Unused kitchen gadgets

[Jay-ell]

Especially if you short an unearthed iron

[WendyC]

I'll say it very quietly but I quite like ironing... Rather iron than cook.

[sparrow100]

Toastie maker, pressure cooker, electric steaming thing, blender (prefer the stick thingie), milk frother. Managed to offload the fondue set recently though.

[Lumpy]

A melon baller - I don't like melon. There must be an alternative use for it but just hav'nt found one yet!

[sparrow100]

A melon baller - I don't like melon. There must be an alternative use for it but just hav'nt found one yet!

teeeeeeeny tiny ice cream balls for dieters.

chocolate truffle scoopers

salt spoon

green manure scatterer

[Jay-ell]

A melon baller - I don't like melon. There must be an alternative use for it but just hav'nt found one yet!

Off the top of my head - grow some "Blue Salad" potatoes along side your main crop. Use the main crop to make mash and use a normal mash scoop to form to large potato hemispheres, use the melon baller to make smaller balls of the mashed Blue Salad and place these on the top of the lager piles. If you have red carrots you could jullien one and share it till limp and drape around the larger mash piles. Take two black olives (UN stuffed) and insert these into the centre of the smaller blue mash balls. There you have it - Googley Eyed Potatoes.

You see, I knew that melon baller would come in handy someday.

[Patchninja]

ˆˆˆˆThat's so silly I love it

[Jay-ell]

Somewhere I've got one of those stoppers you put into a half drank wine bottle and then pump the air out. Can't think of an alternative use for it and I'm not even sure it has a valid original use - half drank bottle of wine, such a creature just does not exist in nature.

[JanieB]

Especially if you short an unearthed iron

When I was at (boarding) school the iron provided for our use was unearthed and plugged into the light socket!!!

[Jay-ell]

When I was a kid the next door neighbour used one of those to straighten her hair.

[Guest]

When I was at (boarding) school the iron provided for our use was unearthed and plugged into the light socket!!!

When I was at boarding school we used it for making toast- much better use

[PyreneesPlot]

Love this thread!

I have an ice cream maker that sits at the back of the cupboard as I simply cannot get the bowl into the freezer (only three drawers) although if I took out the tub of bought ice cream ...

I know exactly the last day I used an iron - it was doing the last batch of work clothes to keep us going for our last two weeks at work before we packed everything and moved to France. My mum rang me to say my dad had died in the night. I've never related the two events before, so out of every sadness comes a little happiness!

Using a melon baller to make pomme parisienne for, 100, now there's a sure fire way to get blisters

[Mikey]

Ok where do I begin!!!

I have a yoghurt maker, a now redundant bread maker, a liquidiser, a super sized slow cooker and a smaller slow cooker, a mandolin (the chopper not the strumming version), a pasta maker ( I do make pasta from time to time but by hand not with a machine), 3 hand blenders (don't ask), more salad servers than I have salad in a year, we have 6 cake stands, 3 steamers (1 is used), rough 300 or so Chinese boxes for storing surplus food to freeze (more than we need anyway), pop cake maker (again its all done by hand). There's undoubtedly more, we do have an ice cream maker which is currently being used as a hat stand!!!

Then there's the crockery, don't get me started on the etiquette of which service is used for what occasion!!!!

[alldigging]

Oh the iron!

I too know the last time I used my iron. It was on the last lot of school shirts for Jamie's secondary school. He's in his second year of uni so some time ago now.


I use the breadmaker a couple of times a month and the coffee machines all get an outing every so often.

[Kirk]

An ice-cream maker is the one item that is unused. Too much trouble to get it cold and not sure it will go in the present freeze section.

Found an electric can opener in a cupboard about 2 months back that had not been used for years. HOWEVER I have been having trouble with the manual can opener as the lids stopped coming off cleanly and the newly found electric one is now a used kitchen item.