Five of the most useless kitchen gadgets on the market today
May 4, 2010 by Simple or Sensational
Filed under Featured, Random Thoughts
I would love to meet the inventors of some of these products. The person who poured their blood sweat and tears into a piece of useless gadgetry. I can only imagine how much fun a person who was psyched about a Strawberry Slicester would be. For the most part, my issue with gadgets is that they are too specific. Because they are designed to do only one thing, they just gather dust in your kitchen cupboard. There are so many that could make this list,but here are those that are currently my useless top five.
EZ egg cracker. If the alarming number of egg related gadgets available is anything to go by, then egg cookery is one of the most challenging things you can do in the kitchen. Of all the egg related gadgets, I think the EZ egg cracker is the one that, above all, deserves to make the list. The EZ egg cracker cracks eggs. It does it with alarming ferocity, but it cracks eggs. Personally at $19.95, unless you have arthritic hands, I can think of a better use of funds.
The Chef’n Strawberry Slicester. Based on the number of useless gadgets that you can buy, it appears that strawberries are just as pesky as eggs in the kitchen. Who knew? The strawberry slicester makes the list, not just because of the fantastic name, although that did have a lot to do with it, but mainly because it is $16.00. Again, it does what it purports, but for my money, buy a knife.
The self twirling spaghetti fork. Yet another invention for people who are apparently too stupid to feed themselves, the self twirling spaghetti fork. For $27 you can buy a fork that does all that super difficult twirling for you. SNL producers take not though. I have a great idea for a skit involving the astonishingly large number of unreported carpal tunnel cases that must have prompted the invention of this product.
Reusable Party Picks. That’s right folks. These are metal(ish) sticks that look like nails that are used to spear cocktail food. You know, the way we old fashioned kiddies do with a toothpick, but for a lot more money. The advertising says “Turn your party into a hard hat zone with these gorgeously galvanized (looking)[1] party picks. ”. You can have all that for only $10 for 18. I don’t know about you, but the idea of serving food on faux nails appeals to me about as much as paying 55 cents each for the bloody things.
Avocado slicer, pineapple slicer, mango slicer etc – I am going to let you into a secret. There is a wonderful product called a knife and it can slice all these fruits and in some cases a shoe (but that may be another blog post). To my mind, unless you eat a hell of a lot of one of these types of fruits, having a product that is designed only to slice that and nothing else is crazy.
There are so very many more weird, wonderful and totally useless gadgets for the kitchen and I realize that I am merely scratching the surfact. One thing that we can be sure of, is that this topic will always be relevant, becuase there will always be another new, usless gadget viing for our attention.
[1] I can only assume a fully galvanised version would have priced the product out of the very competitive cocktail stick market.
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Now this one made me laugh. It also makes me want to go check out my gadget cupboard but I’ll do that when you’re not looking.