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