Author Topic: I am not sure if we have had this or was it on RCF My favourite kitchen tools (Read 13288 times)

Wizard · « **on:** March 17, 2010, 12:55:25 pm »

So what would you hate to be without and don't be daft and say knife and fork.Although I should hate to loose my Wusthof knives.So couldn't manage with out my Kenwood Chef and its tools I have them all but not the pasta makers Pasta and fish tie as equal hates of mine.More when some of you have had a go.how about a cherry pilfer its not essential but its grand little nic-nak

Wizard · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:04:02 pm »

Not in the post Have you seen the latest Chef a quid short of a Grand.£999:00p for a Kenwood Cooking Chef Major I see Nisbets are offering it for £849:99p for a food mixer and I dare bet none of my tools fit

daniellestocks · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2010, 02:37:01 pm »

A simple veg peeler, im just no good doing it with a knife!

Olly398 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2010, 03:51:45 pm »

1. 10" chefs knife
2. Sharpening steel to maintain the above
3. Butchers block
4. Large stone pestle and mortar
5. Cast iron 12" skillet
6. Heavy bottom 10" saucepan

I do almost all my cooking with these! Everything else is a luxury!

Hermit · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2010, 04:05:18 pm »

Yes it was on RCF.Cant remember what I put then, but today it is my kettle!!

Hermit

Wizard · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2010, 05:13:48 pm »

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Karen We cannot manage without a kettle.Question Can you buy a Russel Hobbs S/S kettle up your way.All but all of them in Gy is jug or that bluddi silly shiny dome thing cannot find a proper R/H kettle any where has R/H stopped manufacture?

garden cottage · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2010, 05:18:41 pm »

given up with electric kettles they dont last long im sure there designed so they blow up just after its out of warranty, we now use a volcano type kettle, enamel metal that goes on the gas ring, electric kettles use vast amounts of electric to boil

Wizard · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2010, 06:12:36 pm »

Hello GC we had a proper gas kettle for years until it finally expired weighed a ton where I'd brazed the zigzag fins back on the bottom.The conventional kettle in my opinion is far far away from being efficient on a gas ring.Many years ago we lived in a cottage with a AGA and we had a AGA ali kettle that held a gallon of water kept on the top warm all the time Just lift the lid and push the kettle across boil in moments Now lets see a nice two lid 3 oven AGA £6/7 grand even a genuine kettlee is 60 quid

MrsJ · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2010, 06:32:49 pm »

My Diamant Stone deep frying pan (I think they call it a saute pan). I use it nearly every day, not just as a frying pan but for casseroles, curries, paella. I love it so much, I have two! The handles are removable so it's great for throwing in the Aga.

Hermit · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2010, 07:05:06 pm »

My kettles are Aga ones....vintage off ebay. I used to bid on them all the time but never got one. Then we bid on two and got them both! A lot better than a leccy kettle. I dont even have a leccy toaster, not very good with things that are attatched to mains electric. I have an old telly that has been passed around friends as they have got new and when that goes I dont even want a telly.(laptops are exceptions to the rule) Hermit

Wizard · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2010, 08:21:26 pm »

Wots toast hermit?Not that absolutely dried brown stuff that some people try to catch as it flies earth wards after being launched.Mine is 3/4" thick speared on a long prong held in front of the fire.Then covered wi best beef drippin and all that black snotty stuff outta the drippin tin on Sunday eeeeeeeeee!Same wi baked potato they dont come outta microwave in my world

Hermit · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2010, 10:18:56 pm »

I have a barbeque, beef burger cooker thing for my toast. Official Rayburn versions are £40.00, B and Q barbie version a couple of quid. You just lay it on the top and put your home made 1/4 "thick slabs inside the mesh holder.We had to buy a loaf of bread the other day from the mobile shop as the yeast I bought was an empty packet(told Allinsons and they sent me enough flour and yeast for 8 loaves, three recipe books and my money back!!) The complaints I got about plastic bread and comparisons to roof tiles, the toast actually curled up at the corners. Karen

Wizard · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2010, 08:22:20 am »

I am a sucker for kitchen nic-naks another good tool is my potato peeler I see there is a ceramic bladed one now and my fabulously expensive silicon spoon is now 10 a penny I also like my silicon fish slice? The SD252 breadmaker is wonderfull I think it is far superior to the first MR one we had.Talking of flours Karen is there a Lidl near if there is try their Bread Flour its in a Green bag and 61p 11/2kg today as opposed to Red Plain Blue Self Raising.I use the Allinson dried yeast sachets and if I am about the 4 hr cook time its by far the best program.More later

Rosemary · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2010, 08:29:54 pm »

Best thing in our kitchen is Dan

MiriMaran · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2010, 08:50:42 pm »

I have to admit my OH does most of the cooking, but my favourite kitchen tool is my Aga and also like Hermit we don't have an electric kettle or toaster. Nor do we have a microwave or a tumble dryer but have a pulley above the Aga.

What is RCF by the way?

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