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

Llamas99
Hi there; great mix of people on here. Just join in

A simple garlic crusher is my life changing gadget. So easy to use and clean.

I now have a whole wall of worktop with gadgets - bread maker, ninja, instant pot (at least it replaced the steamer and slow cooker) , microwave, coffee machine, mixer and slicer. I'm too lazy to put them away, so now, I really do desperately need one of those pull-down metal roller shutters to hide them all!

An Oxo Good Grips apple corer/slicer - just push down on the apple and it's done!

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!!

Hello Llamas99! Nice to meet you.

This is going to sound completely daft, but my very recently bought electric toasted sandwich maker is my wonder gadget! We are now living in a marina with electric hook up and can now have such luxury items as an electric toaster, automatic washing machine, microwave and the toastie machine! No more running the engine for hours while I slave over a twin tub without killing the batteries. No more cooking toast on a belly button height grill. It’s absolutely wonderful! And next week I’m going out to buy a cordless vacuum cleaner!

Yay! Go me!

Wouldn't be without my:-
slow cooker
Smart phone
Electric carving knife, bought 30 years ago for 20p from a jumble sale!

MadeinYorkshire, don’t think pce612 came back to you on this, unless I missed her post.
I think the little metal bits are meant to grip the edge of the lid to lift it off. The two opposing bits come together when you close the handle, over the lid

A boiled egg shell topper called a ‘cuisine queen’. I’ve had it for over 40 years. Chops off the top of an egg with no mess.

The device on the right which acts like a pencil sharpener preps carrots for coleslaw and is invaluable. To cut chives for potato salad I use a pair of scissors with five blades. The garlic/ginger chopper on the left at first didn’t fill me with hope - how wrong I was! I also love my mezzaluna.

I’m a gadget queen. Love my soup makers, breadmachines etc etc. but … my latest “discovery” is a Danish whisk! It’s a simple thing that stirs and lifts and cuts through the doughs and mix. Also, for scraping and a million little jobs - my grapefruit spoons!

The best kitchen appliance I’ve ever bought is a Ninja Foodi Grill, since purchasing it my cooker is almost redundant, its so versatile, definitely money well spent, I love it.

It's a toss up between Magimix food processor and, also Magimix, bread slicer. I make my own sourdough and slicing it was difficult. I make two loaves at a time, slice them in nice, thin, even slices and freeze them for toasting. Excellent gadget.

The food processor!

Slow cooker and my blender. Can’t be without either.

grandtanteJE65

These two: and I didn't buy either of them. My grandmothers did.

The pastry blender was bought by Grannie when she took her new DIL (my mother) to a Good Housekeeping Exibition in Bradford in 1947. It has done yoeman service ever since and is as good as new.

The other implement, which I have never seen in Britain, is called a hakkekniv in Danish and was part of the kitchen utensils that my Danish grandmother bought for my mother while she and Daddy were engaged, so it is very slightly older than the pastry blender.

You can chop anything you like with it from almonds to cooked or raw meat. It takes a little longer than using a mincer, but it is far easier to wash up afterwards. As far as I remember it didn't evem need sharpening until the mid 1980s.

Seen these many times in the U.K., even had one once, gave it away as couldn’t get on with it, it’s called a hacoir, can be used to chop many things as you say.

My Kenwood Chefette - got it about 51 years ago- Greenshield stamps, lol!

And a great pair of Swiss quality secateurs! Not a gadget person, actually.

Braun epilator. www.braunshop.co.uk/braun-silk-epil-9-9-985-beauty-set-white-rose-gold/12519372.html

Lethally not legally!

M

GrandtanteJE65 Mine is called a mezzaluna and is beloved of Nigella Lawson. Mine came from 'Jamie at Home' and the blade is legally sharp. I'll try for a photo but my ancient Kindle Fire often cites low memory....

Insinkerator near boiling water tap. I would never go back to having a kettle. Other brands are available but this one is a fraction of the price of others and I'm not after a tap that dispenses cold, filtered water and everything in between. My tap is the best thing ever!

I love my Robot vacuum cleaner - saves so much time
I love my Kenwood mixer (approx 50 years old)
I love my ring pull opener
and many more

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These two: and I didn't buy either of them. My grandmothers did.

The pastry blender was bought by Grannie when she took her new DIL (my mother) to a Good Housekeeping Exibition in Bradford in 1947. It has done yoeman service ever since and is as good as new.

The other implement, which I have never seen in Britain, is called a hakkekniv in Danish and was part of the kitchen utensils that my Danish grandmother bought for my mother while she and Daddy were engaged, so it is very slightly older than the pastry blender.

You can chop anything you like with it from almonds to cooked or raw meat. It takes a little longer than using a mincer, but it is far easier to wash up afterwards. As far as I remember it didn't evem need sharpening until the mid 1980s.

Air fryer,! Got first one for £40 fromB&M now have a posh one -now iknow how much we use it! And no more smoky t kitchen from grill/fry bacon/chops etc also does fries dry and crisp onion rings, sausages, anything usually fried or grilled, zero fat in fact any fats drop into tray under basket.I would never fry anything and missed out on some yummy stuff as result.
Silicone steaming basket/mini chopper/and some micro pots, plastic with lid look like little plastic saucepans! for heating up anything in micro. Fits tins beans spaghetti or I use to heat Swedish meatballs for 90seconds only! Great pans saver. And my best yet, veg steamer for microwave, boils spuds in 8-9minutes veg from frozen in 3-4mins. Saves so much time and power!