other than the ginsu knives that never needed to be sharpened but yet if you ordered now you would get a free knife sharpener
For me I think it was the presto hot dog cooker I cant even put Into words how it overly complicated cooking a link
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I never did understand salad spinners.c’mon now.seriously.
The plastic thing with different-sized holes in it to measure your spaghetti through for servings. That was free and came through the mail from a cooking club which I never joined. I may use it to go on my toes to paint my toenails. I use gadgets for different things than they are supposed to be used for. A chopstick is good for lots of things besides eating (which I could never use anyway).
An Apple peeler, hand cranked.
One thing that comes to mind is a boiled egg slicer. I never had one, and wouldn’t want one. By the time you would find it in the drawer and get the egg all positioned for slicing, you could already have the egg sliced and be done with it and not have to clean the gadget.
So many.The Bullit comes to mind.This is nothing but an overpriced blender you can find at a thrift store for 5.00.
A French Press coffee maker:useless as expresso is so much stronger if you are addicted to caffeine but without the grounds.
Any kitchen gadget sold via an infomercial.
I won a hot dog cooker in a sweepstakes 30 years ago. They probably came in handy for dorm kids who couldn’t have a stove in their room and didn’t have access to a microwave oven. My neighbor said he got a whipping when he was a kid because he made a homemade hot-dog cooker with a spike nail and an electric cord, cooked really good but when his mother caught him that was the end of it.
Those kitchen garbage compactors that took an expensive bag seemed like a foolish idea. How hard is it to throw the trash in a trash can using a cheap bag and take it out every day or so. And the banana hook, why do we need to hook bananas at home. I can see it when they are half-way green in some juice shop, they need to be hung up so they won’t be smashed and bruised and you can see when they are ripe.
My craziest kitchen gadget is a Seal-A-Meal. I don’t use it so much now as I once did, but it is pretty cool how it works. We also have an electric wine cork remover.a gift from a friend.
That gadget that has a nail or something to pierce a raw egg, and it wiggles to scramble the egg before you break the shell. I mean, c’mon now. How useless can you get.
Electric knives. If you are too feeble to slice into a turkey, you shouldn’t even be handling a knife in the first place. In fact, I would cut up your meat for you at the table it it’s that bad. lol
My daughter got an electric potato peeler. She was not impressed with it.
I bought this thing from QVC that was supposed to slice potatoes really thin in no time at all. The darn thing kept falling apart. When it didn’t it took forever to slice. I did it faster the old fashioned way. I also bought from them a cutter that was supposed to dice onions and other hard vegetables in a jiffy. It would have taken a body builder to press down hard enough on that thing to get through an onion. I sent them both back with a note. lol .Don’t think I have bought another miracle gadget since.
When I was new at cooking I created many kitchen gadgets by mistake but once the forks were bent out of shape and the spatchula burnt to a crisp in part or my bent over tall candles were created, or my kitchen items lost parts or wouldn’t work anymore so I could cut off the cord, I used them (still do) in my handyman tool box. My craziest were those cheap things that melted.
A tea bag squeezer.
A garlic chopper with wheels you run across the counter top to chop the garlic