reynardo | A kitchen meme,

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dickgloucester, this is all about the contents of your kitchen utensil cupboards

(I'm feeling rather smug about this one!)

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, fondue sets, healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestle-and-mortars, and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.

Just tonight, I used the pasta machine, pastry brush and tea strainer (for dusting cocoa). Thanks to the popularity of oat rolls, the bread maker gets used about once a week. The slow cooker/rice cooker/pressure cooker - likewise. And the Indian meals I do about once every two months mean the mortar and pestle actually get used too.

Now if I were to include the ring-shaped cake tin, I'd have to admit "about once in 5 years". But that's probably the only thing.

In fact, regarding the Pasta machine, I had to go racing up to the hardware store because I've stripped the threads on the clamp it came with, and needed something else to connect it to the bench top.
ETA: I've just had to look up a bundle of these - I now want a jam funnel, a banana stand, and the cherry-stoner that sits at the back of my parents' kitchen drawer and which has probably been used twice in the last 40 years.