Kitchen gadgets

[TheFaQQer]

LIDL did one of these about a month ago, about a fiver...
I've got one.

RS

That can't be right.

Dearest thing in Lidl is the pound for the trolley - and you get that back!

[TheFaQQer]

LIDL , what's that??

The only shop where beans are cheaper than plastic bags to put them in!

[threaded]

Went to Aldi for some bacon for a salad later. A couple of hundred quid later I've got two trollies full of all sorts of things, even new a shoe cleaner / puller, for outside the stables.

[OwlHoot]

I've got two trollies full of all sorts of things, even new a shoe cleaner / puller, for outside the stables.

Shoe puller, for outside the stables? Don't you have a groom or a butler to help you off with your boots? Dear oh dear, the kind of people we mix with on this site.

[SandyDown]

I needed a new water filter, I had the water tap filter system installed and usually buy a replacement filter from homebase which is not too far from where I live, today went to buy a replacement filter and was told they stopped stocking it

I thought I better get the water jug with internal filter, I needed one since my last one got a crack in it. So I got one from homebase,

I got home when I unpacked the jug, I found a message left for me in the box saying in capitals: 'HOMEBASE JUST MADE A 67% PROFIT FROM THIS ITEM (FAIR?)'

Thinking of taking it back to show them the message, only on Sunday the staff are all kids out of GCSE class!!

[DBA_bloke]

I'd like to get a decent cheese grater. Years ago you could get a contraption with two hinged arms, with curved flap on the end of one and on the end of the other a hinged square "hopper" that could be opened to insert a cylindrical grater with a small handle. You'd put a cube of cheese in the hopper, and after closing the flap onto it, and holding the arms shut to maintain pressure of the flap against the cheese, turn the grater handle so that grated cheese would fall out from inside the cylinder.

This detailed, and probably inadequate, description is only because no one under the age of 40 has probably ever seen one of the gadgets. I know I haven't recently, despite looking.

You are the man in the 1990s "Cheese Grater Porn" documentary, and I claim my free glass of pee.

[n5gooner]

I'd like to get a decent cheese grater. Years ago you could get a contraption with two hinged arms, with curved flap on the end of one and on the end of the other a hinged square "hopper" that could be opened to insert a cylindrical grater with a small handle. You'd put a cube of cheese in the hopper, and after closing the flap onto it, and holding the arms shut to maintain pressure of the flap against the cheese, turn the grater handle so that grated cheese would fall out from inside the cylinder.

This detailed, and probably inadequate, description is only because no one under the age of 40 has probably ever seen one of the gadgets. I know I haven't recently, despite looking.

I used one this weekend !!

[Pondlife]

How weird. Ours hadn't been out of the cupboard for months but was put to excellent use last night along with the pasta making machine.

[Zorba]

Wow, sounds like a fab gadget, if I see one will let you know, unfortunately not many kitchenware shops are around where I live in Oxford, I ususally like to see and try the gadget before buying, so not keen on buying such stuff over the internet.

Isn't there a shop on Little Trendy Street that sells loads of kitchenware gadgets? I'm sure I picked up a few things around there (like those rings for frying eggs in a perfect circle). Mind you, it's probably a bar now.

[~Craig~]

you really need one of those Microplane cheese graters...that has to be grater of choice for contractors

£20 quid each though...you'll probably need a couple; one for cheddar and one for parmesan.