# What's Your Fantasy Kitchen Appliance? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271 "2003-03-18T14:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/41 "2003-03-19T22:20:58Z")
I would like a Fisher-Paykel dishwasher or a trimline Miele. I have a galley kitchen that is very cramped. Now my microwave is dead, and I just dont’ care! So I take meat out of the freeze two days ahead of time and popcorn is popped on the stove (way delicioso). Though I miss the overhead light that it provided over the stove. But microwaves are considered indispensible, like phones and TV’s, every household must have one! So the next one i get should be high wattage with a carousel. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/42 "2003-03-19T22:31:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\*But more than that, I’d like an olive pitter: as automatic, electric and damn bloody magical as possible. It’s not even as if I eat olives that often, yet the pitting of olives is still the most annoying kitchen chore that I can think of. \*\* You know, not to point out the obvious, but if it bothers you this much, can’t you just buy the kind of olives with the pits already removed - sometimes with a decorous piece of pimento? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/43 "2003-03-19T23:36:23Z")
Jpeg Jones: Uh, thanks, but I am looking for more of an ELECTRICAL Cat Repellent Device. My husband, however, thinks your suggestions is HYSTERICAL and he will probably go looking for one this weekend. (He especially likes the “stabilizer screw” - f’ing engineers …) ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/44 "2003-03-20T02:25:41Z")
I want one of them Star Trek food replicators, or whatever you call them. Won’t need no stove, no dishwasher, no fridge, no nothing. Just what I want, when I want it. Beat that, I dare y’all. ---
**Author:** ![bjohn13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@bjohn13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bjohn13)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/45 "2003-03-20T02:48:25Z")
Ironically, my fantasy kitchen and my fantasy garage both have the most important item in common: a drain in the floor. ---
**Author:** ![moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moc.liamtoh_rorrim)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/46 "2003-03-20T04:34:02Z")
A woman. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/47 "2003-03-20T04:47:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payne N. Diaz \* > \*\*I want one of them Star Trek food replicators, or whatever you call them. Won’t need no stove, no dishwasher, no fridge, no nothing. Just what I want, when I want it. Beat that, I dare y’all. \*\* Darn! I knew someone would beat me to it! If I had one of those, I would think of better things to say than “Tea. Earl gray. Hot.” ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/48 "2003-03-21T01:07:49Z")
My mom always said that if she had her way, she would have had all the appliances ripped out, put vending machines all around the walls, and a drain put in the middle of the floor so she could just hose the kitchen down after us slobby kids got through with the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Theom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@Theom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theom)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/49 "2003-03-21T12:15:03Z")
I want a waste disposal unit. Where I live at the moment has a septic tank rather than mains drainage ☹ so I can’t have one. I want one because I want to conduct scientific experiments on it to aid me in my quest to create an unholy supercreature… plus I can tack a piece of canvas to the ceiling and call it Art… ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/50 "2003-03-23T22:16:45Z")
Belrix - because they _ming_. I like big juicy black Greek olives, and I can’t find those without pits. The pre-pitted black olives readily available around here taste like tire rubber. When I’m eating olives as olives, I’m happy to spit the pits out, but that kind of doesn’t work when I’m making tapenade. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/51 "2003-03-24T03:39:30Z")
I’ve always wanted a Sears Wet-Dry Shop Vac mounted on some sort of overhead track over my cooking surfaces, or on some sort of apparatus like the dentist’s light so you could push it out of the way when you didn’t need it. After kneading out the pizza crust, you just pull it over to suck up the excess flour. Scraps on the cutting board? No problem. We were at Sears to buy a larger shop vac (damn water in our basement) and they had the little hand held ones on sale for half price ($20). I have to go back and get one. I just think that a true Guy Kitchen can’t be complete without a Sears Wet-Dry Shop Vac. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/52 "2003-03-24T23:28:22Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Payne N. Diaz_ > \*\* > I want one of them Star Trek food replicators, or whatever you call them. Won’t need no stove, no dishwasher, no fridge, no nothing. Just what I want, when I want it. Beat that, I dare y’all. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hazel \* > \*\*Darn! I knew someone would beat me to it! If I had one of those, I would think of better things to say than “Tea. Earl gray. Hot.” \*\* You’d have to hack it to allow you to make real alchohol. F\*\*\* all that synthahol stuff! ---
**Author:** ![ChrystinP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@ChrystinP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrystinP)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271/53 "2003-03-25T06:43:14Z")
I actually have my dream kitchen. We moved into this house in 1991 and the first year we were here we redesigned the kitchen. I chose: 2 Dacor convection ovens Dacor pinnacle hood so my cooktop can be in the middle of the kitchen without a huge hood hanging there gagganau cooktop with 6000, 9000 and 16000 btu burners all the lower cabinets have built in drawers that are adjustable, I have a lazy susan corner cabinet and a half lazy susan corner cabinet so every bit of space is accessible and usable upper cabinets all have adjustable shelves Asko Asea dishwasher–quietest thing imaginable and cleans things that have been sitting in there unrinsed for a week trash compactor–first one we’ve had, I’ll always have one hot water dispenser (absolute must have–I’ve had one of these in every kitchen since 1976 ) my favorite refrigerator was the Kenmore that just died on us One of the things that really stunned me when we went looking for a refrigerator was that the one I had was better than anything new. But because the problem was seals leaking we decided not to repair it. We went with a Kenmore elite which we liked better than anything else, but the whole family complains about the lack of storage of this one compared to our other one. It is only about .5 cubic feet smaller, but the design is much less efficient. We also saw a really neat GE refrigerator freezer that was actually one whole refrigerator opens to the right, and a separate freezer the same size opens to the left. I would have loved to have had that kind of space, but my kitchen wouldn’t allow it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-fantasy-kitchen-appliance/162271.md?page=2)