What's the greatest kitchen gadget to be invented?

[puppysurprise]

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?

Edited July 22, 2004 by puppysurprise (log)

[EdS]

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

[hillvalley]

Self cleaning kitchen

[tejon]

Self cleaning kitchen

I want one of those!

[lorea]

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

You got your wish.....Nonstick rolling pin

[bleachboy]

You got your wish.....Nonstick rolling pin

Whoah. My mind is blown. Has anybody tried this?! What's it made of?

[Gifted Gourmet]

Self cleaning kitchen

It's called a restaurant ...

[GG Mora]

Self-buttering toaster.

[Susan G]

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

[chezcherie]

self-cleaning fridge.

[sparrowgrass]

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.

[origamicrane]

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

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

[andiesenji]

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.

[AzRaeL]

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

[Pickles]

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.

[yushoe]

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

[Marmish]

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]

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]

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??

[sparrowgrass]

I'll buy one, Pickles!!

[fifi]

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

[John Braise]

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.

[AzRaeL]

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??

and no calorie carbo :)

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

[Verjuice]

-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.

Edited July 25, 2004 by Verjuice (log)

[jsolomon]

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?