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magicalshopping · 1 year

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♡ Pink Heart Kitchen Scale ♡

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copperbadge · 8 months

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[ID: An image of a product called the Brainstream Pirate BeepEgg; the egg itself has a pirate face printed on it, with an eyepatch and a cutlass in his mouth. The packaging proclaims what it is and instructs you to put the egg in with real eggs while boiling, and it will play music when the eggs are done.]

So I have, or rather had, a color-change egg-timer, the kind you put in with an egg when you're boiling it and it changes color to tell you when the egg is soft, medium, or hard-boiled. I love a soft-boiled egg so I use it often and as these things will, it started to fall apart from repeatedly being heated in boiling water. So I thought, I'll get a new egg timer; maybe there are fancier ones, but in any case the color-change kind isn't hard to find. I searched around various retail websites for "in water egg timer" and got a bunch of the color-change ones in various designs, and also...this.

There's a whole series of them -- a bunch of barnyard-animal themed ones, some emoji-themed ones, the 90s BeepEgg, the Love BeepEgg -- and they all play different public-domain tunes.

[ID: A closeup of the Pirate BeepEgg, which lists the music it plays: Drunken Sailor for soft-boiled, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean for medium, and Fifteen Men On A Dead Men's Chest for hard-boiled.]

Someone had a lot of fun with this, I suspect.

Anyway they aren't really what I need (I prefer visual cues, and I really only ever need to know when the eggs are slightly past soft-boiled) and they're $20-$25. I'm in a life situation where I can pay $25 for an egg timer but would vastly prefer not to, so I picked up a $5 color-change egg timer replacement. But I do feel like there is someone, somewhere out there, who needs a singing egg timer.

#food #eggs #kitchen gadgets

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petermorwood · 10 months

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This follows @dduane's comment on the tin- / can-opener thread here, but it's wandered off into corkscrew country so is better off alone.

Yes, we did once have a Mister Stabby tin opener. Why, I have no idea, because I can’t remember it ever being used.

That black-handled butterfly opener is the standard design which cuts out a disc inside the tin’s rim; I prefer the blue one, which takes the entire top off.

NB, it's supposed to leave (per Wikipedia) "a relatively safe, non-jagged edge". Non-jagged, yes; relatively safe, not so much; the action of cutting gives the tin a fairly acute bevel, which if not razor sharp is certainly capable of reminding you it's there.

As for the corkscrews...

That maroon thing at the top like a marker pen is a standard T-bar corkscrew in travel configuration; the screw part is inside the hollow handle which in use goes through a hole in that large section.

The five ‘Waiter’s Knives” are a multi-Euro-city visual record of DD’s comment, best summarised as “But I thought YOU packed it...”

The white thing is a crown-cap bottle opener which came home from The Mission Palms in Tempe AZ, USA, after either Coppercon or the first US Discworld con.

The black and clear ones are variants on the Screwpull design, where continuing to turn the handle winds the cork out, so much screwing but no actual pulling. (There's a comment about the effects of wine hanging about like a bluebottle, but I'll ignore it.)

The button on the black one is a foil-cutter; squeeze in while turning the bottle a couple of times, then extract the cork as usual and a neat cap of foil comes off with it.

The red one is a “Butler’s Friend” which works by wiggling two flat prongs down between cork and bottle then twisting the cork out; good for broken corks but not much used any more (but see below).

Edgar is Edgar.

Okay, Edgar (official name “Lazy Fish”, I have No Idea where “Edgar” came from) is a “zig-zag” cantilever corkscrew whose levers reduce the effort needed to draw a cork.

There’s one flaw, which you can see in the larger image: that screw isn’t a screw but a spiral blade, which can sometimes cut the cork so what comes out is just a plug from the middle, leaving the rest still in the bottle. This can be annoying, and is the only reason nowadays to dig out the Butler’s Friend.

Otherwise, Edgar Butler (character name, makes note...) stays in semi-retirement at the back of the drawer while the Screwpulls do what they're designed for - except of course for the increasing number of wine-bottles with screw caps, where Special Devices * are no longer required.

* Those Special Devices are collectible, and I have learned a thing today - a corkscrew collector is a Helixophile...

#food and drink #kitchen gadgets #tin-opener #can-opener #corkscrew #helixophile

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thatsbelievable · 2 years

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#How to Tell if Your Revenge is Cold Enough to Serve #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #revenge thermometer #kitchen gadgets #unreality

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misforgotten2 · 9 months

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"I can not wait for this horrid war to be over so I can once again fulfill all my oh so O-Matic dreams."

Parents Magazine 1945

#vintage ad #advertising #vintage ads #advertisment #1945 #kitchen appliances #kitchen #kitchen gadgets #wwii #wartime shortage #1940s #1940s ad #1940's #1940's ad #funny #humor #humour

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theproductgiggler · 4 months

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Crack nuts with ease using the stunning Red Drosselmeyer Nutcracker - a one-handed marvel that combines style with functionality! 🎁 Perfect for holiday gatherings or a thoughtful gift. Unlock the goodness inside nuts effortlessly. 🌰✨

#nutcracker #kitchen gadgets #RedDrosselmeyer #OneHandedNutCracker #HolidayJoy #cooking #baking #breakfast #cake #dessert #chocolate #delicious #dinner #home & lifestyle #recipes

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glowing-disciple · 20 days

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A number of days (weeks?) ago I was browsing through one of the libraries I have access to via my phone and stumbled across The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy.

The idea of collecting cutlery, gadgets, and other kitchenware struck me as so incredibly absurd that I added the book to my wishlist.

Well, I just started reading it.

This book is exactly what it says on the cover: it’s a history and price guide to kitchenware from 1920 - 1960 (or thereabouts). Complete with pictures and interesting details about the different items.

It’s quite well organized; each type of item has its own chapter.

#books #booklr #kitchen gadgets #each to their own #i guess

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therecipelibrary · 8 months

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@tattoos-and-ballgowns

I'm still not entirely sure what a digester is but I love it. It breaks down bones?

#digester #kitchen gadgets #utensils #vintage #cookbooks #1800s #kitchen #pots #stewpan #steamer #saucepan

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cravefoodie · 1 year

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#cheap #food #delicious #yum #yummy #kitchen gadgets #cheap stuff

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alifemadefrommudstudio · 2 months

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A little reminder on this beautiful Sunday, take a break and enjoy the day.

Even spoons need a rest.

#handmadegifts #handcrafted #spoonrest #allthingsclay