From spice grinders to immersion blenders, electronic appliances make whipping up sauces, soups, and soufflés a breeze. While many gadgets have a specified use, others, like the food processor or standing mixer, are versatile multitaskers. Whether it's the espresso machine that makes your morning coffee or the ice cream maker that freezes your frozen treats, everyone has that one kitchen appliance — the tool you rely on to make you a better cook — that you just can't live without.
So, spill the beans: what's the one kitchen gadget you cannot live without?
Vivienne Westwood
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Food processor and coffee maker.
1My mini george foreman. I use it everyday for breakfast.
2My toaster and microwave!
3This week's upper 90s has me very thankful for the ice maker! But the appliances I would replace immediately, if they suddenly quit, are the coffeemaker and microwave.
4espresso machine because my fiance needs it to function in the morning . . . food processor for making salads.
5Coffee maker! The toaster comes in second.
6Definitely my toaster oven. I cook a lot of things in it that people wouldn't expect. Also, my food processor since I love making fresh pesto.
7Blender for my smoothies!
8My Cuisinart Egg Cooker. I make soft, medium, hard boiled eggs, poached eggs in that sucker all the time. It beats guessing when your eggs are just right! Nothing better than the PERFECT soft boiled egg.
9My oven! Everything else can be improvised but now that I just moved out of a flat that had a huge oven into a new one THAT HAS NONE i've realised what I truly would die without.
10I can't live without my food processor!
11My indoor grill/griddle. I LOVE it!!
12My blender. Can't live without my smoothies. They handle lots of breakfasts and snacks for us.
13My VitaMix Blender - I used it everyday.
14KitchenAid mixer, love baking!
15George foreman and the pineapple peeler from williams sonoma- all you do is cut the top off the pineapple, stick the contraption on the pineapple and twist, then pull up and it comes out with no core, no outer part and it's in cute little rings like canned pineapple rings.
16My microwave and George Foreman grill.
17The microwave and coffemaker.
18i don't know if this counts, but i couldn't live without a great set of knives.
19My rice cooker. I know, I know. Why is it that the only ones of my friends who know how to make stovetop rice are white? I think it's because the Asian ones grew up with rice cookers and never actually had to learn. I would stop making certain dishes if I didn't have a food processor or a toaster oven, but I'd pretty much stop cooking if I didn't have a rice cooker.
20My mini chopper...I love it!! I have a tiny kitchen & it doesn't take up much space while doing an excellent job.
21It's so boring to say, but I couldn't live without my oven!
22Chopper from Pampered Chef. I know its not a real appliance, but its so freaking helpful.
23Definitely my Kitchenaid mixer.
24kitchenaid mixer and french press
25microwave! the BF cooks ALL his food in it- ha!
26My rice cooker and my wok (ok, not an appliance but I still wouldn't know what to do without it)
27tie between coffee maker and microwave
28my Crock-Pot! I may not use it everyday but it's such a time saver! Next would be my KitchenAid mixer, followed by my immersion blender.
29My KitchenAid. I've had this discussion before with my MIL and we both agreed.
30I recently downsized and tossed/gave away everything except a toaster oven and high-powered microwave. Even the coffee maker was replaced with a french press model. I love being more 'free' in the kitchen, and not weighed down with appliances I used just once a year.
31I use my toaster oven and coffee maker most but I love my slow cooker.
32KitchenAid mixer!!!
33My coffeemaker and my KitchenAid mixer...well, I could adjust if the mixer went kaput, but I would definitely replace my coffeemaker as soon as possible if it quit working.
34I can't think of anything that I absolutely couldn't function without except my oven.
I enjoy the convenience of a microwave, blender, mixer, etc, but I could make do without them if I had to.
35Coffee Maker and BBQ, for sure!
36my mini chopper and my coffee maker definitely!
37My custom built gourment kitchen - designed by me, created by hubby. Okay just one - rice cooker.
38Tie between my KitchenAid and my food processor.
39Oh I would die without my coffee maker!
40My Foodsaver vac machine. I can make large batches of food, suck up individual portions, and freeze them for later. That thing has more than paid for itself. If anyone tried to take it from me, there would be some severe bloodletting!
41I don't know if it's an "appliance" really, but I LOVE my salad spinner. I hate wet lettuce, and the salad spinner just dries it like nobody's business.
42My little Italian "Bialetti" espresso percolator. No more of that watery stuff!
43My rice cooker...i totally suck at making rice in a pot.
44definitely the kitchen aid mixer. when i got it for a xmas present, I thought it was a luxury and now i know it is a necessity.
45My cheap little red teakettle, and my not-so-cheap KitchenAid stand mixer...I actually brought it from the USA and use a transformer to power it here. (not only are the even MORE expensive in the UK but you can't find a black one, so I am glad I did!)
46My KitchenAid stand mixer.
47rabidmoon - when I was a student in England, my best friend (originally from Long Island) did the same thing with her KitchenAid. The transformer she had was loud and obnoxious (much like her - awesome!) and her housemates always complained. Thing is, they also devoured everything she made with that thing.
48Haha, Shoneyjoe! Well..I must be lucky, the transformer I have just buzzes softly...I have had it about 6 years now, it hasn't let me down yet, even in Europe..
American stand mixer plugged into British transformer with European adapter on it.
I really have to stop moving.
49First, my KitchenAid Mixer. Second, my Food Processor (also KitchenAid!),
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