Redundant Kitchen Gadgets!

[smudge]

Just wondering how many kitchen gadgets you have, that are now stuck in a cupboard & never used?

To prick your memory, there are:

• Deep Fat Fryers
• Bread Makers
• Ice Cream Makers
• Liquidisers
• Food Mixers
• Candy Floss Makers
• Doughnut Makers
• Popcorn Makers
• Crepe Makers
• Potato Peelers
• Electric Can Openers
• Breville Toasters
• Electric Carving Knives

Can you think of any more? 

                                  

[Hellion]

I use an electric whisk and a 'whizzer' - which has made my liquidiser redundant.

Add to the list of unused items:

Salad Spinner (for spin drying lettuce)

Mozzarella Slicer (like a big egg slicer)

Thingey for taking the top of boiled eggs

In  Kleeneze, Lakeland and Bettaware they sell a mushroom brush, I need to know has anyone ever bought one!

[smudge]

I bought a wooden thistled (mushroom shaped) mushroom brush from Dunlem. I must say my husband uses it all the time - seeing as he does most of the cooking in our house!

Whilst he's doing that - I'm bricklaying - only joking!

[crisgal]

i have got a mushroom brush!

it takes pride of place at the back of the cupboard under the sink!

[smudge]

LOL crisgal - that's where ours would be if I did all the cooking!

Thank you for all your answers - it's amazing the money we spend on things we don't really need. However did our Grannies cope without them? 

I wouldn't be without my whisk & whizzer either Hellion!

[kaktus]

Hellion - My in-laws are keen mushroom hunters and would never dream of rinsing them, I would on the other never dream of brushing them,, I'm way to lazy :0)

But I must say I enjoy those brushed and then butter fried chanterelles on a piece of toasted bread.

[smudge]

Yummy!

[stevie21]

How can you not need a potato peeler? If I try to peel veg with a knife, I end up with about one chip's worth of potato left. I've not quite perfected the "just take a thin layer off" yet.

George Formby grills are great for toasties. Never tried it with veg but it does tend to make meat a bit dry and tough.

[Little Lady]

I went shopping the other day and saw sode stream stuff STILL on sale i thought they had long gone! How about teapots i dont know anyone who uses one now.....

[stevie21]

Now we're abolishing TEAPOTS!!!
I'll starve to death at this rate! My culinary skills are such that I'm stretching my talents to make toast.

How will I cope now?

p.s. Tea tastes much better out of a teapot. I've never figured out why.

[hobsonbear]

V slicer thingy for chopping veg, along with small orange juicer and thing that makes cucumbers into spirals that came with it. 'eggs on legs' cutter to make hard boiled eggs stand up.  sandwich toastie bag that you put in the toaster.  food warmer with 2 candles in it and a cutter that helps put cheese and pineapple chunks on sticks in 4 different shapes!  mine you, hubby has a never used multi-gym in the garage with an inflated paddling-pool lying on top of it that he bought for the dog.  i love the 'ideal home show'!

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[Artful]

I've just found this thread - isn't it wonderful! I love gadgets, when I find a new one, excitement brims over - a bit like a cat sat on the windowsill watching a bird feed on the other side of the window - if hubby isn't around, well I just can't help myself. Mind you, I have saved on a potato peeler as I have my husband to do that and I don't even have to plug him in!

I would like a bread maker but I'm having a problem convincing the other half of the household!

What about a coffee expresso maker and, you know, I don't remember seeing talk of electric kettles - now without that a kitchen wouldn't be a kitchen. Cheese fondue service, beef fondue service, a raclette thingy. Oh yes, one day I found an electric boiled egg maker (hard, soft, in-between) - now that has to be very useful the only thing is I can't work out how to use it........

[Artful]

I forgot to ask, what is a 'mushroom brush'? I haven't got one of them...

[smudge]

Hi Artful, your post made me smile. Try this images site, I have the same mushroom brush as the one 3rd from left at top.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=mushroom+brushes&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Thank you again all. -x-

[Artful]

Hmmmm...well.....yes, thanks for showing me one smudge. You know I think I can possibly live without one of those. But it does look cute, doesn't it and not only that it has a WOODEN handle.........