Food processor. Onions celery and carrot whizzchopped in seconds. 

It used to be my single portion rice steamer, but i don't eat rice very often any more.

Don't really have any other "gadgets"

I do like my cast iron skillet though

I can steam rice in my cleverchef

I might try this tonight

My slow cooker and my sandwich toaster.

I have a really good lemon squeezer and also a hand held zester which looks like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Zester-Grater-Grating-Design-Storage/dp/B0048ELHE

and is meant for lemons but is also really good for grating things like emmental without making a huge mess everywhere.

Having thought long and hard about this as I have many gadgets I think it is my pressure cooker.  One can encuzzle any form of meat in superquick time and it uses so few dishes and pots/pans to do so.

MINI CHOPPAAAAA

The kettle. It’s much faster than boiling water on the hob 

Corkscrew, natch.  

Not to get ultra-w**ky, but the new year will see me explore new culinary horizons.  In particular I want to try:

- Pasta machine (for fresh langoustine and porcini ravioli)

- Sous vide cooking (probably with a wand, since the machines cost over a grand)

- Making game pie (venison and pheasant) using proper hot water pastry.

I have a pasta machine badders. They're great for special occasion meals but you won't want to use it every time you make spaghetti Bol.

I am not sure I understand sous vide

I thought that was just putting things in a laminatey pouch

Clergs, indeed it is, but it makes everything very tender and brings all the flavours out.  I only want to try it to see what the fuss is all about. 

Basically you vacuum seal the food and then put it in water at a constant temperature of 60 degrees and leave it for aaaaaaaages.

Breadmaker. Lovely to smell fresh bread first thing in the morning.

hand/stick blender and nespresso machine.  Also le crueset boullabaise pot (if you can call that a gadget).

The problem with sous vide is that it vooks everything just fine but leaves it looking raw.  I cannot, will not eat pink pork.  Brain will not accept.

My sous vide machine. Revolutionised cooking and pretty foolproof.

Do it badderz you will not regret it. Make sure you have a cast iron pan for the SEEEEEEEAR. This is essential. 

You’re meant to finish off meat in a pan to brown it up afterwards innit

I literally know nothing about sous vide cooking.  I'm going to have to read up on it.

Back to the question, got to be the waste disposal thingy.  Game changing.

kitchenaid with various attachments

I love my kitchenaid pasta rollers even though they probably only get used 2-3 times a year

I love the lolloping movement of the whisk attachment

doesnt the waste disposal panic you a bit, wang? it's such a staple of mid-90s teen horrors

Do it. It’s in some ways a faff but in a lot of ways actually saves time. Also means you can’t fvck up your meat and it will be impressive to guests. 

Also a good talking point “why is my dinner in a plastic bag and being cooked in a plastic container full of water?”

I love it. 

wang: we now have quooker, in large part due to your recommendation

despite my inclinations against it I quite like it

i just like having things that work that i'm familiar with - right frying pan, right whisk, right measuring jug that kind of thing.

I am obliged by your faith Heff.

By the by I seem to recall u know woolfie formerly of this parish?  if so, look at the article he has posted on LinkedIn and laugh at his classic latin fail.

The only thing with sous vide is that it looks alarmingly like a colostomy bag. 

not a massive fan of gadgets, but my fave kitchen things are a couple of really good knives that i have had for ages and some decent pans ditto

I now have a vision of clubbers totally losing his shyt in a National Trust holiday cottage.

We can't have any fooking bacon Cakers, the frying pan is a fooking tefal!!  How can anyone cook with a tefal ffs.  there's no balance, the hilt wobbles slightly and it's non fooking stick.  Fuvk this I'm going for a benson

gosh, he's changed tack hasn't he

lots of management speak going on there

still, seems interesting and joyful by comparison with the law

Hot water tap (quooker)

mini food processor (le micro) - no more chopping onions or garlic hurrah!

ice dispenser in the front of the fridge

all make me v v happy 

cast iron skillet (as above) and kenwood mini chopper (which means I hardly ever use the full size food mixer) 

EmJay also has a cast iron cooking pot, which is perfect for making casseroles.  I love that thing. 

I do have one of the massive cast iron skillets that you could knock a rhino out with.

i stay in one cottage on a regular basis.  i have resorted to buying and leaving there a proper frying pan etc.

Errr if you ve not used the Vorwerk Thermomix then you’re excused but if you have and don’t think it’s the best thing in the kitchen then you are frankly  delusional beyond redemption 

*I know this reads like parody but for realz it’s the bollox 

PS bought a Jura bean to cup recently, I would have posted how great this was sooner but my caffeine consumption is so ridiculous now that I can only post during a short window in the day when my hands aren’t shaking  

some of youse need a good starving, as my old mum would say

Badman, my small sous vide cost £119 and that included the vacuum sealer thingy.  And it has become the favourite gadget in no time at all.

The kitchen iPad with deliveroo on it

Inspired by TC I purchased a mini chopper (heh) in the sales and omg my pasta sauce!

Heh also@bam.

Ffs I called mini chopper first. But pleased you’re loving it!

Haha sorry!!! *Reassigns kitchen sage hat *

My parsley is so wee!

It’s so so SATISFYING isn’t it clergs?! Makes everything taste better because you can always be bothered to put herbs in 

Yes it's amazing!!! My garlic slicing skills are terrible! 

Wait til you do a chilli. Life changing. 

Also, onions. Bliss! 

ffs it takes 20s to chop herbs with a fvcking knife ...

The quooker is ace. As are the wine fridges.

Special mention also for plugs with USB sockets in them. 

The dishwasher. 

Yeah merkz but it’s fiddly and annoying and I hate doing onions as they make me cry

not pretending it’s anything but frippery & the end of civilisation etc, but I still love it 

I never use my dishwasher. By the time you've stacked it you may as well have washed by hand.  

For me it would be the toaster. No other gadget cuts down a chore to nothing. Before I worked from home that would have been followed by the slow cooker...but I'd say magic bullet or the hand blender... 

Things I never use would be the spiraliser the juicer or the electric steamer...

That'll be the best thing about moving house from EmJay's point of view - a dishwasher!  She hates washing up.

I have never owned a dishwasher and reckon it must be amazing.

You definitely need a dishwasher, Clergs. I had never had one until this year and it's the most wonderful thing ever invented. It does a hateful job hundreds of times better than you could ever do it yourself. Everything is SO shiny. 

my parents got RID of theirs

my mum is a bit mrs doyle sometimes ("Maybe I LIKE the suffering")

My wife’s wish list for our next kitchen includes two dishwashers ....as it will avoid having to put away the majority of the stuff a family of five goes through every.day.

People who don’t have dishwashers are basically the same as people who don’t like Star Wars.  I.e. dodgy af.

My Bialetti ‘on the hob’ coffee maker...

I also like EmJay's bean-to-cup coffee machine.  Starts your day off just right!

Stop banging on about mj’s bean....

*Sigh* 

Somehow I knew that someone would make a wisecrack about that. 

Definitely the microwave and dishwasher.

I have an expensive juicer I have never even used. The Nespresso machine barely gets any use.

I never use my dishwasher, 

i enjoy my fridge, keeps my coke cold

Phoebes, do you make sure that the one item always sparkling clean in your flat is your bean

to cup machine?

Best gadget is plate.  

My Edward designed solid copper kettle. Or my spurtle.

I love my Alessi apostrophe orange peeler

very satisfying. though looking at a big picture of it now makes me think of that Jeremy irons film - dead ringers do I mean?

good knives well sharpened are a joy. and the reassuring heft of a cast iron casserole. 

and, back to basics, my antique manche a gigot is a superb tool. 

how does this f****** image posting work?

The humble grapefruit spoon.

used daily for getting pith out of lemon peeul, recalcitrant avodados out of their skin and millions of other things.*

*but never for eating grapefruit as I dont like it.

Oh and the ancient heavy duty table top mincer, not only for meat but also cheese etc.

A corkscrew machine. You put a bottle of wine in it, clamp it, pull back the lever and there you go. It gets some use.