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.
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.
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.
NANCY BACKUS wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-
I rarely decide something would be used sufficiently to justify the
space it would take up.... :)
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.
I like Alton Brown's thinking. He doesn't want anything in his kitchen that does just one thing.
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