Just the essentials or all the bells and whistles?

[arewethereyet]

I love mangoes, and Walmart and Aldi's sell them cheap.  So when I saw a mango slicer for sale at Aldi's, I grabbed it.  Since then, I've been regularly buying mangoes a few at a time, but not getting around to slicing them before they go bad.  When I do slice up some mangoes, I'm very happy, but I waste a lot of food buying them.  And while I can eat them with the skin on, eating them without is better, which requires some deft skinning with a knife.  So even though I waste a lot of mangoes, I'm considering buying a $3 fillet knife at Walmart to make skinning them easier.

My therapist referred to me as a gadget person, and I guess that's right.  I try not to buy kitchen gadgets that are unlikely to be used, but nothing lights up my eyes like a new kitchen gadget.  I just bought a 6-quart slow cooker, and upon discovering that it's too small for my large batches of stuff, decided to get a 10-quart slow cooker as well!

I made a list of my kitchen gadgets for another forum:

• Microwave popcorn popper
  
• Hinged vegetable chopper
  
• Lettuce slicing thingamajiggy
  
• Two slap-chops
  
• A 48-pin meat tenderizer
  
• Two meat thermometers
  
• An oven thermometer
  
• Collapsible colanders
  
• A handicap accessible cutting board
  
• An adjustable meat/cheese slicer
  
• A mandoline slicer
  
• 7 skillets and two pots
  
• Iron skillet
  
• Iron Dutch Oven
  
• 5-quart basket-type air fryer
  
• 25-liter air fryer
  
• 1.6 cu. ft. microwave
  
• A small wall clock with second hand (essential)
  
• A 10-cup rice cooker (digital)
  
• A 5-cup rice cooker (manual)
  
• A microwave rice cooker
  
• Two microwave steamers
  
• A Mickey Mouse toaster
  
• A 5-setting electric hot water pot
  
• A 4.5-liter electric hot water pot (3 setting)
  
• A 6-quart Multi-cooker
  
• A 10-quart Instant Pot
  
• An 8-quart stock pot
  
• A 12-quart stock pot
  
• An electric carving knife
  
• An electric pizza oven (Presto Pizzazz)
  
• Battery-powered salt & pepper grinder
  
• Pineapple coring tool
  
• Apple slicer
  
• An immersion blender
  
• A Ninja blender
  
• A Ninja food processor
  
• Two coffee grinders (conical burr)
  
• A drip coffee maker
  
• A K-cup coffee maker
  
• A vacuum sealer
  
• And a 7 cu. ft. chest freezer & thermometer
  

You must have a huge kitchen with lots of storage!