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Favorite/cutest kitchen tools/gadgets? 🥣🔪

GingerPeach — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:16:05 GMT

If you like, share a picture of your favorite or cutest kitchen gadgets or tools.

I love my elephant containers. The larger one I use for salt, and the tiny one for sugar.

And the celestial measuring cups I haven't even used yet but they were so cute I had to get them (from Marshall's).

They say "1 cup of moonlight; 1/2 cup of starlight; 1/3 cup of shimmer; 1/4 cup of dreams."

I could add a photo of my little dog, but decided that was too easy!

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Foolywooly11 — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:20:20 GMT

I really like those celestial cups!

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Drythe — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:28:22 GMT

I love my big, red, tomato 🍅!

Never used for the original purpose.

Hey, @GingerPeach

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GingerPeach — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:39:41 GMT

Hey, @Drythe

Happy Sunday. I'm making biscotti. If they come out all right, you are welcome to stop by!! (Although the plane ticket is coming from your own pocket!)

I love that tomato. Such a happy kind of thing. 🍅

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Drythe — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:05:15 GMT

@GingerPeach wrote:
Hey, @Drythe
Happy Sunday. I'm making biscotti. If they come out all right, you are welcome to stop by!! (Although the plane ticket is coming from your own pocket!)

I love that tomato. Such a happy kind of thing. 🍅

Dear friend @GingerPeach & Miss Kiku,

Yum, biscotti! Wish I could fly to visit with you two.

I am making vegetarian bean soup 🥣, and DH is making his wonderful French Bread 🥖.

Ralphie is NPO and convinced that he is being treated in a very cruel way. I’m sure he is thinking very badly of us, and plotting revenge.

Miss Kiku, your Mom is doing a very good thing for you in taking you to see the lady dentist, it will save you much trouble later. Just think what a beautiful smile you will have!

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phoenixbrd — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:33:49 GMT

@GingerPeach Those little elephants are adorable!

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Drythe — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:11:46 GMT

@GingerPeach

Your post inspired me to go 'shopping' at Amazon.

I found these ~

Which of course made me think of you.

And these, which I have, although this photo is from Amazon stock.

I love the 'dash', or 1/4 cup which comes from the dip in his head. Robbie does not have such a dip !

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GingerPeach — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:18:38 GMT

Those remind me of Greece - the blue and the waves and maybe the prow of a ship. Very nice. I think functional, too, since the extension/handle makes them more ergonomic than the ones I have.

(Which is maybe why I haven't used mine yet.)

And good gracious - I'm so happy to hear Robbie has no dip.

I still think you should be published. You have a sweet, intellligent style plus you're funny! @Drythe

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Mz iMac — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:38:30 GMT

My favorite kitchen "tool" is my 20+ yr old electric jar opener.....

My 2nd favorite are my long sleeve pot holders. I use them every day. I threw away all of my "standard" type pot holders since I purchased 4 pairs....

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HLP — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 03:49:30 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
My favorite kitchen "tool" is my 20+ yr old electric jar opener.....

My 2nd favorite are my long sleeve pot holders. I use them every day. I threw away all of my "standard" type pot holders since I purchased 4 pairs....

I have both of these. Thr jar opener is from my DIL parents that have passed.Never knew they made these. I use it often. The mitts are from QVC . They are my favorite too.

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lolakimono — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:35:34 GMT

@GingerPeach

My fish measuring scoops make me happy.

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violann — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:57:37 GMT

I always LOVED the Tupperware measuring cups and spoons that came in several sized measurements, and searched high and low after they were discontinued for a replacement.

A month or so ago I FOUND a wonderful set at Walmart that contains such sizes as 2/3 c, tiny spoons for a “pinch” “dash” and large spoons for 1 1/2 T, etc., SEVENTEEN SEPARATE SIZES in all!

HAPPY COOK!!!

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okaywitheasypay — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:33:43 GMT

not cute - but my favorite is a silicone tube to roll garlic in to peel . I never want to be without it.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:27:58 GMT

Honorable mentions......

My electric coffee/spice grinder which I use to crush up rock sea salt & peppercornes together.

I then put the mixture into an OXO salt shaker w/a spout.

The "pepper" shaker is for that one person who does not/cannot have "salt."

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Nightowlz — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:02:56 GMT

Some of my Owls. I also have the Cookie Jar that looks like the owl on the trivet on the right side. I have the Trivets hanging on the wall in my kitchen. I received the trivets & cookie jar from an old boss in the 80's for my Birthday one year. We both collected owls.

My sister sent me the owl spoon rest she bought at Cracker Barrel.

I have over 100 owls but most of them are boxed up. I got tired of dusting all of them every week. LOL!!!

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chickenbutt — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:29:57 GMT

@Nightowlz wrote:
Some of my Owls. I also have the Cookie Jar that looks like the owl on the trivet on the right side. I have the Trivets hanging on the wall in my kitchen. I received the trivets & cookie jar from an old boss in the 80's for my Birthday one year. We both collected owls.
My sister sent me the owl spoon rest she bought at Cracker Barrel.
I have over 100 owls but most of them are boxed up. I got tired of dusting all of them every week. LOL!!!

Oh, I love them!

Two of my fav kitchen gadgets are my OXO jar opener (it's magical!), and the little gadget to pull that gross white thing out of eggs before using them in baking. It's called Tidee-Egg and is a very basic little plastic thing with tiny plastic teeth, but it makes the job way easier.

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Nightowlz — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:06:14 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
@Nightowlz wrote:
Some of my Owls. I also have the Cookie Jar that looks like the owl on the trivet on the right side. I have the Trivets hanging on the wall in my kitchen. I received the trivets & cookie jar from an old boss in the 80's for my Birthday one year. We both collected owls.
My sister sent me the owl spoon rest she bought at Cracker Barrel.
I have over 100 owls but most of them are boxed up. I got tired of dusting all of them every week. LOL!!!

Oh, I love them!

Two of my fav kitchen gadgets are my OXO jar opener (it's magical!), and the little gadget to pull that gross white thing out of eggs before using them in baking. It's called Tidee-Egg and is a very basic little plastic thing with tiny plastic teeth, but it makes the job way easier.

@chickenbutt

Never heard of Tidee-Egg. I will have to Google it.

Wonder if that OXO jar opener would have opened the carton of milk I had last week. I could not get the cap off with anything. I even tried pliers. I ended up cutting a hole in the carton so I could pour milk out. LOL!!!

DH could not get the cap off either. He had to use a pair of channel lock pliers. Guess I need to see if the new carton will open or not so I can get him to open it. It's like they glued on those caps. Wonder how many people returned theirs unable to get it off?

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chickenbutt — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:29:43 GMT

@Nightowlz wrote:
@chickenbutt wrote:
@Nightowlz wrote:
Some of my Owls. I also have the Cookie Jar that looks like the owl on the trivet on the right side. I have the Trivets hanging on the wall in my kitchen. I received the trivets & cookie jar from an old boss in the 80's for my Birthday one year. We both collected owls.
My sister sent me the owl spoon rest she bought at Cracker Barrel.
I have over 100 owls but most of them are boxed up. I got tired of dusting all of them every week. LOL!!!

Oh, I love them!

Two of my fav kitchen gadgets are my OXO jar opener (it's magical!), and the little gadget to pull that gross white thing out of eggs before using them in baking. It's called Tidee-Egg and is a very basic little plastic thing with tiny plastic teeth, but it makes the job way easier.
@chickenbutt

Never heard of Tidee-Egg. I will have to Google it.
Wonder if that OXO jar opener would have opened the carton of milk I had last week. I could not get the cap off with anything. I even tried pliers. I ended up cutting a hole in the carton so I could pour milk out. LOL!!!
DH could not get the cap off either. He had to use a pair of channel lock pliers. Guess I need to see if the new carton will open or not so I can get him to open it. It's like they glued on those caps. Wonder how many people returned theirs unable to get it off?

Sometimes screw-on tops are so hard to open - or I'm just old...not sure exactly which. But the OXO jar opener has been a life-saver for me. It goes from as small as a 16oz bottle of water to a 4" diameter screw-on. When I first tried it, I was shocked at how easy it was.

Before that I would try putting on one of my rubber kitchen gloves and that helped some, but this is just so easy that it really blew my mind.

The Tidee-Egg is also great for people like me, anyway, who are grossed out by that white thing in the eggs.

I got both of these items at Amazon (of course! ).

Forgot to say as to the Jar Opener: Before I got mine I had a pint of Talenti gelato (has a screw-on lid) that I couldn't open for the life of me and my husband, who is quite strong still, couldn't even get it open. Got the opener and it took a hot second, by me who is very NOT strong, and it was off. Like I mentioned, I actually WAS shocked.

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Imaoldhippie — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:02:51 GMT

My favorite is my battery operated salad spinner.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:35:56 GMT

Ok, I have one contribution for 'cutest'. Years ago, IIRC, I saw these guys on a Pier 1 ad and remarked how cute I thought they were and my husband went out and bought them for me.

Maybe not so much a gadget, as they are s&p shakers. But I've never filled them and they just sit at the back of my black stove. I just moved them to a cutting board for a slightly better pic. I love them so much!

BTW, they are not giant. They are quite small. That's just one of my one quart LC pots behind them.