Procrastination

33 thoughts on “Procrastination”

1. Oh, I could have sworn…. oh, must have left my comment on your site!

2. Ah Araminta, that’s because I clicked on the wrong button and posted it there instead of here, then put it here and deleted it there. Didn’t see you comment though. Sorry about that.

3. Hello Isobel

   You’ve asked a ‘Sabina’ question, allow me a ‘WW’ moment, nothing to do with appliances, the most important part of our kitchen is our maid/housekeeper.

4. I will definitely have to start charging you soon, Isobel 😉 I asked you what a Remoska looks like.

5. I think all appliances and gadgets should have names. My motor mower is Malcolm, the wheelbarrow is Willie – masculine of course. Kitchen stuff must be female: Diana the DW, Winifred the WM, Remoska the…..?

6. Couldn’t cope with the names Janus, apart from of course if I were like Soutie and WW and had a maid. It’s hard enough remembering what the appliances are called let alone giving them aliases. I envisage fraught telephone calls with repair companies,
   “Hello, Diana has broken down and has flooded the kitchen’
   It sounds to me as if it would go downhill from there.
   Remoska is a wonderful little oven. They come in two sizes, though there used to be three and mine is the no more mini size. They are called different things in different countries, all Eastern European, but you can only get the Czech model here and Lakeland has the monopoly. I bought mine for the boat, but it has never left my kitchen in London. You can make almost anything in it. It’s great for heating croissants in the morning, you can bake cakes, and ratatouille made in it is wonderful. The first thing I cooked in it was a flan. Twenty five minutes from the moment i turned it on. Fab. The only downside was that I realised I could cook oven chips in it. Not a good thing.

7. We have a small oven – extremely useful as you say for the odd small item.

   Now, what is my favourite kitchen appliance?

   We take turns to cook: two weeks at a time. Whoever doesn’t cook, does the clearing up.

   So, taking a leaf out of Soutie’s book – my favourite kitchen appliance is Bearsy. He is a far more patient and,therefore, better cook than I am – hardly surprising since I don’t like cooking. He’s also a far less messy cook than I am – so I don’t have masses of clearing up to do. And he’s also better at cleaning up the kitchen than I am… 🙂

8. My old fashioned potato peeler, with the whipped string handle. Can’t be doing with these modern ones with their weird, or weird and floppy blades and whatnot. Second is the ironstone mixing bowl, first, because it’s good and heavy and you can really get a good action going when you’re mixing stuff, but over and above that because it was my Nanna’s 🙂

9. i like the last reason the best b22cc 🙂

10. I love my hand held blender. Maybe I should call her ‘Brender’?

    Soup in minutes.
    Today we had pea and mint soup, with spinach and a drop of cream about 15 mins after returning from the swim training.

11. Hi, Isobel.

    That’ll be my trusty wok then, of which I am very fond. I call it ‘Wok Gan’ in spooneristic tribute to the presenter of ‘How to Look Good Naked’ (of whom my wife is very fond.

12. Here you go Araminta, the Grand Remoska.

    

13. Aha, thank you Tocino 🙂

14. Oooh Tricky,

    Theres my electric coffee grinder which I use to make curry powder.
    The Le Crousseau saute pan which I invent excuses to use.
    The Kenwood Processor which I use mostly as a blender but hey.

    The one I would go back into a burning house for though has to be my Sabatier Chefs knife. I have had it for years and it just gets better with age.
    🙂

15. Probably the best bit of army kit ever issued. The P38.

    

    🙂

16. And I’ve just bought half a box of blood oranges for £2 from a stall that won’t be open tomorrow, so it’s the juicer on my food processor that is going to get the most use today and tomorrow at least. Also i want to bake some bread and I’ll blitz some linseeds in my grinder to add flavour.
    Tocino, the P38 (which sounds like a bus route from somewhere around Peckham) looks like a can opener, but i am guessing it has many more uses.

17. We had a new kitchen fitted a short while ago and the best thing by far is the waste disposal unit. It must drive the boys down at SS Headq….sorry, the town hall barmy trying to guess why the bin never contains food waste.

18. But where does it dispose it to?

19. Most goes into the compost maker, the rest goes into the sewer via the drains.

20. The wok is very important too here. It gets used for verything that needs sealing before making a casserole, plus chile con carne, risotto and paella etc etc – oh yes and of course for stir fry

21. We also love our coffee, ‘pod’ brewer, just like our old espresso machine but without the mess. We then tear the used pods open and sprinkle the grounds around the grounds.

22. tocino
    I thought is was brass button shiner I was issued with but I see it’s something different.

23. This is making me hungry. Time to cook and eat I think, preceded by a glass of fresh orange juice, Yummy.

24. Bread maker is used every day, but I just put the linseeds in as they are, not ground up….

25. This what you were thinking OMG. The brass button stick.

    

26. I should of course added to my original comment that the P38 is a can opener without which, one could get very hungry.

27. My Magimix. All mixing, slicing, grating, done in a matter of seconds. Wouldn’t be without it.

    My Zyliss garlic crusher. You don’t need to peel the cloves. Just squeeze. Brill!

    Like Pseu, we have a breadmaker but it produces ruinously delicious stuff. Put in half a stone in six months of purchase. One slice is never enough when it’s home made and the house is full of fresh-bread smells. Ours is a Panasonic. Makes wicked tomato and olive bread etc too.

28. Pseu, I read somewhere that unless you are very good about chewing every mouthful a thousand times or something that linseeds tend to pass straight through you so you don’t get the goodness. Grinding them makes them easy to digest.
    I gave away my wok because I didn’t use it much. I miss it occasionally, but not enough to buy another.
    Tocino, all is made clear. Thank-you. i like the brass button stick. V practical.

29. Hi Jan I had a cheap breadmaker from woolworths that some friends passed on to me. It was brilliant 99% of the time.the other 1% of the time it didn’t work. Then I somehow lost the paddle. And couldn’t get a replacement. I advertised on Freecycle and got a Frigidaire one. Looks the part, but not as good as my old one. I nearly bought a Pnansonic one. what model is yours? Alos heard good things about the M&S one.

30. Isobel, wokless?

    We really are very different, are we not? Nae MaggieT, nae Agatha Christie and now nae wok. It’s a worry!

    Still, now writing Part 5 of my holiday saga, as a result of your encouragement. Thanks again for that.

31. But think of all the things we do have in common John. It’d be a bit spooky if we liked all the same things. My wok just got v dusty. a friend has got a little one, the friend on Skye as it happens, and swears by it, so I may get reconverted when I next visit.
    I’m quite surprised no one has mentioned a microwave. I don’t have one, and I’m starting to wonder if that’s a uniting factor with DnMT authors.

32. I don’t really have a favourite appliance, but I have one favourite knife, which is small, with a wooden handle. I hate using other knives. In Oz, I was fond of my wok and rather liked my V slicer thingy; great for coleslaw and nice thin slices of cucumber.

33. Yes favourite knives are special things aren’t they. I have one I keep on das Boot that fits snugly into its own sharpener. It’s like seeing an old friend when I open the drawer.