In my kitchen, I cannot live without my...

[shais_mom]

yup that's my Tonya!!

[Karen]

Tool: knives. You really can't replace a good set of blades.

Yeah, but not everyone's lucky enough to have a Dad like ours that teaches them how to sharpen good knives!

In my case, let's see ...

Tool: Good knives

Machine: Food Processor

Food: Onions..........It's the french canuck in my genes.

Hmm, I've got the same genes, but cannot decide whether to put onions or cinnamon ... this time of year, though, I'll say

Good Tomatoes!

And Richard, there's no kitchen appliance that scares me, but cleaning products can scare me, especially if they say "new and improved" because some of them make me extremely ill.

[pitc9]

I'd have to say that I could not live without most of my Pampared Chef tools!
OMG!
I love them all!
I think I love my chopper the best.

[RedHedd]

Kitchen item that scares me: Pressure cooker or deep fat fryer which is why I don't have any!

Predominant in my "pantry" - rice, pasta, beans, herbs & spices

[catland]

Machine - The coffee maker - without it, nothing else matters

Food - garlic - I can't wait for this year's garlic festival in August so that I can stock up on the good stuff!!! (But this year I'll pass on the garlic ice cream, that's definetly something that only needs to be experienced once in life).

Tools - used to be my nifty cheese grater/container that I bought at IKEA until I was told that I needed to get my cholesterol levels down.

[RICHARD]

I love my PC knifes.

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I have a giant tupperware bucket filled with rice in my cupboard.

MY big fear is of a box grater-knuckle buster- I always get down to the smallest part of the food I am grating and get paranoid!

[K9karen]

I'm fearfull OF the kitchen.

ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!

[pitc9]

Kitchen item that scares me: Pressure cooker or deep fat fryer which is why I don't have any!

Same Here!

I have a lot of, frozen chicken in my freezer.

I loooves me my chicken!

[cassiesmom]

In my kitchen, I cannot live without my...

Tool: Pampered Chef pizza wheel that neatly cuts lots of things other than pizza!
Machine: In-Sink-Erator hot water dispenser
Food: Strawberries
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telephone and take-away menus!
cat walking between my feet, meowing, waiting for a dish of milk or other people-food treat

[RICHARD]

DUDE!!!!!

I friggin hate the plastic packages that I have to open in the kitchen......
I usually grab a knife and proceed to punch holes into the plastic that make pouring out the contents harder!

One day I was thinking and grabbed one of these-----

http://www.westsky.com/letter-openers.htm

Companies GIVE them away and they open letters with no problem at all! I grabbed the one off of my telephone table and started to use it on the packets with not a care or problem in the world!

It's totally magic and I am going to glue a magnet onto mine and place it on the fridge.......If you have one try it!

It's a god send!

[Cinder & Smoke]

One fur da Kitchen ...

I friggin hate the plastic packages that I have to open in the kitchen......

One day I was thinking and grabbed one of these-----



http://www.westsky.com/letter-openers.htm

It's totally magic and I am going to glue a magnet onto mine and place it on the fridge ...

And one fur da CAR!!

HOW many tymes have you tried to break a tooth tearing one of those
D--- Plastic Packets to dump some KatSup or other securely packaged
kon-di-mints that the fast food (??) places dump into you bag with your order?

A RICHARD Letter Zipper sounds like a MUST-have for all of us Drive-Thru freeks!

GOOD Thinkin, Richard!!

[RICHARD]

One fur da Kitchen ...



And one fur da CAR!!


GOOD Thinkin, Richard!!

LOL, You are welcome!

I have a two techniques to hold the packages too!

I figured it out when I was spilling the larger pack-chips, noodles in the Hamburger Helper kits.

1)

Fold the top of the package over, Insert the pointy part and open away. Make sure you get a good grip of the bag, sometime I got way to confident!


2)

This one you need some 'theater of the mind' to get thru?

This works for smaller packages and takes a little practice!

Take your HOLDY hand and make a peace sign facing to the side and downward.
Close them on the top of the packet -holding it tight between those fingers-
Let the package hang down and use your thumb and remaining fingers to pull the plastic tight. Then zip the package open with the cutter.

With a little practice you can use your thumb and other fingers to push the ketchup down in the packet while you open it! The only drawback is the small pieces of plastic that are left over.

It sounds weird, but now I can open pretty much and package in a flash!

Practice and you'll see just how easy it is!

[Barbara]

Machine: stove.
Tools: my excellent German knives (Wüsthoff) and wooden spoons for cooking, my granny's cast iron pot
Food: canned tomatoes, Indian spices

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

That is a very interesting thingie, Richard!! I have NEVER seen it before!! Must tell Santa!

[Bengalz]

Sharp knives

Convection oven and Espresso machine

Fresh vegetables and fruits

and many more .... love my kitchen and spend a lot of time in it