These are essential gadgets in the 67goingon50 kitchen, gathered over many years on a limited budget. They could give some gift ideas for Christmas.
The selection is not comprehensive and reflects personal choices.
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- The giant tongs are a remnant of the Blogger's catering career - very useful for preventing wrist and arm burns from hot splattering fat. Normal sized tongs are around £5.
- The double length cooking chopsticks came with a wok but are available in Chinatowns. They're the most used of 67's kitchen gadgets, for stir-frying or removing herb bags or cinnamon sticks from casseroles. They are also handy for extracting bread from toasters without fear of electrocution.
- The lacy, pretty scoop is a posh 'spider' - essential in Asian kitchens. Spiders scoop items from boiling water, avoiding dragging pots of boiling water over to the sink for draining (OK for pasta shapes but not spaghetti) . Cheaper metal versions are available in most Chinatowns. In London check out Chinese supermarkets on Gerrard and Lisle Street.
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- The small Pyramid Grater is wonderful for grating ginger, garlic and citrus peel. It grates finely and not-so-finely and at about £8, costs much less than two microplanes. No longer available in the UK
- The brightly coloured citrus reamer cost £2 from Tiger. 67 loves it because you get juice and bits - healthier for you.
- Chinese soup spoons, under £1 each, are great for soup; dip and sip from the side with less chance of burning your mouth.. Also useful for serving cooked rice and for scooping out dry ingredients for weighing.
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67goingon50 does a lot of baking and saved for top-of-the-line equipment.
- The electric hand mixer (by Dualit) is designed for professional kitchens and cost £60 but perfectly good ones cost much less.
- Hinged Ice cream scoops: the larger is used for cupcakes and large cookies; the smaller for ordinary cookies. Cost per scoop about £15.
- The Mason Cash mixing jug was a bargain found in a supermarket for £5. For these items, try John Lewis, Waitrosekitchen.com or Nisbets.com
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Storage Jars
- Apart from the jar holding the cereal (right back row) and the clothes pegs, every container here was FREE!, originally holding the coffee, peanut butter, condiments, deli items and spices which 67 buys regularly.
- The cereal jar cost a pound (from Morrisons) but you have to be quick - buy them when you see them, not when you need them.
- Common all-garden clothes pegs are excellent for holding together opened packets of dried goods.
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