A kitchen gadget, and recent reading

[heliopausa]

This gadget sounds really useful!  I have a coconut scraper made like a small stool, with the scratching part sticking out one side.  This is fun (in a mild way) but the sharp teeth sticking out at shin level aren't the best plan for kitchen furniture.  A bench-mounted, relocatable, had-whirled scraper sounds just the ticket!

I've been reading quite a bit, here and there -

• reading the book Nation by Terry Pratchett, and thinking (so far, three chapters in) that it's very good, but erratic and a bit patchy.
• have read the book Olive, by Mrs Craik, which interesting as a record of thinking on various matters (women's art being marginalised/suppressed, physical "deformity" cutting a woman out of the marriage market, race, religion) - but is not particularly worth much as a novel.
• reading The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, which sketches out much fascinating material, so far, but isn't really catching fire (bad metaphor, in the circumstances).

And beginning to brace myself for March, which is shaping as a pretty full-on month.

This was also a test-post on cross-posting to LJ; it seems to have worked fine.

Comments

[sovay]

This gadget sounds really useful!

I love Rhik Samadder's gadget reviews. I really enjoy that he's funny even when reviewing something well-made or useful, which is much harder than being funny about something that is a horrifying and inexplicable disaster.

This was also a test-post on cross-posting to LJ; it seems to have worked fine.

Oh, good! Because the thing where I made a post on DW, left the house for twelve hours, and came back to find that it had still not crossposted was stupid.

[moon_custafer]

Yes, it was nice to see him get a non-horrifying gadget for a change.

[heliopausa]

I think the worst was maybe the thing that injected jam (why??) into bananas. Or maybe the egg sausage thing.

[sovay]

Or maybe the egg sausage thing.

Oh, God, the egg sausage thing.

[heliopausa]

I enjoy them too. :) I think this is the first that I've thought I'd possibly actually buy, though.

[autumnia]

It really does seem there are kitchen gadgets that can you anything you want. :-) Also, does this only work with mature coconuts or young ones as well?

[heliopausa]

Oh, that's a really good question! Because at home in Australia (I live in the southern part) most of the coconuts I'd get would be pretty mature.

As to the gadgets, I'd estimate that three out of four gadgets reviewed in this man's weekly column have been for things nobody would really want cluttering up their life - or even want to use just once! :)