The first is a well worn and well used bread maker that produces two or three loaves a week with minimal effort from yours truly. The second I bought last week and am using it for the second time in three days.

It’s a dehydrator and its first use was to dry apples and plums (some of which I nibbled during my car journey to and from London today) and it is now drying slices from three pineapples that I bought this morning and cut this evening. Dried pineapple is one of my favourite snacks so, if the dehydrator works, I will be well pleased and in pocket.