Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Orange peelers. Is this what you were looking for?
Exactly! You are an angel: I had never thought of google -- I associate that gadget with 1970s Kiwi suburbia so had only looked in op shops!
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to B Jones,
Anything like my orange peeler?
Not really thanks. I know yours because it was in a cutlery drawer i was once familiar with somewhere. This is more pointed and about the diameter of a big black pencil.
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A kitchen gadget I have long lusted for and scoured op shops for without success: an orange peeler that was given away with oranges in the 1970s. Made of yellow plastic, it has a curved blade at one end, at the other a raised triangle of plastic on one side and on the other side a plastic “tunnel” about 5mm long. you score the skin with the plastic triangle bit, slip the blade under the skin and move so it falls off, then use the “tunnel” to remove any pith. Worked like a charm and stopped my fingers getting gunked up with yellow crud and then irate skin.
If anyone knows where to get one, please let me know.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Marcus Turner,
My ex is a chef, and one of the things I loved about him was his Sabatier knives. They were carbon steel and like you said stained easily -- wash and dry well after each use otherwise the steel pits. The blades were soft, they wore away with sharpening, but the knives were razor sharp and wonderfully well-balanced. I guess they must be the 'real' version: do you know how to tell the difference in the shop?
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Whoa; these are refracting my brain.!
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Kumara Republic,
My ma has had the grey and white Kenwood as long as I can remember – with the liquidiser, mincer and hooks. They go forever! Hers is at least 50 years old and never blinks.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to B Jones,
My favourite gadget is a Le Creuset thing called a marmitout
A fine multi-purposeness that marmitout, and a great name.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Gareth,
A cheap Chinese cleaver...
Be careful: mine was a gift without irony from a previous husband. A few years later in another life, I was chopping a pumpkin when the thing flew up and smacked me in the forehead. As I saw the beast flashing toward my face, I could only think: Oh fuck I'm going to die, and it's going to be messy." I came to with a purpling lump the size of a number six egg on the "third eye". Beloved spiked the bad pumpkin on a handy manuka stake near the front door. The cleaver found another home.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to B Jones,
snicker
Hoot.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Fiona,
Having said that, the item I most covert is a Thermomix. Friends of mine in the UK has one, and say it is worth the ridiculous amount of money.
I really wish I hadn't followed up that mention. My kitchen equipment is, of spatial necessity and by choice, pared down to the essentials. I love, love, love my Oscar DA-900. That Thermomix looks like an itch I must not scratch.