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I have a stove. (very cheap one)
An old fridge that is probably an energy hog, but better as a fridge than the one the rental agency provides.
A two slice toaster.
An oldish osterizer blender/no lid
A crockpot. (actually two, one old and one new. The old one cooks much slower because the new ones have higher temp settings)
I also have a very old, and pretty weak, electric, handheld beater for cakes or egg whites but can't handle anything more than that.
How about you?
Stove - fridge - drip coffee maker - toaster - food processor - burr coffee grinder - blender - microwave
Added: whoops - missed the dishwasher
Hmmmm. Many! Are you looking for just electric or gas powered? I own several hand driven kitchen appliances.
Fuel driven:
Stove-frig-dishwasher-toaster-coffee grinder-coffee pot-espresso machine-blender-yogurt maker-crock pot-stick blender-spice grinder (coffee bean grinder I use only for spices)-electric roasting oven-KitchenAid mixer- food processor- champion juicer- citrus juicer- waffle iron - rice maker. No microwave, by intention.
Hand crank coffee grinder-hand crank pasta maker-French press- Bialetti stovetop coffee maker- 30's vacuum coffee pot (yes, many ways to make coffee!)
Like Tussiemussies, we use them all.
Tussiemussies
1-6-14, 1:11am
I have an entire pantry full of appliances, but use them all!
Gardenarian
1-6-14, 1:25am
1. Gas stove (~70 years old)
2. Fridge
3. Microwave
4. Dishwasher
5. Blender
6. Toaster
7. Electric kettle
8. Food processor
9. Slow cooker (dh bought recently; uses frequently.)
10. Electric hand mixer
I neglected to mention I had a micorowave. I also neglected that I meant powered appliances. What I don't have: Food Processor. juicer, grinder, dishwater, electric kettle , or coffee maker.
Large appliances: Fridge, gas oven, dishwasher
On the counter: Toaster oven, Keurig coffee maker.
Over the counter: Microwave/convection oven
Stored: Crockpot, KitchenAid mixer, immersion blender, regular blender, citrus juicer, coffee grinder
I use them all, and I LOVE the KitchenAid, the crockpot and the immersion blender.
I rarely use the coffee grinder now that we have the Keurig--even though I use the EZ cups and fill them with my own coffee, the coffee grinder doesn't make the coffee as fine as it needs to be for the Keurig. Like redfox, I use it more frequently for spices and nuts.
Not interested in getting: electric can opener, electric waffle iron, popcorn maker, Foreman grill, yogurt maker, regular toaster as long as I have the toaster oven, electric tea kettle. And I remember the "old days" but still don't want an electric knife, a seal-a-meal, or a meat slicer.
Miss Cellane
1-6-14, 8:11am
Stove, fridge, dishwasher--all came with the apartment.
Then I have:
microwave
toaster
toaster oven
Kitchenaid hand mixer
tiny little crock pot
electric kettle
blender
The blender was a gift and I wasn't sure about it, but then I discovered I could use it to make hummus, so it does get used. The electric kettle is in constant use for tea. The reason there's both a toaster and a toaster oven is that the toaster is much better at toasting things. But the toaster oven is great for re-warming foods and for making lunches, much easier than heating up the big oven for just one person. The microwave is the one I'd give up first, but it does come in handy occasionally.
All electric: fridge, stove, microwave (rarely use), dishwasher, bean grinder, drip coffee pot (rarely use, I like the French press or pour over better), electric water kettle, crock-pot, mini chopper (mostly use when I make salsa), two slice toaster, a toaster oven (in the hall closet, used it once, will probably take it to my mom since they are getting ready to re-do their kitchen), electric knife, hand-held mixer (wish I had room for a big standing mixer). I guess that's 13 items...more than I thought.
Stove, Refrigerator, Dishwasher, Microwave, Toaster oven, coffee maker - all used very often. Occasionally use Blender, George Foreman Grill, deep fat fryer, crock pot, bread maker, hand mixer, electric frying pan . I think that's it. The not often used things are stored on the attic steps or in a cupboard.
Large appliances: Refrigerator, gas range, dishwasher
On the counter: Coffee maker, burr grinder, blender, microwave oven
Stored: Slow cooker, stand mixer (>40-year-old MixMaster), food processor (33-year-old Cuisinart), toaster, steamer
Oh my....too many. I cook a lot from scratch, can most of our veggies, bake our bread...raise pigs, chickens and turkeys that need a freezer spot....
I am justifying my list in advance.
Double oven
Microwave oven
Dishwasher
Cooktop
S/S fridge freezer
Chest freezer (one large, one small)
Spare fridge freezer
Crockpot (2)
Keurig - I blame my husband for this one
Kitchen Aid Stand mixer - love-love-love
George foreman grill
Waffle iron
Stick blender
Food processor - received a cuisinart at my wedding 17 years ago, still going strong
Rice maker
Toaster
Bread maker - Zojirushi - I am taking it with me when I go.
Too many, and my wife just brought home a Kitchenaid Professional mixer from the thrift store because they were selling it for $10. So, we have that mixer, the kitchenaid mixer that was a wedding present, a Champion Juicer, a Vitamix blender, a four slice toaster, a Cuisinart food processor, an electric grain mill, a hand cranked grain mill (that I mainly use for cracking soybeans to make tempeh), a homemade tempeh incubator, an Excalibur dehydrator, a Zojirushi rice maker, a thrift store coffee maker, an espresso machine (from Ebay), a crock pot, and a couple of derelict coffee grinders. (I finally realized it was easier to grind it at the store. I don't notice any difference in taste.) That's all I can think of offhand. There are other things that might be considered appliances - the pressure cookers, the wok, the idli steamer, the coffee percolators - but I think of appliances as being things you plug in.
What we use the most are the rice cooker and the food processor. If my son didn't dislike tempeh so much, I would probably make it more often. We use the crock pot if there is not enough sun for solar cooking beans and the like.
Edited to add - we do have a stove and a fridge. No dishwasher, no chest freezer, no microwave.
iris lilies
1-6-14, 7:28pm
We have most any kitchen appliance you could name (except for the blatantly stupid or trendy ones) but ours are all low end or old or freebies from our parents. I used my grandmother's blender until ten years ago. DH is loath to throw anything away and he's especially protective of kitchen stuff. And no, we don't use all of them. And we have doubles of some of them.
A couple of years ago we took everything out of the kitchen cabinets, of which we have a lot, to have them painted. During that episode I was able to get rid of ay least 1/3 of the stuff that we had, but not many appliances. I don't remember if we still have 2 popcorn poppers, the old on-the-stove-with-oil kind and the modern air popper kinds. We store an ice cream maker and a pasta maker in the attic, not used for 20 years. I think DH has a bunch of canning supplies stored around our estate as weill--probably he has stuff squirreled away in his garage, every inch of that is packed.
I cook a lot from scratch; soups, pizzas, homemade breads and more but have only 4 powered items in the kitchen.
Came with the house:
1) Fridge,
2) 3-burner stovetop,
w/an approx 7" x 10" little broiler pan that is traditionally used for cooking fish.
3) I have a 20 year old hamilton beach hand-held mixer.
4) A super awesome wizbang Denshi Range.
It's an Oven that fits 12" homemade pizzas, big loaves of banana bread in the stone bread pans.
It's also a regular Microwave Oven,
It also has a Steam function that the instruction book says I can bake those Chinese steamed buns usually filled with pork or shrimp. Never use it.
And it has yet another setting I have no idea what it is for. I've decided it's the "launch me to the moon" setting as my Denshi Range seems to be able to do everything else :)
ApatheticNoMore
1-6-14, 8:38pm
A standing blender, a hand blender aquired recently (best item I have - so worth it!), a mixer, a juicer. That's the small stuff. A stove that came with the apartment, a refrigerator. Ok that's it.
Blender. Food processor. Toaster. Hand mixer. Coffee maker. Coffee bean grinder. Toaster. Microwave. (Stove, fridge, dishwasher are the big ones.)
I am jonesing for an air-popper so I can wean myself off of mutant microwave popcorn, a crock pot, and a yogurt maker. DH wants a deep fryer. A friend recently bought a combination crock pot-deep fryer (who knew such wonders existed in this modern world of ours, eh?), so we'll search for that and combine our two hearts' desires into one (awww!).
We use all these appliances routinely...many on a daily basis, especially the coffee-related ones!
I think the number of appliances in your kitchen doesn't matter quite as much (in the context of frugality) as the number of (still-working) kitchen appliances stored in your basement.
Coffee maker - I claim exemption for this one, because coffee is so critical that this is an appliance that we must always have a spare at-the-ready. (Of course, we have a manual Melita funnel and filters for it, as well, but don't bother me with details!) The coffee grinder is packed away along with the coffee maker (and Melita), since we use pre-ground One Cup pods now.
Blender - We have a cheap-o one left over from when I had it at work (I was doing shakes of one sort or another for lunch). Of course, in the meantime, the blender we had at home at the time died and so we replaced it, rather than falling back on the spare.
Toaster - I'm not sure, but I think the old toaster is down there. It lasted about a month and a half before we determined that it was too dangerous to use (the sides heated up as hot as the element, as far as we're concerned) and too crappy in its utility (half of the bread toasted, the other half not) that it needed to be replaced with something better.
Microwave Oven - We have a built-in and it died once. It took weeks to get an appointment to have a replacement installed, so we bought a cheap-o counter model. It served us very well for those weeks, and has also come in handy a couple of times when friends needed a loaner for a time as well as when we were using our built-in as a second (convection) oven and so used the spare to microwave things.
Skillets and fry pans - (Not quite appliances, but expensive enough to be considered as such.) We've always sought out the elusive stove-top tools we wanted. We started with cheap skillets and fry pans, but after they started showing signs of age we started to worry about the danger of chemicals getting into our food. We proceeded to upgrade, one pan at a time, to fantastic (for what they are) Calphalon One cookware. And as good as they are, there are some things that simply aren't meant to be cooked on that surface. Very disappointing. After seeing a segment on America's Test Kitchen, we decided to go with All Clad, and bought a set of three. I think pride kept us from trying to return the skillets and fry pans since there was nothing wrong with them - it was our inadequate skills that made them frustrating to use for us. Then we bought one fry pan recommended, again by America's Test Kitchen, a T-Fal fry pan (with the red emblem at the center of the cooking surface). Best. Pan. Ever. It may not last forever (it's already gotten out of round, somehow) but the surface is the only surface we'll ever made omelets, pancakes, or stir-fries on, from now on. Its predecessors live out their indignant early retirements in our basement.
Portable ("George Foreman"-like) grill, and also an electric skillet - These were decent ideas, one for making burgers and the other for making pancakes, things we were eating quite often. We don't eat burgers anymore and have no use for what is little more than a specialty burger-specific electric grill (veggie burgers aren't any better off the grill than they are coming out of the microwave), and the aforementioned T-Fal fry pan makes pancakes better than anything else, now.
Bread Maker - Doesn't everyone have one of these packed away in the basement, alongside the fondue pot?
Of course, one of the great things about being part of our church community is that we have many opportunities to keep this litany of frugality shame short. It would be three or four times longer if not for all the times we've given someone something they needed which we weren't using anymore or otherwise donated something from the basement to a church fair sale.
I'm not sure why there's the hint of embarrassment or shame with this listing. I love my kitchen appliances! If it isn't used, it goes away. Frugality to me is buy & keep what you'll reasonably utilize. Thus, I've not bought a bread machine, for instance.
ApatheticNoMore
1-7-14, 1:16pm
These are pretty much the appliances I've had in my adulthood, there's nothing in basements, well of course I don't even have a basement - there's nothing in cupboards. If one had to go: oh the juicer, I don't use it much anymore. It could go. The mixer gets minimal use, but you know cookies maybe once a year. Blenders are useful (I want to buy a glass jar for the stand up one - hate plastic) and stove and a refrigerator are absolutely necessary so they stay. The thing about a food processor I contemplate is I'm not sure I even want the bother of cleaning the thing!!!! Here's the thing: I'm lazy. A spice grinder I'd kind of like though, grind your own spices.
early morning
1-7-14, 7:25pm
We have a freezer in the basement. In the kitchen: stove, fridge, dishwasher, microwave (small, trashpicked one), coffee maker, coffee grinder, old blender, Kitchen-Aid stand mixer, toaster oven, waffle iron, crock pot, one large and one small food processors, bread machine. (I also have a back-up toaster oven, coffee pot, and coffee grinder, plus a large, wall-mounted microwave which will eventually replace the small one we are currently using.) Many of our smaller appliances are yard-sale finds. We use them all, although not all the time!
I love my kitchen appliances! If it isn't used, it goes away. Frugality to me is buy & keep what you'll reasonably utilize. Thus, I've not bought a bread machine, for instance.
Exactly! I had a bread machine; when we went low-carb, it went, too. Every appliance we use several times a week is out and usable; if it's something we use less frequently, it's stored; and if we don't use it, we don't keep it.
smellincoffee
1-9-14, 11:27pm
A fridge, an indoor grill (the "George Foreman" kind); crockpot; stove, coffee maker, oven, microwave. The microwave is used to heat up cold coffee, and that's about it. If it ever breaks it won't be replaced. My can opener is the hand-operated kind, so it's a tool and not an appliance.
Refrigerator - microwave - wall oven - cooktop (gas) - dishwasher - coffee maker - coffee grinder - blender/Nutribullet - rice cooker (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this appliance, use it often) - slow cooker - electric indoor grill (like George Foreman, but different brand with removable grill plates) - electric frying pan - hand mixer - toaster (rarely use) - waffle maker (haven't used in years)
We don't have normal kitchen appliances. We have a small chest freezer (3.5 ish cu. ft.) that my husband converted to a refrigerator. We don't have a stove/oven, we have an induction burner and a toaster oven. We have a wok burner that runs off a propane tank. We have a 7 cu. ft. chest deep freezer. That's kind of normal, huh?
For small appliances I have a Ninja with the blender, food processor, grater/slicer attachments, and little 2-cup blender things. I use this many times a day! A large-ish slow cooker and a rice cooker, both are used weekly. I have a milk machine, for soy/almond/rice/etc milk. I use it weekly.
After reading this thread I'm seeing what I have that I don't need! I love when that happens! Like an epiphany! I have a stick blender that I could part with. I have a hand held mixer...somewhere packed up in the basement. Guess I could get rid of that too. We have a microwave, I refuse to use it but my husband will use it to re-heat foods on occasion. When it dies we aren't getting a replacement. I have an old blender in the basement for art/craft stuff, like blending paper and to make soap stuff. We have an old broken upright freezer and a broken refrigerator that we use as "mouse proof containers". We store dried goods in them.
Things I don't have; we are vegan and don't drink coffee, so nothing for any of that. (Although, we did just purchase an electric skillet for some meat-eater friends when they come to visit, but we don't use it.) When I did drink coffee, for many years I made cold brewed coffee. No electric can opener, toaster, dish washer, or bread machine. I had all that in the past, even a stand mixer. When the kids flew the coop we just didn't really need any of it any more.
I love this thread because it makes me evaluate what I'm doing. Why do I have what I have? Am I okay with what I have, am I lacking, do I have too much? Every spring and fall we go through the basement, anything we haven't used or needed in the last 6 months goes away. Looks like I found some more things I don't really need.
onlinemoniker
2-20-14, 6:45pm
This is what I have that I NEVER used:
waffle iron
I should get rid of it.
I often use the bread machine, rice cooker, food processor and hand mixer, crock pot.
I very infrequently use the mini food processor, mini crock pot and blender. I should probably seriously consider getting rid of all of those.
The standards (fridge, stove, dishwasher) I use constantly.
Another way to look at it, is to think of what you don't have. I don't have a food processor. I don't have a rice cooker. No george foreman grill. No waffle maker, no nutribullet or bread machine, frying pan, griddle, toaster oven or electric can opener.
I have a fab toaster I got at Value Village for six dollars; it appeared to have never been used. It's still not being used, since I only toast GF bread once in a great while. I have a Vitamix that's in heavy rotation; I use it to whip up tasty coffee drinks and the occasional fruit sorbet-like concoction. I have an Instant Pot electronic pressure cooker for bone broth, roasts, artichokes, and all manner of soups. I have a hand mixer, a mandoline...and a lot of other stuff. Oh, and a salad spinner--also from Value Village.
iris lilies
2-21-14, 12:35am
Here are the small appliances we use at least 1X weekly:
Microwave
rice cooker
toaster
salad spinner
Here are the small appliances we use at least 1X monthly:
slow cooker
hand mixer
Here are the small appliances we use 1X every 6 months:
food processor
electric frying pan
Kitchen-Aid mixer (sometimes when DH is in a baking frenzy, he uses it weekly)
here are the small appliances we seldom use and that are still stored in our kitchen:
waffle iron
coffee bean grinder
blender
Here are the small appliances we use at least 1X weekly:
salad spinner
never seen an electric one, only hand operated models.
mine...
toaster
crock pot
large food processer
small food processor
mini food processor
waffle iron
ice cream maker
kitchen aid mixer
electric griddle
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