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I've recently bought a potato ricer and find it so useful, I want to share my excitement ( sad I know!)

My husband has to have all meat liquidised and vegetables mashed. Mashing potatoes is ok other veg aren't always so easy. The creamer makes the potatoes so light and fluffy but it is even better with parsnips and carrots as any stringy tougher areas are left in the ricer and only very smooth veg come out. I hold the gadget over the plate, sending the different veg through separately and then pour on the gravy or sauce over. So simple but very useful.

To all those who already have one, I wish you'd told me ages ago. X

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Georgepa profile image
Georgepa

Actually NannaB I would like a cook and come to think of it a scullery maid as well !

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NannaB in reply to Georgepa

Oh yes Georgepa, Wouldn't that be great. Someone to wash up the liquidiser, creamer etc between meals. I'll let you have the cook, I don't mind cooking but someone to work out the menus and do the shopping would be good.

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Steve666

This creamer you are on about , I keep putting potatoe creamer in the search engine and all It keeps coming up with is the hand held rice utensils. Are they what you mean ??? Thanks

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NannaB in reply to Steve666

Yes, sorry I think it is a ricer not a creamer.

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Malm1959

In the states I think we call that an immersion blender.

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NannaB

I googled immersion blender and all pictures show it as an electric blender. The potato ricer is a hand gadget that presses the vegetables through a metal disk with many holes in it. A bit like a giant garlic press.

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Doglinton in reply to NannaB

Is it like the mouli we had for our baby ? Sound good. Jean

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Georgepa in reply to NannaB

I was an antique dealer in my previous life and I have exactly that but it is about 75 years old but it works treat . We just called it a potato masher.

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NannaB in reply to Georgepa

Wow! Things were made to last in those days.

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jillannf6 in reply to Georgepa

WE HAVE A CREAMER AND AN ELECTRIC ONE TOO THE LATTER IS GREAT FOR SOUPS OR PUREEING ANYTHING

\;LOL JILL

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NannaB in reply to jillannf6

Yes, we have a liquidizer for meat and making soups. Because I use the gadgets at nearly every meal I don't put them in the dishwasher. I need two of everything really as I hate washing them up each time. Or Georgepa's scullery maid would do.

X

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Tz2388

Have always used ours for potato Kumlas. Never thought about it for other things. Thanks.

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NannaB in reply to Tz2388

I've obviously had a sheltered life. I've never heard of potato Kumlas so I looked it up on the Internet. They look scrummy. Are you from Norway as all the recipes say Norwegian Kumlas?

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Tz2388 in reply to NannaB

My husbands family on his Mother's side are Norwegians. I learned to make the Kumla from them and now have my mother-in-law's ricer, as well as, my own which I bought. The old one is much sturdier. The great grandmother was a shepherdess on a fiord and came alone to be a housemaid. All lived around north central Iowa and were farmers.

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jillannf6 in reply to Tz2388

HA T A WONDERFUL HERIETAGE HYOU HAV EON YR HUSBANDS SIDE!

LOL JILL

:-)

PSP PERSON IN THE UK

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Tz2388 in reply to jillannf6

Thanks, I know. But now, I'll turn attention to my own heritage with St. Patrick's Day approaching. Cheers, Jill Anne Dwyer Zagar

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jillannf6 in reply to Tz2388

hi and a happy st patricks day to you on tuesday(??)

lol jill

:-)

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NannaB in reply to jillannf6

And to you too xx

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jillannf6 in reply to jillannf6

sorry about all the typos i am getting more dyslexic by the day1

lol Jill

:-)

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NannaB in reply to jillannf6

You are doing fine Jill. I can understand everything you post and I'm sure everyone else can as well.

Xx

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jillannf6 in reply to NannaB

TA FOR THAT NANNA B

U R V ENCOURAGING

LOL JILL

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