@thismyusername I got the Anova and have cooked some great things with it. Steaks of course, some very nice ribs, pulled pork, salmon, chicken, and it does amazing things with eggs. I've seen it as low as $129 when they put it on sale, which is a bargain. Sous vide is the chief of awesomeness, but kind of a niche market, I think. Everybody and their momma has a foreman grill, though.
If I have to vote for a stash-away kitchen gizmo, one of those ice cream balls you throw around for an hour while reflecting upon how much you hate your life.
This will teach me to never ever vote on a poll before adequate caffeination. I clicked on the GF Grill, and I love my grill. I meant to click on "A Ball Fresh Tech home canning system" aka "Please pay current gold prices for this glorified and difficult to use water bath canner."
@Shrdlu Silly noid, that would be 4 quart jars the minimum size recognized by the usda as a canner. If you can the stuff from your monthly CSA box you won't need much of a canner and this thing seem not to make much of a mess. The ultimate yuppie gadget basically a big ass electric pressure cooker. Considering simple aluminum canner goes for about $100 and a 6 qt electric pressure cooker goes for around $100 plus, A 10qt automated canner for 300 is not outragious if you have the need.
while i do like my gadgets and have most on the list, though not all the same brands, my hands down favorite is my immersion blender. sauce ready to break, it will slap it back into shape. mayo in a less than a minute. plus it’s a quick clean-up.
All the cookbooks i love to read but will never cook from?
(The 54 books in the Time-Life Foods Of The World series are my favs)
(Strongly recommend the homemade-no-velveta all-fresh-ingredients version of chili-con-queso in the Time-Life American cooking of the Southwest cookbook just in case your arteries need more clogging...)
@mfladd Full price, no way. I bought mine for $10.99, though.
The majority of my small kitchen appliances were bought second hand with little to no use. I will admit that the quesadilla maker, still unused, may have been overpriced at the $2.98 I paid.
@narfcake I didn't pay full price. I purchased mine on some type of amazon deal in which it is was marked down quite a bit. But NOT $10.99! Are you serious?
@narfcake We had a quesadilla maker for several years and loved it; we made all different kinds (pizza, breakfast with sausage and scrambled eggs, TCTs) but my wife decided to go wheat-free and it just didn't work with the corn or gluten-free tortilla substitutes. I still miss it...
@mfladd Totally serious. Folks at thrift stores don't always know what they're pricing; I think they priced it as if it was a rice cooker.
Adding up a Kitchenaid 6-qt bowl lift mixer, a Breville Smart Oven, the Instant Pot, the Nespresso, a mini Keurig, a Cuisinart food processor, and a Panasonic microwave ... under $130. The microwave was kinda unnecessary, but it was clean (including the printing on some buttons), working fine, and at 75% off, I figured I've wasted $6.25 on stupider things before.
@mfladd There are 3 Goodwill stores between work and home, and 6 more within a 10 mile radius. And then there are the individual thrift stores.
Contrary to belief, I don't buy up every woot shirt I run across; roughly 1/3 are passed because of the condition, design, and/or price.
Pretty much all the small kitchen appliances were bought without intending to buy them. If I had something specific to look for, I would rarely find it. The Kitchenaid mixers are a good example - never seen one in very good condition, and bam - 2 in 2 different stores, one at $49.99, the other at $59.99 - 20%. My parents have the second one.
@thismyusername But can he make me a......
My vote: Sous-vide cooking apparatuses!
@curtise I dunno man, I feel mine was worth the price (on sale) for steaks alone....
@thismyusername I got the Anova and have cooked some great things with it. Steaks of course, some very nice ribs, pulled pork, salmon, chicken, and it does amazing things with eggs. I've seen it as low as $129 when they put it on sale, which is a bargain. Sous vide is the chief of awesomeness, but kind of a niche market, I think. Everybody and their momma has a foreman grill, though.
What, no Ronco Rotisserie? I mean it's from the same man who invented the technology showing us to keep heads alive in jars!
@jqubed Or his Veg-O-Matic!
@jqubed Set it and forget it!
What, no Ginsu Knives? They would be perfect for Meh.
@heartny I love m Ginsu knives!!
*Zojirushi
@brhfl 象印マホービン株式会社
It's no Bubba...
If I have to vote for a stash-away kitchen gizmo, one of those ice cream balls you throw around for an hour while reflecting upon how much you hate your life.
@brhfl I want ice cream
@jaremelz …don't we all!
I don't know where you can get one of these, but it is the shiznit.
Zojirushi rice cooker
@naropa But but... Fuzzy Logic man. FUZZY LOGIC!
This will teach me to never ever vote on a poll before adequate caffeination. I clicked on the GF Grill, and I love my grill. I meant to click on "A Ball Fresh Tech home canning system" aka "Please pay current gold prices for this glorified and difficult to use water bath canner."
Here, have some eye-stabbing stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/Ball-FreshTECH-Automatic-Canning-System/dp/B00K30GRH2
Yes, my darlings, you too can spend nearly $300 for this pointless and idiotic toy that will allow you to can three quart jars at the same time!
@Shrdlu Silly noid, that would be 4 quart jars the minimum size recognized by the usda as a canner. If you can the stuff from your monthly CSA box you won't need much of a canner and this thing seem not to make much of a mess. The ultimate yuppie gadget basically a big ass electric pressure cooker. Considering simple aluminum canner goes for about $100 and a 6 qt electric pressure cooker goes for around $100 plus, A 10qt automated canner for 300 is not outragious if you have the need.
while i do like my gadgets and have most on the list, though not all the same brands, my hands down favorite is my immersion blender. sauce ready to break, it will slap it back into shape. mayo in a less than a minute. plus it’s a quick clean-up.
http://www.chief-brand.com/cbp/our-products/baking-supplies/
@Pavlov I see what you did . . .
All the cookbooks i love to read but will never cook from?
(The 54 books in the Time-Life Foods Of The World series are my favs)
(Strongly recommend the homemade-no-velveta all-fresh-ingredients version of chili-con-queso in the Time-Life American cooking of the Southwest cookbook just in case your arteries need more clogging...)
Instant Pot
@mfladd you should totally go for the Bluetooth-Enabled Insta Pot, ya know, so you can, um, yea.
@mfladd Full price, no way. I bought mine for $10.99, though.
The majority of my small kitchen appliances were bought second hand with little to no use. I will admit that the quesadilla maker, still unused, may have been overpriced at the $2.98 I paid.
@thismyusername That is too much dough.
@narfcake I didn't pay full price. I purchased mine on some type of amazon deal in which it is was marked down quite a bit. But NOT $10.99! Are you serious?
@mfladd but but bluetooth... um... so you can... um... bluetooth!
@thismyusername OVERKILL.
@mfladd instant?
@mfladd whatever... the bluetooth is clearly worth the $100 extra, because it lets you... um... um.. yea.
@narfcake We had a quesadilla maker for several years and loved it; we made all different kinds (pizza, breakfast with sausage and scrambled eggs, TCTs) but my wife decided to go wheat-free and it just didn't work with the corn or gluten-free tortilla substitutes. I still miss it...
@mfladd Totally serious. Folks at thrift stores don't always know what they're pricing; I think they priced it as if it was a rice cooker.
Adding up a Kitchenaid 6-qt bowl lift mixer, a Breville Smart Oven, the Instant Pot, the Nespresso, a mini Keurig, a Cuisinart food processor, and a Panasonic microwave ... under $130. The microwave was kinda unnecessary, but it was clean (including the printing on some buttons), working fine, and at 75% off, I figured I've wasted $6.25 on stupider things before.
@narfcake Well done. I need to go to your goodwill!
@mfladd There are 3 Goodwill stores between work and home, and 6 more within a 10 mile radius. And then there are the individual thrift stores.
Contrary to belief, I don't buy up every woot shirt I run across; roughly 1/3 are passed because of the condition, design, and/or price.
Pretty much all the small kitchen appliances were bought without intending to buy them. If I had something specific to look for, I would rarely find it. The Kitchenaid mixers are a good example - never seen one in very good condition, and bam - 2 in 2 different stores, one at $49.99, the other at $59.99 - 20%. My parents have the second one.
@narfcake So you go Goodwill Hunting?
So many of them - You're probably keeping half of them in business. ;-)
Yonanas