Mrs Steve uses our food processor and our food mixer a lot. But I'm the main everyday chef and I don't use stuff like that if I can help it because of the cleaning up afterwards and, in the case of the processor, the need to leave everything out for hours to dry properly. My gizmo is a hand-held stick blender that I use for blitzing soup and making pâté with. I can do everything I want with that, or with a whisk or just a fork. The whizzer part of my stick blender is the only bit that gets dirty and it screws off for easy cleaning.