Kitchen "Candy" ~ Or, Look What I Just Got!

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Mad Cook said:
If it's otherwise perfect why not take it to an electrician to have it re-wired? Obviously, use a properly qualified electrician (one who's registered with the organisation which oversees qualified electrical engineers so you've some protection against the dangerous villains).
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I come from a family of qualified electricians. In this country, their hourly wage is far above what a hand mixer would cost.
 
Kayelle said:
MsM, as a new fan of my Anova Sous Vide, I'm wondering about trying Sous Vide with your pot. It has the function to hold a constant temperature but there is theoretically going to be a temperature gradient in the water bath because there isn't anything circulating the water.
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I have seen pictures of sous vide cooked steaks from the Instant Pot and they look pretty good. I will need to do a little research before I try it.
 

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Well it's not very exciting, but sometimes the little things need to be appreciated too. I got THIS SCRAPER the other day. I mostly expected it to be some cheap, flimsy plastic thing. I was pleasantly surprised. Good and rigid, has some heft to it so that if feels like a tool, not a toy. At 8" long, it's far more effective than the metal one I've been using for a few years. $13 was low enough for me to give it a try.

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That's a nice bench scrapper, Rick. I have the metal kind, but with a nice wide plastic grip along one of the long sides. Works for me since I work my dough on a wooden board. That one would be nice to use on a bare counter top.

Just Cooking said:
Daughter and SIL brought me an electric patio grill on the 4th...
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Well Happy Birthday U.S.A. - and YOU get the gift. Nice! Enjoy grilling while you can - or just bundle up come snow season.
 
I scored this set of vintage Corningware bakeware at a yard sale last weekend, for $10 for the entire set! Perfect condition. :ohmy: I didn't need it but couldn't pass it up, so I gave it to my daughter.
 

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Cheryl J said:
I scored this set of vintage Corningware bakeware at a yard sale last weekend, for $10 for the entire set! Perfect condition. :ohmy: I didn't need it but couldn't pass it up, so I gave it to my daughter.
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Very pretty Cheryl! I don't think I've ever seen that pattern. I had the Blue Cornflower back in the day.
 
I love that pattern - it's called "Wildflowers". Kay, I also have a couple of the Cornflower casserole dishes, and several of the Spice of Life. Vintage Corning ware sells for a pretty penny on Ebay - lots more than $10 for 3! :)
 
Nice "get", Cheryl! I think my Mom had a couple pieces in that pattern. If we still have them, they're at Loverly's home. I have a small Blue Cornflower frypan with lid and an 8-inch baking dish in Spice of Life that were Mom's. Pretty much any that I bought on my own were French White. How boring! :LOL:
 
Thanks, Princess and CG! Yeah...I *almost* felt guilty about such a deal, but I know they wanted to sell everything as quickly as possible so I obliged them. ;) I used to have a little Cornflower teapot, but I don't know whatever happened to that. I also had a plain white cutting 'board', until my brother used it one day to mix spackle and accidently broke it. :bash: :LOL:

CG, the white ones are pretty too, and even more so with colorful food in them! :)
 
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caseydog said:
That is good business. Take care of a customer, and they will tell everyone they know that you took care of them. As a commercial photographer, I am a "business owner," and I make most of my money from repeat customers, and get most of my new business from word of mouth advertising from my current customers.

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Hear, hear!
 
Cooking Goddess said:
Nice "get", Cheryl! I think my Mom had a couple pieces in that pattern. If we still have them, they're at Loverly's home. I have a small Blue Cornflower frypan with lid and an 8-inch baking dish in Spice of Life that were Mom's. Pretty much any that I bought on my own were French White. How boring! :LOL:
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Well, from the point of view of a girl, yes. As a man who cooks (and owns a poodle), the last thing I want is cookware with flowers on it. :ermm: :LOL:

CD
 
Katie H said:
Thanks, Cheryl, but I really just stumble on them most of the time. However, I will have to say that the three Goodwill stores that I frequent are more like shopping at a very, very nice consignment store without the "consign" part.

What I see on the shelves and racks are always first rate. I can't imagine what they turn away.

When I bought the crock-pot crock, I also bought a John Deere-licensed dinner plate for our youngest grandson who eats, sleeps, drinks, plays all things John Deere.
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I love what we call "Charity Shops" over here.

Where I live there is a Cancer Research shop which has fantastic clothes (two winters ago I picked up a beautiful cream woollen coat, never worn, complete with the original retailer's price tag (£250!!!), which cost me £25 (approx. $30).

Another local charity shop is a Mecca for kitchen equipment - I recently picked up a giant-sized slow cooker (like a Crock Pot) for £2. Works perfectly and ideal for batch cooking for the freezer.

The Oxfam charity has cookery book shop in Glossop - heaven! Most of my (300!!!) cookery books originate from there and I have to be very firm with myself!
 
I've been baking cookies a lot lately - DH likes to have one or two with his an afternoon coffee. I have three sheet pans and only two silicone baking mats, so, in order to make it a little more efficient ;) I decided to get another one. I found this cute set of three that includes a toaster oven size mat for just a few dollars more than a single Silpat.
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GotGarlic said:
I've been baking cookies a lot lately - DH likes to have one or two with his an afternoon coffee. I have three sheet pans and only two silicone baking mats, so, in order to make it a little more efficient ;) I decided to get another one. I found this cute set of three that includes a toaster oven size mat for just a few dollars more than a single Silpat.
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Nice!
 
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