Household Tools - Kitchen (Part 2)

Yesterday I posted about knives and wooden spoons being the most frequently used tools in my kitchen. The whisk, potato peeler and can opener are not used every day - but frequently enough.

I find that I use the whisk when I previously used an egg beater or electric mixer or a fork. It does a better job of combining milk with eggs for scrambling or omelets. And it is a lot less mess and faster that an egg beater or electric mixer for creaming sugar, eggs, and butter for cookies or mixing the pancake ingredients. It’s appealing in its simplicity. The one I use most frequently is an inexpensive one that has lasted for years.

The same can be said of the potato peeler. It is over 30 years old. I don’t use it as frequently as I once did since we no longer are making homemade French fries every week (French fries are infrequent components of our meals now). The most frequent use is to peel sweet potatoes before I cut wedges to roast sprinkled with cinnamon.

The can opener is used much less frequently than when it was originally purchased. We don’t eat as many canned goods as we used to and some of the few that we still buy have flip tops. I still have the can opener in the drawer; its sharpness will last for years and years at the rate it gets used.