Okay, so maybe they're not essential, but they're fun!

Let's enter into a hypothetical realm here, and say that you have just won the SuperDuperMegaBig Lottery. You have enough money to get any gadget you want, and so you start with your car, your computer, and then you feel like a snack, and realize - hey! I can Biggie Size my kitchen!!

So, check out what I came up with, things I would never do without in the kitchen if I won gazillions of dollars.

Ahh, a hard day in your chaise lounge playing Xbox 720 on your 108" flat screen television. You've developed a little bit of a hunger, so what now? Don't you lift a finger with a saucepan or pop anything in the microwave - just shove a bunch of ingredients in your Robotic chef!

This robot, designed by Liu Changfa, cost roughly 2.5 million dollars to create, but hot dog it's worth it. Fully customizable and programmable recipe logs make this robot the perfect storage unit for all those Hublove recipes you saved up. :D

This robot can do it all, cutting, stirring, sautee, it juliannes fries. But wait, that's not all!

It's also friendly! Come on, you know you want one of these. Heck, buy two and entertain at a party.

Bear with me, I promise the third bit of awesome billionaire technology I'll show you won't be a robot. But first.. Dishbot!

That's not really what this robot, pictured above, is called. It's the ARMAR, the dishwashing robot. Oh goodie, a mindless drone to do my least favored of tasks. So, what's neat about the ARMAR is that it's roughly proportioned to be about human-sized if you ignore the base where all the robotic heart chunks are.

It can pick up dishes carefully, loads and runs your dishwasher and then puts everything away when the dishes are done! Fine china? No worries, he'll be gentle as a baby with it. Stoneware? No worries there either, he's strong enough to handle it.

Service robots are the wave of the future, people. Get one as soon as that lotto check clears.

Not -technically- a kitchen appliance, the Roomba is a long line of vacuuming robots that, well, just plain rocks. The newest version is quiet (as in nearly silent, say some reviews) and is a pretty sweet piece of technology besides. With sensors and detectors to both keep the Roomba on track AND finding every speck of dirt, you'll never have to vacuum again.

On a single charge, the Roomba can vacuum four rooms in a normal house, and when it's battery gets low it just goes back to it's dock. Cool, eh? It has two chambers for dirt, a bunch of filters, and can be programmed to run while you're not even home. At less than $400 for one of these babies, you don't even have to win the lotto to have one.

Possibly the best part about the Roomba is that no matter what kind of flooring you have, it'll vacuum it. Tile, carpet, hardwood, linoleum, sheet rock, you name it, Roomba will get the dirt up off of it. When partnered with an iRobot Scooba (see the amazon capsule below) your house can go three weeks without being dusted, because the floors are so clean you'll never kick up any dirt.