What cooking equipment are you hoping you get for Christmas

A Tefal enamel wok, my faithful Tefal specifics of 5 years has finally started losing its non-stick, thought i'd try out the enamel wok as it's metal utensil safe
 
I bought my self a breadmaker + espresso machine for christmas and use them already :D

bacon and cheese bread is pure win!

I stick a full pack of smokey streaked bacon in a 500g loaf LOL the taste is EPIC! EPIC!
 
Belmit said:
A rice steamer. Fed up of not getting it quite right in a pan!
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Give this a whirl for white rice:

Warm a pan over a medium heat, pour in your rice, stir it around a little, add double the amount of boiling water and a pinch of salt, stir it all around, cover and leave for 10-minutes.

It's not always perfect, but it's always perfectly good enough if you're in a massive rush and CBA to babysit the saucepan.

You'll need to spend a little time working out the variables involved (just what heat you leave the pan on, how much salt you add, whether it's exactly 10-minutes, etc) but it's a method that all-but guarantees great results.

I'm all for a kitchen gadget and a rice cooker was on my long list, but the preceding method has pretty much sorted out my rice-cooking woes. And it even works for brown rice and all those other varieties.

Anyway, I want a Clifton water bath, this year. But alas, I've been a very naughty boy.
 
I've a whole kitchen to equip so anything really!

Hopeful for a super sharp knife or knife set.

Also hoping someone may buy me another decanter.

We shall see.... :)
 
6 x Dinner Plates
6 x Side Plates
6 x Bowls
6 x Salad Bowls
1 x Serving Bowl

M&S Hamilton Range in Brown.

Got them last night as there is a 20% sale on and I had a 20% voucher I could also use, plus £65 of gift cards so £140 odd of plates cost me £23 in cash.
 
- Large garlic crusher
- Mason cooking stone for baking bread
- Hand sieve (the spring loaded ones that look like a large mug)
- Garlic store

I want a 26cm frying pan but going to wait for the sales and now have my eye on a magimix processor in the New Year (delayed Christmas present to myself)
 
Surprisingly nothing this year... Was going to ask my mother to go halves on a sous vide supreme for me, but I got her to get me the GoPro 3 instead.

I might treat myself in the new year. I have asked for cookbooks though, I love cookbooks.
 
It's so hard to find decent cookbooks these days.
It has to have pictures and I love discussion about the authenticity, history and ingredients on each dish, not just a page or two at the start and its just so rare getting these last ones.
Also finding more advanced books is hard, just have to shift through so much ***** tat, especially on kindle.

Would still like to make my own cookbook, need to learn how to take photos and plate up before I could even consider it.
 
If you want more advanced cook books, have a look at Too Many Chiefs Only One Indian by Sat Bains. Really nice book. Advanced, great pics and shows development of dishes etc.

Also Mugaritz: A Natural Science of Cooking is great too and the Square also. Much more advanced stuff than normal Jamie's 15min meals ha

Obviously you also have Modernist Cuisine, which even the "at home" one is fantastic.
 
I might buy myself some stuff after Christmas in the sales, if they're on sale... But I want an Actifry and a food processor.

Also need some new dishware as I got some el cheapo stuff when we moved in, luckily in Ashford we have a fair few cookery stores in the outlets - saw some nice dishware for £12, might pick that up too.
 
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