Whats the most useless kitchen item you`ve bought?

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purplemoon wrote:

I make popcorn on the stove. Easy, fun, and smuggled into the cinema in a cereal box! !

my sil gave me a proper popcorn making pan a few years back as a christmas present... it has a nice long handle with a wooden grip and has a thing that goes over the top of the lid, it goes down inside the unit and you crank a handle on the side to keep the popcorn from burning. the lid flips open on either side... brilliant and you can even use it in a fire place

i gave my air popper away to my american neighbours... i prefer this lower tech way of doing it and the air popper always made a HUGE mess with errant popcorn flying across the room (plus it was loud and sounded like a hornet stuck in a hairdryer :eek: )

Jet

catowen wrote:

A ready steady cook popcorn maker!!!! It was rubbish, expensive and took ages to pop the corn, and only popped small amounts. Was used once and then given to the kids up the road!!!!!

We bought the Ready, Steady, Cook Ice cream maker and it was truly useless. The idea is that the child stirs the ice cream for what seemed like hours. Guess who ended up playing with his toys while Mum stirred the ice cream?

I also vote for a sandwich maker. Great for making the sandwiches, rubbish to clean. In the end I threw it away.

mancitychick

MORPH3US wrote:

Will add vote for popcorn maker and steamer here.

Both things that the gf just had to have and have both been used once I think!!!

M

I couldn't live without my steamer. My veg and potatoes taste so much nicer steamed. :j

Most useless for me is electric tin opener (was a present).
Toasted sandwich maker, had 3 now and each time I use them about 4 times in a month and then it sits in the cupboard for 2 years until I give it away. Then again up buying another cos its cheap and the cycle starts again

powie69

The worst thing I have ever had in the kitchen was a soda stream maker. It was really expensive, and I found the pop went flat really quickly. The best thing Iever got a George Forman grill which gets used at least 4 times a week.

ffym

A "Soda Stream" for making the fizzy drink so complicated and expensive!

ffym

powie69 wrote:

The worst thing I have ever had in the kitchen was a soda stream maker. It was really expensive, and I found the pop went flat really quickly. The best thing Iever got a George Forman grill which gets used at least 4 times a week.

Blimey, same post within a minute - that's spooky!! :rotfl:

thriftlady_2

Jet wrote:

We bought the Ready, Steady, Cook Ice cream maker and it was truly useless. The idea is that the child stirs the ice cream for what seemed like hours. Guess who ended up playing with his toys while Mum stirred the ice cream?

I also vote for a sandwich maker. Great for making the sandwiches, rubbish to clean. In the end I threw it away.

Those ones that seal the edges of the sandwich are a pain to clean,but I've got one from Lakeland called a cafe-style sandwich press that is a doddle to clean.It has flat plates that you can adjust to the thickness of your sandwich,you don't need to butter the outside of the bread first.It also takes all different sizes and shapes of bread.

frugglewump

My bread-maker. I will admit it makes good bread, but the electric bill went up beyond what i can afford. Good thing it was free.

Sandwich toaster & GF grill. I hate the cleaning

tallulah_beaulah

Nelski wrote:

one of them things advertised on the tv in the 80s that would cut and chop anything and everything - really hope someone can remember the name of it cos its bugging me

Not sure of the spelling, but pretty sure it was called a "Rap Tou".

Can't think of anything useless that I've bought for kitchen, but dh bought an electric milk frother (sits in the back of the cupboard and falls over every time I get a pan out). Also a flat wooden thing with different sized holes in it - it's for measuring portions of spagetti !?! (lo uses it most - holds the holes up to his eyes, like glasses).

Slow cookers are brilliant for cooking big amounts for the freezer, I poach loads of fruit in mine (eg. whenever i see bags of apples on special) then freeze in portions.

SammyD_2

Funny things one person hates, the next loves. My pasta maker is a waste of space - just takes too darn long to use, plus my got it for a birthday present from my husband when we were engaged - he has not been allowed to forget this! Ditto my fondue set which had a burner underneath that always burns the cheese or chocolate sauce. It was a wedding present and I carted it all the way across the world so I can't bear to part with it.

Love my popcorn maker and my cappucino frother (yummy hot chocolates....). Oh, and my rice cooker/steamer.