You can buy all sorts of weird and wonderful gadgets now to save you time with almost anything you do round the house, but the kitchen has to be the place which has the most gadgets available for it. There are hand mixers, frothers, automatic knife sharpeners, devices to give your food a smoky taste (I’m not joking), chip cutters, electric can openers, ice cream makers and that is only a small portion of what is available. But will we ever use them enough to justify the price?
Let’s face it, most gadgets are expensive, hard to clean up after use, and they rarely get used once the excitement dies down after about a week. When you are looking at a new gadget for your kitchen then you really need to step back and think about how useful it will be, and if you will actually use it much. So a replacement toaster which also poaches an egg is probably a gimmick you won’t use, but a replacement toaster which can toast even faster and allows you easy access to get the toast out, that would be great if you eat a lot of toast. Something like a Masterbuilt electric turkey fryer would be good if you struggle to fit everything into your oven when cooking turkey, but one of those little blow torches to crisp the skin is probably never going to get used.
So I believe there are some gadgets out there which can be really handy and save you a lot of time and stress in the kitchen, but the problem is you have to wade through a lot of useless stuff to find them. The easiest way to cut down your search is to ask your friends which ones they use on a regular basis, then you can benefit from all the money they have already wasted trying gadgets out!