Cooking Meme
Bold for the things I have and use, ital for have and don't use, strikethrough for things chucked out recently. Inspired by buying a miniature salad-spinner yesterday...
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers,melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, margarita glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers , spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
1. There's always money at the banana stand!
2. How can people not have a tea strainer? Even if they don't drink loose-leaf tea a guest might.
3. The coffee grinder was a gift--I'm a philistine and hardly ever make coffee at home, which means that not only do I use pre-ground beans I used ground coffee that's been in the freezer for ages.
4. I think the piping bag has been technologically supplanted by the zip-loc freezer bag.
5. Not exactly the same of course but I usually use the immersion blender instead of the regular blender where the functions overlap because there's less to wash
6. Don't have a bamboo steamer but do use the collapsible metal steamers pretty often, although not often enough to justify a separate steam-cooking gubbins
7. Despite my opposition to single-function gubbinses I do have a tiny citrus squeezer with a raspberry-colored top that I keep because it's so cute--and it *is* good at squeezing limes and lemons
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers,
1. There's always money at the banana stand!
2. How can people not have a tea strainer? Even if they don't drink loose-leaf tea a guest might.
3. The coffee grinder was a gift--I'm a philistine and hardly ever make coffee at home, which means that not only do I use pre-ground beans I used ground coffee that's been in the freezer for ages.
4. I think the piping bag has been technologically supplanted by the zip-loc freezer bag.
5. Not exactly the same of course but I usually use the immersion blender instead of the regular blender where the functions overlap because there's less to wash
6. Don't have a bamboo steamer but do use the collapsible metal steamers pretty often, although not often enough to justify a separate steam-cooking gubbins
7. Despite my opposition to single-function gubbinses I do have a tiny citrus squeezer with a raspberry-colored top that I keep because it's so cute--and it *is* good at squeezing limes and lemons