Quote Originally Posted by Cawdorian View Post
My rule is to never buy my wife anything with an electric cord attached or any object used in the kitchen. (Unless she has a special request of course.
Her request actually. We're both big fans of Good Eats with Alton Brown, and one of the things holding us back from some real cooking is a lack of decent hardware. We are slowly rectifying that but at the moment we don't have a mixer of any sort.