Food-related Holiday Gifts 2020: What Did You Receive?

[rotuts]

@ElsieD 

 

I like those three items !

 

any idea where they came for ?

 

how rigid are the spatulas?   and is the tip sharp or dull

 

I like spatulas that have sharper edged 

 

and its very nice there are in Red

 

we all know , Red is Best.

[rotuts]

@ElsieD 

 

does the bend in the plastic , creating the raised effect

 

get in the way of serious Spatulating ?

[ElsieD]

  On 12/28/2020 at 11:40 AM, rotuts said:

@ElsieD 

 

I like those three items !

 

any idea where they came for ?

 

how rigid are the spatulas?   and is the tip sharp or dull

 

I like spatulas that have sharper edged 

 

and its very nice there are in Red

 

we all know , Red is Best.

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The spatulas are rigid, they bend maybe 1/8th of an inch, if that, when you press down on the tip.  The edge is sharp.  If scrapping out the last of one of @JoNorvelleWalker 's peanut butter jars, they should cleanly scrape the peanut butter off the sides and bottom.  I would not think the bend would get in the way but I haven't tried it yet.  I did try the tongs - they're wonderful.  And yes, red is great and so is neon green.  Makes it easy to find them in the "cooking utensils and other gadgets" drawer.

[rotuts]

@ElsieD 

 

""  so is neon green "" 

 

Green is sort of a potential

 

disease 

 

it encourage you to thgink

 

GBP's are OK

 

they are not

 

but green onions , salad etc 

 

are OK

 

once you understand

 

you are unlikely to get

 

Red ' scallions '   but you can !

 

you have to grow them , and they taste the same

 

you can grow

 

' red' tiger's butter lettuce

 

but it taste the same.

 

cheers

[heidih]

I dett red in kitchen goods. Blue and green I am good. Tis a rainbow of likes and dislikes.

[ElsieD]

  On 12/28/2020 at 6:41 PM, rotuts said:

@ElsieD 

 

""  so is neon green "" 

 

Green is sort of a potential

 

disease 

 

it encourage you to thgink

 

GBP's are OK

 

they are not

 

but green onions , salad etc 

 

are OK

 

once you understand

 

you are unlikely to get

 

Red ' scallions '   but you can !

 

you have to grow them , and they taste the same

 

you can grow

 

' red' tiger's butter lettuce

 

but it taste the same.

 

cheers

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You will never, ever, see a GBP anywhere near my kitchen!

[gfweb]

  On 12/28/2020 at 6:59 PM, heidih said:

I dett red in kitchen goods. Blue and green I am good. Tis a rainbow of likes and dislikes.

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I prefer metal or wood...then red. Blue and green are immediately regifted

[heidih]

Truthfully the only color I have is a blue silicon type spatula. I am still the girl with the wooden spoons as a preference. I love how they change shape with use over time. I've gifted different styles to newer cooks over time. 

[BeeZee]

Belated plate of cookies from coworker. His wife includes some non-traditional like Mexican Hot Chocolate cookies (little chile burn) in the mix.

 

[Kim Shook]

@blue_dolphin – those pecans are gorgeous.  Mr. Kim used to work with someone who sold fantastic pecans to raise funds for the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department (not kidding – real name of a little township near us).  They aren’t doing it anymore, so, I’ve been getting by on Costco pecans for the last few years.

 

@Shelby – glad you got that new IP.  What can it do that the older ones can’t?  We got my MIL a “Duo” for her birthday and sometimes she asks questions I can’t answer since I don’t have one. 

 

@chromedome – gifts to people who really cook from people who really don’t are often sweet, but useless.  Luckily, I love Christmas-themed serving dishes and Mr. Kim has spread that around. 

 

It’s funny how different everyone’s tastes are.  I really don’t care for wooden spoons, or really anything totally rigid.  I don’t mind the kind that are flat on the end (good for scraping fond), but an oval wooden spoon I find almost totally useless to me.  They make one little eighth of an inch scrape in a pan and leave everything else behind to burn.  Give me a silicone or nylon spoon, spatula, etc. and I’m happy. 

 

After an agreement that Mr. Kim and I would save our Christmas pennies for a new kitchen floor when we feel safe having workers in our house and we’d only let Santa fill our stockings, I was, once again, flooded with kitchen/food gifts😄.  Some was from Jessica, but my normally sized stocking couldn’t possibly hold everything else:

The set of dessert plates (sitting up at the back) are lovely and my new little mini processor is pink, but what really thrilled me was the white enamel vented bread bowl.  I fell in love with the enamel pans when I kept seeing @CantCookStillTry using them.  I found them online and added them to my wishlist.  Apparently there is a 3 piece roasting pan on their way to me, too😁.  More:

We also agreed to not so much candy this year:

😳😄Very welcome, however, are the Tiptree Little Scarlet strawberry preserves (I’ve been out for months) and the Matiz cockles (time for @weinoo's clam sauce). 

[Shelby]

  On 1/3/2021 at 8:20 PM, Kim Shook said:

@blue_dolphin – those pecans are gorgeous.  Mr. Kim used to work with someone who sold fantastic pecans to raise funds for the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department (not kidding – real name of a little township near us).  They aren’t doing it anymore, so, I’ve been getting by on Costco pecans for the last few years.

 

@Shelby – glad you got that new IP.  What can it do that the older ones can’t?  We got my MIL a “Duo” for her birthday and sometimes she asks questions I can’t answer since I don’t have one. 

 

@chromedome – gifts to people who really cook from people who really don’t are often sweet, but useless.  Luckily, I love Christmas-themed serving dishes and Mr. Kim has spread that around. 

 

It’s funny how different everyone’s tastes are.  I really don’t care for wooden spoons, or really anything totally rigid.  I don’t mind the kind that are flat on the end (good for scraping fond), but an oval wooden spoon I find almost totally useless to me.  They make one little eighth of an inch scrape in a pan and leave everything else behind to burn.  Give me a silicone or nylon spoon, spatula, etc. and I’m happy. 

 

After an agreement that Mr. Kim and I would save our Christmas pennies for a new kitchen floor when we feel safe having workers in our house and we’d only let Santa fill our stockings, I was, once again, flooded with kitchen/food gifts😄.  Some was from Jessica, but my normally sized stocking couldn’t possibly hold everything else:

The set of dessert plates (sitting up at the back) are lovely and my new little mini processor is pink, but what really thrilled me was the white enamel vented bread bowl.  I fell in love with the enamel pans when I kept seeing @CantCookStillTry using them.  I found them online and added them to my wishlist.  Apparently there is a 3 piece roasting pan on their way to me, too😁.  More:

We also agreed to not so much candy this year:

😳😄Very welcome, however, are the Tiptree Little Scarlet strawberry preserves (I’ve been out for months) and the Matiz cockles (time for @weinoo's clam sauce). 

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WOW!  I swear, you get the best stuff!  

 

I'm still very much learning the new IP.  I need to go back and read our IP thread here and see what people have to say about it.  The two new functions on mine are the Sous Vide and Baking ones.  I used the SV doing some chicken and it worked great (but I'm confused because it doesn't circulate at all so......I thought that was the whole point to have water circulation). 

[Anna N]

  On 1/3/2021 at 10:50 PM, Shelby said:

I thought that was the whole point to have water circulation). 

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One of the very first commercially available sous vide gadgets what is the Sous Vide  Supreme. No circulator. Here.  
 

There is water movement, as I understand it, from convection currents. One of our SSBs could probably explain it much better than I.

 

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[Shelby]

  On 1/3/2021 at 11:31 PM, Anna N said:

One of the very first commercially available sous vide gadgets what is the Sous Vide  Supreme. No circulator. Here.  
 

there is water movement, as I understand it from convection currents. One of our SSBs probably explain it much better than I.

 

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Seriously good to know!  I worried the whole time I was using it.  It worked great but I was scared lol.

[ElsieD]

@Kim Shook  You are going to love that Danish whisk.  I use mine all the time.

 

@Shelby  For sous vide purposes, can you plug whatever temperature you want in the IP?

[Shelby]

  On 1/4/2021 at 12:45 AM, ElsieD said:

@Kim Shook  You are going to love that Danish whisk.  I use mine all the time.

 

@Shelby  For sous vide purposes, can you plug whatever temperature you want in the IP?

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Yes!

[Katie Meadow]

@Kim Shookmmm! Violet Crumble! Is the honeycomb candy you made like the inside of a Violet Crumble?

[Kim Shook]

  On 1/4/2021 at 3:38 AM, Katie Meadow said:

@Kim Shookmmm! Violet Crumble! Is the honeycomb candy you made like the inside of a Violet Crumble?

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Yes, but since I got the inspiration from Crunchies brought over by the UK by English relatives, we let them claim it.  😄

[Darienne]

  On 12/29/2020 at 1:54 AM, ElsieD said:

 

You will never, ever, see a GBP anywhere near my kitchen!

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Googled it, but could not find GBP in a suitable frame of reference.  Please explain. 

[heidih]

  On 1/3/2023 at 6:44 PM, Darienne said:

Googled it, but could not find GBP in a suitable frame of reference.  Please explain. 

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I assumed green bell pepper - one of the few foods I cannot tolerate

[ElsieD]

  On 1/3/2023 at 6:44 PM, Darienne said:

Googled it, but could not find GBP in a suitable frame of reference.  Please explain. 

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Yes, @heidihis correct.  Green bell pepper.