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greentiger
What appliances do you have in you kitchen? Which are the most useful?
Arizona
Hot water urn (used all the time so I can have hot tea whenever smile.gif )
Crock pot (enormous size used for shabbos but I'd like to start using it during the week for easy dinners)
Steamer (used sometimes now but was in constant use when I was making my own baby food)
Handheld blender (used only for baby food so it's put away now)
Breadmaker (used to make challah dough as well as dough for rolls during the week or an ocassional loaf)

Major appliances are: fridge, stove/oven, and sink w/ garbage disposal.
greentiger
bread toaster
fleishig microwave
fleishig toaster oven (no real oven)
hand blender - lots of fun
food processer - even more fun, especially since it whips egg whites too
george foreman

Think that's it....
mendelbaum666
all the above , except I have a milchig toaster oven and a small flieshig convection oven, no bread maker but I do have a magichef mixer (came with my wife) oh and no steamer, have a plastic one for the microwave works very nice
NY-LON
food processor - pastry dough, shredding potatoes for kugel, slicing/grating fruits and vegetables, making meatballs... lots of things, I love it (I have a Magimix 5100)
stand mixer (Kenwood Major) - for all baking. mine has the blender as an attachment.
electric kettle
toaster (I like toast)
handheld blender/chopper with various attachments - got this when we lived in a tiny apt with no room for anything, still comes in handy when I just want to puree something in the pan or whip some cream without getting the big mixer out.
batya_d
Kitchenaid 5 quart stand mixer
Cuisinart Food Processor
Immersion blender
Seltzer maker
Foreman
dairy toaster (pizza bagels!!!)
FYI
QUOTE(greentiger @ Dec 16 2007, 01:41 AM) *
What appliances do you have in you kitchen? Which are the most useful?

does fridge count?

QUOTE(Arizona @ Dec 16 2007, 09:35 AM) *
Crock pot (enormous size used for shabbos but I'd like to start using it during the week for easy dinners)
Handheld blender (used only for baby food so it's put away now)

Major appliances are: fridge, stove/oven, and sink w/ garbage disposal.

crock pot - in cabinet - only comes out on Friday and hopefully gets put away on Motzei shabbos.
handheld blender - on shelf - comes out as needed. (wait, is that a handheld mixer or an immersion blender. I'm talking about a handheld mixer, NOT immersion blender)
Fridge/
Double oven with a stove. (the olden day kind)

QUOTE(greentiger @ Dec 16 2007, 10:03 AM) *
bread toaster
fleishig microwave
fleishig toaster oven (no real oven)
hand blender - lots of fun
food processer - even more fun, especially since it whips egg whites too
george foreman

You do NOT have a real oven at all??!?!
food processor - I have put it is stored up high and only brought down for use, no more than once a week and usually less often as I hate having to climb up to get it, assemble it and then wash out all the pieces.

QUOTE(batya_d @ Dec 16 2007, 08:28 PM) *
Kitchenaid 5 quart stand mixer
Cuisinart Food Processor
Immersion blender
Seltzer maker
Foreman
dairy toaster (pizza bagels!!!)

Kitchenaid is on my counter - but it's broken so it just wastes space
We have a dairy toaster oven
Oh! and a regular blender for smoothies..

Other appliances we have include a milchig hand mixer, sno cone maker, popcorn popper, and I think that's it.
agent220
Fridge
Gas Stove/Oven
Broken 7 qt. Kitchenaid under the kitchen counter
Crockpot on counter (4 qt.)
6 qt. Crockopt in closet
Urn under table
Cuisinart 14C food processor on counter
Toaster on table
George Foreman in closet
Blender in closet
Hand mixer in closet

I might have forgotten something...
BroadwayFreak
Immersion blender!!!! I love it and use it every day.
Elana
fridge, stove, oven.

regularly used:

immersion blender - got it when my daughter started eating solids, but use it for soups ever since! (fleishig and milchig)
microwave (use it for fleishig)
toaster/conventional oven (for milchig)
hand mixers (pareve and milchig)
hot water urn

have somewhere in the closets:

kitchenaid
crockpot (ok, i do use it maybe once a month)
george foreman
citrus juicer
regular juicer (i believe it's broken)
probably other things i don't remember
Bluelaptop
Handheld thingy (immersion blender?)
Bosch food processor with blender and juicer
Blender- milchig we got as a gift
Toaster oven
Gas stove/oven
Grilling grid- not really an appliance
Small urn (I hate that word used in this context. It's for funeral homes).
Small juicer we never use.
Fridge that's a bit too small.
Two dishwashers that came with the house- one is not connected.
Kalashnikover_Rebbe
4 Gas Burner thing (but I haven't had gas in like 2 months) bigcry.gif
Medium sized fleishig toaster oven (no real oven)
Milchig Sandwich maker
Electric water kettle
Fridge (obviously) with burned out thermostat so it is on a Shabbos Clock
Gas BBQ (not in my kitchen for obvious reasons)

I USED to have an electric burner but I "overclocked" it and it melted...

I WISH I had an ice maker. Do they sell those separate from fridges???
agent220
Oh, I forgot our microwave which is in my son's bedroom.
Bitter
Now for implements:
Shnitzel scissors (absolutely necessary for trimming chicken quarters and low quality shnitzel)
meat tenderizer (believe me, it makes the shnitzel better. Esp. if you dip the pounded chicken in soy sauce before flour and corn flake crumbs)
Egg slicer
chopping knife (separate from regular little cutting knives.) I dream of a santoku but I can't envision spending 18 buck on a knife.
tongs and turners
DISPOSABLE PANS
what's that stuff called that looks like glass but you can cook in it and it doesn't break? Yeah, that..
FYI
QUOTE(Bitter @ Dec 18 2007, 10:52 AM) *
what's that stuff called that looks like glass but you can cook in it and it doesn't break? Yeah, that..

Pyrex?
adiel
Susie Fishbein's rule is that if you use something less than 3 times a year, don't own it.

if you DO need it more than 3 times a year, then you get one for milchig and one for fleishig
agent220
What about Pesach? wink.gif

I don't really think that rule always works. For instance, I have no need for a milchig food processor. Also, the stuff I use less than 3 times a year is not cluttering my kitchen (except my broken kitchenaid which my kids play with while I cook). I have no problem with putting it away in storage for when I will need it (like my 6 qt crockpot). I can't afford to throw it out, just to buy a new one in a few years.
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