Let's play .'It's Essential!!'

In an exciting multimodal expose of my lifestyle, I am going to reveal to you all my kitchen gadgets!!! (Hooray!!)

However I will tell you at the outset, I also have the following:

Candy floss maker
Yoghourt maker
An electric steamer
A Pressure cooker.

Frankly, I got tired after heaving all the other stuff out of my cupboard.

OK so here goes:

1. Popular with the kids, as it is so easy to use, I give you the ...

Toaster and Toasted Sandwich-Maker:

Teenagers can endlessly make (and consume) toast and toasted sandwiches - (but canNOT wash-up.)

2. Next up is the item which was supposed to end the heartbreak of returning from holiday. Having learned that Margaritas are essential, we had to have the proper glasses, cocktail jug and stirrer, as well as the ICE CRUSHER:



After several months of getting totally pisst every night, we knocked that habit on the head and only use this little darling occasionally now. (But it was fun at the time!)

3. This next item is totally essential. It is a combination cooker - convention and microwave - and gets used every mealtime.



4. Now, my sister bought me these as a wedding present on my FIRST marriage of the series, about twenty years ago. They began just with Imperial weights but I have recently bought grammes and kilogrammes for use with those irksome new recipes:



I use it all the time as I am useless at guessing portions.


5. Okay, now for a real faddy purchase: I stuck with it for about nine months, daily making fresh bread. But I put on about ten pounds in weight and the kids thought the bread was foul (hence I ate it all.) I give you, the

Great White elephant

: (Breadmaker)



6. This little item is especially important around birthdays. It is the whisk - mainly used to make cakes but sometimes is involved in pancakes and ommelettes:



7. These things RARELY get put in cupboards. This is the real play area of my kitchen. Rosa makes her millions of fruit juice smoothies, vegetable concoctions and other wild experiments. Also here, is the blender, which may be called in to help with banana whizzing but is more often part of a whole soup-making rigmarole. (I love soups.)
The garlic/herb crushing thing (curved knife and board) is used a lot too as I find it therapeutic to mince fresh herbs (from the garden) with it; the electric onion and garlic chopper also gets used a LOT. I keep a lot of dried herbs and spices here as I forget to use them otherwise.



8. This is the gadget I claim not to know how to use so that TT has something to do after he has eaten the wholesome evening meals I lovingly (and slavishly) cook for him:




So there you have it. These are (most of) my kitchen gadgets.

What do you find essential in YOUR kitchen and WHY?