The Braun Multiquick has been my favorite kitchen gadget since I got it three years ago. For $28 (now priced at $35) it’s been my mixer, mini food chopper and submersion blender: A tri-tasker!

Some of the things you can do with it:

• Fine chops garlic, onions, nuts, etc. in seconds
• Grind spices
• Whatever one does with an electric beater
• Purée soups
• Make smoothies
• Make salad dressings
• Make tapanades, hummus, salsa, etc.
• Make someone fall in love with you

Things I wish you could do with it:

• Control the television
• Send and receive calls
• Use it as a carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time
• Be a time machine

The image above is the 400 series model I own. In the future, I hope to upgrade to the spiffy chrome 5000 series, 5-speed one for $63.

Pros:

• Comes with a wall mount
• Comes with the pictured measuring dealie
• All attachments are dishwasher safe
• Small and easy to store
• Cuts down on prep time
• Cheap
• Awesome to the max

Cons of the 400 series:

• Fixed speed (insert hipster bicycle joke)
• Immersion blender will want to suction itself to the bottom of the vessel
• The whisk is flimsier than a real mixer’s beater - but screw it - I don’t bake so I don’t care

I say it’s the best appliance that you aren’t going to buy because I’ve been raving about it for years to anyone who will listen, but no one else I know has gotten it. It’s only $35 and that’s not even the amount of money it costs to go out drinking for a night. I guess it’s not worth $35 to make your life easier and cut down on kitchen clutter. Suckers. Go back to your Wish-Bone Zesty Italian dressing and get out of my face.

Braun Multiquicks on Amazon.com