Kitchen appliances you don't have..you crave but are sheepish to buy....

I have been long interested in a juicer, especially for use at the end of my summer growing season. But the costs of some of them ( ebay or otherwise) is several hundred dollars :eek:

Also, inspired by another thread here, I have a very new fascination with yogurt makers.

I am probably in the market for a new Waffle Iron, preferrably Belgian and can make 2-4 at a time.
But mostly, I am starting my research into a new stove. Mine is 12 years old and was at the bottom of the pricing list when we bought it. It works, but the oven doesn’t heat evenly and the self-cleaning oven part has been broken for 5 years.

I would love to have, and don’t even have the space for it unless I (Meaning Mr. Ujest) rearrange the kitchen a bit, an oven like my mom had when I was growing up: two ovens: one big enough for a turkey/large pan, the other narrow as a cookie sheet with two racks in it for cookies/bread/buns. I think it had six burners, but I can’t recall. It was a lovely rust color.

A rice cooker. Wife couldn’t cook rice to save her life but a rice cooker “would take up too much space in this dinky effing kitchen and I’m so SICK of this kitchen and there’s no room to do anything and the kids keep it so messy and…” so you see why I don’t push it.

I really, really want a little rice cooker/veggie steamer. I have a huge steamer pot for vegetables but it’s big and I’m just cooking for me, so it seems so pointless to drag it out of the cabinet and have to clean it all up just to make a couple servings of carrots. I will probably end up selling it for a few bucks since it’s really nice and I have a dutch oven that came with my pot/pan set. I bought the steamer pot right when I moved in with the roomie a couple years ago ,so we used to use it for cooking bigger quantities of food.

I also haven’t mastered the art of sticky rice and want to be able to make the stuff like you get at the Japanese places, because I like it better than the plain dry rice and I like eating Chinese/Japanese style dishes. That, and I just like the moister rice better. I already have a wok I got as a housewarming gift last year… so I just need a rice cooker like the ones I keep eyeing at the Chinese grocery store (I love Hong Kong food market and stuff is so cheap! :slight_smile: ) I put a little 6-cup one on my NewEgg wishlist though, so I’m hoping one of my friends or my parents might get it for me for my bday next month. The only reason I’ve been sheepish to buy it so far is just because I don’t really have the money – what extra I have is all going to more important stuff.

But it’s STICKY RICE!!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

A pasta machine. I love homemade noodles, but the process is messy and takes a lot of counterspace.

And a range with a section for grilling.

A nice big griddle. And a rice cooker. And a pasta machine. And…

We need a bigger kitchen. A much bigger kitchen. :smiley:

My mom has a pasta machine. It’s fantastic. Handcranked. It clamps to the kitchen table, which is nice because the kitchen is tiny. We use it maybe twice a year, but make a lot and freeze what we don’t use the first day. It has enough attachments to let you make three different widths of noodles, lasagna, ravioli, and something else that I can’t remember. I’ve even used it for rolling out piecrusts for little pasties. (The dough you use for that is a little firmer than the the pre-packaged crusts.) If you think you’ll use it regularly, you should look into one. Cleaning it is a pain, but it’s a lot easier than rolling out dough and then cutting it with a knife and draping the noodles over a broomstick.

I’d love a capuccino maker . . . for my dorm room. Except I’d use it for chai lattes, not capuccino.

I’d love to get my mother a KitchenAid anything, but especially a stand mixer with a bread hook. It’s probably for the best that I’m po’ though, because if Mom had a stand mixer with bread hook, I’d be “Miss House McKnittington.”

A standalone deep fryer.

An ice cream maker.

Stand mixer, preferably Kitchenaid, preferably red.

I’m so glad I’m getting married. :smiley:

Well, I came here to say a KitchenAid stand mixer too. :frowning:

This one’s kind of embarrassing but I’ve always wanted one of those grilled sandwich maker thingies – the ones where you put in bread with fillings and they come out little toasted pockets. I love the infomercials for those… you can make a fake calzone and a fake cherry pie at the same time. And I think I’d like fake calzone and fake cherry pie!

In terms of stuff I’ll actually buy someday – my microwave is on it’s last legs. It’s one of the over-the-stove kinds and has, apparently, been here since our house was built in 1987. It’s that ugly fake wood plastic. I can’t wait to replace it with a nice almond one to match my new range and diswasher.

i’m really wanting a deep fryer right now. i don’t know what it is. i’ve been on a health food kick for the last couple months, so i probably wouldn’t use it much. but i get irrational urges to go out and buy kitchen stuff all the time.

so, anyone have any advice on deep fryers? i think i might go for the waring professional deal. i noticed the other day alton brown has the euro-pro, but the reviews i’ve read of it aren’t all that glowing.

hmmm, i also want a big ass kitchenaid mixer. and a pasta maker. and a new oven. and a good mandoline.

yeah, all that would hold me for a few months.

I must be spoiled. I have most of the things mentioned here (rice cooker, sandwhich maker, deep fryer)

I guess if I really wanted anything, it would be either a waffle maker or a pasta maker. I don’t think I’ve ever had homemade pasta in my life and would love to try it.

I have most of the little gadgets–some things get used often (rice cooker, KitchenAid), and some collected dust for years (waffle iron, pasta roller).

But what I’ve wanted and desired for the past several years?

A large Staub Cocotte and a set of their roasting dishes. Oh, and I wouldn’t complain over an Emile Henry baking dish.

Since my cooking tends towards the baking/braising/roasting foods, and I’ve worked with these items before, these have been high on my wish list for a while.

Ooo, baby! I’d love to have a deep fat fryer, but I’d proabably eat nothing but french fries untill it broke.
I also want a big fancy pants dual oven/stove with one of those gazillion BTU burners in the middle of the stove.

I have the KitchenAid stand mixer with the bread dough hook and other assorted attachments. It was my present to myself about 3 xmases ago at $199.

Worth every penny. The thing is so strong it could mix cement.

I’ve just started seeing the prices on it come down, to like $189.

I used to have a sandwich smoosher. Loved it. Great for grilled cheese.

I want a food storage vacuum sealer. It would be so nice to cook (for example) a huge batch of french toast one morning and freeze most of it. Then for a quick breakfast just nuke it up. Or soups, to be able to store soups for months and have easy lunches.

Dream of but wildly out of my reach:

A pacojet (very low temperature, ultra-high capacity ice-cream/sorbet maker)

A Rational Steam Oven (Allows cooking accurately at low temperatures for prolonged periods of time)

A Robot Coupe stick blender (industrial sized stick blender)

A high output salamander (bigass broiler thing)

This spice rack (and the lab that goes with it)

A 100,000 BTU wok burner

A set of handmade hattori damascus steel knives (~$20,000 each)

Slightly more practical stuff:

A kitchenaid mixer with all the attachments, even the really wierd ones.

A tiny cuisinart food processor for mincing herbs etc.

A set of Le Crueset dutch ovens in various sizes

A set of Falk Culinar copper saucepans and frypans

At least 2 induction burner cooktop plates for simmering sauces etc.

A toaster oven

Gosh, I have most everything mentioned so far. I might be persuaded to part with some of them.

What do I want? A rotisserie. 'Cause I love rotesseried chicken. Love!

I have a lot of the stuff too. Appliances like these are a bit different in Europe, but deep fryers start at about 50 bucks. Mine is on the expensive side, but has a container for about 1.5 gallon of oil. That means that the oil doesn’t cool down when you put cold stuff in it = crispier result.
I’d like to get the kitchenaid cofferginder.
I’d like to get a new espressomaker, the type with a lever.
I rent my apartment, but when I get my own, I’m gonna buy one of those French stove /range with six burners, 5’ wide and two ovens. In France, they’re about $1500. Around here, more like $5000. The market is too small here, hence the high price. So I’ll take a pick up, go down for vacation, buy it and come out about even.

This Range. It **will ** be mine. In about 5 years when I’ve saved enough money.

Otherwise, I want a food processor.

I had a nice electric griddle, big enough to cook 8 burgers or pork chops on, but it broke during our move, so that would be my first nifty gadget.
Otherwise, I tend to go for vintage Pyrex, old Le Creuset (which I don’t actually USE, because it sticks), stuff that looks pretty and isn’t terribly practical.
I would like a huge industrial stove, though, and I miss haveing stainless steel counter tops to work on–I got used to them when I worked in a catering kitchen, and they were awesome.
I just need a bunch of money to remodel my little kitchen…