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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I always had a crock-pot, even in my 20s, so - in my ignorance - I thought that something this seemingly universal would be available here.
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I think the crook pot is well known in the US, Canada, England and Australia but not so much in other countries. The first time I heard about one was when reading a book whose main character was from Texas and mentioned a crockpot, I had to look it up has I had no idea what it was, never had heard of such thing as a slow cocker. In Europe it is not a very known appliance, although in the last few years it started to change, the world is truly a global place now.
A few years ago started appearing the all in one appliances that do a lot of things, those are much more common here than the crockpot and some can be used to slow cook.
I never saw a crockpot in a physical store, I know that there is at least a chain of stores that sells them online, not in the physical stores, and they only have 3 choices.
Other thing that I found that is quite common or at least known in the US is the pressure canners, never saw one here and I looked in several European stores when I decided to can some of my parents vegetables. I found that in Germany they sell several models off pans that can be used for water bath canning, and they are so common in Germany because they use them to make cider and beer at home.
It’s interesting that when we are used to something we assume it is common everywhere but not always. Cinisajoy mentioned the immersion blender the other day, that is probably the small appliance more common in household here, everyone has one or more. I tought it was like that everywhere but in Brasil they are not so common, in Brasilian cooking sites I found that to make soup they usually cook the ingredients in a pot on the stove and then transfer them in batches to a blender to puree, for me it was very strange to see this, especially since here it is common to eat soup and most people cook a full pot of soup, normally in the pressure cooker (easily 4 litres of soup) and I can't even think how many batches I would have to make to puree it in a blender.
Other thing that almost every household has is a pressure cooker (the stove top kind) the electrical ones are relatively new here, I found that for us using a pressure cooker was very common but for many Americans the pressure cooker is a little scary.
So after all this, what are the appliances or kitchen gadgets that are common for you but maybe not so known for other people, I’m sure there are a lot off them and I’d love to know more, I love kitchen gadgets.