I also want a stick blender.
I lust for radish cutter to make spiral cut veggies.
I want a waffle iron, belgium or regular, with easily removeable plates for cleaning.
BTW
Consumer Reports is your friend when buying appliances. I bought my stove a few years ago. I chose a brand with a very low incidence of repair needed, and have been pleased with it. They warn that high end stove often scarifice oven size and useful features along with reliability for a few gee whiz features that most people don’t use.
The guy at Bed, Bath, and Beyond haughtily told me to go try K-Mart or Wal-Mart to find them, as if Bed, Bath, and Beyond is too good to carry zirconium knives.
I also came in here to talk about the red Kitchenaid stand mixer with all the attachments. I’d also like some better pots and pans, a real good chef’s knife or two, and a larger food processor. I have a little Cuisinart 3-cup job, but I like to make more than 3 cups of things sometimes and using the blender isn’t always the same. I’ve been meaning to try out some of that silicone bakeware too. We’re moving to an apartment with a larger kitchen soon, and I’m really looking forward to the extra storage and counter space.
I’m jonesing for a set of Le Creuset dutch ovens. They’re pretty expensive, and I’ve managed to do without them for years, so I’m having a hard time justifying buying them.
I’d also love one of those vacuum sealers. I hunt, and let me tell you, butchering and wrapping your own deer is a royal pain. But I haven’t actually got a deer in the last few years, so I don’t want to fork over that kind of money until I do. Of course, if I do get one next year, I’m going to have to scramble to find one, so I might jsut talk myself into getting one ahead of time someday.
I’ve edited the wikipedia article you linked to; it originally redirected to Aebleskiver and claimed the two things were the same, and cooked in the same sort of pan. It’d be a sad thing indeed to try to cook poffertjes in an aebleskiver pan.
Mmmm, stroopwafflen…they’re so good fresh made from the cart. I had no idea there were home-model grills. But, I must protest, they shouldn’t be filled with honey. It’s caramel. Only caramel. All else is blasphemy.
What I want is a KitchenAid Pro-Line Waffle Baker. But I’d really have to eat a lot of waffles to justify the $300 price. Besides, I already have a perfectly good waffle iron that I don’t use that often. But…the KitchenAid one is so…large.
Are you talking about one of these? If so, don’t waste your money. My uncle has one, and he said although it makes some of the best coffee he’s ever tasted, it’s totally expensive and requires 16 scoops of grounds to brew. (To the non-coffee drinkers out there, that’s about 2-3 times as much as you put into a drip maker.)
Amazon has factory-reconditioned Kitchen-Aid mixers at substantially reduced prices. Hello, wish list. I also want a digital kitchen scale and some better saucepans.
Count me in as another who craves Le Creuset - and have pretty much the same reason as to why I don’t have one. I have a large dutch oven that I use for soups, and it’s done very well for me, so I really don’t see replacing it without reason. Or at least without a good reason. “Because I want it” is not a good reason.
I have a plain white Kitchen Aid stand mixer. And I wouldn’t part with it for the world. Don’t have any attachments, though. I do have a pasta maker - I’ll have to start using it again.
Ok, this is what I want to hear. I am considering squirreling away funds to buy one of these, but I want to make sure they’re really worth the money and aren’t going to burn out in a year. I’ve always heard about how good they are, but is that only if you buy the extra-pricey “professional” models, or will any model probably be good for anything short of industrial use? Can they really hold up to use with all the attachments? I read one online review (can’t find it now, of course) from someone who said they tried to use one of the attachments and the motor burned out, but that person could also be using it all wrong. I don’t believe *everything *I read on the internet, just everything I read on the Straight Dope.
Wow. B&B shooed you away for wanting Kyocera knives? I kinda grasp the idea behind them, but it’s odd that the only chef I ever see on TV with them is Ming Tsai. Check out cutleryandmore.com or cooking.com for these.
For me, I’m doing nicely with Henckels Pro S knives. I’ve been slowly building the collection blade by blade and not cluttering my kitchen up with yet more steak knives that would be in “block sets.” Scary-sharp and just on the edge of scary-expensive, but with a modicum of care, they’ll last a generation or two.
Right now, the appliance I’m pining for is a good rice ccoker. I used to have one that was, AFAIK, purchased in Japan, and when it finally quit, I was very sad as it was mindless to use - dump however many scoops of rice into a strainer, rinse, dump into cooker, then add water to the corresponding line inside the cooker. Put on the lid and press the button. Wait for it to go “thunk!” and switch over to warming. Perfectly done and none burnt. Replaced it in a hurry (meaning “Ah, here’s one that’s on sale!” when the end of cycle thunk was replaced with “kfsszzt!” - first replacement was a miserable thing that spat steam and sticky starch water everywhere. It was replaced with one that didn’t spit, but does burn the bottom layer.
I’ve got my eyes on one of the Zojirushi fuzzy logic cookers now, but at over $150, it does require some deliberation.
Otherwise, I don’t need more non-food items in the kitchen. Le Creuset roaster pan? Corning Ware casseroles? Check and check. Excellent cutlery? Waffle iron? Electric fry pan? Naturally. KitchenaAid blender and food processor? Yup. 56 hand-held and stand Sunbeam Mixmasters? <grumbles in the direction of the home appliance collector> Ronco “Showtime” rotisserie oven? Get past the hype and Ron Popiel - it makes great chicken. Crock pot? I’m a child of the 70’s - what can I say? Countertop roaster oven? One of the best $40 I ever spent on an appliance.
The one I’ve owned personally, I’ve had for about 4 years. It gets used occasionally throughout the year, and heavily through the holidays, and it’s still going like new. Now, I haven’t used it with any of the attachments, so I couldn’t comment on that.
I’ve also have worked as a pastry chef in several restaurants, where having a KitchenAid was an absolute necessity–and there was just a basic 5 quart model (along with a 20-quart industrial mixer for the really big jobs) that we used. Those things are troopers–they get daily use & abuse in a professional kitchen, and they’ll keep on going. Yes, there was a time that one burned out, but it was after 3 years of this kind of heavy daily use. In a regular home kitchen, that means it’ll last for a looooong time.
I’m thinking about getting MrValley a raclette grill for his birthday. Does anyone know if the T-Fal one (about half the price of the other bransd I’ve seen) is any good?
I have two French Presses; I use one for coffee and one for making brewed tea when I don’t use tea bags. They’re not very expensive. Go ahead and get one - the taste difference between FP coffee and drip coffee is amazing. Just be sure to get your coffee ground chunkier than you do for drip machines.
I also have a stick blender; I thought it’d be “just annother gadget” when I bought it, and did feel a little sheepish buying it, but I use it quite a lot.
Count me in with those who want a KitchenAid mixer and a bigger kitchen. A self-cleaning kitchen.
My main wish is a lot more modest: I lust after those sets of nested cookie cutters. You know, like 19 circles, ranging from 1" to 4" in diameter? And the same, but with scalloped edges. And the star shaped ones.
The sets only cost about $20 each, so why don’t I buy them?
Because I know damn well I’d used them to make some neat jelly filled tarts ONCE and then they’d rust away in the junk drawer.
You know what we need? A rental place for kitchen gadgets. Then I’d know if those doughnut makers are worth buying…
