What's in your kitchen??

[Jax]

Being nosey like I just wondered what everybody else uses to prep raw food??

I've got an;
Excaliber 9 tray dehydrator
Vita-mix
Moulinex Juice Master Juicer (still going well since 2003)
Food Processor
Wheat grass juicer (thanks to Karen)
Sprouter
Champion

Would like;
A spiraliser but don't know which one :(

[haverawcake]

I have:
an Excalibur 9 Tray Dehydrator - essential for my raw food creations
a Rhino blender - used numerous times a day - fantastic product!
a Champion Juicer - I've had it for years and I use it for raw ice cream as well as nut butters and juices occasionally
a Soyquick SDZ Milk Maker - which I use to make raw nut mylk, I'm not very good with nut mylk bags
an ancient Kenwood Food Processor - which I hope to replace with a better one someday, but it still works fine for dry grinding nuts/seeds and processing nuts/fruit/vegetables for raw burgers, pie crusts, salads etc.
a Kitchencraft porringer - for melting cacao/coconut butter and gently warming raw soups/sauces

I'd quite like a spiraliser too - been meaning to get one for ages - might ask Santa this year.

[Quasar]

I do not have any of that equipment, but just... ordinary kitchen equipment plus a slow cooker (sorry).

I much prefer to cut all my vegs and fruit by hand and never liquidise any. I buy organic carrot juice at the health food shop - expensive I know but for as long as I can afford it... besides only half a glass of it is sufficient to provide a day's requirement of beta carotene.

I just can't get into all that home making malarkey, but I'm open to persuasion. ;)

[Jax]

Aww welcome Q :D

This is the place to learn............AND find out about those raw cakes ;) Have you seen the cheezecake I've made??? All raw and all good for you :)
And have look at the pie that haverawcake has made :D

[haverawcake]

I can definitely make raw cakes! Cheezecake recipe to come soon.

[Debbie Took]

Things directly connected with raw:

Four fridges (the first thing I bought when going raw was another fridge!)

Distiller
Vitamix
Excalibur dehydrator
Cuisinart mini food-processor
Cuisinart food processor
Oscar juicer
Compost Crock
Spiraliser
Mandolin

[Jax]

Things directly connected with raw:

Four fridges (the first thing I bought when going raw was another fridge!)

LOL FOUR??? :eek: Well I can boast about having two ;)

[karen @rawchocolateheaven]

Well I have a huge american fridge and another smaller one for the overspill and a display fridge for the chocs x
mortar & pestle (2) invaluable
Vitamix
Champion
Bamix
spiroli sideways one
and saladecco
Citrus press
Z star wheatgrass manual juicer (brilliant)
all marble work tops so can prep straight on them x
soon to be getting rain water filtration thing, hope by this weekend!!
Global & sabattier Knives
am hoping to get a Blixer very soon

would also like to mention that we DONT have
a bin
kettle
(soon) hopefully cooker
or processor

what else dont people have that is considered the norm? (that we dont have)
baking trays - no
slowcooker -no
toaster - no
microwave - no

surprising how different the raw foodists families kitchen is to the conventional

[sharonjones]

wow you guys really are hard core raw foodies!!! ***bows down with respect***

my kitchen consists of a

kenwood liquidiser and processor
excaliber 9 tray dehydrator ~ not used it in weeks!
sprouting trays
water alkaliser/ionizer
2 fridges (his and hers! lol mine is full of veggies etc)

no smoothie maker/juicer/spiraliser or mandolin

although i would dearly love one of those spiralisers!!! **droollls**

[karen @rawchocolateheaven]

Forgot to mention I also have
Gaggia Ice cream maker
and 2 9 trays excaliburs
& still manage to fill them!!;)

[Jax]

wow you guys really are hard core raw foodies!!! ***bows down with respect***

my kitchen consists of a

kenwood liquidiser and processor
excaliber 9 tray dehydrator ~ not used it in weeks!
sprouting trays
water alkaliser/ionizer
2 fridges (his and hers! lol mine is full of veggies etc)

no smoothie maker/juicer/spiraliser or mandolin

although i would dearly love one of those spiralisers!!! **droollls**LOL well I'm drooling over your water alkaliser/ionizer :p

[sharonjones]

we love the water ioniser. the water tastes so....CLEAN :)

we got the Jupiter one.

i forgot to mention my icecream maker too! hahah!

[Jax]

I can now add a sprouter and a wheatgrass juicer to my collection :peace: just need some wheatgrass now ha ha

[Rawalchemist]

Wow - I have some catching up to do with equipment:help: but I'm on the way to getting what is needed to make both personal creations and those we take to market.
I currently have:

2 X 9 tray Excaliburs
Kenwood Multi pro
mandolin
knives
big fridge ~ but really need another bigger one!
loads of bowls and containers
porringer
measuring cups
cupboards full of ingredients:p

I would love a Vitamix, another mandolin, a spiraliser and display fridge for the chocolate creations;)
Oh and we will be getting a GS2 water filter next month & after that a vortex jug...
that will pretty much make life perfect in our raw world :49:

[ani]

ummm

off hand i can think of:

my trusty buck knife
and 2 sharp knives
4 wooden spoons
tornado blender which has just decided it only works on pulse!!!!
2 kenwood blenders
magic bullet (majick it is too)
electric hand blender
hand turn blender
whisk
spiralizer
matstone juicer
2x 9 tray excaliburs now :(
2 sprouters :(
3 mortar and pestles and awaiting my massive one from Thailand
come on Mike get a crate over here now :)
cheap processor which is about to split in half
a zillion tupperware containers
a zillion glass jars
the big biona coconut jars are amazing for storage
lemon squeezer
4 metal flasks
4 various glass & plastic measuring jugs
a corer i haven't got my head round as yet
6 5litre water bottles and 4 glass demi johns for my future water collection as they need plugs :)
2 fridge freezers
i need to bin one and get just a fridge as mine is always crushed solid
and i forget what is in there until it starts dripping !!!!!

[karen @rawchocolateheaven]

Ani are you getting rid of fridge freezer? i badly need them, can collect asap?
Karen

[Jax]

the big biona coconut jars are amazing for storage

Ha ha I use those as well, and the big Suma peanut butter jar.........err although we won't be buying that anymore :D

Oh and we have 3 Sigg metal flasks in our house ;)

[SweetSheep]

In my kitchen I've got:

- Juicer (L'Equip 110.5 Pulp Ejector Centrifugal)
- Blender (Kitchenaid)
- Food Processor (Cuisinart)
- Dehydrator (Excalibur 5-tray)
- Nut Milk Maker (Yaoh)
- Manual Wheatgrass Juicer (Easyhealth)
- Coffee grinders for grinding nuts and seeds (James Martin and Krups)
- Sprouter (Easy-Sprout)
- Tray Sprouter (Healthy Sprouter)
- Glass Germinator (Biosnacky)
- Spirulizer (Benriner)
- Mandolin
- Water filter (Kenwood) and Living Water Vortex Jug

These work great for me, although I would like to eventually upgrade to a Hurom juicer and a Vitamix or Rhino blender - and some sharp knives!

PS: Also no toaster and no microwave, and an oven that's never used!

[Ruth]

Wow, i thought i was doing really well with my vitamix, excalibur and extra little fridge for greens! It took me years to save up for those and thought my raw kitchen was complete!

I also have glass jars for sprouting; a nut milk bag; a vortex jug and a tiny little spirlulizer which makes weeny thin strips (hardly noodles!) and that's about it. I would love a proper spirulooli which does made noodles; a proper tiered self-watering sprouter so there's room for herbs on the windowsill instead of sprouts, a really good processor, a good mandolin, a pestle and mortar, a glass jar for my leftover smoothies and a personal blender. Oh and would like a gardener with digger to lift the tree stumps and rubble out of our garden so we can get some new soil in and start planting as an extension of the kitchen.

However i still think talking to your food and loving it is more important than any gadgets in terms of altering it's mouth-feel, nutritional value or appearance.