What's the most useless kitchen gadget you have?

@PoetryNEmotion We have a pressure cooker that we won in a raffle, its never been used. We bought a cheap air fryer when our oven was broken. We still use it, but not that often.

@Lugwho I can donate them to a pet rescue for raising funds. My kitchen is small. I organize well.

@Lugwho [PoetryNEmotion]

I wonder if tastes in food come into this. I don't have a pressure-cooker but our Mam did, and used it very frequently and effectively indeed.

There are though probably thousands upon thousands of kitchen utensils long forgotten in cupboards after the fad for them has dissipated: bread-makers, fondue-sets, butter-curlers, and the like!


[I was going to include the 'Goblin' Teasmades there. The last was a combined alarm-clock and tea-maker for bedside use. That name was of the manufacturer and product brand respectively. However, it seems they or equivalents by other manufacturers, are still made so obviously there is still a demand for them.]

@ArishMell my parents bought us a teamaker as a house warming present for our first house. It was rubbish, the tea tasted of plastic and the milk was either off or you had to go downstairs to get it. One night it started making tea at 1am. I think we used it 3 or 4 times, then put in the shed.

@Lugwho LOL! Yes - I must admit I'd not considered whether the milk would survive overnight in a warm bedroom. I expect a lot of users were caught out by that.

I suppose if you need go downstairs to fetch the milk you may as well get up and make the tea downstairs.... then drink it there too!

The device itself should not taint the drink though. I suspect well-meaning combined with cost-care, in its selection.....

@ArishMell I notice it with plastic kettles too, if the water has been sitting, I never reboil a kettle. I think it might just be something I'm particularly sensitive to.

@Lugwho Might be the type of plastic. I seem to notice more a metallic taste, as if from the element.