What one item do you wish you had in your kitchen?

[Belmit]

Was thinking about this the other day but decided to wait until the new forum was open to post it.

I'd really like a good pestle and mortar. Not a piddly little one but a really good quality **** off granite one. They're not too expensive but too much to justify at the moment, especially considering how often I'd use it. Saw Ramsay making a marinade for the fish dish they were cooking on The F Word the other day and grinding all kinds of great stuff up. Looks like a really satisfying hands-on way of getting the flavour out of things.

If there were no practical limits, what would you add to your culinary equipment arsenal?

[Tak]

An oven!!!!!!!! One of the big range ones like fakeys got (although even a bog standard elecy oven/gas hob would be good right now)

More space/surfaces would be good too

[Blackstar]

I'd love a huge cooker and hob range. Not that i can cook to save myself but i'm sure Martin would like it. The only thing i like to do is baking.

[Roberta]

An old wood burning stove like my mum used to have and my sister has. Makes the kitchen the heart of the home.

Used to love coming in and sitting on it to warm up my frozen bum on cold nights!

[FakeSnake]

A Kitchen Aid mixer. Shame its £350 !!!! (it will have to wait)
I already have the blender, and its indestructible.

other than that, nothing really, we kind of went all out on our kitchen when I built it 18 months ago.

[Kell_ee001]

I want a Kitchen Island in my kitchen! i've always wanted one but never afforded it / been renting so can't have one put in / not had a big enough kitchen to do it in

[BBx]

A whole kitchen refit with cupboards and EVERYTHING (yes jealous of pigmos kitchen )

A George Foreman or a cooker that actually fills the space - the one I have isn't big enough but still works so I can't justify replacing it yet :undecided:

BB x

[lostkat]

I'm actually quite well equipped in the kitchen area. I'd been saving up kitcheny things for about 3 years before we got the house, so I had tonnes of new, good quality stuff just waiting to be used. Ever year I'd get a little bit more in the Christmas sales or whenever I saw a good bargain.

I'd actually agree with your choice Belmit. I would love a big, marble pestle and mortar. I bought a small marble one ages ago, but it never turned up when we moved in, and Mum can't find it at her house, so it's lost forever. I really really miss it because it comes in very handy when grinding things up for pastes, curries and salad dressings.

Our kitchen was tired when we moved in, and since then a few cupboard doors and drawer fronts have fallen off. We were left the oven by the previous owner, and whilst it's alright, the grill is knackered which is very frustrating. I am dying for a new one, with a lovely new oven (Mum & Dad said they'd buy us one as a moving in present). I'll be having a built-in oven with an eye-level grill, and a hob built into the worktop. I get the feeling that I will be waiting quite a while for that though

[Pebs]

Realistically I'd love a George Foreman. If I'm dreaming I'd luuuurve a big duel fuel range and a kitchen big enough for an island.

[Jonny69]

I think I want a pressure cooker. I miss the one I had at home because it did fantastic casseroles but also doubled up as a huge cooking pot, like cauldron sized, and that comes in handy every now and then.

Belmit I've had my pstle and mortar for years, it's a proper chemist's one for grinding up stuff. Before I could cook I used to grind up chemicals to make home made fireworks but it sort of migrated from the experiments cupboard into the kitchen. Scary that I used to grind up weedkiller, match heads and stuff like sulphur and now it's delicate spices