What are your favorite kitchen tools/towels, pans, etc?
lizbeth-gardener
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Comments (31)Ohiomom, my grandma's apple masher is, I think, an early kind of food mill. It's got a metal cone with holes in it, a stand for the cone, and a wooden pestle designed to fit in the cone. You quarter the apples, cutting out the cores but not bothering to skin them; cook the apples till soft, put a bowl under the cone, dump the apples in the cone, and use the pestle to force the cooked apples through the holes. The apple sauce slides down the cone and into the bowl. The skins are left in the cone, and you scrape those out and do another batch. Then you taste test the applesauce and sweeten/add cinnamon as you prefer, and either can or freeze. It also works with tomatoes for making tomato sauce, but you have to cook the sauce down afterwards to reduce the liquid. If you google "apple masher" or "apple saucer" you can find them on antique sites. The one linked below is very similar to mine except mine doesn't have the ring around the base, and mine is a bit larger. Here is a link that might be useful: This is very similar to mine...See MoreWhat's your favorite gardening tool this season?
Comments (25)The tool I seem to be picking up the most this year is my trowel. I bought a new trowel two years ago at Lowes. Oh my, I love it! I bought two of them. They are stainless steel and have a comfortable grip. I used to go through trowels pretty quick, they would all rust when I would forget to put it away, but this stainless steel looks as good as when I bought it and I leave it out in all the weather every day. Kitchen shears...I have taken to putting them in my back pocket..probably not a good idea. [g] I use them for deadheading and they work better than other scissors I have tried and are sturdy. They did a great job on cutting back grasses in the spring. We bought an edger last year, again at Sears, that is one of those half circles. We had a lot of beds that needed edging and it made quick work of it with little effort. Another favorite I wouldn't be without are the quick connect hose attachments. I wonder what we all did before those came on the market. I couldn't leave out our two wheeler. We used that a LOT this year. Usually it gets used to move pots into place, unload materials from the van, but this year we were also constructing a patio etc in the yard and edging a border with heavy rocks, and it probably got used every day we were in the garden for months. Hoses, nozzles and reels seem to be my annoyance as they are every year. I have had a hose from Sears for many years. I bet it's going on 10 years. It has never given me any trouble with leaking or splitting or kinking. It may be a rubber hose? I have two complaints with it though. One is that it is black and if I pull it along and it rubs against my pots, the black will come off on them. So I have placed a lot of hose guides to avoid doing that, but I still have to be very conscious of it. Second it seems very heavy to me when I am pulling it..lol. I suppose they all are. I would replace it if there was something better. I would love a nozzle that would stay on and not have to be held open. Patty, I don't have an Ocean State Job Lots near me, you don't happen to know the brand name of the one you bought do you? I am very interested in the reels that use water pressure to roll up the hose. Terry, and Triciae did you buy them locally at a big Box Store or did you find it in a garden tool catalog? We seem to be leaving our hose out a lot. We have a hand crank reel, but just not using it....See MoreWhat is your favorite website for ordering faucets, etc.
Comments (12)Thanks so much for the suggestions! I spent a LOT of time online making my decisions tonight...and wound up with the Danze Fairmont centerset bathroom faucet for $123.36 and the Danze Fairmont Shower/Tub combo fixture for $147.36. Both in brushed nickel and both from danzefaucetwarehouse.com. Prices around the Internet for Danze seemed to all have the same 15% off sale ending tomorrow...so I thought the prices were at least reasonable. And I've been VERY happy with my Danze Opulence faucet in brushed nickel in my kitchen for two years. Can't say enough great things about how solid it feels and the sheen to the finish. LOVE it!! I actually had it all ready to go on faucetdirect.com, but realized at the last minute they were out of stock. A very nice woman on the phone there said that if they are out of stock of Danze, it takes about three weeks for them to get a new shipment and then they ship it to you. Anyway, thanks again for the input! Sarah...See MoreYour best/favorite new tool
Comments (22)No bry911, that's not cheesy. What I was kind of getting at in starting this thread is learning more about what particular tools people find especially useful and are a joy to use and why it's such a great tool, so I'm interested in hearing what makes a great pencil or pencil sharpener if you care to share. I actually know nothing about pencil sharpeners....See MoreWalnutCreek Zone 7b/8a
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