Cookery meme :)

[elingregory]

Because I'm clearing out my kitchen this is very appropriate - gacked from alex_beecroft

How is your cookery? Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, underline the ones you have had but got rid of, and strike through the ones you never had [which is everything not bolded or italicised so i can't be bothered]:

I wonder how many 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, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.

* I don't use it but my daughter does and I nick a toasty sarnie when she's not looking. Mmm lovely.
** The paint has come off it so I tend to use the blade of a knife now.
*** It was a present and won't fit in the oven.
**** What the hecks a spaetzle?

Comments

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Blender-- Eldest son is a smoothie fan; he uses it a lot more than I do.
sandwich maker occasionally. Mine's an antique, two metal round bits on a hinge, with handles, to hold over the fire.
pastry brushes, when I can find one. if not, a regular one-inch paintbrush works fine.
meat thermometer- I bought one for me darling because he cooks like a chemist.
tea strainer-- I have one but it's seldom used; it's mostly teabags here.
coffee grinder-- for the boys.
rice cookers, slow cookers-- I use both, frequently!

For the rest of that stuff: I am a Luddite in the kitchen. Make my own bread,crush my own garlic, slice cheese with any knife I can reach....

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

There's something very therapeutic about kneading dough. Pity my bread always turned out like lumps of fragrant dry wall.

I remembered that I do have a salad spinner. You wash the salad then put it in the middle of a clean tea towel, draw up the corners and hold them then go and stand outside an whirl the tea towel round your head a few times. Centrifugal force does the rest. On a sunny evening you can make rainbows for the onookers.