Kitchen Treasure Hunt - Event Round Up Part 2
… and now finally for the round up of posts from Bloggers! Many bloggers have shared multiple treasures in their posts. We have tried to provide a flavour of what you can see at each blog here, rather than list every item on every blog! We strongly recommend that you visit all the blogs so that you don’t miss any treasures! Feel free to mail us, if we missed a major treasure category and we will surely update this post!
The day doesn’t begin without a shot of caffeine! Let’s look at what gadgets some of our bloggers use for their beverages.
Anu Venkat and
VnV share how to make the perfect filter coffee!
Jayasree, Cham and
Priya Suresh treasure their filters too.
Uma uses an
Italian Coffee Maker for her cuppa.
Ivy shares her
Briki used to make
Greek Coffee.
Purnima uses a
nifty battery operated blender to whisk up delicious hot and cold beverages.
Happy Cook opened up her
very unusual coffee filter for this event. She was thinking about throwing away this
treasure! We hope all of us convinced her otherwise!
Jai and Bee share their beautiful collection of
coffee pots and
creamers.
Tetsubin tea pots from Japan,
sake cups, a
unique teapot made by their friend at a pottery class, and many
more.
Divya. M displays her very
colourful set of designer teacups. You can find
Shama shares tea cups, juice cups and soup bowls
here.Aparna shares several of her traditional treasures, all well preserved such as the
brass dough press, urali ,
kal chatti and
mathu! Check out her
appakaaral, where you can still see her
grandfather’s initials inscribed!
PJ has a lovely post and brings her
kuzhi paniyaram pan made of soap stone,
kal chetti,
eeya chombu,
mathu, and the traditional old brown and white
porcelain pickle jars. She also shows us how to use a
Kumutti or traditional stove. Thanks to her father for clicking all these treasures for the Hunt! You can see another
Kumutti here, and porcelain
pickle jars here.
Jayasree shares her
idiappam press, iyya chombu and
uruli as well.
Shama shares her
Paniyaram pan and a variety of other
gadgets at her blog. Read
Chitra Amma’s explanation on
eeya chombus here!
Who says only appams and paniyarams can be made in appakaarals? Take a look at
Mamatha’s Japanese Takoyaki Nabe, which are actually used for … I know this is a veggy site …octopus dumplings!
Happy Cook on the other hand cooks snails in garlic butter in this
French Escargot!
Now for moulds, presses and squeezies of all kinds.
Pallavi brings treasures from Telangana.
Gavala Peeta and
Kariyali Peeta help provide designs of sweets and savories. She also shares her
Boondhi Jalli Ganta and
Murukku Press.
Priya Suresh also shares her grandmother’s
idiappam press.
Chitra Amma has a different kind of
idiappam press.
Divya M shares her
muruuku press.
Happy Cook brings for us a traditional
Kerala Achappam or
Rose Cookie Mould!
Cham shares two types of
murukku press – both old and new, a
boondi tray, and
idli trays of different dimensions!
Lakshmi grumbles about the thickness of her
cast iron rotti pan! Check the thickness
here! She still manages to turn out a mind boggling array of rottis if you’ve been following her
blog! You can see few more
cast iron rotti pans from
Srirangam here.
Don’t we all have our favourite spices. How wonderful to have all of them in one
large box, with tiny spoons as well! Check out
Rajeswari's Aindu Arai Peti.
Shama has a set too.
Here is a menacing looking
koduval! One powerful blow is enough to crack a coconut!
Jayasree also shares her
chirava to scrape coconut. Here is
Uma’s favourite mandolin and
Cham’s coconut scrappers.
Shama shows us this very different type of
coconut knife. Her
Aruvamanai looks very comfortable too, with a small built in bowl to hold cut veggys or coconut.
You can find
cake decoration equipments (and cakes!) as well as a
doughnut maker, at
Ramya's blog. Uma loves her
steel, and her
collection has traveled with her across three countries.
Shama shares her collection of
steel pots as well.
Priya Suresh shares her husbands favourite
beer mug, and a welcoming
French Soupiere. She also shares a 'common-but-not-so-common-nowdays’ 3 rung steel
Tiffin Carrier!
Ivy shares a
Tsestos from Cyprus, a colorful shallow cane basket to keep bread.
Navita was in a dilemma on what to take and not, when she traveled to Hong Kong. She ensured she carried a
Kolkata Sadsi,
Chimti, Belan, Dal Ghotni ,
a Pressure Cooker, and not to forget her
Chalni! She uses her
Chalni for purposes other than sieving and you can read her
post for details! A chalni is called a
saladai in tamil. Take a look at
Shama's saladai.
Ramya has a whole lot of
kitchen gadgets that her kitchen came equipped with, and we don’t know the uses for many! She had made a
slide show of all of them. Drop by her
blog, and let her if you know
what is for
what!
This brings us to an end of the round up, and many hours of interesting blog hopping! This event served another purpose for us as well! It opened our eyes to the world hunger problem. Ivy and two others bloggers have begun an online community of Food Bloggers, to spread awareness about hunger and make a difference by some positive action. When you visit her post for Treasure Hunt, you will find the community. While we have participated in school fund raisers and so at some point in time, it was for the first time that we actually did some reading up of facts on world hunger. We felt really bad that India contributes to 50 % of the problem! Well, irrespective statistics, hunger and starvation at any place is appalling. Do join the BloggerAid community and participate. Play the 'Free Rice' game (see left had column of this blog) as often as possible. Contribute food when scouts and guides come to your place for the cause. Next time you celebrate at home, just make some more food and take them to the needy in your neighbourhood. We Foodies love our food. We can appreciate what it is to be deprived of even one meal. We can collectively make a difference!
