Are These Expensive Kitchen Gadgets Worth the Splurge? | America’s Test Kitchen
With so many expensive kitchen products on the market today, Lisa McManus and Hannah Crowley walk you through the best stand mixers, composting bins, blending and pasta makers that are worth the extra splurge.
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I thought Hannah should have shown a toothy smile at :42 to prove she had no kale stuck in her teeth! 😁
1:57 😆😅🤣 Shame on FoodCYCLER. THEY know people want compost to put in their soil. It isn't even good enough to put in dirt…dang. "Mailing compost is Ridiculous" 😄😆😂 I'm dying. Rofl. Wait…there's companies that will sell you microbes to put back in what foodcycler cooked out??? 🤣🤣 SMH
I use an old stainless steel asparagus pot to collect kitchen scraps for compost and add them to a pile in my yard with leaves and lawn clippings to make my own compost.
These are all fantastic products for a commercial kitchen. I'd get most of them if I were opening a restaurant, and probably more than one of a few of them. I don't have any counter or storage space left at home, though.
The most expensive appliance that I have for cooking or baking or whatever is my KitchenAid mixer. I don't believe in spending astronomical amounts of money on appliances, especially if you only use them a few times a year.
I will be buying the Ankarsrum blue color stand mixer. I like making bread so it’s definitely a mixer that will be in my kitchen. As well as my Le Creuset Dutch oven.
All composting adds a carbon footprint…that’s the nature of the breaking down
Also compost naturally heats up to temps as high as 140
I’m starting to doubt ATK on several things now and their product reviews is part of that doubt. I bought a kitchenaid mixer based on their reviews because it was a repeat winner. I found unfortunately it has limitations…. Well now this Swiss made mixer is the winner but then they tells us it BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES!!!!! …THE 1940s TO BE EXACT!!!!
so why did you tell me kitchenaid was the best?
Breville control freak is the greatest appliance I have ever used.
This format blows.
I’ve had my Ank for 20+ years. It does it ALL.
Was expecting to see a Thermomix, I just don't understand those
Love the Gear Heads! Well done ladies!
1:22 I love the imagery of the Kitchenaid on the counter in the background while discussing the Ank
I just got a paint pail with a lid.