What's the best kitchen gadget you've ever bought? I am talking best bang for the buck, best overall improvement to your kitchen adventures?For me, it's buying a fish spatula. You know, those razor thin, long ones? And I got a left handed one. It has c...
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What's the best kitchen gadget you've ever bought? I am talking best bang for the buck, best overall improvement to your kitchen adventures?
For me, it's buying a fish spatula. You know, those razor thin, long ones? And I got a left handed one. It has changed my entire flipping / layering / frying pan game. Only cost $18 too.
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Alisdair Calder McGregorreplied to CoffeeGeek on last edited by
@coffeegeek A dishwasher
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CoffeeGeekreplied to Alisdair Calder McGregor on last edited by
@A_C_McGregor that's not a gadget. That's a major appliance!
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@coffeegeek Bang for the buck goes to precut parchment paper sheets (not the folded ones!) that slip right into my half sheet pans.
I do love my KitchenAid stand mixer tho.
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@coffeegeek https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/ovens/bov900.html no questions asked this is the best kitchen purchase of my entire life.
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@coffeegeek cheap kuhn rikon high carbon peelers, followed closely by my lab magnetic stirring hot plate (it works as a stirrer, sous vide circulator, deep frier, evaporator, have rigged it up for dehydrator, and cooked all kinds of sauces with it *unattended*)
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@bubbajet oooo, those sound good! Though I've gone to those silicone mats sized for halfpan sheets, and use those. But there are times when I still use parchment paper.
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@smallerdemon I have a similar unit, but the larger air fryer version. We love it, it does about 60-65% of all our "oven" baking, incl breads.
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@rho holy crap, a lab stirrer!
I bought one of those things once to see if it could become a coffee brewer.
(answer: no, it too-quickly over extracts, making a bitter astringent brew).
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@[email protected] I agree on the fish spatula! Been using once since it was recommended by ATK and my regular spatula has been untouched since.
My next investment may be a carbon steel pan. Cast iron is nice though.
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@coffeegeek use it for so much stuff, from home brewed beer to pasta sauce
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@rho @coffeegeek I bought one, kind of on a lark to show the kids (my wife and, to a lesser extent, I have both spent a lot of time in labs).
I wish my cooktop could have them built in (and that they could go through my stainless pots).
But I haven’t found much actual use for them, beyond periodically stirring cold brewed tea. How do you use it with pasta sauce?
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@lkanies @coffeegeek actually cook all of the sauce with it, set the probe to a temp to simmer and low stir to keep things from burning.
I have ME/CFS and couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes for a year which was really challenging for cooking, it was quite literally life changing to get the stir plate
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@rho @coffeegeek so it can heat, too? Or you put a heat thing in there too, rather than heating from below?
I had not thought of that.
I can understand, on needing other solutions. Glad you found something that worked for you.
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