In opposition to the most useful kitchen gadget thread. This thread is for the most useless, pointless, waste of space kitchen gadgets.
To start out: The egg slicer.
Who the fuck has ever used one of these things. They have literally one purpose. Who has hard boiled eggs so often that they want one of these and even if they do what's wrong with slicing them with a knife?
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You can't cut an egg as thin and uniform with even the sharpest knife. I like my egg slicer and only eat hard boiled eggs maybe a couple times a month.
Even if you cook rice every single day, how is this thing any easier than using a small pot? Single function waste of space piece of shit.
It's a meme.
put rice in set and forget. Don't need to time or anything. It's pretty useful.
>Who has hard boiled eggs so often that they want one of these
mothers of small children
>Even if you cook rice every single day, how is this thing any easier than using a small pot?
you can program it for future use
mine has a timer so by the time I'm home from work my rice is done, it saves a lot of time and boiling rice on the stovetop takes up too much space when I'm trying to cook other shit
That was useful as hell when I was younger and lived with my grandparents. They had egg salad several times a week for a large group of people, and usually had me make it. Saved tons of time.
This thing wastes not only space but time. Just fucking squeeze the lemon with your hand. If you are so poor that you need to get every single drop out of every lemon you buy you shouldn't be using fresh lemon juice.
Your thread is bad and you should feel bad.
what does this do that a grinder or food proccessor can't?
Literally only post in this thread so far I agree with
Why not just mash it with a fork for egg salad?
Low hanging fruit but it belongs in this thread.
texture u idiot
don't even talk to me
I've used one of these before and it was when I volunteered to make food for the homeless, speeds up means of production but for home and non restaurant use, why???
I prefer egg salad with varying texture. Some larger pieces and some smaller ones. Perfectly uniform is gross.
Agreed. Besides, you can get every drop out by stabbing the lemon with a fork and squeezing while moving the fork to break up larger chunks of the pulp.
Not a single thing, but it can make you feel a false sense of superiority.
I use that about like 30 times a day at the restaurant I work at.
I like it cause I can set it and then fuck off to play vidya till I'm hungry.
We actually liked the sliced egg texture, they do get smushed a bit when mixing in the condiment, but that's about it. Not really going for a spread, although some people do.
does the flavor change when using one? all the hipsters I've seen using it say the spices get a deeper tastes but who knows
Apparently a lot of people like these things... Personally the small convenience they add are not worth the counter/cabinet space in my kitchen.
imo the taste is no different than if you use an electric coffee grinder.
You're a bait posting edgelord. Fuck off. Rice cookers are the shit.
used to try and use it as a harp of some sort as a kid
Don't recall my mother ever using it
I guess if a knife is too hard for you to figure out
well if you think about it maybe the grinder is the useless one, if it's being used for anything other than coffee. they're usually harder to clean out and you can make salsa and pesto in a pestle and it may work the best for making a spread
you dont s-s-slap your troubles away?
I have a theory that these products are all intended for mass producing something or for the elderly or retarded, but to make more money they decided to sell it to normal people. if you notice a lot of time the commercials say "even ya grandma can do it!" so really do average adults own these?
Knife is a skill you have to learn
Slapchop uses the same muscles as masturbation, so you're already a master
They are big hulking devices that can do literally only one thing.
I think the taste is the same, but I like the mortar and pestle for small amounts of moist ingredients, as it is easier to clean than my grinder, and I can do a better job.
The fact that this exists is depressing.
>egg slicer
They use these puppies to prep the egg section of the salad bar quickly and uniformly.
I can understand it if you eat a lot of rice. Otherwise, nah.
I have an instant pot and 8/10 times I'm cooking chicken it's in there, literally the best texture ever
>literally
Horseshit. I've made bread, cake, rice pudding, and oatmeal in mine, and it's a one-button Aroma. That's not getting into the $50 ones that double as slow cookers.
I guess if you're an old person with arthritis and the gripping of a knife hurts your fingers, or who can't have sharp things in general, then yes this is a good product.
If these things didn't quadruple the price of a cup of coffee they would make sense. But since they do...
I'm with this user. Egg comes out perfect.
They're a little more versatile, too. Can muddle things in them, not just crush/pulverize. But yeah, I agree. It's nice to have around if you just want to crack some pepper really coarse for a steak or crunch some cinnamon for a sauce, stuff like that. They're also cheaper and more durable than a food processor, and they don't have the tendency to heat up spices when pulverizing like food processors do, which really can make a difference in some things, like if using for a tea, delicate poach, or dressing.
>The fastest way to ruin good garlic.
How is the garlic "ruined"?
Whether you're slicing it or squashing it, you're still breaking up the garlic bulb, it's not going to taste any different.
Smashing the garlic as opposed to slicing or chopping releases more sulfur and gives it a bitter flavor that overpowers the subtler garlic flavors.
you can make fluffy pancakes with these things
I learned this from harry potter
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My parents use this all the time, of course they're also diabetic and tried to have me jailed, so they aren't the best thinkers.
Rice cooker.
going by a 12-count box of k-cups for $10 and a big ol tin of folgers grounds for $8 it is about 18 times the price.
Wut?
Reduce something to a fine dust
Lol its even worse than I thought then.
I use my egg slicer pretty often. Eggs stick to my knife
Cooking garlic counteracts this effect, resulting in a mild sweetness.
When I was a little kid, my mom had a large heavy glass lemon/orange/grapefruit squeezer and it worked great. Also, you don’t just rotate the fruit on the protruding bulb, you also periodically lift it up and squeeze it.
They make reusable filters for them so you can use your own coffee.
Wrong kind of mortar and pestle.
A fork works better, unless maybe you're an arthritis ridden old person.
>a fork works better
It's okay if you don't want to clutter your kitchen with unitaskers, but don't pretend like it doesn't do a better job than the alternative.
But at that point how is it better than a plain old drip coffee machine? You can make as little as four cups on most and I usually drink at least 3 cups of coffee a day.
Comparing folgers to k-cups is fucked up, but if folgers works for you, all the power to you.
It doesn't really. There's always more juice left in the fruit with one of those, and a fork is faster.
Unless you're a fresh juice bar making money out of meme followers, there's literally no point to this. You waste over half the fruit (unless you end up eating the mashed bits, which I doubt a lot of people do), cleaning it is a pain in the arse and it always takes up a lot of space.
Just eat the goddamn fruit like a proper human being, skin, pulp and all.
No and no.
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Not to mention when you juice oranges you loose half of the nutritional value and end up with juice as high in sugar as what you might buy at the supermarket.
what if ur a raw vegan who needs to eat 10,000 calories a day to get anywhere near the DV for your nutrients
>A fork works better
Confirmed for never having seen one, let alone used it.
If you are going to drink 3 cups of coffee in the morning a normal machine is best but if you are someone who eats breakfast, slams a cup of coffee and then quickly gets to work a single serve machine helps out. My father always used it to get himself a quick cup before heading of to work
Literally who has never seen a fork???
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?
I'll clue you in. The comment "confirmed for never having seen one" was referring to a the juicer pictured, not a fork.
Try again next time timmy.
Ok.
Sorry man, I get it now.
Thanks.
>unless you're an arthritic old person
Or handy capped or a neckbeard
>But at that point how is it better than a plain old drip coffee machine?
You can full up the reservoir with X cups of water and automatically make just one cup of coffee as needed.
*handicapped
Why are you even arguing this? A fruit juicer will get ALL the juice and pulp out of a lemon, orange or grapefruit while using a fork, leaves most of the juice and pulp in the rind and tossed into the trash.
This is an objective fact.
Now if you only need the juice from one lemon for a recipe then yes, just cut it half and squeeze by hand but if you're looking to get a tall cool glass of up-the-the-second fresh squeezed fruit juice, you use a juicer.
You know, these delicious meme images.
Almost pornographically fluffy.
I use that exact device to make my egg salad. Cut it two ways and it makes for a much more even texture. The fork smashing method is a pain in the ass.
Depends on how much you like rice.
at school we had "instruments" in the music room that looked just like that
I'm not going to be able to grind 6 saffron threads with a food processor.
I use this fucker every day and I fucking love it.
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why
why the terribly small amount of skin being peeled off per rotation. Why the wholly wasteful way of cutting. Why is this needed if there is already a peeler.
Unless one hand is fucked this thing has no reason to exist. And if one hand is fucked, why cook.
Good luck.
It makes rice FOR you, and let's you focus on something else. Besides, in college, it's way easier than going to a communal kitchen.
Easier? No, it's not easier. But it does free up a hob, and that's always a nice thing.
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Good luck.
you can cook a lot more than rice in these things. there are whole websites and cookbooks dedicated to recipes, many of which don't even involve rice
My mom had something similar to that, but with additional function. She only ever used it for apples, but it would peel, core and spiral-cut apples. Like a lot of the things in this thread, it was great for when you needed to do a lot, but a waste of time for small amounts. She mostly used it when making applesauce, and she'd put up maybe a dozen jars at a time.
My mom and all the friends' moms had one of these growing up. They actually work, though, unlike that retarded potato peeler.
I'm vegi faggot so I eat eggs for protein
frees up a hob which is a godsend in a small kitchen
............retard
You can shove the pestle up your ass.
This is not practical with a blender
Many of these devices (not all of course) were developed to help the disabled. In an effort to increase sales, they'll market them to "normal" people as well.
That being said, I love my egg slicer and sometimes also use it to speed up chopping mushrooms when I need a ton of them cut up. I'm perfectly capable of doing it with a knife, but the slicer is much faster and easy enough to clean.