Kitchen meme
Sep. 24th, 2012 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, meat thermometers, jam funnels, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini 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, fondue sets, healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestle-and-mortars, and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
I have a fairly small kitchen; I don't keep anything I don't use (mostly. I do have a cheapo blender that I'm saving to use for making paper). However, I notice they don't have stand mixers or even hand mixers on the list. Maybe it's assumed that they get used at least once a year? (I love my stand mixer for making meringues! Though nowadays, that's about the only use it gets... The hand mixer gets far more use.) They also don't have some of the things I covet, like a mandolin, spit roaster, and such. Ah well.
Oh, and I will say the jam funnels I have aren't used for jam. But they're pretty darn useful for other funneling jobs.
And what do they mean by "cake testers"? I use toothpicks, or, if it's a deep cake, bamboo skewers. Doesn't everyone?
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, meat thermometers, jam funnels, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini 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, fondue sets, healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestle-and-mortars, and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.
I have a fairly small kitchen; I don't keep anything I don't use (mostly. I do have a cheapo blender that I'm saving to use for making paper). However, I notice they don't have stand mixers or even hand mixers on the list. Maybe it's assumed that they get used at least once a year? (I love my stand mixer for making meringues! Though nowadays, that's about the only use it gets... The hand mixer gets far more use.) They also don't have some of the things I covet, like a mandolin, spit roaster, and such. Ah well.
Oh, and I will say the jam funnels I have aren't used for jam. But they're pretty darn useful for other funneling jobs.
And what do they mean by "cake testers"? I use toothpicks, or, if it's a deep cake, bamboo skewers. Doesn't everyone?
