What’s the next kitchen item you plan to buy (2025)?

I find mine variable but like badjak I find it useful for checking the temp of the pizza stone
I also often use it to check the temp of oil which if your after a very specific temp is very handy for checking the different spots in the pan (which vary by a surprising amount), that’s something a normal thermometer doesn’t pick up on.
 
I feel I should give an update on the infrared thermometer I use. Whilst I love it for certain jobs, it’s worth mentioning mine has a top temperature of 400°c (752°F) and that means it doesn’t work on the cast iron plate on the ovens hottest temp. It got to 397 and then just said ‘Hi’
Probably should have spent a bit more on one that goes a bit higher.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I feel I should give an update on the infrared thermometer I use. Whilst I love it for certain jobs, it’s worth mentioning mine has a top temperature of 400°c (752°F) and that means it doesn’t work on the cast iron plate on the ovens hottest temp. It got to 397 and then just said ‘Hi’
Probably should have spent a bit more on one that goes a bit higher.
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Yep, that one will say 'Hello'. 🤣
 
Kind of an impulse buy but glad I did! My apartment sized cutting board, made of recycled something, since the kitchen was smaller than my island I've got now.
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My new teak one!!!
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Wow. Bamboo’s pretty hard wearing and that knocks spots of it! Let us know how you get on.
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I'm going to give it an oiling for a couple of days before I use it. What I like to do is put the cutting board, elevated an inch, on the black hood of my truck and let it heat up and swell. Where there's enough oil you'll see the shimmer and where it needs it is dull. That's my SWAG, scientific wild ass guess, at an oil penetration determination. 🤷‍♂️ 👍
 
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badjak said:
Teak is definitely a hard wood!
I use it a lot, just not as cutting boards.
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You should try something called iron wood. It's a eucalyptus tree that is stunningly hard. You can't even hammer a nail in to it. You have to pre drill a hole to put a nail in and I have broken so many bits in the process is daft. It's a common building material here from the 50's & 60's and even now, it is rock solid and needs drilling to hammer a nail in

When I rebuilt the chicken coop, it was an open aviary, I had a hard time getting anything it to it and I broke a staggering 6 drill bits on the process. By the 3rd one, the rural supplies store asked me what I was doing. I had stupidly thought that I should use a wood bit for drilling into wood. :scratchhead:I ended up having to go up to much thicker diameter nails so that I didn't break the steel/metal drill bits... but that meant I was half drilling and half scorching the nail holes.
 
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