what's your favorite Implement/appliance?

We had a food processor at McAlister's Deli when I worked there that made a really cool sound when the cucumbers went through it. I guess that would be my answer, if only because I don't use a wide variety of cutlery in my daily cooking.

>>8987272
Microplane, or dropping the brand name, a zester.

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>>8987272
I have a wooden spatula similar to this that I use all the time. Wooden spoons are good too

I've got a professional mixer. Worth it to make your own breads and bagels.

>>8987319
which one do you have?

>>8987317
i had a bunch of wooden stuff but a shitty roommate kept leaving em in hot pans or in the sink full of water for days at a time and they all turned gross

>>8987272
Looks like a fedora

>>8987433
kek I was about to say the same.

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>>8987296
Rasp grater. A zester is the shitty old-fashioned kind.

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This thing. So satisfying.

>>8987272
Immersion blender

or just my most used knife...

>>8987465
ive never had one of these

My Thermapen is my favourite kitchen tool. Everything is so much easier with a good thermometer.

>>8987433
m'slices and m'juliennes

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I dont cook, I wash dishes

>>8987568
ive heard one of the best things for cast iron is a chainmail scrubber

>>8987296
It can do more than zest. I use mine for grating nutmeg. A Japanese youtuber I follow grates garlic on it. Doesn't work too well for that.

>>8987393
I'd bet money it's a Kitchen Aid.

>>8987574
Get off the farm, Country Joe.

>>8987272
So in all seriousness I'd assume you would recommend a mandolin?

>>8987618
yea they're pretty great. the one in the pic is an OXO one a friend has. you can use a dial to change how thick you slice stuff and it can do juliennes and crinkle cut slices which is cool cause you can use that to do your own waffle fries

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>>8987296
Came here to post this. Can't live without it.

>>8987611
yea. i want to get one. are the lower cost ones ok or should i go balls deep and get a high price one?

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>>8987272
Too many uses in the kitchen.

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When we moved into the house the garbage disposal what this tiny little crappy thing that was loud as fuck but could not actually bring anything, it was always jamming clogging and backing up.

Wife went out of town for a weekend, I put in pic related.

There is something satisfying about watching chicken bones disappear down the drain with no problem.

>>8987433

had to give that pic a second glance there

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i dont understand how i lived without these for so long

>>8987854
I have never seen the point of them. Is it an apartment tool. Don't you have access to a bin?

>>8987854
that sounds amazing. im living out in the country right now so we've got a septic tank which means no disposal unless we get one of those special ones that spray extra enzyme stuff into what you're grinding up otherwise the septic tank can get fucked up

>>8987616
no

large volcanic rock mortar and pestle, my Mexican molcajete makes the best guacamole, grilled salsa and grinds all my spices.also great for Asian dishes to muttle shit.

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Mostly because I only use it to make delicious things.

>>8987898
Not apartment, house quite a ways from the city. We have sewer, so don't have the requirements for the septic, but we like to keep food waste in the garbage cans to a minimum.

Raccoons, possums, coyotes, foxes, the occasional black bear... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you are European and don't see the point in every house having a rifle or two laying about either.

On one hand, it must be nice living on a continent that has been so domesticated for so long that you don't have to worry about stuff like that. On the other hand, I'm glad this isn't Australia where EVERYTHING wants to kill you.

>>8987925
But that's what's great about Australia, mate. Only the strong survive.

My cast iron dutch oven I got as a xmas gift. Whenever this is in the oven, shits gonna be so damn good

>>8987272
WHAT IS THIS GLORIOUS DEVICE?

>>8987272
Knife.

>>8987272
Potato ricer

>>8988028
a mandoline slicer

>>8988044
i dont have one. what's your favorite dish to make using it?

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When you absolutely need to chop and mix the everloving hell out of ANYthing ever. Accept no substitutes, not even a Robocoup.

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>>8987272
knife or blow torch
>>8988099
what is that and how does it work

>>8988084
Riced potato

>>8988099
Jackie Brown reference?

>>8987272
that bell pepper is wearing a fedora

>>8987272
garlicpress, mezzaluna, large vietnamese cleaver
pressing garlic its strangely satisfying, for the mezzaluna the fact it saves a lot of time and has a pretty narrow use makes me happy when there is a rare reason to actually use it, same for the cleaver

>>8987867
Sexy. I'm stuck using heavy ass glass pyrex bowls for some reason.

>>8987473
>Immersion blender
yes

I'm pretty emotionally attached to my Chinese cleaver, because every time I get ready to cook it's pretty much the first thing I reach for.

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If you don't have one of these in your kitchen, you don't know SHIT about cooking.

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I bought a used blendtec for a few bucks off of Craigslist and it has changed my life, I can blend the fuck out of anything

>>8989127
Nice unitasker, fag. I just use a cleaver. Works just as well.

>>8989127
jack scalfani recently bought one of these, think about that.

>>8987272
Combination electric pressure cooker/slow cooker/rice cooker. Soups, stews, chili, and braises with little time required, but with great results. Also doesn't heat up the kitchen in the summer like a simmering pot of liquid or turning on the oven.

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Gravity is my favorite appliance cuz it keeps my ingredients in the bowl and not floating around

>>8987272
>Pepper fedora

>>8989127
Came here to post this. I find myself reaching for it more and more. Love it.

>>8988028
Finger slicer, it can also slice other things.

I like it for peeling taters too.

>>8987749
Kitchen aid isn't a professional mixer, even though they have a line called "professional". it says right on the professional "for home use only" which means it's not gonna hold up in a restaurant environment.

Get a Hobart if you need a real pro mixer

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THIS

Has completely changed the way I cook, everything is a new adventure

>>8990893
Just sucks that an all-steel model is like $100, the ones with the plastic frames all end up breaking due to stress sooner or later.

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>>8990898
For 2 grand? Christ.

>>8987296
Zester is a brand name? Wtf

>>8990974
What the fuck is that thing

>>8991147
Thermomix, you will never cook with anything else again with one of those bad boys

>>8991147
It's a thermomix, it can heat, blend and do all sorts of other shit, my mum had one of the bigger ones and it was pretty decent

>>8987616
Is liking cast iron for hicks or something? All my pans are cast iron but then again I do live in Ohio

>>8991154
>>8991151
>The successor model TM 5 was rated in 2015 with mark 2.9 (satisfactory). The noise level (measured at 91 decibel by stirring water)
>There have been numerous accounts of a Thermomix machine "exploding" and burning people with scalding liquids
>The ABC understands 18 of those required several weeks of treatment in hospital burns units.
Sounds like a dangerous mystery machine

>>8991166
My mum had the Thermomix 4, it was pretty good.

It was pretty loud though but wasn't as loud as a regular blender, no explosions, looks like the top of the TM5 seals whereas the top for the TM4 had a hole in the top for a cap thing.

Apparently the TM5 had bad rubber seals

>>8990898
I've worked with industrial Hobart mixers before. They're pretty fucking durable.

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STOP BUYING UNITASKERS

>>8991160
i dont think so man. they're great and its pretty much impossible to fuck them up bad enough that they're unusable

>>8987272
fuck you OP my coworker died that way

>>8991534
died from a mandoline?

>guess he didn't make the cut

>>8991264
Fuck this annoying faggot

>>8987272
tough call between slapchop and blender.
I love salsa and smoothies.

>>8991547
Kek

>>8987465
yessss

>>8987394
>i had a bunch of wooden stuff but a shitty roommate kept leaving em in hot pans or in the sink full of water for days at a time and they all turned gross
Drop them in some bleach and they'll lose the fungus

>>8991264
Theres nothing inherently wrong with unitaskers. The issue is that new cooks don't know what they're going to regularly and can't differentiate between junk that isn't much better and is hard to clean, junk that will clutter your kitchen because you rarely need it, and products that actually make your life a lot easier because you use them constantly for a dish or dishes you often make.

But once again since the show is made for beginner cooks a lot of people take that stupid fucking rule to the extreme

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>>8987272
I actually find that in the kitchen, in practice the juicero is amazing.

>>8987272
garlic press

diced garlic just isn't the same

>>8987918
Why do need a hand mixer? Why not just buy a hand blender that has the blender feature + some extra? A hand blender will likely take the same space in the kitchen but it much more versatile

>>8989215
lol what?
do you know what thats for?

>>8992487
i've never seen a unitasker that was so helpful that it saved me so much time that it was worth the space in my limited number of drawers
honestly a couple of multitaskers, a decent set of knives, and a little bit of skill is usually faster than having multiple unitaskers for one meal

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>>8987272
>it doesn't even have to be something you use a lot, just that one thing where you're going to prep something and you think "oh fuck yeah i get to use ____ for this"
My Vitamix, hands down. I love to watch it process everything I toss in it dwon to purees or powders. Using the tamper to force stubborn veggies or fruits into the swirling vortex is also highly very therapeutic. Using the pulse button to get the perfect texture on salsa and mise en place is a dream. It's obnoxiously loud though.

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>>8993067
It's a dough scraper. When I make doughs I use my cleaver similar to pic. I'm not buying a unitasking piece of clutter when a cleaver does exactly the same thing.

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>>8989207
Will it blend? That is the question.

>>8993221

I tried that once but found that the slight belly on the knife was useless compared to a flat scraper.

>>8992474
They'll also soak up the bleach. Wouldn't vinegar work just as well?

>>8992487
What unitaskers do you use that save you a lot of time?

>>8993332
his eyes stare into your soul

>>8987433
came here to post this
>tips mandoline

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>>8993359
Not him, but this. It's the only unitasker I own other than a meat grinder, sausage stuffer, refrigerator, smoker, grill, range/oven, dishwasher, washing machine, knife, hammer, screw driver, shovel, rake, hoe, tiller, fishing pole, shotgun, rifle, car, house and freezer.

>>8993325
I'd like to buy one of these for a few steam cooking recipes, how do you use them?

>>8987854
I never use mine since I'm afraid it's bad for the pipes

>>8993528

Lol, what? The whole point of those things is that they are NOT bad for the pipes. What's bad is putting crap down the pipes without running it through a garbage disposal.

>>8993136
If I order now, can I get 2 for 89.99?

>>8993539

You seem to be confusing a made-for-TV gimmick with an actual pro blender.

Vitamix and Blendtec are like $500....

>>8993553
But can it cube and slice and dice, and even do it thrice?

>>8987272
Rice cooker easily one of my favorites

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Air Fryer

i got a pampered chef mandoline, and it's such a piece of shit

>>8992516
Tell me more.

Does anyone have recommendations for spiralizers?

>>8993493
The Marcato Atlas 150 mm Deluxe.
I actually picked up one of those at a thrift shop yesterday for $12.
Pasta for me.

>2900 Satsuma
What are you trying to tell me Captcha?

>>8987465
I like using it on my girlfriend's husband's dick.

>>8989127

Or, you keep using your cleaver and curse yourself every time for not buying a real scraper yet because every time you buy kitchen tools you forget to buy a fucking dough scraper.

>>8987854
LOL

Reminds me of the bathroom fan in my old house. The motor burned out and the manufacturer wanted a shitload to replace it, so I bought an industrial motor of the same size.

Well, physical size. Turns out it was so powerful that -- once I got done reinforcing the squirrel cage thingie that actually moved the air -- it would pull enough of a vacuum to pull open the front door of the house if it wasn't latched.

>>8993086
Citrus squeezer has made lemonade a monthly treat vs a pain in the ass process I undertake once during the summer

Rice cooker will always make better rice than a pot.

>>8988133

>>8988099 is a buffalo chopper. The bowl spins and there are blades in the back that chop and mix.

>>8987898
When you're doing all your dishes by hand there isn't much point, but its nice being able to just rinse and stick a plate in the dish washer and not have to worry about the sink clogging up.

It was always disgusting having to clean out the food trap in the sink when the sink inevitably got clogged up when I was living over seas

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>>8994603
>Rice cooker will always make better rice than a pot

>>8991566

Anthony Bourdain fan detected

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>>8987483
>>8993475
>my slices

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Simple, yet satisfying.

>>8987272
fuck I want a mandoline like that, I hate the fucking open ones without a handle where you fucking cut off a part of your finger every once in a while

>>8991143
>Dropping the brand name, a zester
>No longer using the brand name, it is called a zester
>Microplane is the brand name

>>8994893
Get a kevlar or chainmail glove

>>8994603
>Rice Cooker

Doesn't really count as a unitasker if you use it many times a week; I mean technically it's correct, but it's not what he's complaining about.

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>>8994269
http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-spiralizer/
The OXO is the best tested version right now.

>>8994704
>He exclusively cooks uncle bens

A proper locking lid rice cooker ALWAYS makes rice better than a pot. The shitty ones have a lid like a pot unsurprisingly.

A knife.

We had a food processor at McAlister's Deli when I worked there that made a really cool sound when the cucumbers went through it. I guess that would be my answer, if only because I don't use a wide variety of cutlery in my daily cooking.

>>8987925
Not him, but I am European they don't exist here. Neither in Eastern Europe or in France or Germany. Do have firearms though, but for fun and collecting.

I've always seen them on TV though, but honestly never saw the point as we just throw everything in the garbage or separate waste.

>>8995261
>he can't cook rice properly and still tries to act superior

Learn your proportions and how to heat manage, I guarantee a rice cooker can't do better

>>8987279
lol I know that feel. At Applebee's we had a processor that was cranked by hand and had 4 suction cup legs to hold it above a pan. I fuckin loved putting onions and tomatoes through it. >>8987826
How do I google this thing? I like it.

>>8995970
Have you ever even had rice from a proper rice cooker?
You're fucking wrong. A proper rice cooker has a boatload of sensors inside of it adjusting the heat and turning it off. Theres a reason pretty much every single restaurant and family in East Asia has a rice cooker

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raclette and korean BBQ in one machine

also I got a hot pot

>>8996385
What the hell is that

>>8996385
>>8996389
>kill_me.jpg

>>8993525
I assume you just put them on top of a boiling pot of water.

>>8996398

Not a pot. A wok.

You could put them over a pot but you'd have to get lucky and have the exact correct diameter pot. Wok is much easier since the steamer will fit perfectly on any size wok.

>>8996373
Not him but I agree.
Rice Cookers are basically anus compared to cooking it yourself.

>>8996404
Ahh cool, thanks.
Not the same guy but I have also been looking into steamer baskets.

What do you like to cook with them?

>>8996410
I don't like to use the bamboo baskets because they're hard to clean. I bought a multi-tier stainless steamer from my local Asian supermarket. That's much easier to clean.

I don't use it all that often. Steaming is one of my least favorite cooking methods because it doesn't add any flavor and it doesn't crisp the food. That said, I do use it for:
-dumplings/potstickers
-homemade Vietnamese-style charcutierie
-crabs (before using the meat in other dishes)

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>>8996389
>>8996395

I have such pleasures to show you

>>8996430
Mate.. at least try to convince us.

>>8996430
This gives me ideas but I need proof.

>>8996385
>>8996430
I'm the anon asking about t, but tbqh it does look like a nightmare to clean.

>>8996430
Hahaha its like something out of dante's inferno

mandolin are scary what if you shave off a fingernail. I mean ouch. these things are scary. do not want.

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>>8996373
>pretty much every single restaurant and family in East Asia has a rice cooker

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>>8988261
>>8990893
>>8993539
>>8994601
So many unexpected keks.

>>8996373
In what way is the rice better?

>>8996583
He's just dumb and burns his rice so he says rice cookers are better because they have "sensors"

>>8987272
Grinding spices with mortar and pestle is by far and away the most enjoyable thing for me when using the kitchen.

>>8996540
>mandolin

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Anyone ever used one of these? Experiences?
Sounds like it would make chopping incredibly faster, but still, I never see it being mentioned.

>>8996633
They're fine but fuckin annoying to clean. Use a knife.

>>8996633
Fuck off YouTube faggot.

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>>8996637
Thanks, I suspected they might be shit for some reason.

>>8987465
Literally orgasmic to use
Literally

>>8996633

Assuming you have a sharp knife you'd be done chopping before you even found that silly thing.

>>8996633
I got one as a stocking stuffer for christmas. I've tried to use it to chop parsley and stuff but it doesnt do a very good job, it was easier to just go back to using a big knife on a cutting board.

>>8996637
Decent ones are dishwasher safe

>>8996719
How is opening one drawer faster than opening a cabinet?

>>8996774

I assume you already have the knife out since it's essential for the rest of whatever you're cooking.

The silly chopping gizmo wouldn't get used much so it's probably buried in the back of a cabinet or in the kitchen junk drawer.

>>8989127
Lol I used to work as a dishboy and I used one of those to scrape up excess food waste/water to clean the station up. Never thought they were for food.

>>8996528

It is. kind of a fun gimmick though. it's mainly for raclette and the rest is memes

>>8988909
Isn't that a great fucking movie? The older I get the more I appreciate it.

>>8996421
>>8996410
I'm the original guy asking, thanks for the clarifications! I also have a single tier stainless steamer which I use for pretty much the same things as you, was only wondering if those bamboo steamers could add anything apart visuals (didn't think so so I'm happy to see it is the case)

Mortar and pestle, its soothing to use

>>8997290
It is in fact the best Tarantino movie
People have a hard time convincing themselves of this objective fact

>>8992516
like $400 for a big ass space-wasting block with a mandatory network connection. won't squeeze unless it's connected to wifi. plus, you can get juice like 95% the same quality as the machine just by hand squeezing the bag

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>>8997936
I was about to jump in here and say this better be said about Jackie Brown, you didn't disappoint me /ck/