Is this meme food obsessed or what?

I figured, since this is pretty much a yes or no, have you made them/no I have not answerable question (to which the answer is yes, by the way, I have, on several occasions), I’d expand this a little bit to kitchen gadgetry.

And the reason this leap in logic was spawned?  Finding this under my kitchen counter, left here by the previous occupants (who happen to be my in-laws).  Evidently, they didn’t make donuts very often:

In the box is the stick-free donut oven which looks like it just might have seen better days, and a recipe booklet for about eighty-seven-bazillion different kinds of donuts you can make with the aforementioned “factory”.

I haven’t tried to use it yet.  I’m a little scared of the electrical cord, which is the part of it that looks the most worn, but I may have to dig it out, throw on an apron, and try a few of these one day soon.  I figure the most I’m out is some flour, spices, and time — and while time is premium around here most days, it might be kind of fun to see what I can whip up.

I’m not a big gadget person, really.  I like the IDEA of most gadgetry — make your life simple with a wafflemaker!  Easy clean up with this new tabletop grill!  Feed your family with healthy smoothies with this new feature-filled blender! — I just can’t see the sense in buying a lot of separate gizmos to take up storage space where one tool that’s not as “featured” can do the same.

I’ve got the wafflemaker.  And we use it a lot.  And the crock-pot, which I see as more of a staple than a gadget.  A breadmaker that’s used less now that I have the other staple — a good KitchenAid mixer with a bread-hook attachment.  A blender.  That’s really it.  None of the food processors or tabletop grills, specialized nutcrackers or grinding tools, hand-held blenders or one-cup coffeemakers.  (Well, an espresso machine, but it gets used DAILY, if not more often than that….)

Oh.  And a donut factory.

It’ll most likely be cut in the next trip to goodwill for donation, since a nice little pan of oil will do the same work and probably taste better, even if deep-frying is less healthy than a non-stick pan.  (Though I’m not sure about that — did you hear all the flap about the DuPont Teflon factory workers coming down with rare cancers?  I’m a little wary of cooking things in chemical carcinogens.)

Got a favorite gadget you can’t live without?  Share — tell me about it.  (Not that a lot of you read this blog, but if you do, I’d love to know.)