Kitchen gadgets you use…..or don’t

I wouldn’t be without my KingPro electric pressure cooker which I use at least four times a week. It’s perfect for soups, stews, pasta dishes, curries and cooks perfect rice. I can have an evening shower and just leave it to cook supper and keep it warm. It does have a slow cooking function but I find it too fierce.

I was tempted to buy an air fryer but my halogen table top oven does just as good a job and it means I only use my big oven if I have visitors.

I have a George Foreman grill lurking in the back of the cupboard!!

A measure from a long ago cocktail set, brilliant for not overdoing the gin😳🤣

I wouldn't be without my slow cooker, stick blender for soups, and bread maker. I also have a hand held mixer and small food processer that I use occasionally.

Slow cooker, air fryer oven, Kenwood hand mixer all in frequent use. Kenwood food processor is mostly used for making pastry now that my fingers don’t move as well as they used to. I have a small electric chopper that is very useful for onions, chillies, ginger etc. Small items I wouldn’t be without are a silicone garlic sleeve that makes very short work of taking the skins off the cloves, a tiny grater that I got out of a Christmas cracker that is wonderful for finely grating garlic and nutmeg, an assortment of silicone thingies that make taking lids off jars and tops off bottles a doddle, bamboo toast tongs from Lakeland. Things I no longer have anything but a passing acquaintance with: a Cuisinart soup maker; a hand blender, an electric carving knife, a mincing machine and a pressure cooker. Oh, and a hostess trolley which is now a receptacle for paperwork waiting to be filed, and has my printer sitting on top of it.

Ooh, I forgot my brilliant little citrus zester - £7 and made such a difference when making Christmassy things needing orange and lemon zest, not to mention lemon meringue pie. I positively hated having to do it with the horrible box grater.

And while I’m on grating, my ‘Mouli’ type cylinder grater, often used for cheese. Now I come to think of it, I could get rid of the detested box grater altogether.