I went rummaging through my drawers (ooh, er, missus!) I have a spiralizer which is frequently used to make "courgetti spaghetti" when in season. I also have an apple corer and ahem, an electric egg boiler thingamajiggy. In my defence, they are all used. If I could bend my knackered hips low enough to unearth the "treasures" that lie within my low cupboards or conversely those I cannot reach who knows what else I might uncover?
I dare say if Lakeland (Plastics) was available in Italy (maybe it is ...) I might be further tempted gadget-wise.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Do you know it's many years since I had Bailey's, now there's an idea? I'll buy a bottle when I next go shopping. Well, it is nearly Christmas. Could be classed as a gadget - loosely speaking.
Do you know it's many years since I had Bailey's, now there's an idea? I'll buy a bottle when I next go shopping. Well, it is nearly Christmas. Could be classed as a gadget - loosely speaking.
Try it poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Mmmmm.
Lots of gadgets here from kitchen to sewing to garden. Little ones like unpickers and small, sharp, pointy scissors, a rotary cutter for patchwork, all sorts of templates, a Sissix Big Shot for cutting shapes and then bigger stuff like 2 sewing machines and an overlocker.
For cooking - 2 cookers, blender sticks, mixers, lid removers, coffee grinder used only for spices, food processor, pasta machine but also little ones like a thingy that cores an apple and cuts it into segments in one swoop and is used almost every day, a citrus zester and a teeny grater I use for garlic and ginger and a mezzeluna for chopping herbs and nuts.
For the house, it's a robot. OH bought a bloody Dyson which I loathe so I made him buy a robot when we moved here - hotter so doors open much more and cats, dogs and hoomans in and out all day. It can be set to go off as often as I need and just chunters round sweeping up bits in between OH's vaccing sessions. Invaluable.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Don’t know what this is called, but I borrowed it out of OH’s tool cupboard to help get the cork out of a bottle cava. Worked brilliantly. Now it lives in the kitchen drawer, handy for opening jar lids as well.
Don’t know what this is called, but I borrowed it out of OH’s tool cupboard to help get the cork out of a bottle cava. Worked brilliantly. Now it lives in the kitchen drawer, handy for opening jar lids as well.
'Soft jaw pipe wrench', I think @Ergates Invaluable when tightening down chrome taps, or anything else you need to grip strongly without marking the surface. I can never find mine when I need them - must try the kitchen drawers next time!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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I dare say if Lakeland (Plastics) was available in Italy (maybe it is ...) I might be further tempted gadget-wise.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
For cooking - 2 cookers, blender sticks, mixers, lid removers, coffee grinder used only for spices, food processor, pasta machine but also little ones like a thingy that cores an apple and cuts it into segments in one swoop and is used almost every day, a citrus zester and a teeny grater I use for garlic and ginger and a mezzeluna for chopping herbs and nuts.
For the house, it's a robot. OH bought a bloody Dyson which I loathe so I made him buy a robot when we moved here - hotter so doors open much more and cats, dogs and hoomans in and out all day. It can be set to go off as often as I need and just chunters round sweeping up bits in between OH's vaccing sessions. Invaluable.
'Soft jaw pipe wrench', I think @Ergates Invaluable when tightening down chrome taps, or anything else you need to grip strongly without marking the surface. I can never find mine when I need them - must try the kitchen drawers next time!