Whats the most useless kitchen item you`ve bought?

skintchick

Special stopper for a wine bottle - I just use the cork (or drink it all!)

I hardly have any gadgets, though.

My FAVOURITE is my grater from Ikea which is a lid to an oval tub. It also has a normal lid, so you grate into the pot, which has a non-slip base, then put the lid on for storage. Perfect.

sheeny_2

A julienne slicer. Looks a bit like a veg peeler.
"Always slice away from yourself" said the instructions. Yeah, right.. if you're double-jointed..

gravitytolls

Juicer
Pie maker (2 pies taking 8 mins for 9 people)
Deep fat fryer
Coffee grinder
Blender - everything gets gunked under the blades
I've binned/charity shopped most of it, just waiting for sufficient time to pass before ditching the rest.

Gingham_Ribbon

It was before I became an old styler and I was completely taken in by the pretty gingham cardboard it was in.

It's a metal flower with a handle at right angles to it. The idea is to put it on the frying pan when you're doing eggs, crack the egg so it lands inside it and you get a lovely flower shaped egg.

I have never ever used it.

colmil

The wife.....( was that REALLY necessary?)

mah_jong

colmil wrote:

The wife.....( was that REALLY necessary?)

You BOUGHT your wife ????

:-)

Philippa36

We were given a 'Rumptof' which is a large earthenware vase type thing with a lid that you apparently fill with fruit and rum and sugar and leave to ferment for 6 months ~ we never used it

Deep fat fryer was awful, impossible to clean and was chucked out.
Sandwich toaster was the same ~ gave it to my sister when she was at Uni and it never came back. I think she donated it to someone else when she left :rotfl:

I love our breadmaker though, to wake up to fresh bread on a Sunday morning and its so much easier making dough for pizzas.
I did have a steamer that sat on top of a large saucepan and that was brilliant but I lost it in my last house move not seen another one similar.
Juicer is used all the time and same with the blender. O/H would be lost without the microwave for his porridge in the morning!

Philippa36

sheeny wrote:

A julienne slicer. Looks a bit like a veg peeler.
"Always slice away from yourself" said the instructions. Yeah, right.. if you're double-jointed..

I have one of these and my o/h loves it. I gave up after managing to cut my fingernail off and slice open my finger while peeling potatoes :rolleyes:

JayneH_3

My white elephants are juicer - very gunky and hard to clean, and a garlic mincer thing that looked really easy to use, but a knife is so much quicker!

We have bought a manual orange juicer that is used daily (good exercise for DH:T), and the breadmaker is also used every day.

HOLsale

gravitytolls wrote:

Juicer
Pie maker (2 pies taking 8 mins for 9 people)
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sell it on ebay if it's in good nick and you have the instructions!

i wanted one so i could make tasty pies for dh to eat while he's at the dept at uni (he practically lives there right now)

i love it but i don't like making up the pie dough so i don't use it as much as i would like to but when i was looking for one i saw them on ebay going for more than £20!

i'd passed one up at the boot sale because they were asking £6 but after discovering ebay prices and finding out they don't make them anymore i went back to the boot sale the next week and they were there again so i bought it immediately... it was brand new too, hadn't even been taken out of the box! :T

next time i use it i'll just make up a huge batch of pie crust and do enough to freeze a quantity of pies for dh. i think these would also be good for dd's lunchbox occasionally as a wee treat

funny how some gadgets are the sun and the moon to some people and the bane of others eh?