The best gadgets you have bought this year

I bought a stainless steel pastry maker. Cost less than £10 but has been used loads as I hate getting pastry under my nails when I make it by hand. Weird I know!!

No gadgets as such bought this year if I remember rightly but a DAB radio. We live so far out in the sticks that FM radio reception is terrible, especially in the kitchen.

However, DAB reception is proving to be patchy although it's lovely and clear when it does come through.

Mind you, I've mainly used the bluetooth function on it to listen to the BBC via my laptop. Great sound quality.

A Miele Cat & Dog vacuum cleaner. I think I got the recommendation off GN. It´s brilliant and really does the job.

My hot brush - should have bought one years ago!

grandtanteJE65 I asked that too when our friends mentioned it to us. lol

A waterpick flosser looks a bit like an electric toothbrush that you put water in and it shoots pressurised water round the gums and in the gaps of your teeth.

When I flossed with string or the other things my gums would bleed but with the waterpick I get the cleaning between teeth, gums get a good blast and no bleeding.

My dentist says I'm taking better care of things so I'm happy, I need to take care of what teeth I have left.

Bit like Pam Airs "I wish I'd looked after my teeth" .

What is a ridge monkey please?
I thought it sounded like some African wild animal ?

Charleygirl5, I suffer with absent mindedness and can't hear the timer if I wander away from the kitchen. I get distracted by Gransnet and cooking becomes a cremation! Alexa has been fantastic for avoiding that...as long as I remember to ask her to set the timer.

Definitely my Alexa-I can no longer see my kitchen timers so Alexa will help me with multiple timers. She plays any music for free. I have an Echo dot in my bedroom and I use that as an alarm clock and it gives me the news or flash briefing it prefers to call it.

My soup maker is a Morphy Richards one. Under £50 in Sainsburys. It is brillian. In the winter use it about 3 times a week.

Karcher window vac , no more smeared Windows, and I am definitely not a gadget person, so quick and easy and shower cubicle always nice and clear

A ridge monkey! Wonderful!

lizzypopbottle, those hot water taps are brilliant, aren't they?
We love our Amazon Echo too. It isn't just the smart lights/plugs it is useful for, it is also great for playing songs for my Autistic Grandson. At over 3, he is still non-verbal but I think his first sentence might be "Alexa play..."!
I'm impressed with our free Hive Water Sensor which will detect any water leaks. I am more than happy to help the planet by early leak detection to save water.
Our Actifry gets used for doing small portions of healthier chips, chicken nuggets, etc for my grandson.

An electric vegetable masher?

An electric vegetable masher. Cannot sing its praises enough. Never have lumpy potatoes again and the carrot and turnip mash is to due for.

What a great thread. I've never heard of half these things.

A Waterpik Flosser. [wow emoticon]

a soup maker, its used at least 4 times a week and a air fryer, i' would never do chips in the house before. bothe have made life a lot easier

Only just seen this thread......esspee You really made me laugh

I had a new cooker this year, a Neff. It’s amazing. Cakes cook evenly and don’t randomly burn or have soggy middles

not sure if you call it a gadget but as a serious tinnitus sufferer I got fed up of finding myself tangled in my headphones when turning over in my sleep as I listen to audio-books as a distraction. I bought myself bluetooth headphones that look like a wide elasticated hairband and I LOVE them.
I am with busyb as these headphones are used in conjunction with my kindle. Set a times for an hour and reset it when I wake up
Had a soup maker and did not like it

I got a slow cooker , and made soup in it , it was great , turned it on , went out for the day and lovely soup when I came home !

An Instapot! LOVE this thing!

You just add the ingredients to the soup maker - if you can browning onions etc first in it and then turn it on. It cooks and blends all in one. Then just pour it out from the jug.

What are the advantages of a soup maker please?, I make a lot of soup but old style in a pan

Have ousted many gadgets this year, have kept potato ricer, thermomix and Mr GG!

I've mentioned this before - my sellotape dispenser. It's very solid and cost very little. Indispensable.

I have Dyson purchased from shopping channel beginning with Q . They have 28 day money back guarantee . I think the Dyson is excellent and never would go back to cables again . Great for quick whizz about . You wont regret it . Good luck .