Most useless kitchen appliance

[johnnymarrsbars]

Someone must have said the useless piece of shit that is the Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker

didnt he get done for plugging it on his show or something? haha

 

[Y_I_Otter]

You clean it ?

They're non-stick..

I sprayed mine with vegetable oil and it still had bits of dough sticking to it when the wierd round loaf was done.

Anyway how would you know ? - you've never used it.

Like I say, I used it a few times, using the premixed 'dough' mixes that came with it and I did try a scratch recipe or two. I didn't like the finished product because I have a fixed idea of what a finished loaf should look like (and round, ain't it). Bread-making on a pastry board and baking it in a normal oven isn't rocket science.

You use your feet as well as your hands.

Cheeky. A four-loaf batch of dough, kneaded at the same time (using only the two regular appendages) and then divided into four loaves which are baked together in the same oven. Tsk.

 

[Vintage Paw]

My most useless kitchen appliance at the moment is my sink.

The cold tap drips so much it's actually a constant stream (have changed washer and also re-threaded but it's well and truly fucked). To compound matters, the waste pipe is busted, so we've got a bucket under the sink.

So it goes like this at the moment:

constantly running tap gradually fills up washing up bowl in sink, which either gets emptied by me or him straight down outside drain 8-10 times a day or is left to overflow down plug hole and into bucket under sink, which then buys us a few more hours but also then has to be emptied, and runs the risk of overflowing itself if we go out, leaking water all over the kitchen floor.

(plumber coming tomorrow, before you ask)

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Electric tin opener. Lazymans waste device. Use some elbow grease ffs, how hard is it to operate a manual tin-opener?

Very hard... if your wrist has been fractured in so many places that a consultant orthopaedic surgeon describes the state of the bones as "it's like mushy peas in there."

I bought one and used it fairly regularly. So there.

And I think people with arthritis and rheumatism would find using a manual can opener difficult too.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Jusr read this out to hubby and he's telling me about a friend's siamese who can open his own sachets(and would leave them everywhere), so they went into a bread bin, he worked that out too. They are now kept in a material zipped bag. He's working on that

We need visual evidence on YouTube!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I actually bought a tomato slicer. You know those egg slicer thingies, well this is just like the metal bit on top without the plastic base. It has a metal frame and instead of wires to slice it has little serated blades. It makes even tomato slices. I've never seen one in the UK. I think it's genius.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

We don't use a whole lot of cans, but someone gave us an electric model that's mounted under the cupboards and flips away unobtrusively until you want to open a can. Then, you just flip it down, hang your can off it and hit a button. Voila, open can and lid stuck to a magnet until you want to dispose of it. It's a lot easier than rooting around in the gadget drawer looking for the can opener you haven't used in a while. Supposedly, it also sharpens knives, but I don't think I'd trust mine to a pair of rotating stone wheels.

 

[tombowler]

You know, those things that people who know you like to cook think you'll need, and give you at Christmas. Or which you buy in a fleeting moment of "ooh, now that'll be handy". And which you use 3 times before they disappear into the back of a drawer.

Here's my submission...

Yours for £3.95. Fill yer boots.

Oh, it's an egg-pricker.

ohh i like that i normally carfully use a cork screw to prick mine before boiling.
mine has to be a pizza cutting wheel, never used it it was to replace a fulty jo big wooden chopping block that was faulty

 

[Mitre10]

I actually bought a tomato slicer. You know those egg slicer thingies, well this is just like the metal bit on top without the plastic base. It has a metal frame and instead of wires to slice it has little serated blades. It makes even tomato slices. I've never seen one in the UK. I think it's genius.

I just bought a tomato slicer from ebay.

Until you mentioned it I was blissfully unaware of it's existance

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I just bought a tomato slicer from ebay.

Until you mentioned it I was blissfully unaware of it's existance

Enjoy!

 

[RubyBlue]

I've recently given away a never used ice-cream maker, barely used bread maker and a 'juice lady'. Also an 'egg slicer' and a little china thing someone gave me that you put your used tea bag on instead of dropping it straight in the bin