Had a lovely night and need a little snack before bed. The popcorn maker makes me perfect popcorn everytime no jhudgemnt no questions asked. I live in an otherwise-gizmo-free household, but I do genuinely use this things twice a week on average. What gizmo are you not ashamed of?
I also got an immersion blender for $20 a week ago and used it once to make squash soup. Perhaps that isa second gizmo… It’s gotten more use than my microave in the same timespan…
This is gonna sound silly, but dishwasher. I got a small one only this year after many, many years of being the dishwasher (and not cooking as much as a result). But since getting a dishwasher, I’ve been cooking loads. It’s genuinely amazing the difference it makes, knowing that you don’t have to leave a big pile of stuff to clean up later every time you cook. I can even put my whole air fryer basket in there!
Plus it uses a controlled amount of water for the whole load so you aren’t running the tap constantly and wasting water.
Never used to have a dishwasher and getting one was a huge difference. It saves a huge amount of time in washing glasses and cutlery most of all.
Basic bitch answer, but ceiling fan 100%.
No, that’s a great answer. People take them for granted
either air fryer or stick blender
beautiful crispy tofu (among other things) vs lovely sauces🤔
Rice cooker. I do not want to fail at rice often enough to get good at it, and I never have to with my trusty rice cooker on hand
Kobo eReader. It gets used for multiple hours a week. I never would have thought a device used for reading would be my favorite gizmo.
I have one too! The warm backlighting is nice.
Why did I misread the title as “I thank god for giving me a pronoun maker”
I immediately said, “The woke have gone too far this time!” of course.
My answer would have to be my audio interface… let’s me directly input audio into a DAW. Definitely something essential for me to have. Honorable mention to my portable charger thing that I got during Milton.
Everyone’s already said it, but rice cooker.
I don’t have to even put much thought into making rice, and just season it how you want and you get an easy comfort food whenever.
(True science fact: put in a quarter cup of rice vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar for every cup of short grain white rice to get sushi rice. Then just add in crispy tofu and stir-fried vegetables and you get what is objectively the best bulking meal possible.)
Oxo GoodGrips Reusable Lint Roller
As someone with many pets, it keeps me looking crisp and stylish
I’ve used lint rollers before, had no idea they made a reusable one. I should get one - I live with a siberian husky!
Oxo makes good stuff. There’s clearly a lot of thought that goes into their kitchen products.
I love their flipper spatula
Inside - air fryer.
Outside - kamado smoker/grill.
Mine is an ice cube machine, i cant imagine life without it specislly now with the heat waves in mx
popcorn maker
A microwave?
Anyway my favourite gizmo is those can openers that are just a hunk of metal with a blade and a bottle opener in one
like this
On over engineered stove top
must make 100% perfect popcorns thomine has a spinny thing to stop the kernels from burning
Things like this are wastes of space for most people, who would be better off using a generalist tool. But if you’re making popcorn 3 times a week, it’s showing its worth
I make popcorn that regularly, I just have a dedicated saucepan
That used to be me lol. I saw it for $8 at a thrift store and my little crow brain pinged ‘treasure!’.
Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks
It can also roast coffee beans
its a hotplate with a very wide heat distribution, an agitator for spinning the kernels and a big ol bowl for the popcorn
toaster oven
whole oven is too big? usually. use small oven! it also works as an air fryer! the last one i had even worked as a dehydrator on the two times i year i might ever need one! broiling stuff too? why not! use it as a toaster! perfect for heating stuff up in one particular way!
aww yeah I used to be about that life until my toaster oven mysteriously stopped working. I was gonna try to fix it but other stuff came up and I don’t think I have it anymore.
Rice cooker
I got this microwave plastic dish designed for cooking rice that is like 90% as good as a proper rice cooker.
The secret to it seems to simply be a perforated top (like 40% of the surface area would be holes of about 0.5cm diameter) so I imagine it would be easy to make one by punching small holes in some Tupperware, but also the real thing only cost about $15.
A very economical almost-as-good option, and more space efficient.
got like a little plug thing for glass bottles that makes it easy as shit to pour without spilling
I love my induction cooktop. And my rice cooker. And my bullet blender thingy. The only things I use multiple times a week. Oh and my jaffle iron
Do you jaffle over the induction cooktop?
No just have an electric one
Ah k, i always called jaffle irons the one you use over an open flame, and the electric ones i call a sandwich press. The ones with grooves that give you the jaffle shape are the best for sure
I love my induction stove as well, better than standard electric and gas by a mile.
Mostly unrelated but hilariously if I place a small empty pan on one of the induction heaters and put it in “boost” mode it actually physically lifts the non handle side of the pan like a centimeter off of the cook top. I just find that interesting, must be eddy currents.
