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MORE KITCHEN STUFF

yeah, ok, maybe i DO have a problem. AT LEAST i’m not alone. moonandsun understands. and so does kara (you have to read the comments from last post).

i cannot resist a good informercial product, especially one that’s pitching a kitchen product. in actuality, i’ve had pretty good luck with the ones i order. bill tempers my enthusiasm with his natural skeptism.

on new year’s day, we ordered the “magic bullet” – a pint-sized grinder/blender/chopper. ohmygod. we love it. and. and. because we ordered when we did (snicker), we got one FREE! for matt and mel. this little thing is perfect for quick chopping of an onion, nuts, chocolate. makes wonderful smoothies. watch the infomercial! it works!

i’ve recently acquired the “gt express,” a kind of deep-welled sandwich maker. i’ve only used it a couple times. i like this one, too. i made frozen schwann’s mini cinnamon buns in it the other day.

for some reason, i have way too many of those “chopper things” (i don’t know what they’re called really – we call them chopper things). these work pretty good, but they’re a bitch to clean. well ... i guess putting them back together is the bitch, not so much the cleaning.

thumbs down to the egg-shaped egg cooker thingy (again – don’t remember what it’s called). much easier to use a handy ziploc container.

my kitchen is filled to the gills with kitchen appliances (i try to hide most of them in the cupboards so as not to scare visitors). a quick list contains: hard- and soft-boiled egg cooker (love it), steamer (never use it), rice cooker (never use it), battery powered pot stirrer (recently acquired gift from a friend who enables this problem i have), cuisinart (love it. duh), stick blender (must have for soups), regular blender (gave this away a long time ago), popcorn maker (threw this out a long time ago), juicer (gave this away, too), mixer (my beloved kitchen-aid), hand mixer (what? you think you don’t need this if you have a kitchen-aid? whatever, dude), knife sharpener, mezzaluna (cool tool, not really an appliance. i just wanted to make you jealous after that crack about the hand mixer), fondue pots - 2 (a regular fondue pot, and a little, teeny, porcelain one used only for chocolate. what? you don’t have 2? dude), bread maker, and a coffee (spice) grinder.

when i think about simplifying or downsizing, i don’t think about “losing” any of this stuff. i think about a better-designed kitchen. more accessible storage.

btw, no takers on the whisks i don’t use? lucy? you have ONE? tj? you use the mixer beater?????

Posted by Stacey at June 1, 2005 05:37 PM