If it came with a warranty and somewhere to put it, blast chiller.

What I use most is the egg cooker.

Funny conveyor toaster is first on the list. I just spent the past sleepless hour on my never-ending search to find the perfect toaster, and one mention I saw on Reddit was a vintage Toast O Lator. Look it up if not familiar, it’s super cool.

That aside, the two that stand out as ones I’ve given the most thought to are a slicer and a chamber vacuum sealer. I’ve also thought about a wok burner, but for me that would probably be an outdoor appliance.

None of them. I've never been into specialty stuff. I don't even have a dish washer and the most specialty food prep item I have is a processor which I rarely use because it's really hard to wash without a dish washer. I do have a blender.

None for me either. My stove already has a wok burner. I don't use it.

Some of the most delicious food I've ever eaten had been prepared using a only a sharp knife.

I do have a dishwasher. I loath washing up intensely. I have mil's old FP which I use mostly for grating and blitzing. I don't use it for pastry which I always rub in by hand.

I'll trade all your gadgets for a personal chef and scullery worker.

I wouldn't mind having a blast chiller and a commercial grade vacuum sealer. Both would make meal prepping faster and safer. No more worrying about cooling food off quickly before storing for later use.

I'll take a wok burner, and a salamander, please. Delivered and assembled as well, please, thank you.

Slicer, I guess - we had a cool one growing up, that you hand cranked. My dad used it to slice corned beef and tongue for sandwiches.

I think it was one of these:

Believe the brand is Rival - not Revival

Freeze dryer. Already own a meat slicer, a few dehydrators, and a bandsaw. Got good vacuum sealers so don't really need a chamber. I've used everything else on the list, and don't really have a need or desire for any of them in my home.

I've got all kinds of specialty stuff and gadgets not on the list, lol. But I think it would be nice to have a bread proofer and baker unit. Or a cold smoker cabinet.

They make home blast chillers and vacuum chambers (I have one! I was going to make greeens and beens riffing off a recipe in Sous Vide magazine, to inaugurate it but stuff got in the way. I hope to do it before the half soaked beans rot!). I would have a compact, folding meat slicer for my birthday some years ago, but my mother heard someone on TV saying they weren't any good, so my father got one from the chef store which was basically a small table saw. It was meant for a small sandwich shop. I had nowhere to put it either for use or storage, and was terrified of the disassembly procedure for cleaning. Nothing like the cute little home version I'd been eyeing. Since I read the bookket without unpacking it, the store was willing to refund it.

When I was doing my kitchen, a number of people in the Appliances forum were getting home salamanders. They're much smaller than the full on restaurant models, and the range mounted ones were super ugly, but if you're churning out multitudes of steaks and are lovers of behemoth gas ranges, maybe you want one. My fancy electric oven can pretty much do the same thing for most home cooking tasks. Whereas, I don't think there's anything like a pressure fryer for pressure frying. If you want to go all Coronel Sanders, the recipe for the original "11 herbs and spices" is online (search what's in the quotes here). I only pan fry, and not often. Can you use one for pressure canning? (I don't can, but am curious.)

I actually have a litttle countertop home vertical rotisserie, but it's as much oriented to kebabs as schwarma, and is family sized, not layering a whole quarter sheep and beef. I have a little bandsaw, too, which was my father's "portable" one, but for things like plywood patchwork patterns, than anything food related. I also have a hacksaw he bought for food after he decided the coping saw wasn't up to bones. That fits on the pegboard in my kitchen, and the blade is sturdier, though requires some shoulder.

I considered a wok burner when I remodeled my kichen, and opted for a medium and a small for the gas. I just don't need the dragon's breath, and I'm bad at wok. If I were to get an outdoor dragon--assuming I have sufficient distance from flamables for it--I'd rather have one of those fancy newfangled stainless steel encased tandoors.

I'd take the dehydrator if I had anywhere to put even a little one. Or a miniature freeze drier, too! But I can't figure out the need for conveyor toasters, bowl choppers (I had to look it up--a chopping bowl and mezzaluna work for me and take neither space nor electricity) and commercial dishwashers at home. I know some people do, and fine for them, but outside my ken. I can better imagine the countertop pizza oven having read Lars's posts. In another time and place, maybe, but my fancy oven with its pizza acoutrements, makes excellent pizza. ETA: But you might tempt me with a beehive oven if I had the space...

You forgot the anti-griddle. I have no room for that either, but I could really use that!

I've got the wok burner and a home size meat slicer, which I mainly use for slicing one of the Christmas cookies I make. It's essentially a biscotti, sliced very very thin, about 3mm. It's a PITA to do it with a knife, and I was walking through our local electrical goods store on my way to somewhere else when I spied the slicer on their clearance table for $10. I guess no one else in town had a use for it. That was probably 30 years ago and it's still going strong. It was also handy for making hot roast beef and gravy sandwiches en masse when I ran the school canteen.

I think I'd buy a new pasta maker.

A wok burner would be great, but only perhaps outside. I also considered an pizza oven for outside, but not indoors. It would have to be a super hot one. The blast chiller would be cool as well. A meat slicer would be nice, but I don't think I'd use it enough.

If I were to add to the list I think I'd add:

a commercial ice cream freezer

a culinary foam generator

None of the above, but would like a pasta maker or pasta attachments for KA.

I would also put a compressor run ice cream and gelato maker on the list.

Missed the dehydrator up there before now - I'll take one of those please - the one I had was lost to hurricane Helene.

I have a little folding electric slicer which I love. I use it for my home-cured bacon as we like thin rashers. Cured ham is cheaper to buy in a chunk and slice at home. I can come i handy for other things too.

I have a counter top pizza oven that is a necessity in this house. Not an Ooni but does a pizza in 3 minutes and is great. Saturday night is pizza night in this house to we use it every week. My son-in-law has an outdoor, snazzy pizza oven but he doesn't like using it in bad weather - I wonder why - so I prefer my indoor one.

I've tried so many gadgets that I don't think there's anything else on the list that I'm hankering after. I don't understand the blast chiller. What does it do? If I want to cool food for the fridge or freezer, I put it in cold tap water. Perhaps our Breton tap water is super cold compared to yours LOL. Or, I just leave it to cool for a short time then in the fridge. No-body has died yet.

Realistically a freezedryer - less reasonable would be a Pacojet.

On my current wish

list is a dehydrator. Tis harvest season in Maine. I have had several Nesco’s that I used to death. Last year I replaced a dead temperature adjustable one with the non adjustable Walmart version. Absolutely awful! At this point I could have bought two of more expensive one I passed on a decade ago.

It is funny seeing this list today. I was eating a piece of random supermarket fried chicken yesterday and I started remembering the fried chicken of my youth in NY. They had a pressure fryer! I don’t know much about how it works but 50 years later I am still remembering that fried chicken so fondly.

From your list the freeze dryer and the wok caught my eye. If I am being honest I still have an unboxed dehydrator in my garage. I thought I would be much more ambitious once I retired. LOL Not so much.

I am currently amused by freeze dried candy so I would probably pick that given the space.

That's not really what a blast chiller is for. Even here, where half the year the water out of the cold tap is hotter than the hot water, one can add ice for a cool down. ...Though the blast chiller can make it go straight to the freezer, without a fridge stop first. I haven't tried the home units (and only seen the commercial ones on TV), but I did read up awhile ago for a friend who was considering the Itslian one. I'd mostly want it if it could flash freeze (freeze so fast it doesn't break the cell walls, nor cause water migration), There are also uses within the cooking process, which can make an all day chore into a couple hours of fun.

Though, now that I've thought of it, an anti-griddle might work for some of those tasks too, and be lots of fun!

Added ”antigriddle” to list!

A blast chiller!

@JoanM: I think the chicken you are describing is called broasted chicken and is made in a Broasted Pressure fryer. It's a combination of frying and pressure cooking and is very moist and tasty. We have ran into it occassionally in one of a kind restaurants when traveling.

I also use my scales constantly. They're a basic kitchen necessity. I have both balance and digital. Recipes here and all over Europe use weight not volume. If I come across a recipe in cups I scroll on by.

Not sure it's an appliance, but I would love an ice maker that makes pure, clear ice cubes, the kind you get in bags of ice. I hate refrigerator ice, especially the kind made BY refrigerators, but even the kind in cube trays. I'm not sure how they get clear cubes but suspect I'd have to buy purified water instead of my wonderful well water.

A robot to wash dishes. Won't fit on the counter, but if more cabinetry magically appears it can tuck itself into bed in the broom closet for the night.

I find this both fantastic and terrifying at the same time:

Link: The Robot that will do your dishes! - Impressive!!

Oly, you can get a countertop ice maker that makes cubes of clear ice - I have one, didn't cost much, we feed it tap water. I don't like the "nuggets" either.

Clear ice comes from spraying the water in thin layers to prevent air from being trapped. It's the trapped air that makes the ice cloudy. I suppose it matters for cocktails which are supposed to be be looked at through the glass and be pretty.

But ARGH!!! While we were building castles in Spain, some evil one went and created home antigriddles! Most are geared toward rolled ice cream, are too tall, and have containment edges which keep in the mess but are visibly awkward to use, but I only did a one minute survey of Amazon. There's likely something more like a primarily antigriddle too, not just "can also be used as". Argh!!

Good question:

I already OWN two food dehydrators. Two bread machines. Two woks...I'd like a wok ring.

For clear ice. Boil well, spring or tap water. This removes a lot of the air.

pour it into large-ish cube trays when it has cooled a bit. Freeze.

I don't know what I would get, but know the one I have: a citrus juicer--referring to the ones like the manual hand juicer, but electric and turns with pressure from the half citrus. Making juice from several boxes of fresh oranges was a tedious and slow possess doing it by hand twists. I also use it to juice a bag worth of limes or lemons, then freeze the juice for use while cooking. It is a game changer for the wrists but lacks any other side use ability as far as I can determine.

Just thought- friand/financiers baking molds. I currently just use my regular silicone cupcake molds, but some oval friand ones would be nice.