Shopping--What did you buy?

Beth Gallagher said:
Like a lot of people, I do most of my shopping online these days. I have mentioned that I ordered a 16 qt. stovetop pressure canner and I expect it in a day or two. I have no idea why I want this at my age, but it will entertain me for a little while unless I blow it up. 🥸
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Try hard not to blow it up, at least not right away, we need some good canning stories first. Also, if you do cook something and think it is going to explode, be sure to have your camera out and film the whole episode for us……… what excitement for the cooking section that would be !

Just teasing you, @Beth Gallagher ; but you are braver than I am to even try the pressure cooker canner. I had a little one many years ago that was electric and it made great meals and I never had any issues with it, but I think I am going to stick with my slow cooker nowadays.
 
Kate Ellery said:
Purchased mine on ebay 2019

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I had a large presto pressure canner like that that I had bought back in the 1980's. We had a big garden and I canned or froze everything. I gave up canning years ago. My pressure canner sat in the box in a closet. No one in my family wanted it or was even remotely interested in canning. ☹️ I ended up giving it to one of the vendors at the farmers market. She was very grateful and excited about getting it. I was happy it was going to a good home to be cared for. :LOL:
 
A couple months ago, when Bobby was taking the old water heater tank out of the little closet in the kitchen, he found an induction cooker plate up on a shelf in the back of the closet.
We looked it up on amazon and it was selling for about $200 !

We have NO idea how or when it got put on the shelf in that closet. We would not have spent that much money on buying one, and if my daughter gave it to us, we would not have put it way back in that little closet.
We have lived here for around 10 years now, so the whole thing is a puzzle.

Anyway, Bobby ordered a set of induction cookware from Amazon, and the plate works great. However…… and it is a BIG however…… when I read about it, it said that people with a pacemaker cannot be within 2 feet of the unit when it is turned on.
So, only Bobby uses it, and I stay completely out of the kitchen when he has it turned on.
Apparently the magnetism of the unit can throw my pacemaker out of sync, and since mine is set to completely control my heart, if it messes up, my heart stops, period.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
A couple months ago, when Bobby was taking the old water heater tank out of the little closet in the kitchen, he found an induction cooker plate up on a shelf in the back of the closet.
We looked it up on amazon and it was selling for about $200 !

We have NO idea how or when it got put on the shelf in that closet. We would not have spent that much money on buying one, and if my daughter gave it to us, we would not have put it way back in that little closet.
We have lived here for around 10 years now, so the whole thing is a puzzle.

Anyway, Bobby ordered a set of induction cookware from Amazon, and the plate works great. However…… and it is a BIG however…… when I read about it, it said that people with a pacemaker cannot be within 2 feet of the unit when it is turned on.
So, only Bobby uses it, and I stay completely out of the kitchen when he has it turned on.
Apparently the magnetism of the unit can throw my pacemaker out of sync, and since mine is set to completely control my heart, if it messes up, my heart stops, period.
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I had no idea people with a pacemaker could not be close to a induction stove when in use. I have a induction stove and I really like it alot. We bought ours about 8-10 years ago. Neither one of us has a pacemaker...but still, good to know! I'll have to get my stove manual out and see if it says anything about that in there just out of curiosity.
 
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Please don't ask why, but we seem to have no less than... 2... yogurt makers...
I can't remember ever buying them or even more, ever using them..
My wife likes plain yogurt and I buy it at the supermarket on shopping days.. It is much easier that using some sort of a machine to make yogurt that probably needs some kind of starter anyway..
Why do we have 2 of them is another mystery... Both of them have NEVER been used..
 
Steve North said:
Please don't ask why, but we seem to have no less than... 2... yogurt makers...
I can't remember ever buying them or even more, ever using them..
My wife likes plain yogurt and I buy it at the supermarket on shopping days.. It is much easier that using some sort of a machine to make yogurt that probably needs some kind of starter anyway..
Why do we have 2 of them is another mystery... Both of them have NEVER been used..
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Not knowing what kind of yogurt maker you have , @Steve North , I am going to say that making yogurt is basically pretty easy. I also have several yogurt makers, and I do use mine.
Usually, you can use a scoop of yogurt that you already have to be the starter for the next batch, but it has to be yogurt that says it has live probiotics in it.
If you are buying good quality yogurt, it should say that.
My yogurt maker that I mostly use makes a quart at a time. I put just under a quart of milk and add about a 3rd to half a cup of plain yogurt, set the yogurt maker for about 15 hours, and let it go. Easy peasy !

You can also buy yogurt starters and once you use the starter, you just use some of the yogurt you made to culture the next batch. Homemade yogurt has many times the amount of probiotics as store yogurt, which is only cultured for a few hours and then probiotic powder is dumped in after it is pasteurized (which killed the natural probiotics).
If you are just eating yogurt because you like it, this may not matter to you, but if you are trying to get the most and the best probiotics, then culturing your own yogurt is far better.
 
@Beth Gallagher , I know you are an Amazon Vine member. Have you noticed that there are very few new items listed there lately? I used to get some really nice things there, but I haven't seen anything that I can use for several months. I only order something that I can use, not something just because it's free.
 
Shirley Martin said:
@Beth Gallagher , I know you are an Amazon Vine member. Have you noticed that there are very few new items listed there lately? I used to get some really nice things there, but I haven't seen anything that I can use for several months. I only order something that I can use, not something just because it's free.
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I am still a Vine member, but I don't know why they haven't deleted me because I very seldom bother with it anymore. I was one of the "originals" in 2007 or so and I used to get a lot of really nice things. You know you don't have to choose from the "for you" list and can view/order stuff from the "Available for All" or "Additional Items" lists.
 
I do know that. I don't know why but they don't have nearly as many items as they used to. There used to be many thousands, now there are only a few thousand. Most of them have been there for a long time. Apparently, nobody wants them.
 
Krystal Shay said:
I had no idea people with a pacemaker could not be close to a induction stove when in use. I have a induction stove and I really like it alot. We bought ours about 8-10 years ago. Neither one of us has a pacemaker...but still, good to know! I'll have to get my stove manual out and see if it says anything about that in there just out of curiosity.
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All pacemakers are not alike. Older ones are more susceptible to stray magnetic fields than the new ones are. Ask the technician or provider when you go in for a device check how sensitive yours is if you have one implanted. Many can now through airport scanners, and some can tolerate MRIs but with CAUTION there. Of course, it is always better to be safe and avoid fields if it can easily be done.
 
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