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What's the greatest kitchen gadget to be invented?

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puppysurprise

puppysurprise

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C'mon all you closet inventors.

A non-stick rolling pin would be nice. Made of Teflon, Silpat silicone, or Cheneyskin. Do these exist yet?

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EdS

EdS

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Cookware with a 2.5mm thick copper core and stainless steel interior and exterior.

hillvalley

hillvalley

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Self cleaning kitchen

True Heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.

It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,

but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -Arthur Ashe

tejon

tejon

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Self cleaning kitchen

I want one of those!

Kathy

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van Horne

Susan G

Susan G

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Self-walking dog (returns from morning promenade with plastic-wrapped copy of the NY Times in mouth)!

I'm a canning clean freak because there's no sorry large enough to cover the, "Oops! I gave you botulism" regrets.

sparrowgrass

sparrowgrass

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I just bought a Roomba--a robotic vacuum cleaner, and I love the little guy. Looks like an oversized CD player, or maybe a plastic trilobite. He is cute AND useful--cleans up the dog hair while I take a shower or cook dinner.

Greatest gadget yet to be invented--a Roomba who mops.

sparrowgrass
origamicrane

origamicrane

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esvoboda Posted: Jul 22 2004, 12:15 AM

Cookware with a 2.5mm thick copper core and stainless steel interior and exterior.

nice idea but could be a problem due to the different expansivity rates of the metals or could just galvanised the copper core?

any metal expert out there as mine is just A-level :raz:

actually i wonder if Egullet should approach a few catering equipment manufacturers and offer to become there focus group/ testers :smile:

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

"tastes so good makes you want to slap your mamma!!"

andiesenji

andiesenji

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I wish someone would RE-INVENT the home use large batch potato peeler.

We had one when I was a child, one of my aunts has it and will not part with it, says she will will it to me but the way she is going, she may outlive me.

It just looks like a large pot, rounded top and bottom has a fitted lid with a couple of thick rubber paddles. The inside walls of the pot have an abrasive surface. One filled the pot with potatoes, then with water and cranked the thing, checking through a sliding door in the top to see how the potatoes were comign along.

I mean, you could do 10 pounds of potatoes in a very short period of time, they always had a few stray bits of skin here and there, where the eyes were, but it was quick.

I think they disappeared becaue of smaller families.

I have been haunting ebay, hoping to see one come up, but apparently everyone who has one is hanging onto them for dear life.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

AzRaeL

AzRaeL

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cooking time machine.

i make a mistake and my food is a tad overcooked or simply burnt.

hit the button...whooomp i get another chance

Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.

Pickles

Pickles

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Beat me to it...I was gonna say a device that removes burnt and scorched tastes from foods! Because that's the only cooking blunder that can't be fixed. How about a spoon that beeps JUST before your creme anglaise turns into scrambled eggs. :biggrin:

yushoe

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self-cleaning blender- would make me much more inclined to whip up some smoothies and such

Marmish

Marmish

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self-cleaning blender- would make me much more inclined to whip up some smoothies and such

Fill 1/2 to 2/3 of the way with warm water. Add one or two drops of dishwashing liquid. Blend. Rinse. Voila, clean blender. Smoothie on.

Katherine

Katherine

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I always wanted an automatic home fry maker: raw cut potatoes go in one end, fat and seasoning dispensed, and crispy browned home fries come out the other end.

Pickles

Pickles

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OK...I have it. I want an "FFD" machine. The Fattening Food Defibrillator. Place one HUGE serving of Fettuccine Alfredo (etc...) in the handy-dandy trough. Press "start". Food is automatically jolted with electricity, de-fattened, and left with all flavor, texture, and integrity. What could be better 'n' this, I ask you!?? Eh?? :cool:

fifi

fifi

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That magic machine where you drop in a whole head of garlic and perfect 1/16th inch diced garlic comes out the other end.

Linda LaRose aka "fifi"

"Having spent most of my life searching for truth in the excitement of science, I am now in search of the perfectly seared foie gras without any sweet glop." Linda LaRose

John Braise

John Braise

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I'm waiting for a non-caloric (or low caloric), non-carcinogenic, tasteless, colorless food grade heat transfer fluid that's good up to 500 deg F.

Automatic Nobel Prize.

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AzRaeL

AzRaeL

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OK...I have it. I want an "FFD" machine. The Fattening Food Defibrillator. Place one HUGE serving of Fettuccine Alfredo (etc...) in the handy-dandy trough. Press "start". Food is automatically jolted with electricity, de-fattened, and left with all flavor, texture, and integrity. What could be better 'n' this, I ask you!?? Eh?? :cool:

and no calorie carbo :)

I love eating Ice Cream and Pastry in the middle of the night.

Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.

Verjuice

Verjuice

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-Adjust-a-size Tupperware. I own so many of the stupid things to accomodate varying amounts of food.

-Disposable tea kettles.

-Fold-up 'n' go food processors. So few people that I know seem to own one, and I use mine almost everyday. I hate lugging it around when I cook at friends' homes.

-Bring-back-to-life texture saving pellets (made from tasteless herbs grown in the hills surrounding Kyoto and picked by young virgins, of course) for reviving leftover pasta.

-Microbial dipsticks for testing restaurant food. No more of that unsettling and disquieting waiting-for-the-rumble after eating an Indian or a Thai meal.

-Espresso machine that plugs into the car cigarette lighter. For long road trips with really poor prospects as far as decent coffee is concerned.

edited because the fantasies keep coming.

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jsolomon

jsolomon

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I'm waiting for a non-caloric (or low caloric), non-carcinogenic, tasteless, colorless food grade heat transfer fluid that's good up to 500 deg F.

Automatic Nobel Prize.

Have you tried air?

I always attempt to have the ratio of my intelligence to weight ratio be greater than one. But, I am from the midwest. I am sure you can now understand my life's conundrum.

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