# Which of these kitchen appliances do you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764 "2011-07-03T23:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/61 "2011-07-05T13:54:38Z")
Other includes electric knife sharpener, mandolin, pressure cooker, coffee grinder, and electric griddle. Additionally, I have both a stick (immersion) blender and a very old and simple standard blender, and I have food processors in 3 sizes (standard, mini, and micro; the micro was a bonus with the standard). ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/62 "2011-07-05T14:13:19Z")
Additional: spice grinder, coffee grinder, electric kettle, FoodSaver. Wish I were home so I could double-check and make sure I’m not missing anything. (The kitchen is the one room in the house where we can justify buying any appliance. With the exception of ice cream maker, waffle maker and panini press, we’ve owned all of em within the last couple of years.) ---
**Author:** ![sausage\_maker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sausage\_maker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sausage_maker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/63 "2011-07-05T15:42:49Z")
_Love_ my [meat grinder](http://www.westonsupply.com/Meat-Grinders-s/68.htm)… proud to say I have a dedicated one and not just an attachment. ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/64 "2011-07-06T07:14:06Z")
I only voted for toaster over and coffee maker 'cause ‘technically’ I rent my micro…comes with the apartment! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/65 "2011-07-06T18:35:20Z")
I remembered later that I have a coffee bean grinder. Two actually! I also have three George Forman grills and three Cuisinart food processors! Don’t ask. Well, you can. My husband and I combined households and we duplicated a lot. Two of the Cuisinarts are small-size ones; he had a small and a large and I just had a small. So we have three. Don’t get me started on the six washers and dryers, and three dishwashers. (Seriously!) Habitat’s Re-Store was happy to see us coming. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/66 "2011-07-06T18:53:45Z")
I also own a bread maker and a icecream maker, but both are on “loan” to my mom. I have a deep love for my electric kettle, which didn’t make your list. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/67 "2011-07-06T19:16:51Z")
For hot tea, I boil water in a measuring cup in the microwave. If I needed to make more than one cup at a time, I guess I’d get a kettle. But everyone else in the house drinks coffee - we own a variety of coffee-making equipment. To make a quantity of iced tea I use a dedicated drip coffee maker. We own most of the appliances in that list, although we’ve just gotten rid of our long-unused bread maker and pop-up toaster. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/68 "2011-07-06T19:42:44Z")
Heh, after 33 years of marriage we own most of them, though the waffle iron is in the garage, since we never use it, as is the ice cream maker, which comes out for special occasions. Things we also have which are not listed are an ice tea maker and a hot tea brewer. And we have both an espresso machine and a coffee maker with attached grinder. And an electric knife sharpener. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/69 "2011-07-06T20:39:20Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot I have a coffee grinder too. I haven’t used it since I got my Keurig coffee maker. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/70 "2011-07-06T21:31:50Z")
I have a blender AND a magic bullet, which is sort of like a tiny blender. So I clicked “Other” just to clarify. My three favorite appliances are: - My moms old Kitchenaid (inherited when she upgraded to a new Kitchenaid) - Magic Bullet–Makes my breakfast smoothies already in their own cup. YES! - Veggie steamer–I guess it could’ve fit under rice cooker but I re-purposed the rice basket that goes into it for a cat water dish because I always buy instant rice. ---
**Author:** ![JoThrive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/71 "2011-07-06T22:05:00Z")
I got rid of my big blender, my ice cream maker, my electric knife. Didn’t use them, didn’t want them, didn’t need them any more. I still have my electric percolator, my waffle iron, my three crock pots (big, medium, little), my electric skillet, my microwave, my hand-held mixer, my stick blender, and my little George Foreman grill. How did we ever get along before we had all this electrical stuff? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/72 "2011-07-06T22:56:22Z")
2 - microwave and toaster oven. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/73 "2011-07-07T00:23:58Z")
We grudgingly have a microwave only because the house was built with one. A KitchenAid Pro mixer and a Sunbeam Mixmaster stand mixer both occupy counter space. An automatic drip coffeemaker sees daily use, but there are additional percolators squirreled away here and there. The Red Cross could probably call on us for help making coffee at the next disaster. The rice cooker (I love my Zojirushi and its fuzzy micom logic!) and electric skillet don’t see quite enough use to warrant sitting out, but they’re easy to grab. Our appliance zoo also contains a Ronco rotisserie, a Food Saver and an electric Hot Dogger. (Electrocute your lunch!) The rotisserie is kept very near the kitchen as it gets used on average about once a week. The Food Saver gets used often enough that it lives on the counter, but the Hot Dogger is a novelty that’s a righteous terror to clean with all of those spikes. We used it once, after which I said “If you want to use it again, you clean it!” One appliance that I don’t think anyone’s mentioned yet is an electric can opener. Good riddance to that. Ditch that space hog and get a nice Swing-Away or Oxo hand-cranked model that can live in a drawer. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/74 "2011-07-07T04:53:29Z")
Oh! Add to our list a percolator, thanks, **gotpasswords**. It’s a humongous food-service stainless steel jobby, my roommate uses it during the winter for Food Not Bombs. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764/75 "2011-07-07T06:23:20Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Our appliance zoo also contains a Ronco rotisserie, a Food Saver and an electric Hot Dogger. (Electrocute your lunch!) Heh. In college we stripped a wire attached to a plug, but the two ends on either side of a hot dog, and plugged it in. It was cooked by the time the circuit breaker blew. Not sure that counts as an appliance, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-kitchen-appliances-do-you-own/587764.md?page=3)