What tool have you bought, thinking you'd use it all the time?

I was abt to be all OMG THAT'S SO MUCH COFFEE but it comes out to be 3T per 8oz of water which really is not that bad! Do you shake! shake! shake! it every once in a while or just let it sit?

Also do you have any personal recs for what type of roasts/origins/etc work best for cold brews? Or like what's yr favorite coffee from Trader Joes?

also I bet the Aeropress w/ metal disc (that the wonderful ABBOTT mailed me; thank you so much ABBOTT!!) would work quite wonderfully for the final filter

yeah, and you dilute the cold concentrate around 1:1 with water if you want hot coffee. I just let it sit. Haven't tried any TJs coffees in a long time - I've currently just got a giant bag of Costco house roast which does me fine. I'm more about the caffeine than the nuances, but I do like considerable body and caramelly roastiness.

Great idea on the aeropress as filter! I'm going to try that with a paper one and see how it goes.

I have not used either the coffee machine, pasta maker or dryer since I complained about them 8 years ago, or the ice cream maker since I complained about it 7 years ago.

Now I have a kitchen of a better size and layout I intend to rectify this, but I said that over half a decade ago. :-/

Food dehydrator

i didn't even realize that this was on ILC but it's true that kitchen tools are the ones most likely to be used only once a year. i have a madeleine pan that i've only used a few times.

i'm really good at not buying kitchen tools I won't use. Maybe the "good" vegetable peeler, but that was just because I found it less comfortable to use and slower than the crappy one.

I bought an oxo slicer that turns out to have been one of their few dud products. Great design, except for the blade assembly, which doesn't work all that well. They've since redesigned it :/

this is the style vegetable peeler I bought:

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maybe I'm challenged, but I can't find an efficient way to use it

my hand hurts just looking at that

I saw a sous chef on Iron Chef mangle his/her hand with one of those once -- I'll pass.

i think the u-shaped ones are better than the toothbrush looking ones

but they have to be big oblongs like cukes or eggs

rubber handle bit might be nice

finally bought a nice stovetop waffle iron. wanted one for years and finally broke out. got a nordic ware for $40 and it's built like a tank and i expect it to last forever. used it for the first time today and while the batter was a bit of a production (melting butter, whipping egg whites) they sure were a lovely vehicle for loads of maple syrup