• Re: Gadgets was:chuck ste

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to DAVE DRUM on Wednesday, May 08, 2019 14:00:00
    Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 05-05-19 23:31 <=-

    Whereas mine has far too many. I'm slowly whittling away at the
    unused utensils and small appliances as I transfer from cooking to
    convenience.

    Never been one that much for gadgets... but have some that proved
    useful...

    I'm not, by any means, an early adopter. But if a tool is useful to me
    and I will use it enough to justify the room .. .. I get there as
    needed.

    I rarely decide something would be used sufficiently to justify the
    space it would take up.... :)

    It's a lot easier and cost effective for one in my situation to eat
    out or do take-away. But, I *still* get the urge to cook something -
    whether to try it out or to prove "I can make that better at home".

    I like to mess with stuff on occasion, just for the fun of it... but
    not usually the try to do it better at home... We tend to eat a fair
    number of meals out, but a lot of that is for socializing, and our
    usual haunts are generally not too expensive... especially for what
    we can get...

    Most of the places I go are regular stops for me. And social
    occasions. On Sunday mornings there is an informal "Breakfast Club"
    with a core of four friends (I'm the youngest). We visit a different
    venue every Sunday morn at 08:00 so we can get fed and be gone before
    the after church crowd troops in. A loose group of friends, relatives, etc. come and go from the group on an informal basis.

    Sounds a lot like our 4th Sunday group... :) Except we are part of the
    "after church" crowd.... ;)

    My latest replacement is a "ricer" because mine got lost in the move
    from the tin can to the real house. And it's my favourite way of
    mashing potatoes. (Cauliflower too).

    I don't think I have one of those any more... but I don't mash things
    very often, and when I do, I'm usually just using a fork... ;)

    It's easier for me than dragging out the stand mixer to make whipped potatoes. Nice thing about the ricer - no lumps in my mash.

    I don't worry much about lumps in my mash.... And I've not dragged out
    the stand mixer (or even the hand mixer) in a very long time for
    anything.... ;)

    ttyl neb

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to NANCY BACKUS on Thursday, May 09, 2019 07:17:00
    NANCY BACKUS wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

    I rarely decide something would be used sufficiently to justify the
    space it would take up.... :)

    My wife loves kitchen gadgets and hates to cook. I love to cook and
    hate kitchen gadgets. We do this dance all the time - she finds some
    nifty gadget that does one thing, and it sits in a drawer unused,
    while my well-maintained chef's knife, all-clad pan, dutch oven, cast
    iron pan, copper bottomed pots and bamboo spoon set get used pretty
    much every day.

    I like Alton Brown's thinking. He doesn't want anything in his kitchen
    that does just one thing.


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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to KURT WEISKE on Saturday, May 11, 2019 21:53:00
    Quoting Kurt Weiske to Nancy Backus on 05-09-19 07:24 <=-

    I rarely decide something would be used sufficiently to justify the
    space it would take up.... :)

    My wife loves kitchen gadgets and hates to cook. I love to cook and
    hate kitchen gadgets. We do this dance all the time - she finds some
    nifty gadget that does one thing, and it sits in a drawer unused,
    while my well-maintained chef's knife, all-clad pan, dutch oven, cast
    iron pan, copper bottomed pots and bamboo spoon set get used pretty
    much every day.

    Almost like Jack Sprat and his wife.... (G) Here, Richard enjoys eating
    (most of) what I cook (and will eat any of it)... and doesn't go ga-ga
    over gadgets... works out pretty well... ;)

    I like Alton Brown's thinking. He doesn't want anything in his kitchen that does just one thing.

    I can go along with that, too... :) And probably have even less than
    you do... :) My Corningware, a small good frying pan, a wooden
    spoon... and a paring knife... :)

    ttyl neb

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