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February 20, 2009
Kitchen gadgetry
Our reputation as “a gadget-obsessed spendthrift” isn’t confined to computers and iPhones and iPods and scanners and printers and VoIP phones and Wi-Fi etc., etc. Our kitchen displays the same tell-tale signs of an inability to resist what we regard as essential devices … and the Bleeding Edge spouse thinks of as gaping holes in the bank account.
She’d probably make even more of a fuss were it not for the fact that we do all the cooking, and what with having taken many courses with various chefs, we’re not too bad at it.
One of our favourite, umm, essential tools is a KitchenAid KSB5 blender, which we’ve used for all sorts of things over the years, including crushing ice, pureeing soup and making delicious fruit smoothies.
Unfortunately, we have to report that it’s probably not wise to use a blender to pulverise the spices for your own garam masala, unless you want to shred the blender’s clutch, and splatter the debris around the kitchen.
We would probably have taken the blender in to have it repaired, at who knows what expense, had it not been for our daughter Lucy. Coincidentally, the clutch on her blender also disintegrated recently. Lucy is somewhat more resourceful when it comes to kitchen gadgets. She tracked down a cheap source of a replacement clutch, along with instructions on replacing it. The exercise is likely to cost just $6.95, provided we’re careful with the big screwdriver.
Posted by cw at February 20, 2009 12:37 PM
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