What's your most unnecessary/useless piece of kitchen equipment?

Alizarin

pimento wrote: »

Worst thing: George Foreman grill

Same here - although it was my best kitchen gadget once upon a time! I used to live in a studio flat with a microwave and two hobs ... and no other way of cooking food. The George Foreman grill was an absolute lifesaver then.

Sadly I now have a microwave, an oven, a grill, and four hobs, and the poor old GF grill hasn't been used in about 4 years! :rotfl:

Noctu

Juicer.
Takes up loads of room and is never used. I won't drink fruit juice coz it's full of calories (trying to watch what I eat! - would rather have a whole fruit) and DH can't really have it as he's type 1 diabetic and sends his blood sugars through the roof.

Lip_Stick

Another vote for juicer. It's taking up loads of room in a cupboard. I really should do something with it... like throw it away, but I don't like throwing stuff that costs £50 and I've only used twice.

There was something in a newspaper a few weeks ago about the top 10 most useless kitchen gadgets. If I remember rightly, juicer wasn't on, but slow cooker was! I love my slow cooker!

lincroft1710

Dishwasher, (although used all the time, by the time crockery and cutlery clean enough for OH to allow them into dishwasher, I could have washed the items properly). Rice cooker and breadmaker, both of which OH has used possibly twice. She prefers to slow cook rice in saucepan.

rustyboy21

Is there anyone else who cannot go into that shop, I know as 'Evil Devil spawn'.... otherwise known as Lakeland and not buy anything.

Even I come out with 2 silicone egg poachers, which have only been used once and the bloody eggs stuck in them ! even though I oiled them. Looking at them though, they would make particularly good bra infils for the breastily challenged !;)

J3nesis

missesther wrote: »

Candy floss maker. I think I only used it once, even though I desperately wanted it and finally got it for my birthday years ago.

That's not useless if I had one of those it would get used every weekend! Admittedly I've never had one though so I don't know how much cleaning they need, how much sugar they get through etc etc.

Another vote for the George Foreman here as well. I met my partner when we were students and back then it was a lifesaver, anything that needed frying or grilling went in the Foreman as our "cooker" (a Baby Belling that looked like it had last been used in the 60s) was pretty much useless apart from 1 ring. However now we've moved and have a proper gas hob and fan oven and grill we just don't use it anymore.

It would have been the food processor a few months ago but since changing our habits and cooking more that gets used a lot - the large blade it is great for mincing up chicken fillets for homemade chicken burgers and I use the blender bit to make smoothies (yogurt + fruit basically).

What is technically unecessary but not: my Tassimo coffee machine it was a moving-in present and I love it, use it three or four times a week (the capsules are expensive so wouldn't use it more than that anyway).

Moglex

Pasta maker.

It was a very solid brass affair that was supposed to extrude the pasta but required more force than a could be applied by a large man.

Dumped it and got one of the more usual 'roller' types and can now make all sorts of pasta quite easily.

Very therapeutic to use, too.

DCFC79

We were given a coffee maker which we apparently wanted yet it was used once to test it out and wasnt used since then so we recycled it by offering it for free(my mum works for nhs and they have they're own version of freecycle/ebay rolloed into 1, you can sell things or give stuff away you dont want).

A smoothie maker again was a freebie but we recycled it again by offering it to any takers.

Another for the sandwhich toaster, they make nice toasties but then its cleaning the dam thing which makes it pointless, we use the toaster pockets now.

George forman grill again was a freebie and never used so brother had it when at uni and i dont think he used it either as it was sparkling clean.

NCISROCKS

bcl999 wrote: »

Great idea! There is something called an NCISROCKS kicking about in here. Not sure exactly what it's for but produces plenty of hot air. Will swap for a chocloate teapot. :rotfl:

...:rotfl:indeed..oh dear.

NCISROCKS

OP can you list the people who are venting/ranting about things they haven't got other than you? Hmm? The ignore function is for losers BTW...ie lost the argument.