A few of my favorite kitchen things

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As a homemaker, I have a few things that are just well… my favorite for various reasons.

One of those things is a nice rubber spatula and I have a few in different sizes.  One for bowl size things like muffin batter, cake batter, and pancake batter. Another that is perfect size to fit down into a mayo jar to get the last bit out. I love rubber spatulas like this because you can scrape out the remaining batter in a bowl and usually have enough to make another pancake, cupcake, or muffin.

Rubber spatulas are a great frugal kitchen item to have on hand because of what I just stated above. You won’t waste that extra batter that would stick to the bowl like using a regular spoon.  Plus you can get out that last little bit of mayo, mustard, etc.

Why toss food in the trash or wash it down the drain? 

Another favorite kitchen item is a nice, plain white, flour sack towel.These are the only kitchen towels that I use. I love them! They are absorbent yet lightweight so they dry quickly and with them being all white, easily bleached if necessary because face it, kitchen towels can get grubby. In olden days, people would embroidery on a flour sack towel and give it as a gift.

Anyone who has been reading this blog for some amount of time or has known me for a while in real life knows how much I LOVE cast iron cookware, especially the Lodge Brand because it’s made in the USA. The Lodge Cast Iron is manufactured in a town not too far away from where we live actually. I have been to their outlet store and I think I may have drooled on their floor a few times. Sorry Lodge!!

So why do I love cast iron cookware so much?  Well…

• It’s durable and long lasting when you care for it.
• Some pieces of cast iron have actually been handed down from generation to generation. I have a few pieces that belonged to my Mother.
• It’s better than any teflon coated non-stick pan when properly seasoned  .
• You can’t beat cornbread or fried chicken made in one. There’s just no comparison.

I found a #14 skillet at a yard sale for $1 once. I snatched that baby up so fast that it would have made your head spin from the wind from it!

I have skillets in various sizes, a dutch oven that turns into a roaster and the lid a skillet, a griddle, corn muffin  pan, pizza pan, and more. I LOVE THEM!!

I also like canning jars just not for canning but storing my spices in and more. I especially like the the hinged lid ones like the one shown to the right for storing things.  I have some smaller ones I use for spices, dried fruit, and other things. They are pretty as well as functional.  Ok, so I’m a little bit glass-jar-obsessed at times.  I have to fight the urge when I see them in the thrift stores. Sometime the urge wins.

Oh and I have a few old blue colored canning jars, some with the zinc lids and some without, that I inherited from my parents home.   My sweet hubby made me a hand soap dispenser for our kitchen like this one: {DIY} Mason Jar Soap Dispenser using one of them.   Oh how I love it!!   I love repurposing things and this was right up my alley with the country look to it as well.

One of my favorite appliances though is the Bosch Universal Mixer. Mine looks like the top picture on the right but they redesigned it and it now looks like the bottom one.  I like the style I have better. I have the blender, the food processor, cookie paddles,  and whips for it. This thing of mine holds 20 cups of flour!!! I can mix and knead enough dough in it to make 6 loaves of bread at a time!!  Oh yeah baby!  Homemade, whole wheat, bread!!  YUM YUM YUM! The food processor is a little smaller than I like but it definitely gets the job done. Electric Wondermill Whisper Mill the Worlds Best Grain Machine I have a Whisper Mill (aka Wondermill) that I grind wheat to make flour with as well as corn to make cornmeal.   There’s no comparison to fresh milled wheat flour when making bread.

One of my newest favorite things is the Excalibur Dehydrator!  No rotating trays. You control the temperature as there is a heat control option you can set for whatever type item you are drying. You can use plexi sheets to make fruit leather and they work better than those round plastic things that fit other dehydrators. You can fit a lot of food on the trays to dry at one time! Fits nicely on a counter or on a pull out drawer (which dh converted a cabinet for our most used items that has two pull out drawers/shelves. This sits on the lower one and plugs in behind the shelf. I use it often!)

Excalibur 9 Tray Dehydrator - ED 2900 Dehydrater - Jerky Maker Food Dehydrator Excalibe

Well those are a few of my favorite kitchen things.   They help me get things done in the kitchen.

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