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This is gonna sound silly, but dishwasher. I got a small one only this year after many, many years of being the dishwasher (and not cooking as much as a result). But since getting a dishwasher, I've been cooking loads. It's genuinely amazing the difference it makes, knowing that you don't have to leave a big pile of stuff to clean up later every time you cook. I can even put my whole air fryer basket in there!

Plus it uses a controlled amount of water for the whole load so you aren't running the tap constantly and wasting water.

Basic bitch answer, but ceiling fan 100%.

either air fryer or stick blender
beautiful crispy tofu (among other things) vs lovely sauces

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Rice cooker. I do not want to fail at rice often enough to get good at it, and I never have to with my trusty rice cooker on hand

Kobo eReader. It gets used for multiple hours a week. I never would have thought a device used for reading would be my favorite gizmo.

Why did I misread the title as "I thank god for giving me a pronoun maker"

I immediately said, "The woke have gone too far this time!" of course.

My answer would have to be my audio interface... let's me directly input audio into a DAW. Definitely something essential for me to have. Honorable mention to my portable charger thing that I got during Milton.

Everyone’s already said it, but rice cooker.

I don’t have to even put much thought into making rice, and just season it how you want and you get an easy comfort food whenever.

(True science fact: put in a quarter cup of rice vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar for every cup of short grain white rice to get sushi rice. Then just add in crispy tofu and stir-fried vegetables and you get what is objectively the best bulking meal possible.)

popcorn maker

A microwave?

Anyway my favourite gizmo is those can openers that are just a hunk of metal with a blade and a bottle opener in one

Mine is an ice cube machine, i cant imagine life without it specislly now with the heat waves in mx

Inside - air fryer.

Outside - kamado smoker/grill.

Oxo GoodGrips Reusable Lint Roller

As someone with many pets, it keeps me looking crisp and stylish

toaster oven

whole oven is too big? usually. use small oven! it also works as an air fryer! the last one i had even worked as a dehydrator on the two times i year i might ever need one! broiling stuff too? why not! use it as a toaster! perfect for heating stuff up in one particular way!

I love my induction cooktop. And my rice cooker. And my bullet blender thingy. The only things I use multiple times a week. Oh and my jaffle iron

Rice cooker and dishwasher are the two huge ones that I didn't use to have in childhood that have changed a lot for me. I am pretty good at cooking rice in a pot, but the constant anxiety that it will get burned and stink up the entire apartment gets to me, and the rice cooker is better at it than me anyway.

Otherwise (not really a gizmo but it was a huge change for me) I guess a stainless steel saute pan with a lid is my most used kitchen appliance. Cast iron is fine but heavier to handle, doesn't fit as much and is harder to wash. Non-sticks just start peeling. My trusty stainless steel pan has lasted years and is still just as good.

Oddly I wouldn't want a popcorn maker, was brought up making it on the stovetop, it took me a while to adjust to induction but I've managed. I get more unpopped kernels but they are ridiculously cheap anyway. When I am alone and get especially distracted I sometimes just have popcorn for dinner and then the leftovers for breakfast.

Rice cooker

got like a little plug thing for glass bottles that makes it easy as shit to pour without spilling

Stove top electric kettle and a projector

Also I have a compass as in the one for drawing and I consider that a gizmo

Immersion blender and those little grabby wand things for getting cat toys out from under the furniture lol

Oh and the hose nozzle with the multiple spray patterns for watering different plants and the sprinkler with the different spray patterns

I just think they're neat

I like my Zoom R4

Nutribullet for just whizzing shit up. Easy as to clean.

As someone who eats popcorn very regularly, I find the microwave to be 100% perfect at it (so long as the kernels aren't many years old). Also I super hate "microwave popcorn" because it's usually at a 10-100x markup compared to just a bag of kernels which are equally 'microwave'able.

I intended to follow up by joining in with a mention of a gizmo, but I think I literally don't have one. So now I'm just a spoilsport.

A rasp pi, I can make more gizmos!

Drawing tablet. Good for playing nds games, balatro and spider solitaire (and for drawing)

Love my ice maker and reverse osmosis water filter, use them both every day and I can't imagine how i lived my life before getting them.

My pc is too general to count as a gizmo, so i guess my microwave

Instant Pot. Cooks everything, requires almost no effort. If it had arms to hug with it could probably replace your family.

an immersion blender is not a gizmo wtf. what are you gonna do, stab your soup a lot to make it smooth?

Breville Barista espresso machine.

It's pretty extravagant, but it's been very reliable for over 10 years. It's surely paid for itself many times over compared to going to a cafe.