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What’s the next kitchen item you plan to buy (2026)?

Z-Cook said:
Smoke point of beef tallow
The Smoke Point of Beef Tallow: Why It’s a Game-Changer for High-Heat Cooking — Cooking With Tallow
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Sis sent me this one for early bday.
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They have these available at my store. I usually just use butter melted in the pan(s) in the oven, then pour in batter.


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badjak said:
Just gotta say: that's an incredible discount on the 11.5 oz wagyu beef tallow.
From 14.99 to 14.89 :hyper:
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I was thinking the same thing. LOL I may buy some Swift tallow some day.
 
New kitchen scales.
I suspected mine were playing up for a while and yesterday when weighing out the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies I was adding and adding and adding butter when I realised I’d put 3/4’s of a pat of butter on the scales and it only just tipped 120gram mark.
3/4’s pat of butter here is more like 190grams so that’s waaaay off (by about 2 1/2 ounces).
Pretty annoyed because those scales were £50 and only 3 years old!
Definitely no more expensive scales for me!

Hey ho. Look at these pimp my ride beauties. They’ll be here tomorrow hopefully 🤞

Nice wide plate, which I like for various reasons.
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And a bonus item for me because I knew there was something wrong with those flippin scales, now in the future any doubts I can check.. before I ruin a batch of cookies 😂
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
New kitchen scales.
I suspected mine were playing up for a while and yesterday when weighing out the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies I was adding and adding and adding butter when I realised I’d put 3/4’s of a pat of butter on the scales and it only just tipped 120gram mark.
3/4’s pat of butter here is more like 190grams so that’s waaaay off (by about 2 1/2 ounces).
Pretty annoyed because those scales were £50 and only 3 years old!
Definitely no more expensive scales for me!

Hey ho. Look at these pimp my ride beauties. They’ll be here tomorrow hopefully 🤞

Nice wide plate, which I like for various reasons.
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And a bonus item for me because I knew there was something wrong with those flippin scales, now in the future any doubts I can check.. before I ruin a batch of cookies 😂
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I like all that! I've got one like in the middle but it's disguised...
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Excellent, I’ll bear that one in mind when I have to start up a side gig selling drugs just so I can continue to keep up with the food inflation prices 😂
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Actually, in Las Vegas my type of scale could be construed as paraphernalia, if it looked like a scale, so it's best to not have one that looks like a scale!
 
Barriehie said:
Actually, in Las Vegas my type of scale could be construed as paraphernalia, if it looked like a scale, so it's best to not have one that looks like a scale!
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I got one of those precission scales :)
Just for weighing out nitrite when making sausages... Not for SandwichShortOfAPicnic 's future business ;)
 
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