Every time you turn around, there's a new brightly-colored, cleverly-named kitchen product adorned with google-y eyes and baring a twenty dollar price tag. We've all come across these products, smiled, cooed, and handed over our Visa, only to get them home and dizzily wonder, What the heck was I thinking? The utensil then sits unused, in your junk drawer, until, in a furious bout of spring cleaning three years later, you stumble upon it and have absolutely no idea what it is.
Don't feel bad. We've all done this. It's awful fun to peruse these items at stores, play with them, and make them into little puppets in order to entertain/freak out your other customers (in fact, the latter is one of my favorite pastimes). So in an effort to dissuade you from buying these little gadgets in the future, we've provided some of them here, so you'll know 'em when you see 'em.
Now, for the record, I understand that these products do serve some purpose, however insignificant. And if you happen to own one of these products, more power to you! I am simply suggesting that there are, perhaps, other ways to accomplish the same kitchen tasks that these products purport to execute...
Now, without further ado...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4How many empty tin cans do you have lying around, that you have one handy to cut biscuits? Some of us don't eat that much canned food, and keeping a tin can around the house surely takes up more room than a biscuit cutter. (They've been around for decades, by the way.)
72-24-2008 @ 2:15PM
jschwartz805 said...
We love our can crusher. It's 14 years old and still works great. The bag holds several pounds more cans, cutting down on trips to the recycle center.
9Oh good, others think dissing the biscuit cutter is crazy. Though yes, you can also use a drinking glass in a pinch.
And I have an avocado slicer, though different from the one shown here, that I really love. Yes, I only use it for avocados, but it just slices beautifully and efficiently.
Oh, I just found a picture of it in action, from a post on guacamole:
http://kittbo.blogspot.com/2007/04/guac-talk.html
10I thought the lettuce sac kept the food fresher longer? I want the tater mitts SO bad, it seems so much easier if you have problems with your hands.
http://organicandnaturalmom.blogspot.com/
11have a look at this bad boy - the eat me crunchy cereal bowl - crunchy cereal all day long - for some people its a must have kitchen toy - it removes the mush...
http://www.eatmecrunchy.com
i have one and it is great!
cheers
shark
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