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

JAS_OH1 said:
Do the yolks come out centered? Much of the time when I'm boiling eggs it's for deviled eggs and if the yolks aren't centered it's annoying, as the filled part is at one end of the egg.
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They seem to if I do “The Morning Glory Move,” giving them a good strong flick or three.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Superfluous to requirements, doing my best to talk myself out of this unnecessary expenditure. Can feel brain trying to find a reason to buy it.. no must not spend money on unnecessary frippery immediately after instant pot purchase.
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But it's picnic ware and it's purdy, surely one can't hurt .... 😬
TastyReuben where are you? I need your bad influence 😆

Edit: Oh dear there’s more than one.
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What's it for?
 
MypinchofItaly said:
The next kitchen item I am planning to buy (here in Cork or in Milan, whatever) is the air fryer. I am getting so many positive feedback about that that I think it may worth it the investment. Am I right or am I going to make a mistake?
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We love ours and use it 4 or 5 times a week. I'll be honest though, we use ours more as a miniature oven. It saves time and energy and doesn't get the house overly warm in summer.

Ours is also barely bigger than our kettle so doesn't take up much space. If and when it fails, we would buy the same make and size again without hesitation (in fact last year in the UK, we did exactly that and have it to my sister whose house we were staying in).
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
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Glad you asked 😂
I was thinking it would be a nice thing to take Mr SSOAP some decent food while he’s in hospital.
Reckon if I was recovering and someone turned up with a pretty pail filled with little bits of food I liked I’d get better much faster.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We love ours and use it 4 or 5 times a week. I'll be honest though, we use ours more as a miniature oven. It saves time and energy and doesn't get the house overly warm in summer.

Ours is also barely bigger than our kettle so doesn't take up much space. If and when it fails, we would buy the same make and size again without hesitation (in fact last year in the UK, we did exactly that and have it to my sister whose house we were staying in).
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Thank you so much for your info, very useful 👍🏻
 
I had mine out 5 years ago?
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JAS_OH1 said:
I ordered a 3-loaf baguette pan yesterday. Because I need more clutter in my life :eek:
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I keep thinking I need one, but I’ve never made three baguettes at one time in my life.

Pullman loaf pan, OTOH…I’ve asked Santa for one of those for about five years running, and that fat jerk has yet to come through! :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
I keep thinking I need one, but I’ve never made three baguettes at one time in my life.

Pullman loaf pan, OTOH…I’ve asked Santa for one of those for about five years running, and that fat jerk has yet to come through! :laugh:
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I didn't know what one was. It looks liike they constrict the rising of the loaf, though. What would you need one of these for?
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I didn't know what one was. It looks liike they constrict the rising of the loaf, though. What would you need one of these for?
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Perfectly rectangular loaf is what works best for tea sandwiches, because you don’t have that top bit that’s humped from the oven spring, which forces me to either leave some crust behind or sacrifice more bread than I want in order to get a nice tea sandwich.

I can’t find it right now, but there’s this cool video of one of the big afternoon tea hotels in London, and they make their sandwiches from loaves baked in Pullman pans.

What’s cool about it is (and I’ll be crap at describing this), they take the whole unsliced loaf and first trim off the crust from the entire thing, very quickly rendering a crustless loaf.

Then they just as quickly slice the loaf horizontally into several layers, like you’d cut a cake to make a layer cake.

Then they fill each layer with filling - bottom of loaf, then egg mayonnaise, then the next long slice of bread, then egg mayonnaise, all the way until they put the last long slice of bread on top, so imagine it looking like a long layer cake of sorts.

At that point, right down the loaf, slicing vertically, and the tea sandwiches just fall right off, yielding something like 16 sandwiches, and of course, the do the whole operation, beginning to end, in about two minutes.

I want to try my hand at that. :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
Perfectly rectangular loaf is what works best for tea sandwiches, because you don’t have that top bit that’s humped from the oven spring, which forces me to either leave some crust behind or sacrifice more bread than I want in order to get a nice tea sandwich.

I can’t find it right now, but there’s this cool video of one of the big afternoon tea hotels in London, and they make their sandwiches from loaves baked in Pullman pans.

What’s cool about it is (and I’ll be crap at describing this), they take the whole unsliced loaf and first trim off the crust from the entire thing, very quickly rendering a crustless loaf.

Then they just as quickly slice the loaf horizontally into several layers, like you’d cut a cake to make a layer cake.

Then they fill each layer with filling - bottom of loaf, then egg mayonnaise, then the next long slice of bread, then egg mayonnaise, all the way until they put the last long slice of bread on top, so imagine it looking like a long layer cake of sorts.

At that point, right down the loaf, slicing vertically, and the tea sandwiches just fall right off, yielding something like 16 sandwiches, and of course, the do the whole operation, beginning to end, in about two minutes.

I want to try my hand at that. :laugh:
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I am guessing currently you just cut that top off and make croutons? I would just fear that the bread would be dense if constricted by that lid. They are pretty cool looking, though.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I am guessing currently you just cut that top off and make croutons? I would just fear that the bread would be dense if constricted by that lid. They are pretty cool looking, though.
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Well, to get that really filling-right-to-the-edge look, it’s easiest to fill the sandwich first, then cut off the crusts, then halve the sandwich to make two tea sandwiches.

I, of course, eat all the trimmings as I’m going along, which explains why I’m always full by the time we sit down to eat.
 
MypinchofItaly one thing I forgot to mention about buying an air fryer (and some other kitchen appliances) is I always check out what spare parts and accessories are available.
Just because sometimes it’s handy to have more than one of something.

For example the outdoor BBQ I purchased another grill plate so I can get large amount of food prepared without trying to clean a hot griddle plate in between, or that I have two inner pots and lids for my Instant pot so I can put stuff straight into the fridge or dishwasher but still carry on using the appliance.

‘Ninja Kitchen’ always seem to do a good job on this.
If you get on with the air fryer you might decide later a second basket or inner tray would be useful 🤷‍♀️

Plus if it’s a super popular marque that’s been being made for a while there are usually after market accessories on amazon or the like and some of those can be really good.
 
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