On Jan 10, 4:28�pm, Tracy > wrote:
> So, in my quest to fill my kitchen with everything I could possible
> need, I have realized that I don't mind too much spending the money for
> what I really want.
>
> My latest purchase - an electric kettle for 40 bucks which I love.
>
> I have recently decided to get a new pepper mill and the one I really
> really want is 80 bucks. �Now, spending $80 for a pepper mill at first
> sounds a little ridiculous but it would last forever. My grandchildren
> could potentially inherit it.
>
> Just wondering what you are willing to spend money on and what are you
> not willing to spend money on.....
>
> I don't spend a lot of money on dishes or glassware. I do not have more
> than one set of "china" just my everyday stuff.
>
> I have some good cookware (le crueset) and some not so good (generic
> nonstick stuff) �but they get the job done.
>
> I have two good knives but also a couple that couldn't cut softened
> butter, but I keep them around.
>
> What has really been worth the cost?? For me it is the le crueset dutch
> oven.


The most important kitchen appliance must also be the most costly for
most folks because so few who hold themselves up as cooks (not) have
one, the meat grinder. You cannot properly prepare many foods for
cooking without a meat grinder... and that stoopid toys r us KA
attachment is not a meat grinder, it's a meat moosher.