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I can certainly live without it, but my cherry stoner is amazing and so much fun to use! I pull it out once a year for our very short sour cherry season, and I get a huge kick out of it. Before I bought it, it would take hours and hours to stone enough cherries for pies and jam - now it's minutes.
I try to heed Laurie Colwin's advice and not have tools that only do one thing, but this one is just a treat, and not a bad return on a $40 investment.
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re: TeRReT
SanityRemoved
Apr 4, 2012 10:06 AM
Finding olives (black or green) with pits in them, they need a gadget for that. I'm ready to call up Leonard Nimoy and request an "In Search of ..." episode for an item that was once carried by every grocery store.
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re: SanityRemoved
The only ones with pits I find are Armstrong brand olives. I agree that olives with pits are firm and tasty and fun to gnaw on. Yum!
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TeRReT
Apr 4, 2012 08:46 AM
Can't live without my microplane, though having said that I am living without it now since I left it at home, but they have plates with little bumps for daikon and stuff that work fine for ginger and garlic as well here so I use them instead.
Can't live without my coffee grinder or my v60 drip, and neither can anyone else. If not for them, nobody's life around me would be considered living.
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Chemicalkinetics
Apr 3, 2012 10:22 AM
What is the definition of a gadget here? In other words, what is considered as a gadget and what is considered as a tool?
My guess is that you won't consider a kitchen knife a gadget, but what about a microplane grater?
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re: kjts918
Chemicalkinetics
Apr 3, 2012 10:39 AM
I see. Like modern invention and usually electricity run, right? In that case, my gadget is probably a toast oven (if you count that). If not, then the mini-food processor and coffee grinder. I actually don't drink coffee, but the coffee grinder is very useful for grinding spices for me.
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re: kjts918
Chemicalkinetics
Apr 3, 2012 10:51 AM
:) Obviously, you will need a separate one because you don't want your coffee tastes like spices. Usually, the $20-30 blade grinders are recommended for grinding spices.
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re: kjts918
I guess I don't really think of a waffle-iron as a "gadget" in the usual sense. It's just the thing for the job. I mean, if you want to make waffles, what else would you use? Usually the things that fall into the "gadget" category are things that are (allegedly) labor-saving devices to substitute for some other method; most of them are useless if you have decent knife skills. I mean, sure, I use a food processor and a blender (and even an immersion blender). A stand mixer. I guess basically I think of a "gadget" as something that hasn't really proven it's worth in the kitchen.
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re: Moopheus
Chemicalkinetics
Apr 4, 2012 08:25 AM
I have an antifatigue mat.... I wonder if it can be counted as a gadget.
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re: Chemicalkinetics
TeRReT
Apr 4, 2012 08:44 AM
not a gadget in a professional kitchen, pretty much a staple, and absolutely not anti-fatigue, it takes more energy to carry it to the back and put through the dish washer then it saves me the entire week :P Of couse that was the dishwasher's job, but that was my now fiancee, so no way I'd get away with letting her carry 5 large mats to the back kitchen.
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re: TeRReT
Chemicalkinetics
Apr 4, 2012 09:49 AM
"not a gadget in a professional kitchen, pretty much a staple"
True.
"Of couse that was the dishwasher's job, but that was my now fiancee"
Are you married? I thought she WAS your fiancee last year.
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re: TeRReT
Chemicalkinetics
Apr 4, 2012 10:05 AM
"no no she is still my fiancee, but back then she was my girlfriend"
Oh I jumped the gun on that one. I guess the transition was from girlfriend to fiancee, and I got confused as from fiancee to wife. Gotcha.
Next thing you tell me about getting married, and I will remember as having babies...
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