that is quite cheap
just need an appropriate pot though, and the right temperature.

I have an irrational dislike because one of my mates banged on about his for fucking ages and was telling me I should get one. When I hardly ever cook that sort of thing, and I really don't want another great lump of gadgetry in my kitchen.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

One of my mates did that about his smoothie maker
We told him to cock off.

Somewhere like TJ Hughes is best to get them, same quality as everywhere else, but far cheaper.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:05, Reply)

I gues it's the same with breadmakers and soupmakers and the like.
You dont actually need them, but they do perhaps encourage you to make those things, and give those, like me, with under developed culinary skills the confidence to do so.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:12, Reply)

breadmakers are a bit different I think
because it removes a lot of the effort and skill required. Mind you, I only use mine for making pizza dough these days.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I may have mentioned this before.
but a friend of a friend used to make great pizza dough. He was a pastry chef by trade, but it always amused me that he had actually initially trained to be a stonemason.
He emigrated to Australia and apparently qualified to settle there under either job.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)

doesn't ring a bell
pastry chef looks like a hard job. too much of a science rather than an art.

most things I approach scientifically, but not music or cooking
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)

Fuck that, I got a knife sharpener, one of those ones that you slide the knife up and down some plastic that has two wheels of stone in.
FUCKING AMAZING
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I need one of those
my Global knives, while insanely sharp, are not insanely sharp enough!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:35, Reply)

then you need one of these:
www.salamandercookshop.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2824

Wusthof are the dogs bollocks of the kitchen knives, think I'm up to 7 pieces at the moment, never looked at another make since.
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:15, Reply)

I have a steel which works nicely
as global knives sharpen like a motherfucker, but one of my knives has a bit of a notch so need something more than a steel to set to it without fucking it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:24, Reply)

then
this: www.richmondcookshop.co.uk/index.php?cPath=375_340 could be the place.

I could spend £1000's in this shop, (If I had it)
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)