What is the most USELESS kitchen gadget you own?

[Liberal Veteran]

Mine is the Juiceman Juicer I scarfed from my mom's house when after she died.

Made carrot juice one time. Now collects dust.

(fuck...I can't spell)

[lovedems]

1. I have the microwavable egg thing.

It is gross.

My kids (being strange little boys) want the ultimate chopper by Chef Tony. I kid you not. They are convinced that we *need* it for our kitchen.:shrug:

[BiggJawn]

2. A "mini-food rocessor"...

Holds a little more than 1/2 a cup. I ask you, WHAT is THAT suppose to be good for?

I made a batch of Hommous in it once. In FOUR shifts!

Next on the list is the Brita pitcher. What a hassle.

Then the rice cooker, then the crock-pot, then the "stove-top grill", then "George".

Since I cut fat-stuffed bratwurst out of my diet, there's nothing George can do that my iron skillet can't do better...

I got rid of the popcorn maker a coupla years ago.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. You cut brats out of your diet??????

Unthinkable!!!!

[BiggJawn]

9. Yeah, gone from a staple to an annual indulgence.

Can't lose weight when I scarfing more fat than I burn...

[tridim]

12. Wow, I completely disagree on your top three

I have a food processor attachment for my hand mixer and use it almost every day. I think mine is more like 1 1/2 cups, maybe 2. It's definitely a "mini" though. Cleans up in about 10 seconds.

It's a hassle to fill a Britta pitcher? I just fill it every time I pour a glass. Couldn't be easier.

My rice steamer rocks! Making rice any other way is worthless if you want it to have the correct taste and texture.

Popcorn makers are indeed worthless. A metal saucepan works just fine.

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Heh....the paper bags you buy the microwave work for me....

....as far as popcorn goes.

[BlueHandDuo]

19. I love my mini-Cuisinart...

...for making sunflower-seed butter and other nut butters. You don't need a whole lot of that at one time.

Love my Brita pitcher, too.

I wouldn't mind having your other "useless" gadgets, either...well, except for one.

George hasn't been out of the closet since the day I got him.

[smbolisnch]

30. Oh I love mine!

I think my mini-food processor is my favorite gadget!! lol
As for the most useless, it has to be my lasagna pan.

[short bus president]

3. There's this strange metallic box-like thing

under the stove that I'm not quite sure what it does. Someone once told me it was a poodle-dryer, but I don't even have a poodle. :shrug:

[Liberal Veteran]

6. That's where your store all the pans you rarely use....

Think of it as junk drawer for pans.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. I don't have a strange metallic

box-like thing under the stove, but I DO have a poodle. Maybe you should send it to me and I'll try it out.:o

[L84TEA]

5. SALAD SHOOTER!

BLLLLAH...MORE LIKE SALAD SQUISHIER OR PULVERIZER.

[R3dD0g]

7. Microwave Rice Cooker

You've got to run the microwave for 20 minutes, just like boiling the stuff on the stove. I've used it twice. First time was OK. Second, rice all over the inside of the microwave - the seal wasn't tight.

It's in the very back of the hardest to reach cabinet. Too much trouble to dig out and throw away.

[starroute]

8. All those weird little microwave thingies I pick up at yard sales

There's one that's supposed to let you cook bacon in a more healthful manner by inserting it into vertical slits so the fat drains off.

There's one with a whole bunch of vertical slits in a circle that's supposed to be for making potato chips.

And another circle with pointy things to impale baking potatoes on.

They're all sitting down my my basement, gathering dust, along with the Foley food mill. (Though *that* I might actually use again if I ever get a sudden urge to make apple sauce.)

But contrary to what someone else posted above, I love my Brita pitcher. It actually makes our local water taste good.

[R3dD0g]

10. Now, I really like that microwave bacon cooker.

Don't go badmouthing that thing. I use it every time I cook bacon.

I'm on my second one now. The first was just had all the good used out of it.

[BiggJawn]

13. Ah, the Foley is worth it's weight in tinned steel!

I still use mine when I have something that needs to be pureed. I used it on the NEXT batch of Hommous after the mini-mill fiasco.

I drink bottled water, and our tap water tastes OK. Hard as a rock and approved as a treatment for osteoporosis, but tastes OK.

[gollygee]

11. I got those egg whisks/spatula things

I can't think of what they're called but they're pretty new.

And cheap. They give you two because the first one will break the first time you use it. Luckily, you'll never want to use the second one, so it will stay in one piece.

[laundry_queen]

32. I'll ditto this. I have those. Talk about useless!

They're also advertised as tongs. Just try to pick something up with them. LOL.

[sub.theory]

14. The Stove

Seeing as I never cook anything ever, it's pretty useless. Get a bit of use of the microwave, though. Yeah, pretty sad....I know.

[sbj405]

15. I received the Smores maker as a gift from my mom

It's never been used. She also gave me the asparagus pot. Wouldn't buy it for myself, but I do use it occasionally.

[lpbk2713]

16. I have an electric popcorn maker that never gets used.

Microwave popcorn is just as good and more convenient.

[mulsh]

17. I have an asparagus peeler

it's made by henkels, it was a gift, a useless but expensive gift.It is very hard to use on asparagus and gawd no I would never use it to peel potatoes, again.

I also have a little metal device to pull the green heads off of strawberries. surprisingly enough it works much worse than one would imagine.

[Skittles]

20. OVEN

NEVER USE IT

[Liberal Veteran]

21. Not even for storing your dirty dishes?

C'mon!

[Lady Effingbroke]

23. Whoever buys my house is gonna get a brand-new oven

and a worn-out microwave. I am a horrible, horrifying cook - given the chance, I'd burn water. I use my oven for storage.

[Skittles]

35. HA HA

can you believe I wash dishes by hand?

[Sabriel]

22. The Wienie Wheel!

I bought it a yard sale a couple of years ago because of its sheer retro-ness. It's a six-prong thingie that goes on a rotisserie...which I don't have. But you gotta love the '50s happy-looking white family on the box!

[CornField]

24. LMAO!

Dammit... I want a weenie wheel with a happy white family on the box. :)

[Sabriel]

25. Put it this way: lately, it's the only happy thing around here. n/t

[trof]

26. The EZ NeverFail knife sharpener.

I bought it at a boat show.
One of those things with the little carbide (or whatever) wheels that you "lightly pull the blade through".
The guy at the boat show could slice a sheet of toiler paper.
I think he could split molecules.
When I finish sharpening a knife on it we have a pretty good potato masher.
Doesn't work for crap.

[DemoTex]

27. Andy Rooney did a 60-minutes piece on this a few months back.

I agree with Andy, my spaghetti serving sizer is my most useless kitchen gadget.

[bleedingheart]

28. Ice tea maker...

dumbest thing I ever got as a gift...

why build a machine that basically does the same thing a teapot does???

[Mz Pip]

31. I bought a ricer

and used it once. It's this thingy that you stick boiled potatoes in then press and they come out of the holes like spaghetti. I suppose if you want your boiled potatoes to look like spaghetti it might be cool.

I also bought a juicer that I used twice. I thought it would be cool to make my own beet juice. Made this huge mess. Beet parts everywhere. It was really a pain to clean with all that pulp gumming up everything. Why I felt the need to make my own beet juice I can no longer remember. DO you know how many carrots it takes to make a glass of carrot juice? A hell of a lot of carrots. Then there's the carrot pulp to deal with.

MzPip
:dem:

[GingerSnaps]

33. Microwave hot dog cooker

They come out like rubber bands and you can't chew them.

[Maddy McCall]

34. Bread maker.

No one eats bread anymore...everyone's on atkins. :grr:

[barb162]

36. baking tins as I don't really bake anymore; lost interest. Also,

my cookbooks. I have a lot and I just make the same old stuff as I lost interest in doing new recipes.

[DS1]

37. My hands

:cry:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

38. I don't "own" her, but I think it would be my wife

:evilgrin: