One of the things I have known, since I first started having my own kitchen, is that you have to have the right tools, The first apartment I had, when I left home, had a kitchen. Not an odd thing, but I had not packed for a kitchen. I had brought nothing from home, other than a kitchen table, which was given to me as a going away present. My first kitchen didn’t have much. I didn’t cook much, and I think I had a frying pan, and a tea pot. I was only there for three months before I moved into a granny unit that only had a microwave and a hot plate, so my kitchen building was put on hold for a few years.
hand beater
So, when I moved into this house, despite the small kitchen, which was dubbed a one-butt-kitchen because only one persons butt could ft in it at once, I decided it was time to build up the stuff I had in there. One of the things I bought was a hand beater. Unfortunately, not the hand beater in this posting. This hand beater I just bought today. The last two hand beaters I had got ruined. I don’t recall how the first one died, but the second one was destroyed by my room-mate’s son who though it was fun to play with. He was cooking, to be sure, but also having fun with it. My sweetie, since then, had bought me three mixers, all electric, each one better than the last, but each time, I have also just wanted a hand mixer so that I could use it for quick beating, for those times I didn’t want to haul out the electric mixer.
Food Mill
The next gadget I’m going to talk about today is the food mill. I had never heard of a food mill, until I was discussing making the tomato sauce. She pulled it out, and showed me how it worked. Wow, I thought, who knew there was such a thing. Here we had tried to mush things in the food blender, and that wasn’t working quite right.
I kept trying to order it on-line, but kept forgetting what it was called. I kept calling ti a food grinder, and a food processor, which didn’t give me the right search results. I wasn’t until I was at Chef Works, while just having a good time, looking for a souffle pan, that I saw it, and bought it, and decided, along with making a souffle, that I would make some more tomato sauce, which I did.
