Perspective

We live on a billions-year old spaceship, shielded from natural radiation by a nuclear-powered[1] force field, and living by the emissions of a partially shielded fusion reactor. We fill birthday balloons with nuclear waste. We're mutants descended from generations of mutants. We eat greens, hoping their natural pesticides will keep us healthy, and give genitals as a sign of affection. We mostly eat the offspring of the most vulnerable organisms around us.

(Can you think of more to provocatively phrase?)

[1] Originally I had 'fission', but I'm reminded the heat comes more from spontaneous radioactive decay, not fission.

Kitchen tools meme

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, underline the ones you use at least once a month, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers , egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, crepe makers, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, pie funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers, sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, fondue sets, healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, stand mixers, mincers, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, pestle-and-mortars, gratin dishes, apple corers, mango stoners and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards.

breakmaker: used to use it a lot
juicer: I may have had a "squish the fruit on it" juicer.  If so I might still have it.
salad spinner: broke, wasn't replaced.  I don't know about "miniature".
deep fat fryer: was a gift, used once and never cleaned out, abandoned on move, still feel guilty
egg boiler: what?
sandwich maker: *what*?

Not on list: a small folding grates-on-stand you can put in a pot of boiling water, to steam stuff with.  Haven't used since I discovered microwaving broccoli and potatoes instead.