favorite kitchen implement

(this is a mandoline btw)

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Hot: 12" Frying pan
Cold: Vintage Oster Beehive 1500W Blender

I also have a vintage ice crusher. So when the party flares up we break out the crusher to feed the blender along with other ingredients.
Maybe 80 daiquiris an hour if needed....
 
Gotta be the gas stove. Concerns over nitrates leading to cognitive decline are overblown - that ship sailed long ago. When the power goes out (as it often does in my neighborhood) I can still have hot food.
 
epower53 said:
Gotta be the gas stove. Concerns over nitrates leading to cognitive decline are overblown - that ship sailed long ago. When the power goes out (as it often does in my neighborhood) I can still have hot food.
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You know that no power means no gas - as people in texas found out recently?
I'm happy to have a certain range of options, from induction to woodstove. And as an inlaw once stated - the normal citizen of a western industry nation shall, when his stomach rumbles, look down and say "Shut up, liar". We want hot food, but we don't need it. Now coffee, well, that's a completely different thing. So I'd vote for (want)
  1. Coffee maker
  2. stove
  3. fridge
  4. airfryer
and for the need part: Clean water and Food. But that was not part of the question.
 
Crivens said:
You know that no power means no gas - as people in texas found out recently?
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Here in NY the gas stays on, even if the power outage lasts a week or more. Some of my neighbors even have gas-fired generators hooked directly into the utility gas line. I haven't gotten frustrated enough to make a purchase like that, but I've been close a couple of times.
 
"Gas" vs "power"
Lots of places in the US have "gas" (natural gas) piped to a lot of places. That often runs fine even if no electric at your location because the gas typically relies on pressure.
Then you have locations where homeowner has propane tanks on the property; that is independent of any public utility. You have fuel in the tank you can use it.

Now look at appliances:
gas (nat gas or propane), if you have fuel and electric to spark it you have heat. Stoves if you can light them with a match will work without electric.
Heating: often can't light with a match even it you have fuel flow.
 
Combi microwave (microwave, hot air, grill, all-in-one). Use the hot air for bake-off bread (don't know if this is common outside of the Netherlands) or pizza. Microwave to heat up ready-made meals.
 
SirDice said:
Combi microwave (microwave, hot air, grill, all-in-one). Use the hot air for bake-off bread (don't know if this is common outside of the Netherlands) or pizza. Microwave to heat up ready-made meals.
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Is "hot air" similar to what us US folk call convection oven/air fryer? Sounds similar. Microwave works for heating up but not cooking anything (my opinion). Cooking a beef stew at 300F/150C for 3 hours has a flavour you can't get from a microwave.

Bread is a lot closer to science with art than just cooking.
 
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