what is your next kitchen toy?

Fisher's Mom

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lilylove said:
This may sound silly compared to all of yours but slowly but surely I'm putting together a full set of clear dishes for a table scape of sorts. I have a large salad bowl, 4 small salad/soup bowls 4 large square dinner plates, candy dishes, salt and pepper shakers ... I want to get more pieces to match.
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Oh, me too! I just started collecting plain clear glass dishes, too. I found a set of 8 large clear glass platters at a junk shop and they looked so lovely on the table! All you have to do is change the table cloth or add a placemat and they look completely different! Now I've found round dinner plates and dessert plates and I'm looking for bowls. I love the idea of square plates - where did you find them?
 
lilylove

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joec said:
Not really silly at all. It drove me crazy that none of our dishes matched so this year I went out and bought a set of dishes, glass ware, some rice bowls to go with them and flatware. I didn't spend a lot but at least it goes together well.
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I like those Joe! I really like the little bowl in front!
 
joec

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We got all but the rice bowls at Target. The rice bowls came from Koren's in NYC which though not matching look great with the set in person.
 
lilylove

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The other thing I keep saying I'm going to buy is matching coffee cups...
I have a million mugs. But they are all different so when we have people over every one has a different kind and it always looks bad IMHO... so some day... matching coffee cups! lol.. They are so cheap. I don't know why I don't just don't go get some.
 
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Fisher's Mom said:
Oh, me too! I just started collecting plain clear glass dishes, too. I found a set of 8 large clear glass platters at a junk shop and they looked so lovely on the table! All you have to do is change the table cloth or add a placemat and they look completely different! Now I've found round dinner plates and dessert plates and I'm looking for bowls. I love the idea of square plates - where did you find them?
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oh..it was either Bed and Bath or Linen's and Things which ever one didn't go out of business. I think they were only 4 dollars a piece too! They had cups and bowls to match. I didn't like the cups though. They looked like they would be very hard to drink out of.
 
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lilylove said:
oh..it was either Bed and Bath or Linen's and Things which ever one didn't go out of business. I think they were only 4 dollars a piece too! They had cups and bowls to match. I didn't like the cups though. They looked like they would be very hard to drink out of.
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Such a deal!!!! I love that! I have a set of clear glass coffee mugs at my little house at the coast that I think I got at Walmart for like $2 a piece. They are very plain but they do look nice when I'm serving dessert and coffee. Here at home I'm like you with a ton of different coffee mugs.
 
joec

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Now there is one I don't own but have been looking at. Don't know if I want one or a dedicated ice cream maker.
 
Maverick2272

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texasgirl said:
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I want this too, though:biggrin:
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Well if you get that, then I should get this!:clap::
But seriously, my next acquisition will be a DO or smoker or both!
 
MexicoKaren

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My microwave oven died recently, so that will be the next acquisition...the variable electrical current here is really hard on microwave ovens, so I guess I'll also have to pop for a voltage regulator to go with it....I did buy some really pretty Talavera pottery serving pieces last week in Dolores Hidalgo...I keep the dishes plain (bright) colors and that way, I can add pattern with serving pieces.
 
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BamsBBQ said:
my next purchase is hopefully going to be a kitchenaid food processor and yes in the color shown because then Mrs.Bam will think its cute and let me buy it(yup she just saw the picture and said i can have it because its pink...lol)

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a kitchenaid mixer

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Just like the KA FP I have, except mine is in manly stainless steel!! OH, and I got like a billion attachments for it in a hand carrying case. My next purchase, hopefully, will be a pressure cooker followed by a smoker.
 
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MexicoKaren said:
...I did buy some really pretty Talavera pottery serving pieces last week in Dolores Hidalgo...I keep the dishes plain (bright) colors and that way, I can add pattern with serving pieces.
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That is beautiful stuff. I have a bunch of Talavera Mirrors that I love bought in TX and MX... hard to find up here). When I can finally start acquiring stuff again some of the pottery would be great.
 
PieSusan

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Hey, buying a pink kitchen aid mixer supports Susan G Komen for the Cure (breast cancer). Awesome choice, Bams!!!!
 
joec

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I have a pretty inexpensive dehydrator and just bought a pressure cooker. The Nesco dehydrator I've been using now for 5 years and has never let me down. I dry peppers, herbs and spice mostly with it. I then grind them up for spice mixes.
 

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MexicoKaren

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Bought my new microwave over the weekend...our local Mega (sorta like a Mexican Walmart) had them for only $550 pesos - about $30 USD given the currently favorable exchange rate. Not a fancy one, but it'll do just fine. Now....what's next???
 
gadzooks

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Kitchen toys are on hold for me right now...probably for a while, too. From the age of six or so up to the age of thirty six, I fished. Primarily fly-fishing, and it was a passion. Circumstances conspired, however, probably with the fish, to end my fishing days. An uninsured hospital stay, combined with a divorce, left me penniless and with massive debt. I sold everything she didn't take, and moved on. As a result of the hospital stay, or rather its cause, I became a vegan for about nine years. I haven't fished since 1989. The subject came up the other day, and I realized how much I missed it. So I am "re-arming," I am finding that it's not cheap, even to just get started. I'll never be able to replace most of the tackle I lost. It turns out to be high-end "vintage" now. But I'm off and running, and I was never a "catch and release" kind of guy...I eat my catch. So I guess this stuff will be "pre-kitchen" toys. Primitive shopping.
 
chowhound

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Low key for some, but my new kitchen "toy" is this magnetic knife holder that I just mounted underneath a cupboard. Woo-Hoo :biggrin:
 

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waybomb

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I have a brand new, but old, Nutone built-in blender. Putting it at the bar area so I don't have to keep dragging a blender out every time somebody wants a frozen drink.
 
PieSusan

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I want to find a really nice old n50 hobart mixer with all its bits and pieces in working order. I just don't know when it will happen but I shall look as I was advised. ;-)!!! We have some awesome talent in this group.
 
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