My sister-in-law has an immersion blender. She got it for Christmas and I really couldn't see the function of it, but it does a lot of little jobs she would otherwise pull the blender out for. It also makes terrifically frothed milk for coffee!

My mom bought an expensive slicer for hard-boiled eggs at Bloomingdale's. It works great and even makes thin slices of strawberries.

I have one of these that I love. I use it to transfer hard-boiled eggs one at a time from the pot of hot water to the bowl of ice water, and to transfer cooked pasta from the boiling water to the colander instead of dumping the water and pasta into the colander over the sink.



And a spatula with a curve, sort of part spoon-part spatula! Love that thing!