Mission Impossible - Pick Your Favorite Kitchen Gadget

Lynn is having a Valentine's party

and she wants to

know our Favorite Kitchen Gadget.

What?  I have to pick my favorite - IMPOSSIBLE!

But - I will tell you some of my favorites!

If you follow

Purple Chocolat Home

 you have already

met a lot of my favorites!

My icon is my Purple Kitchenaid Mixer.

(She is much more svelte than I am!)

This special edition Kitchenaid sold at Williams Sonoma

a few years ago.  I just had to have it (you all can guess why!)

(Hint - it starts with purple...)

I think a Kitchenaid Mixer is a work of art,

so it sits on my counter year round and of course

it is a conversation starter too as most people have

never seen a purple one.  I haven't seen one since then

either.

My

 chocolate tempering machine

 has to come right

up there at the top of my list even though I only use it

a couple of times a year.  I just smile each time I use

it and can't believe I have such a wonderful device,

especially since the store that sold them went out

of business.

If you remember this post, I am not the only one

who loves this machine.  Click here if you missed

this post on this little elf helping me dip chocolates.

And of course, my pizza oven is probably my very

favorite gadget.  (Could this be called a gadget?)

I love having it for a fire for ambiance, I love cooking

pizzas and any other imaginable item in it, I love having

traveled to Italy to take a class for a week on how to

cook in it.  (I will have to do a whole post on that someday).

I love the idea that if we didn't have power, I could use it

for emergency cooking.  (We call that emergency preparedness

where I come from.)   I also love that when they

unearthed Pompeii, they found bread baking in ovens

just like this one with loaves preserved inside the ovens!

If you missed our pizza oven post, click here.  If you missed

the kitchen tour showing the wood burning pizza oven, click here.

Just one other little item that I wanted to mention,

my lemon and lime juicers.

(Oh, I better mention my Ego Digital Imaging Light that

lets me take an indoor photo like this at night and

even in the winter - find it on Amazon).

Anyway, back to the juicers.  I know they aren't spectacular,

but I just love them.  My first one I purchased

in Mexico, but it really was made for the smaller Mexican

limes.  You can buy these fabulous gadgets at Target and

many grocery stores.  One squeeze and you have tons of

juice and none of it on your hands.

I am one who loves kitchen stores, I can browse in

Sur La Table for hours. (Did you know they have

cooking classes?)  I love Williams Sonoma (hey, they have

cooking classes too.)  I love

kitchen catalogues and kitchen idea magazines. I love

cooking shows and cooking magazines.  I love

cooking blogs too!!!  I bet

you do too or you wouldn't be here reading this.

Oh, but what about...

my panini maker

my kitchen shears

my Belgian waffle maker

my tortilla press

my digital kitchen scale

my Le Creuset pans

my electric fondue pots

my pasta maker

my new cupcake corer

my BBQ grill

my grill pan

oh, oh, oh,

my propane smoker...

...wait ...

MY DIGITAL CAMERA & COMPUTER!!!

Go visit all of the other fun posts at

Happier Than A Pig In Mud's

Valentine's Day

Favorite Kitchen Gadget Party.

(Lynn is such a "party animal"! - the above photo is

courtesy of her blog.  You will meet all kinds of little

piggies on her blog and it is always fun and entertaining.)

I will be posting this with

Favorite Kitchen Gadget Party

Feathered Nest

Favorite Things