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cool .. wouldnt mind a waffle iron

I just take the easy way out and buy the waffles and toast them.

Ryzel wrote:

...I do not have any kitchen appliances that I could not live without. Maybe my 'vaffeljern'...

Live without a våffeljärn!???? It was the first thing I bought when I moved away from home! I just got a "smörgåsgrill" (sandwich-grill), however, and I dont quite know what to do with it...

But right now I think, as Cloudberry, that the most important thing in my kitchen is the "waterboiler", electric water kettle (Tea - must have more tea! I read the text "Seeing Mars from Uppsala" on KW frontpage and realised that he had forgotten the most important thing about Uppsala - everybody drink tea here, all the time - this is in contrast to the rest of Sweden where everbody drink strong black coffé. I found this very strange when I moved here, especially since the water here taste horrible and is full of calcium ).

Yes, våffeljärn are great. By the way they work fine for sandwiches also...

And I agree that the water in Uppsala isn't so very nice compared to soft water, but I don't think the water tastes too bad. I really don't notice it anymore, it was just the first days. But I am used to really soft water and it was a chock the first time I realised I had to use dubble amount of washing powder! First time I did laundry I used the normal amount and my clothes didn't become clean.


Nice to see another tea lover here! I'm studying for an exam and tea is what keep me going on. I like to have several different kinds at home so I can choose. Coffe just isn't the same...

Ylva Kresh wrote: I just got a "smörgåsgrill" (sandwich-grill), however, and I dont quite know what to do with it....

rofl .. lol .. LOL .. i didnt think they were that difficult to use

take a couple of slices of bread - stick em in and place some fillings between em .. and hey presto magic!! - a grilled sandwich

I do know how to use a sandwichgrill, it is just that my våffeljärn was quite sufficient for sandwiches already... But sure, now I can make three sandwiches at once. Or two sandwiches and one waffle. Or one sandwich and one waffle and one something made out of waffle-dough and strangely shaped like a square but thick in the middle... or ... no, I think I will stop there.

The one I use the most if the George Foreman grill, but the one I LIKE the most is when Duchess uses the breadmaker.

variol son wrote:there needs 2 b a drooling emoticon.

Does this work?

variol son wrote:i think i prefer the breadmaker, but only coz 2 much coffee give me headaches, whereas i can never get enuf fresh baked bread.

I think my favorite is my Kitchen Aid 5 quart stand mixer. It works wonderfully at kneading bread dough in place of a bread machine, cuts the time dramatically, and I can then bake it in the oven. Not to mention it's ablity to do many other things as well.

Although, the fact that I own and use four crockpots pretty often (I'm still waiting on Paul to replace my fifth one that he broke) says something for the popularity of that appliance here.

My Showtime rotisserie gets a lot of use. I just used it last night to make beef ribs.

And I have the round one sided indoor/outdoor George Forman grill with the domed lid so a whole chicken can be grilled on it. Awesome!

My (girlriend's) rice-cooker. Don't know why but I've always been rubbish at cooking rice. Now it's all done for me.

I'm tempted by the 8 cup rice cooker at Target. Are they only good for long grain rice, or do they make decent sticky rice, for sushi or desserts, as well?

My Kitchen Aid! "Being the most powerfull kitchen appliance in the world, it could rip you hand clean off! And actually, I forgot if I plugged it in during all this exitement. So you have to ask yourself the question: Do I feel lucky? Well? Do you PUNK?"

Menolly asked:

I'm tempted by the 8 cup rice cooker at Target. Are they only good for long grain rice, or do they make decent sticky rice, for sushi or desserts, as well?

Yup they make good sticky rice too - Sook just mixes half desert rice with half long grain for a nice sticky outcome!

They're not really an appliance, but I got a pair of these a couple of weeks ago, and I love them!

www.jmldirect.com/product.php?cid=5&pid=120

AND I'll be able to use them for juggling my fire balls, once I get them!

Damned! That's neat Stonemaybe. I'm going to miss my old oven mitts with the applicated mushrooms.

The site never finished loading for me, so I didn't see a picture but did read the description. Are they similar to The Ove Glove?

I have a pair of five finger silicone oven gloves similar to this mitt (only five fingered, as I said) that came with my Showtime Rotisserie. I absolutey love them!!

Ah-ha. This ebay seller has my silicone gloves for sale.

Showtime Silicone Gloves

The site never finished loading for me, so I didn't see a picture but did read the description. Are they similar to The Ove Glove?

They look like the ones! We have the same gloves !

Edit - if they're really good for keeping out heat does that mean they'd be really warm in cold weather too?

Stonemaybe wrote:

The site never finished loading for me, so I didn't see a picture but did read the description. Are they similar to The Ove Glove?

They look like the ones! We have the same gloves !

I don't have the Ove Glove. I have the Showtime silicone ones the ebay seller has listed.

Stonemaybe wrote:Edit - if they're really good for keeping out heat does that mean they'd be really warm in cold weather too?

Again, I can't answer for the Ove Glove. Being a material, all I can say is maybe. The silicone ones I can answer with a definitive 'no.'

So we don't have the same gloves ?

If your's is material, then we don't.