Kitchen gadgets can be great, but they can also be utterly awful. A mistake a lot of us make is we get carried away with the latest kitchen gadgets. We see all these cool things, thinking we should buy them for our kitchen. They might get used once or twice, but then they spend the rest of their days lying around doing nothing.
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Really, you want to avoid buying loads of kitchen gadgets as they can clutter up your kitchen and be a waste of money. So, how do you choose the right gadgets for your kitchen?
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Below you’ll find a few tips to help you make the right decisions:
Does the gadget have multiple uses?
Can you use this gadget for different things or is it something of a one-trick pony? For example, a spiraliser. Everyone went crazy for these gadgets a few years ago, with the whole concept being that you could take any vegetable and make it long and thin like spaghetti. Realistically, you quickly found out that this is basically pointless. It’s more of a gimmick than a gadget as it only does one thing – and you won’t do that one thing very often.
By comparison, consider gadgets like all-in-one food processors. Here, you have something that can blend, chop, grind – and much more. Some processors even knead the dough, so you get loads of uses from one machine. It’s a gadget you are likely to use almost every day in one capacity or another!
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How much space does the gadget take up?
This is a tricky consideration as you do have some large gadgets that are diverse and useful. Food processors are one of these things, but you have to consider how much space one of them will save. Instead of needing multiple gadgets to do all the different things of a food processor, you only need one!
On a much smaller scale, you’ve got things like steel crumpet rings with non-stick coating. They’re super useful for making crumpets, breakfast muffins, eggs, or even burgers! They tick the first box of doing multiple things, but they’re small enough to keep in your cutlery drawer. What you want to avoid are massive gadgets – like a huge slow cooker that takes up half of your counter space.
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Is the gadget actually necessary?
Finally, do you actually need the gadget, or can you do what it does? Something like a potato peeling machine is a perfect example. These things claim to peel potatoes quicker than you can, but they rarely do. Or, there are gadgets you can attach to pots and they automatically stir things for you. Again, is this really necessary? Can you get the same or better results by doing things freehand?
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To Sum Up
The best gadgets are ones that enhance the cooking experience and make your life significantly easier. So, the next time you see a kitchen gadget for sale, ask yourself the three questions above. If it doesn’t tick off at least two of the three concerns, you shouldn’t buy it!
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Yes!!! Love this blog post! 🙂 It’s not necessary to have 39930302 different knives or cooking utensils, 1 or 2 is just fine. When I see a pretty cooking utensil, I try to convince myself that I really don’t need it 🙂 thank you for sharing
I feel exactly the same! Once I purged the many many utensils I had I felt sooo much better! And it looks even prettier x
Oooh fun, I love having lots of gadgets for my kitchen!
Oh me too!! Thanks for reading!
Not so much a kitchen gadget, but I installed pull out shelves in some of my cabinets to store my gadgets and what a difference! All the little improvements matter! Thanks for sharing!
What a great move to make! Thanks for reading
My Thermo Cooker is great. Has so many functions and uses. It replaces scales, food processor, cooker, grinder, steamer, etc. I’m also fortunate that my new kitchen has an appliance cupboard to hide it away when not in use.
Oh yes definitely lucky I would say! Great storage solutions makes life easier! Thanks for reading x
I always have to remind myself about the “is it really necessary” part. It might look cool, but would I use it on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis?
Exactly! We hardly use most of the things we have in our kitchen and that’s the biggest culprit to a cluttered home! Thanks for reading x