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Your favourite kitchen items

My combination oven, my slow cooker and my blender are all dear to my heart but best of all is my wok. I could happily live off stir fries and never get tired of creating new combinations of beautiful flavours.
 
My new favourite items is my new Laura Ashley mixing bowl.... thanks to our lovely WhitbyJet, I am now doing alot of baking hence a mixing bowl was required...and I got it in the sale....paid £7 for a £16 bowl....rock on :lol:
 
Sid Bonkers said:
I have always cooked fresh food and always eaten healthily, why do you assume that diabetics do not?
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I didn't assume anything other than less carbs often means increasing other foods.

noblehead said:
My wife.
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I was wondering how many male posters leave most of the cooking to their partners but I thought it sounded almost sexist!
 
Paul1976 said:
It's a good job Mrs Nigel doesn't read this forum eh? :lol:
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It is a good job :wink:


ShyGirl said:
I was wondering how many male posters leave most of the cooking to their partners but I thought it sounded almost sexist!
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It was said in jest Shygirl, I love cooking and don't even mind tidying up afterwards :)
 
Me too! In the 17 years I've been with my wife,I've cooked everyday as I enjoy cooking and my wife detests doing it. :)
 
My lovely navy blue kitchen aid mixer (mainly used for cakes for my husband and family). Also my new oxo beg peeler (magnificent) and my my all-in-one runner bean peeler and slicer - a gadget that actually works!

Least favourite/useful - husband and pasta maker .......none of these two 'items' I will be parting with though I hasten to add!! My husband has other uses (glad he doesn't read this forum)and my pasta maker looks lovely and retro on my worktop :lol:
 
I have an all black kitchen, so I feel a bit out numbered with all the reds :lol: Favourite item? I think I will have to say my food processor and silicone bake wear. Hmm, I use my knives a lot and have a fantastic set, and my kitchen scales are used every day, a few times a day. Lots I couldn't do without. Chewing my lip here as my mixer is another that is used a lot, also my Tefal frying pan. Oh 'eck, I just like my kitchen. :lol:

The popcorn and candy floss makers along with the chocolate fountain are all gone, sad but true.
 
Seems to be a bit of a Black/Red theme going on here! :D
I want gloss red units for my kitchen but sadly mines oak with black splashback tiles and a fake shiny granite with added glitter worktop,I do have all red accessories although I had to replace the kettle as my wife cleaned it with Cilit Bang which ended up stripping all the red enamel off! :shock:
My expensive Wok and steamer are my favourite accessories,just want the red italian,retro looking coffee machine now!
 
Paul1976 said:
Seems to be a bit of a Black/Red theme going on here! :D
I want gloss red units for my kitchen but sadly mines oak with black splashback tiles and a fake shiny granite with added glitter worktop,I do have all red accessories although I had to replace the kettle as my wife cleaned it with Cilit Bang which ended up stripping all the red enamel off! :shock:
My expensive Wok and steamer are my favourite accessories,just want the red italian,retro looking coffee machine now!
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AHHHH Paul, yes, my steamer. I use it almost every day as well. My kitchen is oak with oak worktops so the black really stands out. I have a coffee machine, but never use it, the George Forman I do use - a lot. I really can't pick a favourite, and all the useless items I got rid of.
 
desidiabulum said:
The microwave (there -- someone had to say it...)
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I use mine quite a bit as well. Muffins in a minute are great, I don't eat them, but the rest of my family do. My youngest loves her scrambled eggs done in their too. I am a bit wary of microwaves, but will use it - sometimes :lol:
 
Defren said:
Paul1976 said:
Seems to be a bit of a Black/Red theme going on here! :D
I want gloss red units for my kitchen but sadly mines oak with black splashback tiles and a fake shiny granite with added glitter worktop,I do have all red accessories although I had to replace the kettle as my wife cleaned it with Cilit Bang which ended up stripping all the red enamel off! :shock:
My expensive Wok and steamer are my favourite accessories,just want the red italian,retro looking coffee machine now!
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AHHHH Paul, yes, my steamer. I use it almost every day as well. My kitchen is oak with oak worktops so the black really stands out. I have a coffee machine, but never use it, the George Forman I do use - a lot. I really can't pick a favourite, and all the useless items I got rid of.
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My most useless item now,which is now in the shed,is the breadmaker,which TBH,was a complete nightmare to clean up each time.
Shame about your chocolate fountain Jo! :lol:
 
Being pretty new here it's my recently purchased Rosemary Conley Nutri scales that I love. They make carb counting so easy as you can add one food item after another by turning them off and on again before adding the next item, getting the weight plus carbs and cals for many different foods. You can put food onto a plate or into a pan. Found them new for £26ish on ebay too :D
 
ShyGirl said:
Hope this is in the right place!
I'm not expecting many replies but i'm sure if you low carb/reduc carbs/eat healthy you probably cook and prepare food more than average.
I know some posters even make their own low carb bread , something i'd like to try one day.
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I think you're right. I think educated diabetics probably do prepare food more (as opposed to prepare more food! :lol: ) because we keep trying to create new ways of making something we can tolerate rather than buying stock supermarket goods high in sugar and carbs. I wouldn't previously have prepared low-carb pizza bases, ice cream, almost bounty bars, brandy truffles, white fish in parcels rather than battered from the freezer/shop, etc. I think it makes us more creative. Look at whitbyjets almond flour cakes and so on. And I did make a low carb bread using a free breadmaker (from freecycle). It was 'orrible! :lol: But I'll try again.
Good spot shyGirl!
 
Most favourite- my electric wok, my slow cooker and my hand blender that belonged to my Mum. The most useless was the yoghurt maker that was used twice, shoved in the back of a cupboard and carted off to the local tip when I had a clear out. My favourite shop for kitchen gadgets is Lakeland, every time I go in there I look at the items and think "how have I ever managed without one of those?" or "Good grief, what are fingers for" (especially when looking at strawberry hullers) :lol:
 
chris lowe said:
Most favourite- my electric wok
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electric wok :shock: ........I've still got my Wok from the early 90's when Ken Hom had his own tv show!
 
Can I say ?
My hubby ? As the best dish/pot washer !! :thumbup:
Since my dishwasher sparked and blew over 6 years ago...
Scared me witless , so never got another one!!!!!
My kitchen is buttermilk cream and black had it newly installed in 2010.
Love it - plus my cream/black matching rangemaster elan... [set in a resessed alcove]
Would have loved a cream/black aga but unable to fit in my kitchen.
Anna.
 
My favourites are two wonderful cast iron frying pans, one French, one American, that have perfect surfaces after 20 years +. I use them daily since I lost my fear of fat through low carbing. I also like the 3-for-£10 small German knives with red, yellow and blue plastic handles, and the stovetop espresso maker.
 
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