Favourite kitchen utensil??

[beeboo]

I don't understand!

It's cos you're southern

 

[Sunray]

That's cos you're cackhanded and inadequately trained

A decent potato peeler will take off just the skin and pretty much none of the potato, or hard root vegetable. You as a human being cannot match it. Shit peelers are just that, shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's cos you're southern

I've never been so insulted in my life!
I'm from Yorkshire!

 

[Orang Utan]

A decent potato peeler will take off just the skin and pretty much none of the potato, or hard root vegetable. You as a human being cannot match it. Shit peelers are just that, shit.

I much prefer using a knife though and I don't waste much

 

[Detroit City]

Well, give a reason, love, otherwise I'll have to guess and I have a very fertile imagination.

the spatula can be used for so many things:

• flipping fried eggs
• flipping pancakes
• killing flies
• slapping someone on the bottom with

.....not only that but it looks cool and they come in all shapes and sizes

 

[beeboo]

I've never been so insulted in my life!
I'm from Yorkshire!

oh noes

what an insult!



you should know better if you're from Yorkshire though

 

[Orang Utan]

you should know better if you're from Yorkshire though

It must be a <spits> Lancashire thing

 

[beeboo]

It must be a <spits> Lancashire thing

 

[Detroit City]

Do you mean a 'lifter'?

yes

 

[felixthecat]

I'm not sure what the name for them is, but one of these:

eta - ah, google tells me it a is a corner spoon

I always wondered what it was called......should have guessed really .

I love all of my wooden spoons and wooden spatula. So versatile, used for just about everything, can't cook without using one.

 

[chymaera]

Peizo electric ignition gas powered blow torch.

 

[Wookey]

Peizo electric ignition gas powered blow torch.

This isn't Top Gear.

What do you do with that then, creme brulee? Scorching the hair off pig meat?

Or do you just wave it around looking well hard in the kitchen??

 

[soulman]

 

[Orang Utan]

Another entirely superfluous utensil that I don't see the need for

 

[chymaera]

This isn't Top Gear.

What do you do with that then, creme brulee? Scorching the hair off pig meat?

Or do you just wave it around looking well hard in the kitchen??

A blow torch is a very useful bit of kit in a kitchen, cooking a fried egg on both sides at once, freeing food from stainless steel stacking rings ect. Loads of uses.

 

[soulman]

Another entirely superfluous utensil that I don't see the need for

We're talking favourite, not essential

 

[Madusa]

I'll go with the humble wooden spoon.

 

[Wookey]

Another entirely superfluous utensil that I don't see the need for

Lots of utensils are superfluous, that's whay we like them!! I do like the ones which are designed with one single job in mind, like the garlic press. I suppose it's a fetishisation of sorts!!

 

[Wookey]

A blow torch is a very useful bit of kit in a kitchen, cooking a fried egg on both sides at once, freeing food from stainless steel stacking rings ect. Loads of uses.

I'll take your word for it! I've never needed one, except for if I wanted to do creme brulees (which I've never made, funnily...maybe I do need one??)

 

[May Kasahara]

Glad to see the wooden spoon getting much love on this thread

 

[Looby]

I haven't got a wooden spoon, wish I did though. Might get myself one. I don't use a peeler either, I waste much less with a knife.

Another vote for the blowtorch, I love mine. Will come in handy for my christmas creme brulee.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Metal tongs used for picking up grilled items.

 

[felixthecat]

I haven't got a wooden spoon, wish I did though. Might get myself one. I don't use a peeler either, I waste much less with a knife.

Another vote for the blowtorch, I love mine. Will come in handy for my christmas creme brulee.

you've got a blow torch but no wooden spoon?

Girl, you are WEIRD!!!!!

 

[Detroit City]

has anyone mentioned the lowly tea leaf strainer?

 

[Looby]

you've got a blow torch but no wooden spoon?

Girl, you are WEIRD!!!!!

It's pink. I got it for my birthday.

I've got lots of lovely kitchen stuff but I've never replaced my old wooden spoon, it was probably about 20 years old when I chucked it away.

 

[ringo]

Ever since reading this thread 6 years ago I've thought about buying a nice antique silver spoon for everyday cooking, but still have got round it (had the spare cash).

This sort of thing, on Ebay for £90. I should get one next time I'm at an auction, much cheaper there, but I'm more likely to spend what I've got on the Chinese porcelain I go there for.

 

[dessiato]

Not sure, but I would hate to be without my very sharp knives, they need to be sharp or I don't want to use them. I also love my wok, you can do anything in a wok, boil, stir fry, deep fry, steam, the only thing I can't do in it is roast, and no doubt someone will tell me how to do that soon.

 

[Bitter&Twisted]

Wooden spoons here.

Say ringo why the dickens would you want to use an antique silver serving-spoon for cooking with? There would be so few things it would be be safe to use it with, I reckon

 

[ringo]

Wooden spoons here.

Say ringo why the dickens would you want to use an antique silver serving-spoon for cooking with? There would be so few things it would be be safe to use it with, I reckon

I'm not convinced you can get poisoned by using silver spoons, only by eating silver. What do you know?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Its either my Rada knives or my 2' x 3' cutting board. I'm also fond of my bamboo rice spoon.