What’s the best gadget you’ve ever bought?

My very sharp little knife and a jar and bottle opener that I bought in Spain thirty five years ago. Couldn’t do without breadmaker and slow cooker.

My little robot vacuum cleaner is great! My ring pull puller saves a lot of sore finger, My potato peeler I've had over 50 years and sellotape dispenser!

Mines my food processer makes creaming/mixing much easier, and my Nexus - play words with friends alot (like scrabble) and use it for reading ebooks from the library

My coffee machine, my coffee bean grinder and, of course, the trusted slow cooker - where would I be without them?

A mini auto chopper and colour catchers for the washing. Also, DH who does all the things I hate like cleaning windows though he was bought with feminine charm.

My Dyson V11 rechargeable. The old plug in vacuum cleaner took 40 minutes of heavy duty inconvenience ( changing plugs, cable jammed under doors, back breaking weight and so on.) and the new Dyson has got the whole operation down to an easy, virtually weightless 20 minutes.

I also read a thread like this on Mumsnet and saw many votes for a Sellotape dispenser so bought one. Game changer.

Slow cooker and sellotape dispenser.

A Robot Chef Food Processor bought in December 1980. This lasted until last year (2020) often used several times a week. The motor was still good but I dropped the lid which broke so it couldn't connect with the motor any more. The lid had become brittle when I moved to a house with a dishwasher a couple of years ago and the heat of the dishwasher affected the strength of the lid. Until then, I had handwashed it. I have bought a new food processor but though it's useful, it's nowhere near as good. I am grieving my faithful Robot Chef, bought when my son was a baby, six months old and forty upon its demise. RIP Faithful Servant.

Soup maker.... brilliant!!!

Supergranuation:
Re Salter soup maker-I had a cheaper soup maker which didn’t make soup and also lived at the back of the cupboard. Dd’s Lakeland soupmaker was a revelation, cooked either a smooth soup, or a chunky soup, properly cooked in half an hour, and even has a self clean setting. Bought one for myself now use it several times a week. Only drawback is, although it has a reheat setting, I find the soup burns on if you reheat previously cooked thick smooth soups, so I reheat those in microwave.
Love a gadget, me. Have many of those mentioned, rotating cheese maker is a favourite. Have been looking at a Thermomix but a bit dear, and I have many of the pieces of kit it would replace already.
Absolute favourite gadget is a rotating garlic crusher I got originally at an Ideal Home Exhibition. You put a couple of pieces of garlic in and rotate the two halves opposite ways. Does thin pieces of ginger and chilli too. You then line up the purée in a triangle and take it out with a silicon spoon. Much prefer it to the scissors action ones which take ages to clean-you just run the rotary one under the tap. The original one wasn’t branded, but I bought one by Zyliss for dd.

Definitely my Apple mobile phone which keeps me in contact with our daughter and granddaughter in Australia (I’m sure our 3 year old granddaughter thinks we live inside the phone as we haven’t been able to visit them for 2 years). I can find so much information from my phone…it’s like an encyclopaedia. Also my new Dyson stick vacuum which makes vacuuming a breeze compared to our old Dyson upright.

pintuck

If you can call it a gadget, my call blocker telephone (actually a set of 3 cordless ones). I was getting 2 or 3 scam phone calls a day until I got this set (usually the 'there's something wrong with your computer' scam). It was easy to set up as it sync'd with my iphone and instantly downloaded all my contacts into its memory. It only lets calls through straight away from people on my contacts list - otherwise it interrogates them, asking for their name, then asks me if I want to take the call. I assume that the scammers terminate the call at this stage as I have not had one scam call in the 3 years I've had it - money very well spent in my opinion.

that souds amazing, I've had a quick google but none of the ones I can see do that screening thing- can you tell us the make/model? My mum would love it.

inishowen

Air fryer. We use it for everything. It's brilliant.

Can you start a thread with recipes? I only use mine for chips

Soup maker and milk frother! I take for granted e.g. microwave, washing machine, vacuum cleaner - but as i write I am thinking I should actually be very grateful for them - and am, now I remind myself.

I too love my Sellotape dispenser and also soup maker both of which I bought after GN recommendation. Have a Karcher window vac which I bought on a whim and never used. Having seen so many people extolling the virtues I must dig it out and try it, based on the GN is always right theory ?

Robotic vacuum cleaner push the button go away for 1 hour,
a much better job than I would do! worth every penny

electric pressure cooker - not only is it wonderful but I bought it as a good price when on sale. Far better than the slow cooker

Pressure King Pro (electric pressure cooker) - best £100 I ever spent.

I use it every single day from September to March and every other day through the summer, so it's used approx 270 a year!

270 times a year ?

Hello! Pretty new to this forum and I am enjoying it very, very much. Live in the U.S., Germantown TN. Formerly there was a forum called Gardenweb; I didn't post a lot but there were myriad topics from cooking to health. Houzz bought the forum and it has never been the same. I'm 75 a mother and grandmother. And Lonely! Thanks!!

Air Fryer. iPad. Gadget that opens jars and bottles

Lentilweaver, I dont think Pintuck replied re the phone. I have one too - and it's a BT call blocking and answer machine. It's cordless too. I bought the two set one and have one upstairs and one downstairs. My model is BT4600, but I've had it at least a couple of years so I expect that number will have changed. Oh and I bought it in Argos. I thoroughly recommend it.

I've also got one of those silicon pot covers, one of my best buy.

The thingy that helps open bottles and jars, and my electric egg boiler.

Llamas99

Hello! Pretty new to this forum and I am enjoying it very, very much. Live in the U.S., Germantown TN. Formerly there was a forum called Gardenweb; I didn't post a lot but there were myriad topics from cooking to health. Houzz bought the forum and it has never been the same. I'm 75 a mother and grandmother. And Lonely! Thanks!!

Don't stay lonely, come here lots! Oh, and if you use Facebook there's a very funny Group you could join to give you giggles - it's called Granny's Off Her Meds Again.
Here's a link:
www.facebook.com/groups/723625275017601