That'll teach me... do any of you do this too?

Dilly

My best 'bad' buy is a coffee machine. I love cappuccino coffee,just the frothy milk really but the machine takes ages. You can only make one cup at a time. It is a faff to clean, and it takes up space on the worktop. My husband was dead against me getting another toy and this time I should have listened to him

Bextow

Shhh! Don't tell anyone but I have a candyfloss maker hidden in a cupboard, used once!

UnluckyT

i bought a mini oven type thing when my oven was on the blink a few years ago, used it a couple of times didnt like it/couldnt get on with it so i let it go and plodded along til i could get a gas oven.
couldve kicked myself and was so cross with such a waste of money as it cost almost as much as a normal oven.
i was bought a dinky doughnutmaker as a present. i never used it so i offered it to family who've probably used it a couple of times and is lurking and growing dust in the back of the coubard their.

Molly41

I have quite a collection of gadgets.
I wrote about my blue Kitchen Aid mixer on a previous thread. It was a gift two years ago and I have yet to get it out of the box, I am ashamed to say.
I have a processor that i use daily and a hand mixer for cakes.

sock-knitter

gave a juicer, george foreman grill, and a candy floss machine away in the past. i once gave a food processor away, and years later bought another one its still in its box. gave a couple of liquidizers away also.
i love my slow cooker, sandwhich toaster, stick blender.
unsure about bread maker, used it at first, and then it went in the cupboard, and still there 12 months later

Ben84

Every once in a while I have a why didn't I think of that before moment. Yesterday I was about to buy an onion bhaji paste sachet when I decided instead to buy curry paste and gram flour, which I mixed with some water and the shredded onion. I fried it and it was better than usual. If only I could have back all the money I've spent on onion bhaji sachets, but at least I now know how to make them better and cheaper and will save money in the future.

valk_scot

One of our best daft gadgets that we use a lot is a popcorn maker, the type that makes air popped popcorn and is shaped like a duck. Great for cheap and relatively healthy snacks when you have groups of kids round unexpectedly. I'd replace it immediately if it broke down.

Other good ones? Breadmaker, as it's on every day. A George Foreman health grill for making toasties. Stick blender. Kenwood Chef with dough, mixing and whisking hooks, fast grater, potato rumbler, liquidiser and mincer.

Useless things that I'm intending to get rid of? A deep fat frier...I never fry anything! And the slow cooker..everything I've ever made in it has tasted faintly of overboiled dog food tbh. (And yes I've tried lots of different recipes.)

BitterAndTwisted

I've been hankering after a baby-mouli doobery just like my Mum had. Now where did that go when we sorted all her stuff after she died? Now, I know it doesn't do anything a good, sharp knife could do but I WANT ONE! But I'm not paying good money for one. No, I am not. It's the sort of thing I'm hoping to turn up in a charity-shop or boot-sale one day.

thriftwizard

I found a brilliant mouli in a charity shop - it's really old & wonderfully effective - again, much better than the newer one I was given a couple of years ago. Soup in seconds; just wish I'd had it when the Offspring were small.

BlushingRose

where might one find a decent, cheap, mincer?