Here are some websites to get your kitchen gadget juices going. The wonder knife: http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=MAGNA1 vegetable knife: http://www.bladegallery.com/knives/knife.asp?knifeid=334&pics=small&alt=one ceramic knife: http://www.metrokitchen.com/kyocera/ bread knife: http://www.thekitchenstore.com/070848009008.html espresso maker: http://www.espressozone.com/bialetti-7857.html camping espresso maker: http://www.rei.com/product/6377.htm truly great coffee maker: http://tinyurl.com/drjj3 The "vacmaster"; guess what this does? http://www.tiedesline.com/vacmaster.htm a stockpot: http://lalagniappe.com/mall/lobby-turkey-pots.htm ice cream maker: http://www.cuisinart.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi/en/item.cgi?item_id=ICE-50BC Google around and see what you can come up with in the way of kitchen gadgets. What's your pet kitchen gadget? ;

we love kitchen gadgets! granted, we don't buy everything we see but we love to drool over them *giggle*

What are you particularly fond of, wolfie?

depends on what i'm cooking! one of my faves right now is my race car red kitchenaid mixer that i begged santa for ages to bring me. but that's an appliance and not a gadget, right?

It qualifies. We'll keep it broad.

oh goodie! and i'm so happy to have a stove that works properly! *yippee* so now we got to figure out what's going on with marcia's kitchen--one plug? honey, you need some gadgets and a room redo!

http://homeparents.about.com/cs/recipescooking/tp/gadgets.htm has the top ten kitchen gadgets: 1) Presto Salad Shooter The salad shooter is most useful in shredding large quantities of cheese to use, for example, in lasagna or enchiladas. It comes with two blades for slicing, shredding, grating, and chopping vegetables and fruits. Clean up is easy as the salad shooter is dishwasher safe. 2) Sandwich Maker A sandwich maker not only makes fast grilled cheese sandwiches, but can also cook pastries, pancakes, omelets and more. Older kids and teens love this fast snack maker. 3) Rival Ice Cream Maker Another kitchen gadget that is not a necessity, an electric ice cream maker can be lots of fun for the kids, and it makes delicious homemade ice cream. The Rival ice cream maker comes with a recipe book full of lots of different ice cream flavors. 4) Rival Snow Cone Maker The snow cone maker finely shaves ice cubes to produce delicious snow cones, slushies and smoothies your family will love. 5) Rival Meat Slicer A meat slicer is another handy gadget to have in the kitchen. We use our's to slice meat thinly for beef jerky; we buy a whole ham and slice that into sizes perfect for sandwiches. Also slices cheese, onions, tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. 6) Digital Cooking Thermometer Although a digital cooking thermometer is not a necessity, it can be very handy to have in the kitchen. It can almost instantly give a reading on the internal temperatures of food such as roast and turkeys. I also use mine to test the temperature of the water before adding yeast when baking breads. 7) Hamilton Beach Electric Knife An electric knife is very useful in slicing turkeys, roasts and fresly made bread. We use our's mostly during the holidays for carving the turkey, but it's handy to have year round. 8) FoodSaver Vacuum Sealer With three growing boys, I like to buy food in bulk. The FoodSaver Vacuum Sealer helps keep the extra food I buy fresh. And it's compact so it fits either on the counter or in the cupboard. 9) Classic Cookie Press Whether you are making cookies for your child's birthday party or homemade Christmas cookies, this cookie press will help you create lovely cookies. This cookie press by VillaWare comes with a heavy-duty cookie gun, 20 cookie shapes with interchangeable disks and 4 cake decoration funnels. 10) Potato Ricer This kitchen gadget isn't a necessity, a potato ricer makes light and airy mashed potatoes for your family dinners. This potato ricer comes with 3 interchangeable stainless steel disks and, in addition to mashed potatoes, strains tomatoes and makes hash browns. I don't know how impartial about.com is about their choices, they may be advertiser driven. See this website for pictures, more details. http://homeparents.about.com/cs/recipescooking/tp/gadgets.htm

We slipped on those last responses, wolfie. Yep, we'll let it be broadly defined. The "potato ricer" sounds cool.

i have 6, 7, and 8 of the list above. don't know what i'd need a potato ricer for. i use the handmixer for whipping the potatoes.

What's the big deal about the Senseo Coffee Maker, Adam Curry has an orgasm every time he talks about it. Of course, he gets a cut off Amazon. But what's so great about a coffee maker that forces you to buy little prepackaged packets of coffee. Have you heard of this? They have them at HEB.

Believe me, this topic is going to be due for some more cool pics. But that senseo, I just don't get it. Maybe if you are rich and mobile like Adam it makes sense.

How cool is this? MAGNA1 The Magna Wonder Knife is the most versatile food slicer on the market. It slices, carves and shreds; performs dozens of difficult tasks with ease and precision. Each cut is a perfect slice, regulated to your needs. The mere turn of a knob adjusts the Thickness Guide from 1/16" to 1/2". The Magna Wonder Knife slices meats, bread, cheese, tomatoes, potatoes-almost anything. Yet the price is no more than an ordinary quality bread knife. Indispensable for both home and commercial kitchens Manufactured by Victorinox (Swiss Army), this is the ORIGINAL slicer of its type and has not been surpassed in the 40 years it has been on the market. 48 bucks. http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=MAGNA1

http://www.epinions.com/content_3875643524 is funny. It's how to make your own senseo coffee pads. Maybe this is serious? If so, the procedure is very laborious and involves ironing a teapad. You can't use regular coffee filters to do this.

that magna cutting guide thing looks like it'd get in the way. senseo? have seen them everywhere. just another way for them to make money by making it so you have to buy something else in order to use it....not my kinda thing at all.

Yeah, exactly my sentiments. It would limit your coffee choices to just a few prepackaged flavors and that would take the fun out of browsing through all those neat coffee choices. There's so much to choose from when it comes to coffee!

indeed!

Maybe there's a market for a diy seseo filter making kit that makes it easy. An aftermarket genius could pull this off.

God made kitchens to enable us to have more and more gadgets. Bring them on. All of mine stayed in Hawaii and I am rebuilding the collection here. One of my favorites is the new silicone "rubber" bowl scraper you can use in the frying pan or anywhere. It is excellent for getting all of the scrambled eggs out of the pan. I also like the fruit juicer that looks like an auger with indentations. No moving parts but it does an excellent job.

Great topic, Terry. That is one cool machine!

We have a great cork screw. Do you want to hear about it?

OH please! (nice moniker there!)

It's called a Rabbit. And it's amazing. You can uncork a bottle with one motion. Then with one more motion you eject the cork from the Rabbit. It's a very elegant tool. Highly recommended.

Ahhhhhh my son who lives near Napa valley has that one... his also sucks the air out of the bottle so it doesn't oxidize.

Mine won't suck air.

Oh Terry, you need the one that does. Well, perhaps he has special caps so he can stick what looks like a huge hypodermic needle in and withdraw the air. I think there was also the possibility of injecting something inert also to use up the room. Not sure. I'll check with him. That syringe is a scary thing, though.

not sure i'd want any pointy object around folks that are having a crazy party either! *laugh* they'd be like "let's see if we can get the air out of_______---oops"

the line was for you to fill in (remember the ad lib games?)

Give up.

mad lib games? where you're given a paragraph and then ask people to provide verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc. after receiving the input, you read the nonsense paragraph out loud.

I remember !