Kitchen gadgets: The contest - A FREE contest to WIN a free kitchen gadget
Welcome to the day you've all been waiting for. The day of our totally unique Now It's Your Turn contest. The day you can win, win, WIN!
All of this started three days ago when I decided I had had it with the hit-and-miss of buying kitchen gadgets. I decided it would be great if I had a kitchen gadget company I could count on, so I looked around and decided to test out gadgets from Chef's Planet.
Three days ago, I reviewed some really good gadgets. Two days ago, some bad ones. And, yesterday, some ugly ones.
Which brings us to today. The day of our Now It's Your Turn contest where you can win, win, WIN the most expensive item reviewed all week!
And here's how.
Win, Win, Win for FREE, FREE, FREE (because free is best)!
All you have to do to enter the Now It's Your Turn contest is leave a short kitchen gadget story as a comment in today's post. It can be funny, sentimental, silly, clever, whatever, just as long as it is about a kitchen gadget (and not offensive or promotional), it is posted by Thursday October 4, and it has your email address (so I can contact the winner to send them their prize).
I'll announce the winner next Friday, October 5, on this blog.
The rules
The prize
And what is the prize, you ask? The reviewed food mill! Yippee!
The Now It's Your Turn part of the Now It's Your Turn contest
My hope is that you will test your winning and post your review of the item in today's comment section. Because the whole point of this is to get another point-of-view. Pretty good, eh? (Oh, and, hey, if you've been bitten by the contest bug and want to enter millions of 'em, Contest Blogger has a nice list of contests to check out and that neat TNChick has some, too as does the fun 5 Minutes for Mom.)
Good luck to you all!
21 comments:
I dont have a kitchen gadget story but I have made a post to promote your contest http://contestblogcat.com/giveaways/a-free-contest-to-win-a-free-kitchen-gadget/
Cheers and good luck with the contest!
On a visit to Europe once, my mother dragged me into this Italian department store. Imagine Wal-Mart, but with class! Anyway, we were going to fly back home the next day and she wanted to get something uniquely European to bring home.
She ended up getting this contraption that makes julienne potato's. You peel the potato, pop it into the gadget whole, and give it a squeeze -- out comes the fries. Sounds simple, but this child had a whole lot of fun with it, even going so far as to fill the gadget with play-doh and toys!
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It's red. And shiny. You can fill it up, flick a switch, and walk away. It does all of the work for you. It's my one true love.
It's my KitchenAid mixer.
I begged and pleaded - it was the only thing I asked for for my birthday, for Christmas, for Valentine's Day. I even asked for it for St. Patrick's day (hey, who knows). Finally, it came to me. I reorganized my whole kitchen around it. Made it my centerpiece. It is clearly the most expensive thing in my house, and I felt that it deserved pride of place. Even though occaisionally it blocks me from using my counter for something more useful, I won't move it.
I pretend I'm a baker, but mostly I just follow other's recipes. Sometimes I tweak here or there, adding a pinch of salt or a little more cinnamon, or some flour for texture; mostly, though, I just love the moments of solitude. Stirring, measuring, watching bread rise, and, of course, mixing.
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Wow how cool and how fun and I just love kitchen gagets! But to pick a favorite will be hard. Have to admit I love my kitchenaid mixer. Hubby did good last Christmas. He got me something that would help make cooking fun and easy for me plus he got to enjoy all the cooking I did playing around with it. But I have to admit I think my favorite gadget is my Pampered Chef Food Chopper. I love that thing. Not only does it chop everything up just right but if I've had a really bad day it's also a really good to help pound away the stress!
Ooooh, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kitchen gadgets! I have what seems like everything there is and can spend HOURS in kitchen stores. There's always something new I need or want or drool over! I don't know that I could pick just one, but the one I use most often is my garlic press. Of course, the sandwich maker too... oh, and the can opener we got for $5 and have had for 5 years... or my coffee pot, can't live without that... Oh, I could go ON & ON! LOL
Just blogged about the contest.
http://www.disregardme.com/index.cfm/2007/9/29/Win-a-Kitchen-Gadget
As for my latest kitchen gadget it is a quesadilla maker. Basically its a george forman grill but with groves to form cuts for the quesadilla. It works pretty well but you can't really fill the quesadilla with much or else it wont close correctly. But hey, I have 3 minute quesadillas now. On the aesthetic front it is kind of ugly. A big red chili looking thing.
I guess I would have to talk about my ricer. It saved Thanksgiving. My first year of cooking thanksgiving all by myself had a few problems. I bought a ricer to try it out on the mashed potatoes. One of the problems was that I over cooked the potatoes. The ricer saved them by helping to extract the extra water and still make them fluffy! YAY
I had a roommate in college who never cooked. She told me she was going to make quesadillas for dinner one night. A half hour later I went into the kitchen and found a baking sheet in the oven with two tortillas on it and a mound of refried beans topped with hunks of cheese. I showed her how to heat up the beans in a saucepan and shred the cheese with a grater...
I found your contest over at Tnchick.com while participating in Photo Hunters. While I love my beautiful blue KitchenAid mixer, I really enjoy using my can opener made by Good Cook. I used to have an electric under-the-cabinet opener that was hard to keep clean. The Good Cook opener is wonderful and easy to use. You can read about it here: http://www.kitchenkapers.com/bialetti-4-in-1-opener-white.html
I enjoyed reading your reviews!
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Oh I love the kitchen clean one or even messy ones!!!
I'm over from 5 minute from mom..
I don't have a review, but if I win this I'll review it!!
I don't have a review but i have to say my son loves my cheese grater! It's the kind you put the cheese in the trough and turn the handle and out comes the cheese (from pampered chef). When ever i have to use it i have to go hunt for it because my two year old takes it out of the drawer (blade not included) and plays with it. It's usually in his bed or in the playroom. Never knew there were so many uses for a cheese grater!
I love to look at kitchen gadgets in stores, but always talk myself out of buying them b/c of limited storage space.
My anecdote:
My husband can't understand why I get upset when he uses the kitchen scissors to cut paper or when he puts the paper-cutting scissors in the dishwasher.
He's right. I think maybe life has gotten a bt too complicated!
One of my favorite kitchen gadgets is my Bosch Mixer with Food Chopper attachment and blender attachment.
My hubby bought this for me after I begged and pleaded for one for about 3 years.
I love that baby! The mixer part holds up to 20 cups of flour! Meaning I can make enough bread dough in it at once for six loaves... which is good thing with this family of 9.
The food chopper is small but baby can it chop, shred, etc. And the blender... pureed stuf is puree quick.
I blogged your contest too: Monday Edition of Contests Galore
My favorite kitchen gadget is my food chopper. I use it for everything. If you have one you know it can be difficult to put back together after washing. Well my husband decided to use it once on peppers and onion for meatloaf. He had the parts all wrong and was basically getting nowhere with it. It was funny. He was close to breaking the thing because he said it didn't work. As always I had to take over and in some roundabout way say that it was the gadget but I could fix it and it wasn't his fault. Male ego..very fragile!
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When I moved into my own place a few months ago, my aunt asked if needed anything. "Electronics? Do you have a DVD player?" "No," I said, "but you know what I'd really love? A food processor." She gave me a funny look, but a week later a 3-cup Cuisinart arrived at my door, and it's the best thing ever. It's amazing how self-sufficient making my own hummus makes me feel.
My coffee-bean grinder is the key,
though drink it, I do not!
Instead, it pulses cashews for faux-cheese
And herbs for my cooking pot.
Grinds flax seeds for smoothies, and sesame seeds too.
Oh, my red KitchenAid bean grinder,
Where would I do without you?
oops, I left my email address off of my ode to my bean grinder:
redmoon79@aol.com
Thanks!
Tea kettles and I share a questionable history that includes melted-out aluminium bottoms (due to my having forgotten it was on while I worked on research) and other near mishaps, like the time the electric burner shorted out, burning a neat hole right through the bottom of the kettle I'd bought to replace the aluminium one.
That one was red, and new and shiny, setting the perfect note of 1940s style against the pristine glow of my oven top (I should mention that I don't see too well, which helps greatly with housework).
Now I have another, silver, and with the most graceful black, smooth-feeling bakelite handle that arches over it, providing balance that makes the kettle feel light in my hand, even when full.
It embraces the burner perfectly, I've noticed, and the little round lid twists just so; there is a whistle on the spout, which is a base-level requirement (remember what I did not - the neglected kettle). The whistle should give breathy warning before it hits its loudest phase.
I think I've always loved tea kettles, but now I am reminded of an anecdote told by a friend about a friend of hers, when she was first on her own. (Not sure I believe it was about 'a friend,' but you be the judge.)
Anyway, my friend got a phone call from the other, exasperated, near tears: she'd boiled a hotdog - it fit in through the pour spout perfectly! - but now, cooked and far plumper - how could she get it out again?
There is something, though, of perfection, about the right kettle. It balances, living at the back of my stovetop serving its intended function perfectly. Designed to hold a volume of water, and heat it, needing no special treatment.
Everything about it embodies ritual and comfort. I could do this in my sleep, and nearly have, trusting that it will do what is promised with a minimum of fuss and a modicum of style, with the cheer of a whistle, and the small pleasure of graceful design.
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One Christmas my mother in law bought me a bunch of inexpensive kitchen gadgets. One of the items was totally unidentifiable though. I had no clue what it did. So one day after Christmas I asked her "just what does this gadget do". And she said, "I don't know, it was on sale". "Besides, I figured you would know." It is still sitting unused in my drawer.
I confess, I am a food-porn junkie -- my idea of a perfect day is to cook while watching the food channel. After a while I started to notice that all the chefs had a two tools I did not, so I bought them: a pair of big tongs with silicone grippers and a santoku knife -- now I cannot live without either. The tongs let me stir in my non-stick pans and the knife is great for cutting onions and garlic since the ridges keep food from sticking to it.
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