What would we do without gadgets or tools to make things easier?

I guess i'm old fashion but i don't use alot of gadgets.I still use a manual can opener, lol but that's better than my grandmother did, she opened all cans w/a buthcer knife.. i would never need a pineapple corer because i hate pineapple but i'm glad u found u one.

My husband got a really interesting gadget from an infomercial. Ever heard of the "slap chop?" It's great, and he uses it for everything. It makes chopping onions, and all kinds of other things, a breeze. He makes a lot of dishes with chopped food in them, and the thing has saved so much time for him.

Living on my own I've simplified things a lot. I tend not to go to so much trouble preparing meals that I need to use my mixer or food processor. It's a lot of trouble to get them out and set them up too - my kitchen is small and not very user friendly. I use my blender for smoothies when I think of it but otherwise my favourite/most used gadgets are my whisk and a chopping blade that does an excellent job chopping all sorts of veggies just how I want them form pumpkin to cabbage...it's so much easier to use than a knife.

You are on to something there. To be honest, nowadays, if it's not easy to prepare, or takes more then an hour, we usually aren't going to prepare and eat it unless we go out somewhere. It's sad how we've all gotten lazier when it comes to this. I know my grandmother and her mother and her mother before her had to do things by hand, and they enjoyed it. Instead of making made from scratch biscuits, which are very delicious, we can just pop into the store and buy a can that says they're "made from scratch", I'm sorry it's just not the same. The modern kitchen tools are very good though and can make our life simpler and even healthier, but we can't forget to enjoy those things that may be hard to make but are more delicious and somewhat healthier as well.

We have a juicer in our kkitchen. We use it to get ginger juice. Without these gadgets, life would be a little bit harder, imagine you have to spend a couple of hours to extract juice manually. But wth the use of these devices, you just have to put things inside it and wait for just a few minutes and poof in become coco krunch!! haha

Yes, we are spoiled with those gadgets that make our works and life easier. Before cooking rice is a manual work and twice processes but the rice tastes nicer. Now we can just put in the rice together with the water in the pan and it's done. Before to get coconut paste we must do it manually that when we have to get so many pastes our arms become numb. Now with a machine you can do 20 coconuts in a minute.

I would have to say my mixer, though it broke on Father's Day. (I got until July 22 when the warranty expires to exchange it) I love it because it has a kneading attachment which is much easier than to stand and knead it by hand...

Hubby and I have a food processor in which we use often however, before we had it, we did all the cutting the old fashioned way, by hand. Another thing we have and use often is the slow cooker. It makes our meals so tasty!! Without it, we'd have to use our oven and on a low temperature for a few hours and then turn it up to get it really hot to be on the safe side. You know, I don't understand how these other countries can be so far behind. I know they are but how? They've been around for thousands of years longer than the USA has been so they should be advanced ahead of us. Sad, isn't it?

I don't have a lot of gadgets in my kitchen other than my microwave, toaster and a little chopper--I don't use the chopper much but it's handy when I do. I don't know what I'd do without my cutting board and French knife. What I use the most isn't a gadget but a paring knife that was part of a set we were given when we were married. When we divorce I kept that paring knife and he took the others. I use it for so many things I'd be lost without it.

I thaught the cherry pitter was quite the modern marvel and yet it has been around for hundreds of years. I cut my pineapple by hand. I always wanted a juicer but never got one. I think our main one is the microwave. We didn't have one for along time and having one is really nice. I think we get spoiled. If we didn't have electricity what would we do?

I love to have tools to do my kitchen work. But a pineapple gadget is not one I´d buy. In my super they have the tool and peel it fo free. But I prefer to bring it home without peeling it and I use the peeling and core to make an awesome pineapple juice. You put in water peelings, core, water and sugar and set to boil. Besides the awesome refreshment, the house gets that incredible pineapple smell. YUMMY!!! I mostly use the blender, a hand blender,the juicer, the water heater and of curse the small electric oven. I use less the coffee maker, the yogurt maker and the grinder.

I do use most of the gadgets I have bought. I have consigned my vacuum cleaner to the rubbish bin as my helper finds it convenient to use a broom. The other gadgets that I use are washing machine - very useful, grinder - which I use for masalas that are stored in the fridge for use for protracted periods, water boiler, pressure cooker - indispensable, cake mixer - very useful. I do not use the vegetable shredder which I have still to open!, my mixer comes in handy for certain jobs but not all and may be a few others. But I will never do away with our grinding stone which can grind stuff that has coconut in it. The electrical grinder comes in handy but nothing like using the grinding stone. For me no food is a challenge. If I get the urge to prepare it I shall leave no stone unturned to produce it but ofcourse with my helper around.

Firstly you are speaking of my ultimate favorite fruit. There are many fruits that I will not eat but let me at pineapple and love to eat them. My boyfriend will not eat Pineapples so anytime I do buy a whole one I have to eat it several times before it goes bad as I am the only one that will eat it. I don't use many kitchen gadgets as I do cut and peel almost everything by hand. Would a blender count? lol I am wanting really bad a bread maker for a long time, but have to wait for now.

Ohhh I love fresh pineapple.. there is nothing in the world like it! I've never seen one of those gadgets. The things I use the most are my electric can opener, and my tiny little food processor for cutting up onions... and I also have a big one for shredding cheese and cabbage for coleslaw and stuff. I love adding pineapple to my coleslaw too.

I LOVE my garlic peeler. Ok its a rubber tube you stick the garlic in and rub but it works awesome. I use my cheese grader alot - i had an electric one thats awesome too but hated having to wash all the little bits. The blender is nice for drinks - margaritias, smoothies. I've seen my sister make her own baby food with her food processor...where she'd have to spend ages mashing and making sure its all the same a food processor makes it smooth and fast. I'm gonna say the thing id miss the most is...power. It sure makes alot of things in our lives run. ALOT of people would be cold in the winter without power to run the furnaces in their homes!

so true and yrs qo, i didnt have all these gadgets i have now. yet it always amazes me that i seem to have less time wonder why? i also wonder how in the world my grandmother fed a family of 12, raised a garden, sewed, canned,washed and hung clothes outside, and still kept a clean house? geesh, i cant imagine how she did it.

I really do believe we have got so used to using this tools to help us make eating and preparing food easier. I feel like that is kind of a problem as far as not "working" for our food any more. Before these inventions you had to hunt, clean, and prepare. Now the food is handed to us on a silver platter and I feel we really do not understand how lucky we are. Also like you said about importing foods, they did not have to worry about learning how to eat those foods because they were not available. It's really amazing how much the human race has developed over the years.

Pineapples are strange aren't they? How do you know when they are ripe? You can't go thumping them like water melons! The tins have rings, but the whole pineapple has that woody core in the middle which you can only determine it's extent by having a good chew! As for tools, I have one particularly large knife which only sees service on pineapples - or until I decide to murder someone. I need some gadget to behead and gut anchovies. The smallest ones are the tastiest but with 120 plus fish in one kilogram, that's a lot of micro-surgeries!

Hi GardenGerty , I have been off the site for about a month or so, and it's good to be back, I have to agree with you to a certain extent, while it can be a good thing to have many gadgets that make living in today's world easier and not as hectic or as time consuming as things were a long time ago, I think to it certain degree, it can make a person too hooked on the modern conveniences available today, and not use the skills that we have used, like say peeling a potato or any kind of fruit that has a peel on it, of course there are the peelers that one can use by hand and then there is the old fashioned method of using a knife and peeling it that way. I think hundreds of years ago most of the foods we have and prepare today just may not have been available then, and with cooking gadgets like a turkey roaster, microwaves, crock pots and or slow cookers and many other modern day conveniences, it just does not take as long to prepare foods today. The same thing could be said for the many different gadgets used in the home to keep it clean and organized. I don't know about you, but at times when I watch the infomercials and see new products being introduced and offered for sale, I am amazed at them and wonder, now why didn't I think of that? I also must make another point here as well, with a lot of these new gadgets there are hidden dangers that one must be take into consideration when using any new appliance, or cleaning product. Many people have been lost their lives or been injured by not reading the directions on how to use these new gadgets and or cleaning products so they can be used safely. Sometimes we as consumers pay a high price on the conveniences of these products in more ways than one.

I remember having one of those gadgets. Actually, it wasn't me.. it was my dad who had the thing.. it peeled it and cored it.. I love fresh pineapple. i buy it peeled and cored in the container now.. it is so much better than canned. Maybe I should look for one of those so I can have one for myself. Thanks for the idea.