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What is your most indispensible non-standard kitchen gadget?

post #1 of 86
5/11/10 at 2:55am
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Mine is my food-saver. Love it. Some others I was thinking of (some I am thinking of buying and trying to figure out if they are worth the space): Immersion blender Rice Cooker Mandelin Kitchen Shears Flavor Injector (does anyone actually use these?) Salad spinner Dehydrator Stove-top Smoker Juicer
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post #2 of 86
5/11/10 at 3:02am
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Originally Posted by ChicagoRon View Post
Mine is my food-saver. Love it.

Some others I was thinking of (some I am thinking of buying and trying to figure out if they are worth the space):

Immersion blender
Rice Cooker
Mandelin
Kitchen Shears
Flavor Injector (does anyone actually use these?)
Salad spinner
Dehydrator
Stove-top Smoker
Juicer

I'm assuming a good knife is such an essential that it doesn't count as a gadget. Kitchen shears strike me as indispensable. The rest obviously depend on how you eat/cook, but I use my rice cooker a lot (but it's hardly indispensable, since a pot of water works perfectly well). I'm a big fan of silicone baking mats. Aside from knives and pots and pans, my steamer rack is probably one of my most-used gadgets.
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post #3 of 86
5/11/10 at 3:10am
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Yes = pots, pans, knives too standard. Your rice-cooker example is perfect... I meant indispensable to you...
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post #4 of 86
5/11/10 at 3:23am
I'd say my food processor or immersion blender, although I think those are pretty standard. I don't have too many gadgets per se, I'm more of an Alton Brownish multi-tasker guy.
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post #5 of 86
5/11/10 at 3:39am
Microplane grater
Cooking tongs
Screwpull-type corkscrew
Silicone trivet
Melitta drip cone
Bialetti stove top

If I had to choose one I would keep the screwpull. sofa king essential. I had one confiscated by TSA, I had to buy another immediately.
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post #6 of 86
5/11/10 at 5:43am
mom
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post #7 of 86
5/11/10 at 10:24am
cooling rack
mesh straining basket (I use it to blanch/shock vegetables - it's much easier than dumping them in, fishing out or draining, putting in ice water, then fishing them out all over again)
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post #8 of 86
5/11/10 at 10:48am
My burr grinder for coffee. We registered for it before the wedding and since I received it a little over two years ago, I use it every morning and no longer buy coffee in the morning. It was about a ~$100 or so and is indispensable.

Chicago Ron - don't make a big outlay for the mandoline. Just buy one of these Kyocera slicers. I have both a mandoline and one of these. The mandoline was last used around 3 years ago and the slicer was used a few weeks ago.
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post #9 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:33pm
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Sadly, I already habe a mandolins. It prevented me from buying the kyocera slicer on gilt last week. Btw... Strainers & cooling racks are standard issue like pots and knives. I want gadgets. Part of the reason for the poast was to guage my desire for an immersion blender, and figure out how much I should spend on one
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post #10 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:34pm
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Originally Posted by ChicagoRon View Post
Sadly, I already habe a mandolins. It prevented me from buying the kyocera slicer on gilt last week. Btw... Strainers & cooling racks are standard issue like pots and knives. I want gadgets. Part of the reason for the poast was to guage my desire for an immersion blender, and figure out how much I should spend on one
Buy an immersion circulator.
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post #11 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:35pm
mandolin
salad spinner
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post #12 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by iammatt View Post
Buy an immersion circulator.

It would go well with the food-saver, but space is an issue
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post #13 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:41pm
blender. I love soup.
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post #14 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:41pm
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It would go well with the food-saver, but space is an issue

You have plenty of space.
Seriously. This is a little Cambro 3 feet long and 1 foot wide. Not very big.
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post #15 of 86
5/11/10 at 12:53pm
Food saver, by far.

Oh, for me, my two smokers too

One day...I will buy the immersion circulator.
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