What’s the next kitchen item you plan to buy (2025)?

Morning Glory said:
That's more like a stand mixer. If you are equipping a tiny kitchen I would avoid it. But then, it has to be said I use very few electrical gadgets aside from a stick immersion blender and a spice grinder. My kitchen is tiny.

The Duralit hand mixer lives elsewhere and comes out about twice a year. It doesn't take up much space.

I didn't know about those time restrictions.
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It’s both, the hand mixer is removable, which would suit me.
I use my hand mixer a lot and the stand mixer I bought has been in constant use because recipes I would naturally avoid due to the mixing hurting my crappy thumb joints are back on the menu and I’m loving it.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It’s both, the hand mixer is removable, which would suit me.
I use my hand mixer a lot and the stand mixer I bought has been in constant use because recipes I would naturally avoid due to the mixing hurting my crappy thumb joints are back on the menu and I’m loving it.
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Oh, well if it is instead of those two items and you use both a lot then it seems a good idea.

I must have an aversion to recipes that require mixers because I can't think if any I've cooked in the last year or even several years that require them!
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It’s both, the hand mixer is removable, which would suit me.
I use my hand mixer a lot and the stand mixer I bought has been in constant use because recipes I would naturally avoid due to the mixing hurting my crappy thumb joints are back on the menu and I’m loving it.
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So, when are we all getting cakes???
 
My hand mixer pops the beaters out at the push of a button, I think they all do that, including the cheapest ones. Even my mom’s did that when I was a kid back in the ‘70’s, and hers would have been the cheapest of the cheap.

Mine will also stand on its backside, I think that’s pretty standard on all but the cheapest ones.

I rarely use my hand mixer. It’s not that old, and I bought it for a specific purpose that I can no longer remember. Anything I need mixed, it almost always goes in the stand mixer. I might use the hand mixer once a year, but I use my stand mixer 2-3 times a week, especially this time of year.
 
TastyReuben said:
My hand mixer pops the beaters out at the push of a button, I think they all do that, including the cheapest ones. Even my mom’s did that when I was a kid back in the ‘70’s, and hers would have been the cheapest of the cheap.

Mine will also stand on its backside, I think that’s pretty standard on all but the cheapest ones.

I rarely use my hand mixer. It’s not that old, and I bought it for a specific purpose that I can no longer remember. Anything I need mixed, it almost always goes in the stand mixer. I might use the hand mixer once a year, but I use my stand mixer 2-3 times a week, especially this time of year.
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They are fabulous at shredding meat and making things like rillette, a brief moment and the lot is in pieces.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
They are fabulous at shredding meat and making things like rillette, a brief moment and the lot is in pieces.
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I’ve seen videos of people doing that with chicken. I don’t shred meat very often, and when I do, I find it a little therapeutic, I guess, to just take my time with it, like when kneading bread by hand.

What I hate about the hand mixer is the <bleeping> noise. I’ve very sensitive to certain sounds, and first, that little handheld thing is shrill and loud. Really loud. My stand mixer operates at a low hum most of the time.

In addition to that noise, it’s the noise of the beaters banging the sides of the bowl - CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! over and over. When I do use it, I’m about three seconds away from a nervous breakdown by the time I’m done.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
They are fabulous at shredding meat and making things like rillette, a brief moment and the lot is in pieces.
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TastyReuben said:
I rarely use my hand mixer. It’s not that old, and I bought it for a specific purpose that I can no longer remember. Anything I need mixed, it almost always goes in the stand mixer. I might use the hand mixer once a year, but I use my stand mixer 2-3 times a week, especially this time of year.
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Yeah. I know that most people find them useful. But I suppose I just don't cook those type of things. You will know from seeing my recipe threads the type of food I cook. If I do pastry its by hand. Same with bread or cakes, on the rare occasions I make cake.
 
TastyReuben said:
I’ve seen videos of people doing that with chicken. I don’t shred meat very often, and when I do, I find it a little therapeutic, I guess, to just take my time with it, like when kneading bread by hand.

What I hate about the hand mixer is the <bleeping> noise. I’ve very sensitive to certain sounds, and first, that little handheld thing is shrill and loud. Really loud. My stand mixer operates at a low hum most of the time.

In addition to that noise, it’s the noise of the beaters banging the sides of the bowl - CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! CLANK!!! over and over. When I do use it, I’m about three seconds away from a nervous breakdown by the time I’m done.
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Whats noise sensitivity called? I can’t remember.

One of the only advantages of being very deaf is I can tolerate a lot of noises that drive other folks nuts.
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Whats noise sensitivity called? I can’t remember.

One of the only advantages of being very deaf is I can’t tolerate a lot of noises that drive other folks nuts.
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You may be thinking of misophonia.

My MIL didn’t have a sense of smell. She used to laugh that it helped keep her married to her abnormally gassy/stinky husband. :laugh:
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Whats noise sensitivity called? I can’t remember.

One of the only advantages of being very deaf is I can’t tolerate a lot of noises that drive other folks nuts.
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You mean you can tolerate?

I dont like noise either but will put up with it for a short while if it gives a result. Like my spice grinder.
 
My hand mixer is well, a hand mixer... 😆
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