The gadget I don't use much is the ice cream maker, but I'm holding on to it. My lifestyle gets in the way of me using the waffle iron as much as I'd like, but I think I can tweak that. The mixer, the food processor, and the hand blender get almost weekly use. I no longer have a toaster, and do miss it. I do not have a microwave, and ... it's okay.

Frying pan. Gas stove. I'd be tempted by a GF grill if it weren't for the fact I've got the timing down just pat for everything. Except fish, but I don't cook fish. And I don't use a clock or anything. I think I go by how it looks and smells and feels. That's the only logical explanation.

Also, counterspace.

Mister Kitty is being a total shit tonight. Knocking breakable stuff off shelves. I moved the bookcase away from the breakables and he was doing crazy contortions to reach them. He knows he's being a shit too. Twit.

My hand mixer gets more use than anything in my kitchen except the Cuisinart. (Or, well, the toaster oven, since I toast my morning bagel in it nearly every day. But for cooking gadgets, the hand mixer and the Cuisinart win, with the KitchenAid right behind.)

I also want to bake cookies now. I even bought cookie-baking supplies last night. Why do I not have cookies yet?

We need a new microwave. Ours is old and yuk. I love our sandwich griller thing that isn't really ours. Maybe we'll have grilled ham and cheese tonight.

I use my toaster all the time - bagels, toast, english muffins, all musst be toasted. And I love my microwave - I find it so much easier to steam veggies in the microwave than on the stove, for some reason. I wish I had more time to make use of my Kitchen Aid mixer, for it is a thing of beauty that makes everything easy.

Oh, I forgot we have a Cuisinart. That never gets used. I have a pastry cutter, a chef's knife, and an Ulu, and that's as much as I need for chopping.

When it comes to kitchen gadgets (or frankly, any gadget) I am a make-do improviser. I cooked for the first year here pretty much with one pot, one pan, 2 settings of silverware and 2 knives (paring and serated.) My ancient microwave dial gets stuck if over 4 minutes. That's fine, I just use it in 4 minute intervals. A one-size-fits-all pot lid. Hand mixer, yeah. My grandmother's blender- collects dust. Toaster? Collects cat hair. I do have a small chopper, as well as a manual one because of the torment of onions. Works well on fresh herbs too. I have a bunch of weird kitchen implents my mom gets me because they are weird. Oh, I have a ladle now. Before, I just used a coffee mug or measuring cup.

Mister Kitty is being a total shit tonight. Knocking breakable stuff off shelves. I moved the bookcase away from the breakables and he was doing crazy contortions to reach them. He knows he's being a shit too. Twit.

Sounds like Amarna last night--she was knocking everything she could off of the computer hutch, tried like hell to reach the vase I have on the bookshelf (juuuust out of her reach, thank goodness), and then went over to the dining room table where I had put the glass cleaner and paper towel and attacked the paper towel roll (ripping holes into the towel with her teeth, unravelling it until it fell onto the floor).

Yeah, he's on the counters now. And I'm yelling at him. He just LOOKS at me.

Devi pulls this all the time, but then she is a little shit (adorable, but bratty.) Him, nsm.

New downstairs neighbor probably thinks ww3 is going on up here. Keys hitting the floor? Really obnoxious.

I'm with juliana and Jess on my Foreman grill, for pretty much the reasons Jess states -- I have little countertop, and I just use a skillet to cook anything I'd cook on the FG anyway.