My Favourite Kitchen Appliances

There are many kitchen appliances which are bare necessities. These are my top barest:

3^rd: Springform Cake Mould



The upright rim, which can be unclamped and detached from the bottom of the mould, makes it so much easier to get the cake out of the mould in one piece.

2^nd: Stainless Steel Soap



Cooking without garlic and onions is simply impossible. Tears are not the worst side effect of them. Persistent odour is one, but did you ever try to pee after chopping garlic or chili? The only reliable remedy is rubbing a stainless steel "soap" between your hands under running water for 30 seconds. Don't ask me how it works, it just does.

1^st: REX Economy Peeler



A Swiss design classic from 1947. The u-shaped aluminium bow has a moveable stainless-steel cutter head, which also serves as a stop bar, preventing the blade from penetrating too far into the potato for economical peeling. The inventor of the Rex peeler was Alfred Neweczeral (1899-1958), the son of Prussian immigrants. He founded Zena AG, which still manufactures and sells the potato peeler. They even sell a gold-plated version.