processor, large coffee maker (for guests), popcorn popper, waffle iron, meat tenderizer, and...well, the list goes on.
For those of you that haven't been in my kitchen - I am a shameful kitchen gadget addict. My cupboards are cram-jam full, though mostly organized, of things that I thought would be useful, and that I've used maybe once since I purchased them. At least most of them were acquired as gifts or at a discounted price, whether by markdowns or garage sales.
The saddest truth is, I enjoy cooking, but in order to do so I need a clean kitchen, time, and energy - a lack of Imperial interruptions is a bonus - but the confluence of those events is unfortunately rare. So my big, beautiful, well-stocked kitchen is mainly used to boil pasta, cook hot dogs, and nuke things in the microwave. *sigh*
Meme!
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders*, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
*Two of them, one for coffee and one for spice grinding.
In addition, I have a yogurt cheese maker, mandolin, bean frencher, dehydrator, corn cob stripper, sausage grinder, apple peeler, mini food processor, large coffee maker (for guests), popcorn popper, waffle iron, meat tenderizer, and...well, the list goes on.
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Date: 2012-09-25 12:52 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:22 am (UTC)But if I had all the time in the world, man... :)
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Date: 2012-09-25 06:06 am (UTC)I'd take an ice cream maker if someone gave me one. =) Not that I really have room for it, but I like making ice cream.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:46 pm (UTC)Making ice cream with your own wild flavors looks like fun; someday when I clean out some of the unused crap, I may get an ice cream maker.
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Date: 2012-09-26 02:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-26 12:32 am (UTC)We use:
pasta machines, juicers (citrus only), blenders, melon ballers, pastry brushes, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers,, martini glasses, tea strainers, pizza stones, coffee grinders*, piping bags, slow cookers (3 sizes!), gravy strainers, ice cream makers. Also two jezvas, waffle iron, stand mixer and food processor.
Have & don't use
breadmakers, deep fat fryers, cheese knives, fluted pastry wheels, pressure cookers
Don't have
egg boilers, sandwich makers, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, bamboo steamers, milk frothers, banana stands,, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, double boilers (which we could use... we tend to put a steel bowl over a saucepan instead), sukiyaki stoves
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Date: 2012-09-26 03:26 am (UTC)I'm home tomorrow, so I'm hoping to transform a few aging bananas into banana bread. My baking prowess is limited, but it's hard to mess up a quick bread like that.
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Date: 2012-09-30 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-02 05:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-26 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-27 02:35 am (UTC)