The Bang Bang egg toaster. Bonus points for finding a second use for this!
Here are a few ideas:
• A panini press... can also grill vegetables.
• A rice cooker... can also steam puddings or make overnight oatmeal.
• A splatter guard... can also be used as a sifter or steamer (hmm, so does it replace the rice cooker?).
What ways have you found of making your unitaskers into multitaskers? Please share in the comments below!
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(Image: Bang Bang egg toaster via Yanko Design)
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We always pop some eggs in the rice cooker on top of the rice for perfectly done hard-boiled eggs.
How can you call an egg slicer or garlic press space hogging? They are small and useful tools.
I think the egg toaster could be used to warm up towels for a nice steam. Just a thought
what does an egg toaster DO?
We use muffin tins for lots of things:
poached eggs: http://wp.me/pp3Ce-HF
roast multi-coloured beets: http://wp.me/pp3Ce-H8
freeze pesto: http://wp.me/pp3Ce-HR
:)
Joel
I use my egg slicer to slice mushrooms and strawberries too when I'm feeling lazy. I use my ice cube trays to freeze extra pumpkin puree and pasta sauce.
Almost bought an expensive mini, counter-top trash can until I realized a large salad bowl would work better; if any of the contents seem like an eye-sore while I'm preparing a meal, I simply cover with a sheet of paper towel. And my bowl's prettier (CERAMIC w/handpainted design) and diswasher safe!
I use my splatter guards as a cookie rack (honestly, I don't know how we ended up with two) -- just set it on top of an empty bowl and place the cooling cookies on top. I also use a cookie dough scooper for portioning out meatballs, making petite scoops of ice cream (so cute!) and making melon balls.
I use a garlic press to squeeze key limes. In fact, I had to buy one specifically for that purpose. I never use it for garlic!
I use my pressure cooker as a stock pot by not locking on the lid.
A rice cooker may be a unitasker but it is worth whatever space it takes up.
Since we cook rice daily, the rice cooker doesn't feel like a unitasker. It's like the coffee pot--I'm sure there are other things we could do with it but it's busy making coffee.
I, too, must be enlightened about egg toasting. You toast eggs? Someone invented a machine specifically to do this? Was I on a some kind of extended wilderness retreat when this happened? That thing is bizarre.
Who's got advice on how to multi-task a cast iron fondue pot? I have a feeling there's something good it could be used for, but I can't think of anything...
I use the rice cooker with a some water in the bottom and the steam basket in to cook potatoes since I don't have a pressure cooker. It works better (for me) then in a pan on the stove top because they don't get all starchy/sticky since they are above the water.
It's the rice cooker that can multi task the more.
Ok, this will sound totally weird but...
I got a little plastic funnel with my breast pump designed for "manual expression." Well, I never used it for that but it was the perfect size for re-filling my spice jars! Since I cook and use my spices alot, I loved being able to re-fill them without spilling them everywhere but in the jar!
OK, so now it is a spice-jar-refill-funnel uni-tasker but I wouldn't live without it!!!
I nest it with my regular funnel. No wasted space!
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Does anyone else not what to use an egg toaster with "bang bang" in the name?
Mini egg sized bombs in the kitchen...
a *good* rice cooker will have settings for nearly everything under the sun...including cake.
My rice cooker is also a slow cooker. I also use it for making yogurt.
Egg slicer works great with Bocconcini
I have a rubber egg poacher that doesn't work very well for poaching eggs - but it is terrific as a rubber grip to help opening tough jars!
So I found the Bang bang egg toaster online. It is just a conceptual design, but an interesting one. It doesn't toast eggs, it just works like a toaster. It steams them and then they pop-up. Here's the link:
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/05/10/all-eggs-in-one-toaster/
I also use my egg slicer for mushrooms and strawberries. The muffin tin gets used more for meatballs than for muffins, honestly. I'm going to try to use my potato ricer as a spaetzle maker.
Rice cooker = bread maker.
I hear some people use air poppers to roast coffee.
I use my rice cooker to hard cook eggs, poach chicken, as a double boiler to melt chocolate, to steam anything, as a fondue pot, to make lip gloss with my girls, to cook oatmeal, and it's just a one button cooker from a Japanese grocer here in California. I heart my rice cooker!
I recently used my rice cooker to help me make chocolate chiffon cake. I'm like many of you, I couldn't do without my rice cooker.
Fondue pot can be used for melted chocolate (or almond bark) in which to dip strawberries, truffles, pretzels, toffee, etc.
Fondue pots are what we use instead of a pan for frying- the curved sides help keep it from splattering.
s00ngtype- would love to hear more about making yogurt in the rice cooker! I use mine mostly to cook beans.
I love using grapefruit spoons in the kitchen! It's great for peeling fresh ginger, and it's the best strawberry huller you'll ever use. It's also perfect for getting kiwi out of it's fuzzy skin. Oh yeah, and you can eat grapefruit with it!
It's about an egg who wonders what it is all about the egg..