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More kitchen gadgets, but does it mean eating better or more healthily?

Marianne72

I persuaded myself to buy an Instant Pot  - a pressure cooker, steamer & slow cooker in one. My main aim was saving energy as prices rocket. But will this improve my cooking or lead to healthier eating? Will it 'save time'?  Despite all my appliances, I find myself regularly making, 'on toast', jackets, sandwiches and all sorts of cakes and biscuits.

Is your kitchen full of gadgets you rarely use? Why doesn't someone design a comprehensive appliance instead of a myriad of cooking modes - toaster, microwave, ice-cream/yoghurt maker, air fryer, conventional oven, slow cooker, pressure cooker, kettle? Despite all the gadgets, do you eat better? Or do they sit doing very little except looking shiny and filling your kitchen? Time and again I'm lead astray by clever marketing and persuasive arguments about the latest science of healthy eating. 

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  • in reply to leveller61

    I like old crockery and cutlery too, especially old round ended bone handled knives, the blades are thin and flexible unlike modern cutlery and they spread things properly. The only problem with old crockery s that it can't be put in the microwave and no matter how many times they're told people still do it. Some even ask why you would even buy something that can't go in the microwave or dishwasher. Bone handled cutlery dosen't do well in dishwashers. I prefer the old style of breadknife too, they have proper teeth that saw, many modern breadknives just seem to rip the bread up.

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