Whats the most useless kitchen item you`ve bought?

raeble

Electric Steamer - used a couple of times, now sits in the spare room
GF Grill - Gave it away, very small kitchen didn't have enough space.

Fran

Definitely the breadmaker I got which made loaves that no-one would eat including me and the dog. :cool: I got my money back though. :T

purplemoon

ocemeer wrote:

A griddle, used never...well used it as a tray, first house cooker not big enough, hope to use it on a rayburn.

Thats it! My most unused item, probably not useless though. It covers my cupboard in rust and just sits and sits...

nelly_2

how many times has bread maker been mentioned?

Burlesque_Babe

a sausage maker - first thing I bought from a shopping channel aout 10- years ago. You filled the tube with the mix and pumped it into the skins. Problem was, there was nowhere to get the skins from!!!!! (pre-internet days, so it might be easier now)

Also, reading the thread through, a few more come to mind

Ready Steady Cook ice crusher (vague idea of making alcoholic slush puppies, it was useless)
A 'proper' ice crusher - electric one, but a bit dangerous as you had to put the cubes in via a springloaded trapdoor and I had visions of losing bits of finger!
Breadmaker - love my bread, but this is sitting sadly in the cupbaord, plug nicked for something else,never really made anything edible
Pizza oven - bought about 4 months ago - all lovely and chrome and sits under the microwave - burns one edge of the pizza - and, what's wrong with using the oven I already have?! doh!

Best thing ever was a left handed potato peeler from the left handed shop in London - used for years!

Swan_2

teabag squeezer ... at a time when I had more money than sense & a new Lakeland catalogue :rolleyes:
pastie press thing ... see above :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
hand-cranked ice cream maker ... see above :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
pizza cutter ... my big cook's knife does a far better job
electric deep-fat fryer ... horrible to clean & the filters never ever stopped the frying smell permeating the house
set of fancy microwave cooking dishes/pots ... useless
popcorn maker ... stuff flew all over the kitchen, had to stand beside it & drape a towel over it :mad: better with a sturdy pot on the hob

SnowyOwl_2

nelly wrote:

how many times has bread maker been mentioned?

in my quest to avoid doing anything remotely like housework i decided to take the above question literally and have done a rough tally. Apologies if I have missed anything, but it's roughly right.

Anything with just one mention isn't listed. So the most mentioned waste of space items so far are....

Teabag squeezer - 2 mentions
Electric toaster - 2
Pizza cutter - 2
Griddle - 2
Lattice pastry cutter - 2
Fondue maker/set - 2
Smoothie maker - 2
Boiled egg topper - 2
Sausage gun - 2
Steamer - 2


Pasta maker - 3
Ice cream maker - 3
Pastie press - 3

Milk/cappuccino frother - 4 (these are the same things, right?)
Popcorn maker - 4
Slow cooker - 4

Deep fat frier - 7
Sandwich press/maker - 7 (assume they are roughly the same idea)

Breadmaker - 8

Electric juicer - 10

Gosh, look at the breadmaker...1st runner up!

Trow

A hand-held battery operated candy floss maker - was a pressy for the kids. It *did* make candy floss, but about two teaspoonfuls every ten minutes... complete crud. I also have a juicer that is NEVER used cos of the frap (although it was a freebie via my mum - does that count?) and a yoghurt maker - one of the ones with 6 individual glasses, instead of one big pot - too much of a frap again. My second worst (second to the candy floss maker) is a cookie maker - a machine that 'shapes' biscuits into rounds with patterns. Well, thats what the instructions say. What it actually does is make splodges not dissimilar to what I do with a spoon, and get completely gunged up after it has made about 5.

We use our sandwich maker regularly and our popcorn machine (although yes, it *is* noisy.

Swan_2

Trow wrote:

A hand-held battery operated candy floss maker - was a pressy for the kids. It *did* make candy floss, but about two teaspoonfuls every ten minutes... complete crud

I forgot I had a candy-floss maker too! it wasn't a hand-held, was a kinda big flying-saucer shaped thing, but was just as frustrating & useless :mad:

HOLsale

ivyleaf wrote:

Did anyone else have a Brabantia potato chipper? You had to put the potato in it, then push the handle down so that the potato was forced through a sharp grid, coming out as chips. It was a pain to clean, and if it was a biggish potato you had to cut it in half (or quarters) or it was too hard to push the handle down! I found mine in the back of a cupboard the other day - it hadn't been used for over 20 years so it went in a charity shop bag the next day!

i have one of those from lakeland and i love it! i use it for potatoes but also for onions and beetroot and it makes quick work for me and i find mine MUCH easier to clean than my food processor (if you put it to soak right away it comes clean very easily)

i couldn't actually come up with much that i find useless, i actually DO use all my gadgets and i have a load of them... i don't use them all constantly but they do get used quite regularly