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November 18, 2003

kitchen confessions

I, like Rush Limbaugh, have an addiction. I have had this overwhelming need for many years, and no matter how much I get, it's never enough.

What, pray tell, is this addiction for? Kitchen appliances, gadgets and cookbooks. I have more gadgets then Emeril. More appliances than I can ever use. And, I have cookbooks - many, many cookbooks. When I travel, I try to find at least one local cookbook - you know, the kind that a restaurant might sell, with local recipes featured.

I see some idiot Rotisserie on TV, I buy it.
Everytime I walk into Bed Bath and Beyond, I walk out with at least 3 new gadgets, and quite often a new kitchen appliance.

Some of them are wonderful, and well worth the money - my bread machine is fantastic. The Smoothie maker is great. My Jennair electric stove top is as good an electric stove top as you can get - gas would be nice, but the kitchen ain't plumbed for it, so I got electric.

But I have been bitten by George Foreman appliances twice, and I will never buy one again. Damned rotisserie - great chicken, but it take a week to clean all the parts. Heck, I can stop at the grocery store on my way home from work and buy a chicken that they have rotisserized all day for under $5 and they have to clean the mess up! Then I bought the George Foreman Five Star Grill, and it truly sucks - the angles are so weird on it that there is not enough space to grill a burger on it without it breaking in half. So, if I grill indoors, I use my old trusty Hamilton Beach Grill that I have had for at least 8 years - they don't even make it anymore, but it's big enough to put 4 hamburgers on it without making them the size of White Castle Burgers.

I also own just about all the cool gadgets you are likely to see on just about any show on the Food Network. In fact, while other people watch sports and whatever reality show is popular, my eyes are glued to the Food Network. I love watching them cook, and I try the recipes and they are great.

I think that a good meal is sexy, and likely to make for a lovely bedtime, and that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

Posted by Beth at November 18, 2003 9:27 PM

Comments

The big Foreman grills ROCK. I'm on my second one (first one lasted four years, and that's four years of heavy, heavy use). I haven't tried a small one. But the food tastes really good, and I use it on everything - from pork to chicken to beef. And mushrooms - makes great mushrooms with no oil/butter.

hln

Posted by: hln at November 19, 2003 2:42 PM

http://journal.cynthiachew.com/ lives in Australia and is always writing about food, you should check her out!

Posted by: Beth m at November 19, 2003 8:22 PM

I'm so glad it's not just me that does this! Would you believe I bought a croissant cutter in 1984 to make homemade croissants, and have carried it around ever since? And that's just the beginning.

Posted by: Candy at November 19, 2003 11:10 PM

I have the smaller George Foreman, and love it, though if I do steaks on it somehow things get messier than if cooking burgers! I don't understand that.

I love Cookbooks. Not cooking. Just the books. :)

Posted by: pam at November 20, 2003 1:33 PM