You presumably exclude non gadgets like the really sharp knife?<p>I'm rather fond of a broken garlic press we keep because it has a cherry stone pitter in the handle. We stone olives with it mostly.<p>Our potato ricer gets a lot of work.<p>The magimix less, but for making a lot of mirpoix in a hurry, or pizza dough, or blitzing herbs for salsa verde its hard to go past.<p>The blender gets most work. Hummus.<p>But really? The $26 salad spinner. Major upsides to clean dry salad leaves and herbs.
Favourite low-tech gadget(s): hand coffee grinder, especially paired with one of our many different similarly low-tech coffee brewing devices.<p>Favourite electric gadget: Insta-Pot, because it can do just about everything.