PrintWhat Kitchen Gadget have you re-purposed for an alternative use?
Today I picked up a $3.99 folding metal vegetable steamer at Target. It works perfect to hold woodchips on the grill when I want to smoke the food. It actually works better than the smoke boxes sold at dept. stores, crate & barrel or with the grills at Target. I am curious what other people have re-purposed as a better & cheaper alternative to high priced gadgets?
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5 Comments:
For a million years my family's been using a biscuit cutter as a choper for tuna, chicken, and egg salad. Yummy.
FKC at 12:28PM on 04/01/07
I use a pizza cutter to quickly chop up herbs rather than a mezzaluna knife and board or one of those herb choppers that looks like a handheld food mill.
I hadn't thought about the veggie steamer basket for wood chips before. I like that a lot and will have to try it.
JoAnn at 1:58PM on 04/01/07
I have one of those round rubber grippers for opening jars....If you roll a garlic clove in it the peel comes right off.
ThatGirl153 at 2:38PM on 04/01/07
Coffee filters used to line a sieve make great yogurt cheese strainers.
grubgirl at 9:01PM on 04/01/07
I use a pastry blender for almost everything except for blending pastry. It's good for mashing bananas or avocados, slicing eggs for salad, or mixing all sorts of things.
savvy at 2:45PM on 04/02/07