What is your favorite kitchen gadget?

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Food processor.

Dicing things with a knife takes forever. But the processor does it in like 3 seconds.

substance_p@lemmy.world

Between my old school pressure cooker, mini toaster/ airfry oven, cuisinart food processor, kitchen aid mixer, scales, thermometers, kitchen knives, pasta machine, coffee and spice grinder, fermenting vessels, rice cooker or Ooni pizza oven I’d also rate my emersion blender with the mini food processor attachment one of the most used items in the kitchen. From 3 minute hollandaise to instant curry pastes it has changed my approach to so many things.

hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I’d say it’s a toss up between my rice cooker and air fryer/toaster/convection oven.

tastehwafflez@lemmy.world

I feel like cleaning a food processor takes longer than dicing with a knife. I use mine for softer tough foods like dried apples or making graham cracker crust but I can’t justify busting it out of the pantry and cleaning it otherwise, what are you using it for?

defunct_punk

My Vitamix 5200 is the only blender that doesnt suck to use

ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works

Bread guillotine gets the most use by far, but the toaster oven and bread machine would be next. Instant pot after that.

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It gets most use out of making pico de gallo dicing up the onions, the tomatoes, and chopping the cilantro. Anything that can fit and needs to be finely cut, I just use the processor.

AxExRx

Ive got an old cuisinart from the 90s that is pretty much exactly a 1/2 scale model of a robocoupe with a 2 cup bain. Love that and my stick blender.

Fave commercial appliances? The heated robocoupe, (that could be a chilled in the freezer or maintain a hot temp electronically) that could whip and aerate sauces at temp, like holandaises and chocolate sauces, even make singlenservings of sorbet ala minute.

Tha and a bakers oven i had when I was working on the size of a mountain. It had humidity and pressure controls, allowing me to simulate baking at anywhere between -2 mile below to 5 miles above sea level. Raising the altitude all the way up and running high humidity for like 20 mins made a perfect creme brule.

Setting it to 4 miles high meant a water boiling point of ~160°f, so mixed with a high humidity, I could 'boil the water out, without drying it out and barely cooking the egg.

Mårten Åsberg

@Heikki2 I had a thing for holding onions when slicing them. It was like a fork, but with 20 or so, really long tines, tight together with just enough spacing that the knife fit between them.
Now that I describe it ti sounds like one of those TV-shopper things that solve a non-problem, it made it so much easier, and I miss it.

billdacatt@lemmy.world

Not a gadget exactly, but I love my chef knife! It’s a Kan core chef knife. I have had it for several years now and enjoy using it every time. It is very sharp and is easy to keep sharp. It was not cheap, but not terribly expensive when compared to other professional quality knives. I use it almost every day and it has never disappointed me.

For actual devices in the kitchen, I would say my Kitchenaid stand mixer is my favorite.

FauxPseudo

Victorinox Fibrox Pro Chef’s Knife, 8-Inch That thing is a beast. Only needs sharpening every few years.

Drusas

Zojirushi rice cooker

substance_p@lemmy.world

Awesome, these are some serious gadgets, love the concept of that bakers oven.

Sophocles

Highly underrated, but a good thermometer can help a lot with cooking meats. Getting the right temp is much more accurate than cooking by sight or feel, and having one that reads in under a second is super convenient.Typhur makes some quality ones that I like to use

spicy pancake

Ninja Foodi combination pressure cooker and convection oven. It also incubates yogurt. Fucking love that thing

smiletolerantly@awful.systems

Kenwood Kitchenaid-type thing. Pretty heavy duty, because it’s mostly used for bread dough.

I learned to make breads without it and still occasionally do (well… Mostly when I’m somewhere else, I guess), and there is nothing wrong with kneading by hand.

It’s just so much more convenient and so much less cleanup to let the machine do it. Especially the cleanup part is huge.

a_norny_mousse@feddit.org

Big cast iron pan & small cast iron pan. They get the most use.

Actual gadgets - 3-stage knife sharpener.

acamon@lemmy.world

I’ve got a couple of really good chef’s knives, but I’ve been a terrible failure at keeping them sharp over the decade. I was trying to finely dice an onion yesterday and felt like I was back in a student flat with a blunt handmedown. I think they’ve gone past the stage of just using a regular sharpener, but I don’t know where I can get them re-edged.

acamon@lemmy.world

Immersion blender is great functionality for a small size / cost. But for a more gadgety choice, I’d go for my sous-vide / immersion heater. Got gifted it a few years back, but didn’t get round to using it for ages, partly cause I suspected that it was too much of a hassle and wouldn’t make a huge difference to quality.

In reality, it’s really not a lot of trouble, especially if you vacuum pack meat and stuff for storage anyway. And I’ve made all sorts of different meats and marinade and they’ve been reliably great. For something like a pork chop, that can risk be a little dry, but you don’t want undercooked, being able to precisely control the temperature has given me the best, most tender and flavourful pork chop/monkfish/venison I’ve ever eaten.

Similarly, stuff for the bbq, deepfried chicken or even chunky côte du bœuf, where I really want a crispy sear but still need the middle to hit the right temp have all been made so much easier. Really surprised how much use I’ve got out it!

bdonvr@thelemmy.club

My favorite in terms of just being neat and cheap is my “safety” can opener. https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Cut-Can-Opener-Restaurant/dp/B0761PZC5F

It’s not about it being “safer” to me. It’s just plain better. It completely unseals the tops of cans without puncturing them, meaning the lid comes completely off at the rim. Never failed me. Opening something like some cat foods or refried beans is much better because it leaves no lip for the contents to catch on. I use it for pull tab cans too!

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What is your favorite kitchen gadget?