I love cooking, but I have a few questionable culinary habits. If a recipe calls for any amount of garlic, I always double it. This mostly works out in my favour - bar a few notable exceptions (adding more garlic to a recipe that already calls for 8 cloves is a bad idea, FYI).
Another sometimes unfortunate habit is that I'm loyal to the bitter end to my existing kitchen gadgets, like my very affordable vegetable chopper. I would hate to have a kitchen full of things gathering dust - so much so that I resisted the allure of a Microplane grater for years. I was opting instead to use a mini grater that I'd pulled out of a Christmas cracker many years earlier, so you can see why there was room for improvement.
