PrintKitchen Gadgets - Chapter Two
Do you have a favorite kitchen tool or special gadget that you have had for years? Is there a contemporary replacement for your old kitchen tool or gadget? Would you be willing to part with the "old" to bring in the "new"?
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8 Comments:
Old manual can opener from who knows when, probably picked up at a garage sale about 7 years ago. The electric ones were unnecessary, and a new one from IKEA failed to do the trick. Alas, I still use the old, albeit broken one.
deepitbhatia at 12:20AM on 03/23/08
A potato masher that my grandmother bought c. 1950. The painted wood handle has no paint on it anymore (which is a good thing since it probably contained lead) and I've had to reattach it more than once. So I guess I only still have it for sentimental reasons.
RichardCrystal at 10:38AM on 03/24/08
A jar opener that my mother recently handed over to me for sentimental reasons. It's a smallish, rather triangular flat piece of metal with a slightly turned surface at one of the "corners." Apparently, she used it to open my baby food jars more than a half century ago. It might even be imprinted with the Gerber name, I can't recall. The point is, ever since my surgery three years ago, I have had even more trouble than usual opening jars, and this thing rocks! It's irreplacable, in my world.
CheesePlease at 11:01AM on 03/24/08
Would you count a piece of cookware? If so, i inherited a square cast-iron griddle with an angled rim (about 45 degrees). It's the best. I can bake biscuits on it, cook a steak, or make pancakes (among a million other things). I use it every day, and, no, i would not replace it (it's no longer made).
beth1 at 9:50PM on 03/24/08
Pastry blender. I use it for making pie crusts and biscuits. I always had trouble making pie crusts until I stopped using my food processor and went back to the pastry blender -- now they come out great! I wouldn't part with it.
CookiePie at 9:59PM on 03/24/08
@ CookiePie - Is your pastry blender the type with the wires or flat blades? I've had one with the wires forever - actually it fell apart about ten years back and I replaced it with the exact same model from WS. I hate dragging out my food processor just to make a pie or tart shell, even if it does a good job.
frederika at 11:09PM on 03/24/08
Mine is a whisk that I got from Williams-Sonoma a hundred years ago. It's small and looks exactly like this. It's great for small amounts of salad dressing or for mixing up a couple of eggs. I probably use it more than any other gadget in my kitchen.
chisai at 7:27AM on 03/25/08
We did a "monthly mouthful" this March asking all our favorite food bloggers their answer to the question "What is your favorite cooking gadget?" Here is what they said
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Chew on That at 5:07PM on 03/25/08