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Everyone of us has one...I know I can't be without my kitchen scissors. I use them to cut everything. Next is my paring knife. Been spending alot of time in the kitchen and thought it might make a good topic.

Patricia

Like my vegetable and potato skin peeler. Have saved a lot of money on bandaids since I put my paring knife away and began using it.

My Food Chopper from "The Gourmet Chef"! No more trying to
chop up veggies with a knife - it's great!

I don't cook much, but I love my cheese shredder. It is a lot of fun to use to spice up boring meals.

I'd be lost without my Camillus 1969 U.S. issue pocket knife; "It slices, it dices, it makes Julienne fries", and it will open cans that our electric opener is afraid to touch!

For meats, I make do with my SOG "SEAL 2000"...pot roasts and steaks tremble at the sound of my name!

I've got an old cast iron skillet that weighs about 300 pounds!(joke) Had it a while and its seasoned just right!

I guess that a microwave oven doesn't qualify as a gadget. If it does then that's my favorite.

Otherwise, my parents got us a knive when they went to alaska. I don't know if it's an authentic replica (LOL) of a whale skinning knive, but it's become my favorite. The blade resembles an axe head with a handle at the back that you can put your hand through and hold tight. The rounded edge is great for rocking back and forth to cut things into small pieces. Also, the shape allows one to bear down hard to cut those difficult things without any chance of slippage.

I also like those old fashioned egg beaters with the metal gears and a crank. I love to point it at people and crank as fast as I can, while making machine sounds with my voice.

ED its a ulu knife. My parents went to Alaska and bought me one home too - I love it. So sharp I have it in a cabin protected.

Microwave is a gadget Ed - it helps get things done in the kitchen !!!!

Push a few numbers and another couple of buttons and woho its cooked.

Patricia

I get a woho too when I use the microwave!

A serated Cutco knife that I use all the time. It's great for slicing and chopping just about anything. And I haven't accidentally cut myself with it once (yet).

I love my potato peeler and my food processor and I just bought a "Smoothie Machine" which is basically a blender with a pouring spout. Haven't used it yet.

My microwave oven....I'd die without it

coriolis wrote:I also like those old fashioned egg beaters with the metal gears and a crank. I love to point it at people and crank as fast as I can, while making machine sounds with my voice.

Ed, you have such a wonderful way of making me laugh!!! I just picture you in my head running around with the egg beater sounding like terminator!

I can not live without my handy chopper. I am sooo bad at chopping onions without it, they never come out the same size, and I normally come out with big fat pieces,tiny little pieces. The handy chopper saves me from death by onion Oh and I have to have my potato skin peeler... never been able to peel with a knife, I end up with only half a potato

Just a reminder: I'm the one who posted that I don't get along with my kitchen very well, so take all advice with grave caution. I like my cutting board. It's a cheap plastic thingy that opens up to fit over the sink and it's great for cutting onions, because if you didn't already know this, cutting onions under running water keeps you from crying. My knife is a big Henckels butcher knife. It gives me a feeling of POWER! Oh, did I say that? Let's see...other fun gadgets include an apple slicer/peeler/corer, which makes these cool spiral apple slices, and my kids like to put the long peel strings in their mouths and slurp them up like spaghetti. Real classy. My cooking stone is wonderful because it's almost burn-proof. I have a lot of cool pastry gadgets too, but I don't bake more than once a year, so they just sort of collect dust. Oh, and I have this cool mandolin slicer that I hardly ever use. It has cool attachments for julienne fries, a grater and a thingy that you hold so you don't lose knuckles. Why don't I use it more? Uh, it's not hanging from my ceiling, hitting me in the head as I walk by?

Amen Pro.........ain't NUTHIN' better than a cast iron skillet!

The Gourmet food chopper too is good BUT........I'd be lost without my Forshner Knifes, being a retired meat cutter, I keep my old Forshners RAZOR sharp, funny, I cut meat professianlly for 20 years, very few accidents (except the one time the meat saw and I had a *run in*) now that I'm retired, "SHEESH!" can't tell you how many trips to the ER for stitches, of course I have butterfly bandades on hand at all times, but sometimes I get a little *close to the bone*!

Dennis

THE COFFEE POT!!!

Meat mallet.

Don't ask why cuz I don't tenderize meat. I'm answering that way because I know my mom would say it if I didn't. Not sure why, but ever since I was a toddler, I've had a thing about hammers and hammer-like things -- gavels, mallets (croquet and meat), and what have you. Something about the way they balance in my hand. I even remember my mom joking with me about it once, saying, "When I die, you DO NOT get my meat mallet." Apparently, I walked away with it a few times and took it outside.

Could I be a descendent of Thor or Judge Wapner?

~Duck