General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay and enjoying better weather.

Millions of pounds are spent each year by consumers who don't even get the appliance out of the wrapping box!

Food-processors, steamers, electric hair rollers, beauty appliances
are just a few to mention.

Now, how many of you have bought or been given electrical gadgets that you cannot figure out how to work?

What is the best and worst electrical appliance you have had over the years?

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Take gentle care all
With best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Hello Elizabeth,
We bought ourselves a slow cooker, that we only used once. It was far to big for just the two of us, so son and daughter in law inherited it, and it is used continually.
We intend to buy a much smaller one this time round, perhaps it will be a good idea to take our glasses with us this time as well,so we can read exactly what we are getting. lol

my Bamix hand held mixer and a Ninja chopper are two of the best gadgets I've ever owned - had the Bamix since 1972!!!

Worst - a gadget for putting transparencies on so they can be converted to a CD - spent hours putting thousands of them through this gadget - handed to my friend to put them on CD - and what happened - only two appeared and they were useless!!! :-S

A filter coffee maker which we were given a year ago. The instructions were easy to follow - its a shame it broke after c. 4 uses. :-|

Not wanting to embarrass the donor by asking for the receipt, we bought a replacement . That's been working fine for the last 12 months.

a yoghurt maker :-(

It's really good at making cottage cheese.

:-S

A food processor that was my xmas present except it wasn the one i wanted and hadnt the heart to complain. Its still wrapped in the box in my bottom cupboard!

Florence
in the hebrides :-(

Hello Elizabeth .I bought an ice cream maker last April ready for the summer .well its still in the box never opened .local shop make their own .& its yummy :-D

I want a Kenwood Chef.

We have a fifteen year old food processor and, any time it breaks down or we break it, we debate as to whether we should replace it with the longed for Kenwood Chef.

Every time we trundle off to Kenwoods where they take it in and repair it for the cost of the parts and, while we are there delivering and collecting it, we have another drool over the Chefs in their factory shop.

One day.

Sitting here in my wee computer room ....
next to divided unit containing hundreds of LPs and vinyl singles.
On top of the unit are 2 pieces of kit, both at least 7yrs old ( and both needing a good dusting!)

A USB turntable, and a tape machine thingy

Both are for converting music to digital format and each used only a handful of times.
OH says that one day, he will get around to converting all his music.

I wonder how much of this has he already obtained from iTunes ??

OH complained about cleaning the inside windows
with glass cleaner and kitchen towels, had been
doing them like that for years.

Wanted a Karcher window cleaner that he saw
advertised on TV.

Used it twice and yes you've guessed it, back to
glass cleaner and kitchen towel.

Son now has the Karcher.

those Karcher window cleaners are brill :-D

Try telling my OH that Ann :-D

THINGS I USE
SLOW COOKER A LOT,
HALOGEN SOMETIMES,
GEORGE FORMAN SOMETIMES,
COFFEE MAKER SOMETIMES,
MICROWAVE EVERY DAY,

IRON HOOVER SORRY DON'T KNOW WHAT
THEY ARE :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Sharron, Kenwood Chef is exactly what I wanted!

Florence
in the hebrides

We had a Kenwood chef, years ago, (it was second hand then,)and we loaned it to our daughter, after a couple of years we asked for it back, and the reply was.......

Oh! we broke the bowl, so we binned it!!

Bob

I don't know where you live or even if you ever wanted another one Bob, but the place to go is the Kenwood factory in New Lane at Havant.

They have an outlet shop there with just about everything they make, including the chefs (drool, drool!) at very good discounts.

Thank you for that tip Sharron.

I have a Kenwood prospero which I love but am considering buying a mincing attachment so might pay the outlet shop a visit.. :-D :-D :-D

Please can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here ?
My family like vegetable soup made with grated veg

I have an old food processor but the grating attachment snapped.
Spares are no longer available so I can't replace it.


A couple of years ago,they bought me a new machine....
A Kenwood Master Pro.

The grater attachment is quite a bit smaller in diameter to the actual mixing bowl, and the funnel drop sits just almost above the edge of the attachment

This means that less half a vegetable grates before the ungrated portion flies over the edge of the attachment and into the bowl.

Everything else about the machine is really good except the grating/slicing attachments.
Is it a design fault or am I missing something?

I have reverted to grating by hand :-( :-( :-(

My food processor is supposed to do everything. Hah!

The way it grates vegetables is weird, I don't like it; I still use my trusty old mandolin.. and that's 30 years old.

I've never cut myself on the mandolin, but I can understand how some people do :-(

Hello Elizabeth - great thread :-)

My daughter bought me an electric pie maker - I didn't like it. I LOVE our milk frother :-D