I love my kitchen and all my "toys" - but I have to admit - even with all the electric appliances and gadgets I have (or have had) - throughout the years my favorite "gadget" is my pizza wheel!

I use it for mincing herbs, cutting homemade pasta, cutting bacon, cutting cheeses, cutting cookie dough, trimming jellyrolls, trimming fat from thinner chops, cutting steaks into "fingers", pastry dough, grilled cheese sandwiches, making appetizers, slicing veggies, cutting garlic bread, slicing and dicing - you name it! It's my best "knife". The list is endless.

Oh - yes - I do cut pizza, calzone and foccacia with it!

(I don't use the little cheapie ones - I have a good-sized one - it wasn't that expensive and I've gotten my moneys' worth!)

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Oh yes, it's amazing what you can do with the pizza wheel. I have one that I actually bought in Italy years ago, and I seem to always forget about it but when I use it for something like, say, slicing quesadillas, I remember how useful it is.

I'm always on the lookout for great kitchen gadgets. I just wish I had the money (and space in my small kitchen) to buy them all. I love our pizza stone, in fact, we're on the second one as the first one cracked while it was warming a while ago. When I bought a new one I made sure it was a nice one. Hopefully it lasts longer than the first. I would really like a second stone so that we can make two pizzas at a time.

I love my little Hold and Slice (from pampered chef). I absolutely hate touching raw chicken or any raw meat really so it's nice to have that little tool so that I touch the reaw meat as little as possible.

I just bought a ginger/garlic press (also pampered chef) and wow, that thing is great! I'm never squeeze ginger by hand again.

And I definitely love our kitchenaid. I just wish it were red. : )

Oh, I covet the red KitchenAid mixer!

I love the microwave. I do not cook well. That is why I am here. I have alway microwaved everything that I can.