I have the ice cream maker, a rice cooker (such a cool thing and keeps rice warm for HOURS), a slow cooker, a food processor, a blender, and... Am I the only one??? A deep fryer. Which I fill with healthy palm oil. No other sinners here? French fries? Homemade chicken tenders? Quick donuts? Fried squash blossoms or plantains?
I still have a Fry Daddy, but I haven’t used it in at least 16 years. If I want a French fry, I steal one from the kids happy meals. Sometimes I buy fried fish or fried chicken livers from the deli.
I just don’t fry anything other than eggs, and an occasional hash brown - stuff you can cook on a grill, or in an iron skillet with a tsp. of oil, but nothing that requires deep fat frying.
I only use my little deep-fryer a couple of times per year (one of the reasons I’ve been slow to get an ice-cream maker - it would probably get used infrequently and take up space) but I do love the fryer. We like making the deep-fried battered vegetables that we get at the Fair.
I think one of the most useful things I have gotten recently is a little rice-cooker from my brother for Christmas. You can do so much with it! It makes steel-cut oats perfectly.
-JT
We got a fryer as a wedding present but gave it away many years ago, because we didn’t use it very often. We moved with it twice before we decided it was dead weight for our family. Neither of our children, now grown, have one either.