What Is Your Coolest Household Item??
Oct 30 2006 05:02
Hi peeps
Basically I have two household items that I think are WAY cool and wonder if you peeps can do any better???
A couple of months ago I needed a new doormat. I found this AMAZING fifties retro one. It is covered in pictures of fairy cakes. 
You know the kinda thing.. those lil' elaborate fancy cakes from eons OK. One has got,like, that butterfly design thing on top and one has a cherry and two rhomboid shaped pieces of that green anjelica stuff on. Yum.
The other is my new kettle. This is sooo cool that one of my anarcho houseguests last week actually shot video film of it coming to the boil. Really!!! Basically it is called a Glow kettle and when the water is unheated a light colours the water a beautiful blue. As it comes to the boil the light is a gorge pink/purple combo. AND -get this - there is a swanky "simmer" button you can press that keeps the water nice and hot for ages so you can give yourself and your guests re-fills without having to re-boil. And if you press this the water appears scarlet 
Can anyone do better???
Love
LW XX
Oct 30 2006 10:20
#2
I have an awesome meat hammer. It's really heavy, and one end has spiked type ridges on it, it's fucking awesome. I love it so much.
Oct 30 2006 10:26
#3
Jack nips out to get some seasoning
Oct 30 2006 10:30
#4
I've got a swanky cooks' torch for charring peppers with, and also a rather stylist Bodum whistling kettle.
I'd also like to point out to Lone Wolf that keeping water simmering in order to make another hot drink (particularly tea) is the act of a lunatic, and that freshly-drawn water is required on each occasion.
Oct 30 2006 10:33
#5
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I have an awesome meat hammer.
Aren't you vegetarian? Do you use it for tenderising lentils?
Oct 30 2006 10:35
#6
ticking_fool wrote:
Aren't you vegetarian? Do you use it for tenderising lentils?
I bought it from Ikea solely on the basis it looked cool. 
Oct 30 2006 10:37
#7
I have a vase with nice dried flowers, I also have a cool tablecloth although no table as yet 
My little collection of rally old books shits on any kettle though. I have an edition of PAul et Virginie (terrible book, I think the film The BLue Lagoon was based on it) from 1797.
And I have a 'pleiade' edition of Diderot (these are the best editions of books in the world) although most of you lot might not find that very cool.
And I have a tree stump I found once that looks like a horse's foot. I think that is pretty fucking cool too.
Oct 30 2006 10:39
#8
Useful if you meet an Amish horse amputee.
Oct 30 2006 10:39
#9
coolest /= most useful
Oct 30 2006 10:41
#10
My retro 1970s avocado green dishwasher. It's a blast from the past!
Oct 30 2006 10:43
#11
ticking_fool wrote:
Quote:
I have an awesome meat hammer.Aren't you vegetarian? Do you use it for tenderising lentils?
I think he's talking about his genital piercings. Again. 
Oct 30 2006 11:26
#12
Shit, I forgot my eighteenth century oak panelling
Oct 30 2006 12:00
#13
I was *cough* reading reviwes of kettles on amazon last week 
:o And i came across this rather sexy one:
Otherwise - zobag bought us a rather cool spatula a few months ago. Other than that i have an antique Peugeot pepper grinder which is cool for its age.
Oct 30 2006 12:02
#14
rkn wrote:
I was *cough* reading reviwes of kettles on amazon last week
I generally imagine the two of you doing little else.
Oct 30 2006 12:03
#15
Jack wrote:
I generally imagine the two of you doing little else.
Not zobag! just me - she wastes her time doing pointless stuff
Oct 30 2006 12:07
#16
I have a doily. That's it.
Oct 30 2006 12:20
#17
Does outside stuff count? Cos in probably the most hippyish moment of my entire life I helped rescue a tree that had been discarded by a developer and was dying, which we planted in my back garden and has now made a miraculous recovery. Tis a flowering Cherry and it's easily the coolest thing in my household.
Ooh also, my universal remote control, which actually has a 'magic' button and has revolutionised my life.
Oct 30 2006 12:25
#18
Saii wrote:
Does outside stuff count? Cos in probably the most hippyish moment of my entire life I helped rescue a tree that had been discarded by a developer and was dying, which we planted in my back garden and has now made a miraculous recovery. Tis a flowering Cherry and it's easily the coolest thing in my household.
That is fucking awesome. The closest I got to this was getting some dried flowers.
Oct 30 2006 14:00
#19
Grace wrote:
Shit, I forgot my eighteenth century oak panelling
If that's not a euphemism, I want my money back.
Oct 30 2006 14:02
#20
i can't think of a single thing. i have an uncool house 
or a house so cool it's impossible to consider any part of the totality in isolation
Oct 30 2006 14:08
#21
Button - A cooks torch? A Bodum kettle?? Wow!! Button has the swankiest items by far!!!
Jef - Your books sound well cool and would OF COURSE shit on my kettle, no doubt. But by household item I was referring to cool versions of dull household items not cool literary and arts stuff. Cos if we did THAT thread, you would win on book, I would win on vinyl.
Saii - Rescuing the tree IS awesome!!!
Rkn - You read kettle reviews!! 
I have seen the one you showed a pic of - not a bad design but mine has all those cool illuminated functions - which are totally unecessary but hey!!!
Jack - a veggie that buys a meat hammer just cos it looks good - like your style. You might like Buttons kitchen - sounds well stylish.
Love
LW X
Oct 30 2006 14:41
#22
My house is cluttered full of shit we've bought 2nd hand, borrowed, stolen and skipped. That's not for political reasons, it's cos I'd rather spend my money on booze, weed, vinyl and Tropicana than fucking frying pans. That said, we did find a TV that I swear is like 30 years old. Playing Xbox on it is kinda awesome. My housemates think I'm pretentious for owning a pizza wheel, but it makes sense when you have frozen pizza! My room is also well decorated with various items detailing my varied life. My sister got me a framed picture of Fonz, Ritchie, Potsie and Ralph, which I think is pretty fucking priceless to be fucking honest.
Oh, and I have an original DOA 7" from 1981. Beat that you fucks.
Oct 30 2006 14:46
#23
my girlfriend. she does stuff for me and doesn't use up electricity and looks pretty while she's doing it.
Oct 30 2006 14:53
#24
ftony wrote:
my girlfriend. she does stuff for me and doesn't use up electricity and looks pretty while she's doing it.
Sexist!
I don't have any cool household items. I have really lame ones like a painting which is so abstract it's trying to be a still life of someone's womb.
Oct 30 2006 15:01
#25
Lone Wolf wrote:
Button - A cooks torch? A Bodum kettle?? Wow!! Button has the swankiest items by far!!!
Just the tip of the iceberg, really.
We also have a Brabantia bin, a Brabantia utensil rack, an Alessi "ghost" cruet set, Alessi corkscrew, Jean-Patrique kitchen knives....
(Guess whose partner used to be an interior designer? )
Oct 30 2006 15:03
#26
So swanky I posted it twice.
Oct 30 2006 15:21
#27
Refused wrote:
Grace wrote:
Shit, I forgot my eighteenth century oak panellingIf that's not a euphemism, I want my money back.
I didn't mean it to be, but I could pretend it was if you like.
Oct 30 2006 15:22
#28
Grace wrote:
Refused wrote:
Grace wrote:
Shit, I forgot my eighteenth century oak panellingIf that's not a euphemism, I want my money back.
I didn't mean it to be, but I could pretend it was if you like.
It's not the same.
Oct 30 2006 15:24
#29
the button wrote:
Lone Wolf wrote:
Button - A cooks torch? A Bodum kettle?? Wow!! Button has the swankiest items by far!!!Just the tip of the iceberg, really.
We also have a Brabantia bin, a Brabantia utensil rack, an Alessi "ghost" cruet set, Alessi corkscrew, Jean-Patrique kitchen knives....
(Guess whose partner used to be an interior designer?
no wonder you can't afford to buy your fruit and veg from proper places and are reduced to using markets where you get a free pirate copy of Shrek with every dozen oranges.
Oct 30 2006 15:27
#30
This is true. Mind you, I worked out that our second-biggest household expenditure (less than the mortgage, but more than council tax or anything else) is fags. 
Oh yeah, that reminds me -- I'm quite fond of my Zippo as well.
I have a nice vase. It is red and black.