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Post by finreporter on Dec 27, 2016 21:43:24 GMT
carol ann, i just noticed your signature and i LOVE your note to self #2!! i catch myself so often taking another bite before the bite in my mouth is even done being chewed and swallowed! i envision myself just shoveling it all in! very unsightly.
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Post by wildcat on Dec 27, 2016 21:49:15 GMT
I got a new toaster because I was constantly bitching that my old one toasts one side more than the other so I had to flip the bread halfway through. I tried the new one out fir the first time today and it dies exactly the same thing.
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Post by gottakeeptryin on Dec 27, 2016 22:09:21 GMT
Not really kitchen but I got a new washer and dryer! My old ones were working but halfazz. Towels and jeans almost always had to be dried twice.
I need, want really because mine are old, new kitchen appliances but as far as small kitchen gadgets I am a very simple person. I do use my crock pot, once or twice monthly.
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Post by cj59 on Dec 27, 2016 22:44:10 GMT
I got a new toaster because I was constantly bitching that my old one toasts one side more than the other so I had to flip the bread halfway through. I tried the new one out fir the first time today and it dies exactly the same thing. wildcat - I've always had to flip my bread in every toast I've ever had too!
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Post by cj59 on Dec 27, 2016 22:47:27 GMT
azcristi - I agree with you and others who said the IP might not be worth it for just one or two people. Since I'm just cooking for one, I know I wouldn't use it enough. I do look at the Air Fryers everytime they are on QVC and wonder if I'd use one of them, but I probably wouldn't I would like to get a bread maker, but I'm concerned that having a loaf of fresh bread in the house would be too much temptation. Does anyone else have a bread maker and use it often? Or do you use it to make something other than bread?
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Post by Texans136 (Luann) on Dec 27, 2016 23:11:15 GMT
I got a new toaster because I was constantly bitching that my old one toasts one side more than the other so I had to flip the bread halfway through. I tried the new one out fir the first time today and it dies exactly the same thing. I wanted a new toaster several years ago because the old toaster one side always popped out the bread and it would land on the counter or on the floor. Got a new one, and the new one did the same thing!
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Post by newheavensearth2 on Dec 28, 2016 3:15:48 GMT
Thinking about an air fryer and a food processor. Definitely want a Nutribullet.
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Post by littlepioneerwoman on Dec 28, 2016 7:35:05 GMT
My DH and I don't always exchange Christmas gifts. Some years we've been planning a trip or we've gotten something big for the house like anew TV. This year, however, I suggested that I'd like to exchange gifts. BUT I did stipulate NO household appliances.
That goes back to a time when we first began dating. I'd been away visiting family for a week. A few days before I was to return, future DH let it drop that he had a special present for me for when I returned. Being this was a new romantic relationship, I was quite anxious for my surprise. Which turned out to be an electric vegetable steamer! Apparently I had mentioned in passing that my niece had one and it was pretty neat. I kid him about it to this day.
Anyway we had a lovely exchange this year. He tracked down a watch I'd been admiring for a long time that is no longer in production. He did very well indeed!
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Post by DebDoesWW on Dec 28, 2016 11:03:27 GMT
Thanks for the tip on the Facebook page azcristi. All the these stories about exploding pressure cookers are exactly why it was still in the box! I remember scrubbing walls at my grandmas when I was a child from one, but they looked so cool on the infomercials
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Post by debsback on Dec 28, 2016 11:41:50 GMT
I was considering an air fryer til I saw how big they are. Decided against getting one since we're trying to downsize and clear things out that we don't use now. Pressure cooker is down in the basement with the foreman grill and waffle iron.
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Post by laura281 on Dec 28, 2016 12:02:23 GMT
I'm getting a new refrigerator delivered this morning! Not really a Christmas present since I ordered it over 3 weeks ago, but it feels like one since the decorations are still up.
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Post by pbnj on Dec 28, 2016 12:03:48 GMT
As for the instant pot, I had to look up what that even was. Pressure cookers make me have a panic attack and shutter. I have my mom's old fashioned one that you put on the stove has the bobble thing on the top that wobbles and hisses as it cooks. (I've never used it nor will I ever, and it has no instructions on how to use it) My mom used to always make pinto beans in it, but one day.... even she doesn't really know what happened or how it happened since she was an expert using the thing but one day the lid happen to blow off as she checked on her beans. She had beans all over the ceiling, walls, stove, and floor. Ever since that story, I will never use a pressure cooker, no matter how good or how greatly improved they are these days. She gave it to me years ago as she no longer uses it, but it just sits in my garage. And she wonders why I will not use it. I am scared of the thing. Yikes! brings back memories! My mom always used her pressure cooker to make baked beans. Same thing happened to her when it 'blew it's lid'. I can still remember her up on a lady scrapping brown beans off the ceiling!! I never wanted one for sure (but love to remember that little jiggly thing from the top! I need to replace my hand mixer and it's getting very hot when used . The darn thing is 45 years old!! Harvest Gold of course!! Matches perfectly with my Harvest Gold blender that I still use!!
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Post by laura281 on Dec 28, 2016 12:04:00 GMT
azcristi I came to the same conclusion about the Instant Pot. I read numerous postings about them but I decided that I wouldn't use it much since it's just DH and me now. I don't use my crock pot too much either since I'm usually at home so I don't need that. Plus, I also didn't care for a lot of the food I prepared in the crock pot. I know, I'm weird! Pretty much that's how I feel, except with working now I might start using the crock pot more. We'll see.
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Post by pbnj on Dec 28, 2016 12:09:12 GMT
azcristi I came to the same conclusion about the Instant Pot. I read numerous postings about them but I decided that I wouldn't use it much since it's just DH and me now. I don't use my crock pot too much either since I'm usually at home so I don't need that. Plus, I also didn't care for a lot of the food I prepared in the crock pot. I know, I'm weird! Pretty much that's how I feel, except with working now I might start using the crock pot more. We'll see. Perhaps we can start a thread with crock pot recipes ?? I'm bored with my old ones.
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Post by lmenglish on Dec 28, 2016 12:16:06 GMT
pbnj, I had harvest gold, too. Have replaced blender and hand mixer, got a nice kitchen aid one. Then DH got a got punk kitchens aid mix master through an incentive program, what was he thinking? I call it Big Bertha, it's a pain, had to be hand washed, loved my old McMaster but I burnt out the motor from 40 years is usr. And I still have my 43 year old dryer! laura281, hope you like your new fridge. Still not wild about mine
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