What's your best ever kitchen purchase?

[skilly1]

Bill said:

What is it?

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

[illmonkey]

Yes, I know it's the direct oposite, but there is no thread.

I bought this, as I am awaiting my new oven to be built: http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/giles-posner-2-ring-ho...

It can't even boil water, I can put my finger in the water after it's been on for 10 minutes.

[Bill]

skilly1 said:

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

Don't you own a microwave?

[Carlton Banks]

bluelightbabe said:

I always have perfectly sized chopped onions now after being bought one of these :




And perfect chopped garlic with one of these:


The more you twist, the finer it gets.

Where do you buy these from?

[rustyabarth]

Tefal pressure cooker...i use it at least twice a week and its a brilliant time saving device and never fails to satisfy

Edited by rustyabarth on Wednesday 16th July 14:28

[LordGrover]

ehonda said:

bluelightbabe said:

And perfect chopped garlic with one of these:


The more you twist, the finer it gets.

Thanks to this thread I now have one of these and a good grips mandolin, haven't used the mandolin yet, but that garlic twist is awesome.

One of these: amazon?

[LordGrover]

Would I use this more than half a dozen times before relegating it to back of cupboard?

[skilly1]

Th problem with a lot of the chopping gadgets is cleaning them afterwards, that is why they stay in the cupboard and I generally use a knife (apart from garlic press !).

[jep]

Bill said:

skilly1 said:

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

Don't you own a microwave?

Or a cold water tap to top it up with

[skilly1]

jep said:

Bill said:

skilly1 said:

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

Don't you own a microwave?

Or a cold water tap to top it up with

Does the mean you are joking, if not then you are not supposed to do either of those things !

[Bill]

Is it your first? People are usually a lot more relaxed by the time no.2 arrives.

[Davey S2]

We have the Tommy Tippee machine and it's worth it's weight in gold, especially at 3 in the morning.

A decent potato ricer is also one of my best purchases. Used it tonight and the mash was lush.

[jmorgan]

skilly1 said:

Th problem with a lot of the chopping gadgets is cleaning them afterwards, that is why they stay in the cupboard and I generally use a knife (apart from garlic press !).

Same here, been through a load over the years and even the mandolin, which I like a lot, is never used. I have a garlic press but use the flat of a knife to whack it then chop then crush the chopped bits with the flat of the knife again.

[IN51GHT]

Boiling water tap.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

this

[zeb]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

this

is that for pleasuring your chef or does it peel something??!!

[Bullett]

skilly1 said:

jep said:

Bill said:

skilly1 said:

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

pre-make it give it to them cold.

Don't you own a microwave?

Or a cold water tap to top it up with

Does the mean you are joking, if not then you are not supposed to do either of those things !

[jep]

Bullett said:

skilly1 said:

jep said:

Bill said:

skilly1 said:

It makes a baby bottle of milk in 60 seconds. Does not sound like the most groundbreaking piece of kit but it saves so much time and stress.

Before:
Boil Kettle
Put baby milk powder in bottle
Pour in boiling water to level.
Cool bottle to baby drink temp - this take bloody ages, especially when you have a screaming baby or you want to get back to bed after feed.

Now:
Put baby milk powder in
Press button twice
Bottle ready at perfect temperature in 60 seconds.

pre-make it give it to them cold.

Don't you own a microwave?

Or a cold water tap to top it up with

Does the mean you are joking, if not then you are not supposed to do either of those things !

As I understand it, the point of using boiling water is that it needs to be over 70 deg c to kill any harmful bacteria in the powder. Once you've mixed the formula up, you cool it down to the right temperature for the baby. Cold water could be added at that point to make it up to the necessary volume, as the bacteria has been killed off thanks to the initial high temps from the boiling water.

Or just do whatever makes you comfortable...

[Trustmeimadoctor]

zeb said:

is that for pleasuring your chef or does it peel something??!!

its a tin opener, ring pull puller, bottle opener, aids in opening screw top bottles and has a glass jar seal breaker on it too

[illmonkey]

jep said:

As I understand it, the point of using boiling water is that it needs to be over 70 deg c to kill any harmful bacteria in the powder. Once you've mixed the formula up, you cool it down to the right temperature for the baby. Cold water could be added at that point to make it up to the necessary volume, as the bacteria has been killed off thanks to the initial high temps from the boiling water.

Or just do whatever makes you comfortable...

Logic is crap. So you boil water to kill bacteria, then add cold water with bacteria to it?