SC - Weird but cool kitchen gadgets

[Chris Stanifer]

- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:

> 
> For my entry, I think I'll submit my weird little
> one-cup espresso
> maker, which has an enlarged base designed to hold a
> demitasse cup (yes,
> that _is_ redundant), with little curved nozzles to
> squirt the coffee
> into the cup, with the whole contrivance sitting on
> the burner of the
> stove. 

I, too, have one of those nifty little espresso
makers...And here I thought I was the only one!  The
part I dislike about it, though, is that you have to
let the metal cool down before you can unscrew it and
pull out the grounds cup in order to make a second
cuppa... I ain't got that kinda time, baby!

As for my entry, I would have to say...a pickle
plucker.  I'm not a gadget type person, but when my
ex-girlfriend's Mom pulled one of these contraptions
out of the cupboard, I had to have one.  It's a small,
lever activated, three pronged claw which you put into
the pickle jar, pull back on the lever, and it grabs
up a pickle!  Kind of like those toy-filled claw
machines...you know the ones...with the really weak
claw that will only pluck at the stuffed toys, teasing
you, but doesn't have the strength to actually *move*
anything... How much money have *you* wasted on these
things, trying to get that really cool Marvin The
Martian doll out??

While not a "contraption", per se, I would have to say
the neatest item in my kitchen is a brick of mongolian
tea, which is pressed into a mold with (chinese?)
characters on one side, and a lotus flower on the
other.  I have it sprayed with lacquer and mounted on
a silk braided tapestry-type thingy.  Looks very cool.
 People are often surprized when they find out it is
really made of tea.

I also have a crystal coffee press which is kind of
odd, an obsidian "mano and matate" (sp.?), and a wine
cork with a pewter chef on top (painted in great
detail, right down to those checkered pants I love so
much..)

Balthazar of Blackmoor
(who does NOT have a 1530's version of Platina in his
kitchen... which bites)


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"The half full glass and the half empty glass both contain the same amount of liquid...the half empty glass, however, has a fly in it."

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