http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x49176Oh my.
The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-05-08 01:47 PM
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Curing the Kitchen Addiction
Since we've been talking about this in another thread I thought it might be a good idea to create a space to discuss and confess our issues with Equipment/Dish obsession.
My kitchen drawers are stuffed with avocado cutters, shrimp de-veiners and slotted spoons of all sizes. Of course I can never find what I really need without wading through the spatulas, the pie servers and the melon scoops. I confess I own 8 Pyrex measuring cups and 4 plastic sets of measuring scoops.
I have a deep fat fryer that I've only used twice but you'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands to let it go.
On my kitchen counter alone I have an electric pressure cooker (I do use it almost every day), a coffee pot, a toaster, a food processor, a blender, an electric contact grill, a toaster oven, a rice cooker, a blender and a Kitchen Aid Mixer.
I'm obsessive about Fiesta Ware and buy myself at least 4 or 5 new pieces a year. (That alone takes great self restraint)
If there is space in the kitchen or dining room that I can squeeze a new product into I'll get it. That crepe machine fits into the Nesco Oven so of course I needed it. It was only $9.99 so that made it ok --right?
So come and chat all those who share the dish fetish and the electrical equipment addiction.
wakemeupwhenitsover DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-05-08 01:52 PM
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1. I'll repost here:
Dish fetish.
As DH pointed out, I've got the entire guest closet crammed with serving pieces. Don't visit because there's like 6 inches to actually hang your clothes.
I have the glass dishes with the liners to serve crab/shrimp cocktails. I have 45 pieces of formal/Edwardian dishes including some huge platters and the largest soup tureen I've ever seen with underplate and lid and ladle. I have the scallop shells to serve Coquille St. Jacques. I've got cheese platters and cheese domes and cheese picks. I've got little dishes to put olive oil for dipping. I've got this 9 piece thingy with the wire cage to hold the 9 square dishes for condiments. I've got a large platter that looks like a lobster to serve lobster salad. I have enough crab picks to stock Joe's Stone Crab Hut if he ever needs them. I've got 36, count 'em, 36 french onion soup bowls with lids. And that's off the top of my head. I'm too frightened to actually go down and look more closely.
Oh, and if anyone is ever throwing a party and needs glasses, just give me a ring. I'm your gal.
PS: you don't want to see the beautiful platter that our cat's water and food bowl are on.
wakemeupwhenitsover DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-05-08 01:53 PM
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2. And you don't want to know how many water/food bowls Killer has herself. She's got her very own collection going on.
hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-05-08 05:49 PM
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3. Okay...
I guess I don't feel too bad now, but I still have one whole large drawer of large cooking utensils, some mine some my grandmother's,, even after I gave a bunch of them away to a charity, and another full of both my silverware and my grandmother's. I have about 3 sets of measuring cups and spoons, 2 plastic which I want to get rid of, and one stainless which I adore and want more of. I bought new dishes and husband bought me a set of glasses, but I keep the old for every day, even though the new ones aren't a formal set and we almost never, ever entertain.
I don't go in so much for the electrical gadgets but I still haven't much used my stand mixer. I've just been so used to not having one all these years. It is nice for making bread and I couldn't have done the danish without it really.
I just love to stand in the middle of a kitchen store or the kitchen department of a store and ooh and aaah. I want to buy things but the two things that restrain me are the size of my kitchen and the lack of expendable income since individually my husband and I each make a salary at or very near poverty level.
But he still feels I bring home too many kitchen things and I do, but they're the small things, stray custard cups, measuring cups, and usually second hand from thrift stores. At any rate, my kitchen is totally full and that's why he's building me a small hutch. LOL
He did drive me an hour north of here yesterday morning to buy a small portable dishwasher that was almost new and sells for between $250 and $300 depending on where you buy it. But it was only $80 on craigslist.
after which photograph of a kitchen appliance
franksolich finds this bonfire disturbing, really disturbing, for so many reasons.
Number one, the primitives, unlike decent and civilized people, boast of their virtue and "social conscience;" as it, really, takes only a minimal amount of cookware to sustain a decent and civilized life, why are the primitives selfishly collecting all this stuff--far more than what they need--for themselves, instead of giving them away to those who have less?
Where's the primitives' virtue and social conscience in this?
Number two, Grandma, the hippowife primitive with the diverted intestine, lives out in the country trying to live a life based on the Good Old Days, trying to recreate some bygone idyllic era--but how many sod houses had electric mixers and microwave ovens and.....automatic dishwashers?
There's a lot of other things here, franksolich doesn't get.
Maybe it's just me.
