a kitchen meme

[lagilman]

Since I haven't done one in a while, and this interested me...

Meme via rosefox:

Bold 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.

pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, 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, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, and fondue sets

I seem to have a remarkably lo-tech kitchen.  Also, not a lot of toys.  Although I do own a decanter, a popcorn popper, a non-electric wok, a wonton press, a toaster oven, a microwave, an ice cream scoop, a mortar & pestle, etc, all of which I use on a regular basis. And a coffee maker (in the pantry) as well as my French press...  Yeah, lo-tech, and stripped down for a NYC kitchen.  But I feel no lack.

(I should note that I probably do need a filleting knife.  I just keep finding workarounds)


(original meme here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/21/home-kitchen-250000-cooking-need)

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

/sniff

I miss my pizza stone.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

The quarry tiles you find at the local hardware store are essentially the same material as our pizza stone. They're usually 6"x6" and $3 apiece. $12 later, pizza stone! :) Used that for years, worked great, was much easier to store and less financially painful than dropping the pizza stone.

[reddiana.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.. where is "cell phone" and "take out menus"? *baffled*

[lagilman]

take out menus are on top of the fridge, cell phone is an office tool, not a kitchen tool.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

That's neat! I wonder if one should get extra low-tech points for having had to look up some of the terms :)

pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, 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, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, and fondue sets

(yes, I know. Haven't used the gifted fondue set once, and I live with a nigh-infinite supply of cheese)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Regarding looking things up, I note that 'jam funnel' is not yet to be found in Wikipedia. But now I know of their existence, I need one.

(Seriously, I was decanting a green tomato chutney into jars just last night, and it got messy.)

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

My mom has one from her canning days. It's a simply a funnel with an extra large opening for jams and such to pour through into the jars. Check any canning supplies in a grocery store and you should find one.}:P

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

OK, I have now christened one. 3 more litres of green tomato chutney.

BTW, I'm always bemused by the term 'canning'. In the UK, a 'can' is inferred to be a metal cannister, or in the common parlance, a 'tin can' (from the tin coating the metal). Of course the very qualifier of 'metal' in 'metal cannister' concedes that there must be non-metal ones. Including glass jars. But the image brought up by 'canning' is of someone putting food into metal cylinders.

It took me years to realise that making preserves and jams and pickles in glass jars was what many Americans actually meant by the term.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

ROTFL

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Having wandered off to Wikipedia. I note that the term I should as a native Englishman be using is bottling.

Which term seems a little jarring to me.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

That does seem a bit off. And I'm sure you didn't mean to pun, now did you}:P

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

No, of course not. Why, I manfully resisted that for all of two seconds.

Oh OK, guilty m'lud.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

LOL

[lagilman]

uh-huh.

That's two seconds more than I predicted...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I am hurt. Hurt, do you hear?!

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

I live in rural canning country -- those things are *everywhere*.

If/when you do buy one, I recommend you go for the collapsible kind like this one here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004NHX1TI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004NHX1TI&linkCode=as2&tag=wondersandoth-20). Which is, in fact, exactly the kind we have. Makes storing it much easier.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, 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, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, and fondue sets


Add to this a wok-non-electric, a coffee maker as well as french press, 2 mortar & pestles, dutch oven, microwave, pilsner glasses, shot glasses, pint glasses, several tea pots, full Wustof knife set, dehydrator, scone pans, spring form pans, bundt pans, 2 different sized stock pots, a pizzelle maker, toaster... yeah.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Technically, I DO have a steamer- it's an insert that sits on a pan of water.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Yes, but do you use it for steaming bamboo?

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

No, but I HAVE used it for steamed buns before}:P

[lagilman]

do I get or lose points if I can say "yes?"

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

You get points, of course.