Your favourite gadget
The flatmates are very happy with their new kitchen. They are particularly pleased with the dish-washer.
What's your favourite kitchen gadget or labour-saving device? And outside the kitchen, what's the one piece of technology (TV, radio, computer) you can't imagine living without?
This topic has now closed. Thanks for all your comments.
Yuri, Ukraine.
Dishwasher. I love it and I hate it at the same time. I like it because it helps me to save lots of precious time and I hate it for becoming myself lazier. Not simply I have forgotten when I washed dishes in old fashion way but nowadays I found it sometimes difficult to put dirty plates in it!!! Out of kitchen my best friend is my computer. The only thing I worry about is I am too dependent on it!
Guillem Bordoy, Brighton-Majorca
I can't imagine living without a computer!!! I need it to be in contact with my family & friends because I am really far of my home.
Herbert Chen, China
I just think a toaster is absolutely indispensable in my kitchen, for morning hours are precious and ipmortant for me, a toaster helps me save time. Of course, a juice extracter and a micro-wave oven are of much help as well.
Eva T., Czech Republic
It is surprisingly something very simple - slicer. I haven脗麓t learned how to slice typical Czech bread only with a knife. I脗麓ve got only a mechanic slicer with a handle, but it is perfect. My favourite appliance outside the kitchen is washing mashine. No wonder if you have 5-member family.
Franck, France
My favourite kitchen gadget is my up-to-date coffee maker. It makes a really delicious cup of coffee. At midday, with a piece of chocolate, terrific ...Nowadays, i can't imagine living without my computer or my cellphone.
Ha-Eun, Korea
My favorite kitchen gadget is oven. Because baking breads and cookies is one of my hobby. And I can't imagine living without computer and CD player.I can't live and don't want live without music!
Phellix, Slovakai
My favourite kitchen gadget is tea kattle! I do not need a dishwasher at all. On other side I agree it might be useful for big families.
Ana M. Seguin, Spain
The stove, Of course. How should I cook without a fire? TV, radio, computer are great help but I can麓t imagine living without a washing machine.
Pierre, France
For me the favorite kitchen device is a microwave. I can heat up meals on mid-day when I have no much time. Outside the kitchen, I can't imagine living without radio.
Jansen, Brazil
I know that the most useful gadget in the kitchen is the fridge, it's so hard conserve our food without it. And outside the kitchen, the computer is very important to me, because with it I can learn english at home.
Huong Ly (Lila), Vietnam
Of course from kitchen gadgets I'd choose a microwave and a toaster. They're so convenient. Do you believe that my parents just fry/cook a fish in a microwave? It's just crazy.I can't imagine my life without a computer and a telephone.
kati54, Italy
I can't imagine to live without fridge where I store the food for all week. I'm keen on computer too as I like surfing on net.
Fran, Spain
My favorite kitchen gadget is the microwave. Cooking is something that I know very little about. By the way, I love my pressure cooker too.
Tati, Ireland
I prefer the refrigerator to keep my beers to be cool and of course my favorite gadget in the house is TV. If it doesnt exist, how can I watch rugby matches.
Miba, Iran
my favourite piece of technology is computer and i think i can't live without it.
Domenico, Italy
I really like one of the simpliest kitchen gadget, the water boiler. It let you save time and cook pasta speedly.I can't imagine to live without computer since I spent more or less 4 hrs per day on it...I can do everything from my desk, except to meet people and have some true relationships with them...
Ger van de Ven, Nuenen, The Netherlands.
I don't use labour-saving devices. Cooking is one of my hobby's and I try to do it in an old fashioned way.
Nguyen, Vietnam
i don't cook very often because of my full schedule.however i think my favorite kitchen gadget is the microwave oven.since my mom bought the oven it has become easier and quicker to warm up food.the food warmed up by the oven won't become so soft as it is done by gas stove.i can also defost frozen food in only some minutes instead of put them in sunlight for several minutes before the ice from the food melts...also i think i can't live without T.V. watching T.v is the simplest and the most comfortable way to get news and information about everyday life all around the world.i can also watch movies ,listen to music ... without going to the cinema or owning an MP3
Hank, Taiwan
Definitly the microwave oven, it helps me preparing half of my meal. I can't imagine a life without it. Outside the kitchen, my notebook is my favorite. I can't complete my study without it.
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Catalina, Romania
I must say I don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen because every time I try to cook comething it turns out to be a complete disaster, but I do have to wash the dishes after I eat what my mother cooks for me. So the dish-washer is indeed very useful. Outside the kitchen I can not imagine living without my computer: it helps me discover every piece of information I want to know, it has my music, my pictures and my favourite movies on it.
Lea, Israel
My magic mix is my most important device in my kichen. Other important tools are good sharpened knifes
Sylvia, France
my favourite kitchen gadget is my waffle iron.i love waffles and they are very easy to cook and eat.
Nader, Egypt
the number one in the kitchen gadget is the fridge becase it save the food usable,and save the mony.but outside the kitchen i think it's defrente because evry felw realy knows his important needs devices,for me it's the computer.
Sudarshana, Sri Lanka
I think the most useful gadget is rice-cooker which help us to make it proper way and not need give attention because it will stop automatically when rice cooked.Actually I can't live without computer with internet connection which help us to surf world wild finding latest news, inventions, friends and much more.
Quyet, Vietnam
I don't have kitchen now, I'm renting a house and I always buy food outside. With me, I can't live without My laptop and internet. I use it all the time when I'm home :)
Maica, Spain
My "favourite" or most essential kitchen gadget is the washing machine. I think is one of the best creations by human being and if we think about how clothes were to be cleaned in the -not very far- past, we would value it more than we do. Outside the kitchen... I'm afraid to say that i can hardly live without any of them but if i had to choose... i would take the TV because it makes me company when I am home alone.
Ellea, France
I don't have any favourite kitchen gadgets. For me, they are just useful devices which make my life more comfortable. Otherwise, I can't live without my computer and the Internet which provides me wonderful tools to learn and practise the English language.
Javi, Spain
Hi. I've seen that there's a gadget you can see in every chinese houses it's a hot and cool water dispenser. I think this is the coolest gadget.
Monia, Italy
My favorite kitchen gadgeg is the wash machine...but I can't immagine my life without computer and internet!... I am a very lazy woman and with internet I can do lots of things staying in my house: shopping, sending e-mail, looking for informations and chatting with all my friend!
Angela, Italy
My favourite kit.gadget is the oven.I can't imagine living without a computer!thanks
Andrea, Brazil
There are three basic things I can't imaging living without and these are: Breathing, eating and drinking. Talking about technology, if I had to choose one piece of technology as the most important I would choose the computer. For one simple reason: I wouldn't be doing this exercise without it.
Janete, Portugal
In the kitchen - Washing machine and breadmaker are gadgets that I can`t imagine living without. Outside the kitchen - My laptop and mobile phone are the most important pieces, but not so important as the washing machine.
Hussein, Libya
Well, I am not concered about kitchen becouse I don't cook. But if you ask me about the most important gadget in my "life", I would say "my PC".
Antonella, Italy
Washing-machine is my top labour-saving device. Sometimes I sit in front of my washing-machine and stare at it working from its porthole window. I'm still amazed about how it can wash clothes so well while it takes me a lot of time and fatigue when I try to wash them by hand.
Marilia, Italy
I love the dish-washer above all, because while it works I can watch my favourite films.I also love very much radio
Eugen, Poland
My favourute kitchen gadget is a refrigerator for reasons that all should know.I can imagine everything, but life without coffe and sweets would be unimaginable. Bye.
Angela, Sicily
hello to everyone! I am really not microwave dependent.Instead I can't immagine living without radio, music is an important element in my life.
Dora, Taiwan
An electric rice-cooker is the most important device I think. I've been using it for 13 years. And in my opinion ,Air-conditioner is a wonderful invention that I can't imagine living without, especially in the summer night.
Lawrence, Hong Kong
My favourtite kitchen gadget is the washing machine. Some people other countries may wonder why the wahsing machine is in the kitchen. The reason is simple: Hong Kong is small city with small apartments for most of the people.I can't imagine how I can live without my computer. Every day, I spend most of mmy time in front of my computer, communicating with my friends through the email, doing paper work, reading newspaper and other materials, etc.
Marisela, Venezuela
Wow, there 芒re several gadgets or several labour-saving stuffs which saves a lot of my effort and time. But, for me, the most labour-saving are: the tin opener because it prevents my knives from being bending. Also, I have got an electrical lighter, it's very useful because it prevents me from an excessive use of matches. Finally, I personally think that I couldn't live without my MP3 player since I listen to 大象传媒 downloads with this device every day so to practice my English and besides this device, I couldn't live without my computer either since I downloads the audios from her.
Walter, Peru
definitely, the most important is the microwave but in all of house is the computer and TV
KHa. Per.
Obviously, we all have to work hard our lives long and mostly our jobs in general are very stressful, facts that cause us high tiring during the day and demand a much longer time for resting and relaxing at the end of the day when arrived back home from work. Now every labour-saving piece of gadget in our kitchen and somewhere else in our homes can help us to economise bettter our spare time at home and organise our privacy more skillfully. So a microwave to warm up our food, a dish washer to discard the problem of washing up especially when there have been some guest in, a coffee machine or my best of all a spacious freezer where you can store any kind of foodstuffs for many days and use them just as you like to, they all are necessary and very useful. The same is with the pc. It麓s so helpful in our daily life that once having become accustomed to using it, there脗麓ll be realy hard living without it.
Luc, Belgium
My favourite and impossible to replace gadget in the kitchen is my darling Lygia.
Lola, Japan
I think the most important thing in the kitchen is light if there were no lites then how could we see thing and i wanna thank to that person who has invented light, and spoons are also very necessary in kitchen.and outside the kitchen i like computer but i dont think that i cant live without it.
E.T, Taiwan
My favourite kitchen gadget is a stewpot.I can use it to stew beef or pig's knuckle and mix two big bowls of rice.It's really so delicious!Besides,I think I can't miss my laptop.If missing it,how can I get new information and english learning.
膫zlem, Turkey
My favorite gadget in the kitchen is microwave oven. I'm working and usually getting home late in the evening. I love microwave oven because I can defrost the frozen food in a short time and prepare dinner. I also use it to reheat the soup and other food. Outside the kitchen one thing I think I can't leave without is my cordless headphone. When I get back home I turn on the TV and wear my headphone then I start to cook. Therefore I can listen to the news or any other thing on TV while I'm in the kitchen. (By the way my TV is in my living room not in the kitchen)
Ylenia, Spain
I'm completaly agree with the flatmates about the dish-washer, I love it! its very easy to understand and it save a lot of time! but apart of that, its a bit adictive and if everybody use it without carefully we can consume more water than the necessary. So in my opinion its a kitchen gadget great but we have to be very conscious of the earth.About the second question, I can imagine living without everything, but if I have to choose, I'll say the most precious for me, it will be the computer, with it I can watch TV, listen radio, play games, use it for my homework, learn new things, speak with my family by Skype and so on.
Beyza, Turkey
I can't imagine living without computer.Altough tv is better than computer for me i cant't give up using computer because i use it for my homework and connecting with HARVARD!!
Lola, Belgium
I can't living without my computer.I am addicted to it !:)
Wendy, Hong Kong
My favourite kitchen gadget is rice-cooker; it's easy and convenience to use for, plus It's very suitable my a lazy person (me).
Tanya, Israel
In my opinion,the most important kitchen device is the fridge. My fridge is big and shiny, and there are many tasty things in it. In general, TV is my love.Despite there aren't good programs and films in nowdays, I like to be with television as the background of my life.
Charly, Philippines
I consider the oven as my number one equipment in the kitchen because without this I will not be able to cook our food. In my house I have a five burner oven where I cook our meal of the day and without this it will be too hard for me to make the menu of the day. This is really my favorite gadget because after cooking I make it a point that it is clean and tidy and I always tell our housemaid to clean it properly when I am not at home. Aside from the oven, what I like best is the televsion set because from it I will be able to see the news and what is going on around the world.In other word it is very informative. Television is also one part of entertainment of the home because I will be able to watch as well the nice soap operas and see the showbiz news and the showbiz celebrities singing and dancing with their nice and sexy costumes wherein I can learn trendy styles in the fashion industry.
Rahaf, Syria
As for me, I found the microwave is the best labour-saving kitchen gadget. You can have the food in a suitable degree in any time you want. After the microwave foods become available, you can prepare different things in short time and comfortable way like popcorn and gateau.The most important gadget for me outside the kitchen is the television. You can watch and recognize everything new around the world.
Anne, HongKong
The washing machine play an important role because I have a lot of washing everyday.
Akira Baba, Japan
A remote for TV. It saves me from unnecessay exerceise. I thank the person who invented this small device.
Najla Nasser, UAE
My favourite gadget in the kitchen is the microwave because the microwave makes food hot quickly.My favourite gadget outside the kitchen is the computer because it helps me to do my work and watch films.
Mariam Saif, UAE
Every thing is very important for me but in general i think that i can't live without my ipod. listening to music all the time makes me feel good. I also can't live without TV.I always watch TV shows and movies especially on channel mbc.
Urszula, Poland
What I like in the kitchen is microwave. It really saves my time. I can prepare food in the evening and have it ready to eat in a few minutes next day. Except for the kitchen devices, I think radio is one I miss if I don't listen to it for long time.
Dr. Zaius, Spain
My favourite gadget in the kitchen is the fridge. And my computer is the other piece of technology that I can't imagine living without.
Kasia, Poland
My no1 gadget is a dish-washer! I don't mind washing up in a sink, but since I've been using the dish-washer it's quicker and I believe more environmental friendly!!
Lana, Russia
We just moved to new house and I love my new kitchen.I take a pleasure to have a dish-washer but I can live without it. I cannot live without fridge and freezer and also without hob.my favorite gadget in the kitchen is washing-machine!
Pazu, S Korea
I think micro wave oven is what I most favorite kichien gadget.Because I can save time to cook in busy morning, is also convenient to use. So I usually use it to toast bread and heat up milk and rice and so on. I can't imagine to live without comouter. It's passage to communicate with other people and to get all kind of information.
Kim, USA
I can't live without breadmaker. Every morning, I have a fresh bread as breakfast. Really nice and delicious.
Giorgio, Asti, Italy
Hi everybody. Well, I think my microwave oven is a jewel...without ..him (I've to say so, it's really a friend)I'd be lost, especially when my wife is out. Outside the kitchen pc is n. 1 for me, or other wise evry other thing that make me able to ..catch the web. Ciao
Nana Doha
i think food mixer is the most important one.I use it every day.I mix,make juice and grind with it.In general,computer is the king.
Beata, Poland
My most favourable gadget in my kitchen is the kettle.That is because I'm afraid of fire. It's very convenient and fast way to make tea.My favourite gadget outside the kitchen is computer. It gives me possibility to watch films, learn English and listen to music. And that is what I like very much.
Anil, Turkey
I think my favourite kitchen gadget is kettle because i love drink coffee and herbal tea.i always drink at least cup of 10 in day.i hate wait for boil away water in teapot.Because of this i always use electrical kettle
jean Marie, France
I'm feeling lost in the kitchen, unable to cook or to find anything in it, except the fridge, some dishes, and the microwave oven. This last device has been my favourite since I had to prepare breakfast myself or to get my soup warm in the evening. It saves time and washing up. It is quick and easy to use. Outside the kitchen I'm addicted to computer. I'm measuring every day the tremendous advantages we've got since the eighties, specially in learning foreign languages. Progress in software is growing exponentially. Indeed I can't imagine living without.
CK, Vietnam
For me, cooker may be the most favourite kitchen gadget!.Thanks to it,I do easily.If not,I would have to cook rice with straws,woods,papers,....It'll be more harder.And outside the kitchen, I think that generator is very important!.Maybe,some of us can't live without it.Let's imagine, suddenly the power is cut,all electric appliances can't opperate and stop immediately.What would you do?.Nowadays,you can find the effective solution for this problem naturally because we are living in the technology world.But if you apply it,your money'll be spent many times.More important,whether you have for paying or not?, specially with the poor families?.In conclusion,generator is really essential and important.
Guthemberg, Brasil
Well, I'd really like to have a dish-washer in my kitchen. I love cooking, but I hate washing dishes. The worst is when I decide to throw a party. It's unbelievable the amount of dishes that I have in the end. And it's difficult to catch my guests' eyes when you are in kitchen dealing with dishes.
Jia, China
Microwave oven, I think it's my favourite kitchen gadget.And the computer or mobile is absolutely necessary to me,because I must connect with my friends at anytime and anywhere.
Irenka, Russia
I hate doing the washig up, so a dish-washer is the most desirable gadget in my family. I wish we could have it. Fresh juice is so good in the morning and I prefer to eat healthy food, that's why a squeezer and a steam cooker are the things I like most of all in my kitchen. I can't imagine living without my computer as it's the way of studing (大象传媒 English, first of all), working and communicating. And I think I couldn't do without TV as well, because I'm a fan of English TV series based on classical literature. I like to watch Brazilian soap operas too.
Franz, Brazil
I like help my mum in the kitchen. I think the microwave helps us a lot and its very clean. I think that the electricity is the think that I can't living without :-) Just a joke but computer is the principal think that I need every minute. Perhaps in the near Future I'll chance the computer by mobile phone with android system because what I need in the computer android could fill my needs.
Laura, China
With our life getting more convienient,we,human,are getting lazier because those automatic gadgets which can do a lot of things instead of us so that we avoid a great number of troubles.But just because of this convenience,our parents often say that we younger generation can do nothing if without those equipments.Maybe they are right.After all,if some day,for some uncertain factors that we can't use device,What will we be like then? So,I think sometimes we should try to do some easy and basic things such as washing dishes,with our hands even though we have modern tools now.
Nara , South Korea
I can't live without the computer. If there's no one, I wouldn't even know "The Flatmates"!
Joan, China
I like all labour-saving devices in my kitchen. The dish-washer is my favorite one because it benefits to my hand and to keep my smooth skin.I can't image how can i live without computer. I contact with friens, get news ,learn english from 大象传媒....by computer.It is the closest friend of mine surely.
Marcio Paoliello
I think my favorite kitchen gadget is definitely the dish-washer machine...Sometimes in think about how it is important when all my friends come to my flat to spend some funny hours drink and eat. So after the funny time is necessary clean everything and the dish-washer machine is so important at that time.
Thienloi, Vietnam
Well, my favorite gadget is clothes washing machine. It help me keep my health. I always do work for a day so I'm too tired of washing or anything else. Thank to the machine, I feel better. Just push the button and hung the washed clothes.
Brazil
My favorite kitchen gadget is the microwaves and outside the kitchen is the computer.I can't imagine living without it! By the way, the new look of the flatmates is great!
Ricardo, Brazil
My favorite kitchen gadget is the microwave, specially because I love popcorn. It's easy to make popcorn using the microave.I can't imagine living without TV, specialy when I am in my home.
Ewa, Poland
I can't imagine living without coffee machine, laptop and Internet (and of course bbc learn. Eng.). Surely I'm not the only one ;).
Vivian, Germany
I use drink fresh lemon juice, not to catch the flu. My favourite in kitchen is my electric lemon squeezer.It treats my delicate wrists with care.
Ewa, Poland
The best thing in my kitchen is definitely dish-washer. While I'm learning English with bbc my dishes are washing themselves. And I can't imagine living without my computer it's logical: without computer wouldn't be possible to look on bbc website.
Majid,Iran
Thanks goodness I am not responsible for the household chores and my lovely wife do most of them happily but because sometimes I am volunteer for helping her to show my caring side ,I give some chores a go at the kitchen so I have some ideas about the gadgets there and I will throw my vote for vacuum because of the amout of time it saves comparing with the traditional way of cleaning.But outside my wife's territory,I was so addicted to computer that if it does not give me a hand in feeling detatched from horrible situation in my country I've got no idea about any alternative to passify my mind.
Lebon, France
I often think of my mother boiling water in a bowl for washing dishes and I am happy to be born later....
Lebon, France
my favourite gadget in the kitchen is the dish-washer as well and outside it is the washing machine absolutely essentiel
Marguerite, France
I have to say first that I do not have many kitchen gadget at home... first of all because my kitchen is very small! I am fond of other pieces of technology, as my cell phone or my computer! I'm always looking for information on the web, or sending messages to my friends for meeting!! I can't imagine how people and specially young people, can live without those precious "games"!
Anna, Ucraine
Oh! It's so nice to have a dish- washer!Though ... I can live without it:-)))But I can't imagine my living without computer.
Graciela, Argentina
My favourite gadget is the microwave, and I can't live without a computer
Carolina, Italy
Microwave is absolutely needful.As well the washing machine is certainly the piece of technology I can't imagine living without!!
Holly, Italy
hello everybody, I can't imagine living without a microwave in my kitchen!