Your most useful gadget (and the one languishing at the back of the cupboard)?)

Agree about the pressure cooker and the hand blender. At the back of my little cellar is my steamer which is took up too much room on the worktop in my small kitchen.

Most useful my Bamix stick blender and attachments, bought many years ago at a Good Food exhibition. I seem to use this daily. My least used, but fun when the GC are around is a popcorn maker which looks like a yellow duck, and spits popcorn out of its beak.

My most useful gadget is an electric can opener my dear old mum bought me after watching me struggle to open a can of red salmon with a manual can opener.

The electric one is fantastic and i only use for tins of salmon, everything i can open with the manual one, how bizarre is that???

I truly believe salmon tins are made differently what say everyone else!!!

My Kenwood hand mixer which I use a lot. I have a food processor, but the hand mixer is indispensable. Aside from that, I was only thinking this morning, when fishing crumpets out of the toaster, that my Lakeland bamboo toast tongs have to be one of the best purchases I have made recently!

I am not big on kichen gadgets...gave my Kenwood Chef to my daughter aswe dont eat much cake now and she has to do cricket club and school cakes. My milk heater!frother is rarely used and I only use the microwave about once a fortnight for breakfast fish. I am just a tradional cook.

In 1968 I bought an onion holder on offer in Habitat and it is still in use most days. The best ten bob I ever spent!

My favourite new gadget is my Kenwood Multione which has a myriad of uses and has enabled me to get rid of various other machines which were languishing at the back of the cupboard and taking up far too much space. I now use this machine with all its bits in a way I never used all the other machines and just have a basket in the cupboard to hold all the attachments. Perhaps it is the honeymoon period!

I have been busily pruning out all the unused stuff over the last couple of years and feel truly liberated by having 'less'.

At the moment, due to shoulder injury and leg stiffness, I couldn't do without my sock putter-onner. In the kitchen in almost daily use are food processor (for cauli mash and rice), Remoska oven and slow cooker. My favourite small items are onion comb, ring pull lever, hard boiled egg slicer and soft boiled egg top cutter. Consigned to my junk spare room are several Lakeland special tins for Pinata balls, checkerboard cake, giant cupcake etc., and a Wonder Core exerciser.

I bought a garlic whizzer last year as i hate getting garlicky fingers while cooking - it works a charm. It's called a garlic zoomer i think - i saw it on one of the gransnet articles

Not sure about the most useful—there are several things that would probably tie—but the cupboard languisher is my old hand-driven meat mincer.

My coffee grinder, which I've had since 1977, gaga, is mainly used for grinding spices. Did some coriander in it seed today.

My halogen cooker is my most useful gadget and I use it almost every day. The one in the back of the cupboard which I seldom if ever use is a coffee grinder because I drink tea and DH is happy with instant coffee! (It was a gift).