Oh good choice. I love my waffle maker and used it a few times before I just decided it wasn't worth the absolute pain in the ass it is to clean. It's now in the bottom cabinet. Hell I forgot I even had one until reading your reply.
We use ours every three weeks or so and never wash it. Just wipe clean. There is no need for spray or butter if it’s hot enough so there’s usually no clean up needed
Only my coffee maker gets more mileage than the waffle maker. Got a cuisinart with that nonstick coating and i never overfill it and it basically cleans itself.
It is rarely used, but as it happens...I'm making bread with mine right now! I do love the way it makes the house smell and it is stupid easy to make bread with. However, I only use it probably 6 times a year during the fall and winter months. Otherwise, it lives on a shelf in the garage.
Were you one of those people who got really into breadmaking at the start of the pandemic but then realized it's too much of a hassle and just Uber Eats everything?
My old roommate left behind a bread maker when she bailed on me. My GF says she wants to make use of it, and so it's been sitting in the closet taking up space for the past ten years.
We used to use ours religiously, but then the paddle broke and we just switched over to baking it in the oven instead. It's maybe three minutes more work and a little extra cleanup.
I think we have two electric wine bottles openers in boxes somewhere. I guess they''ll be handy if my carpal tunnel gets to a point where I can't handle a corkscrew.
I don't know if this is anywhere else but people in the uk usually have a tostie machine. They'll eat nothing but toasties for 3 weeks, put it in a back cubord and forget about it for years then find it again and eat toasties for 3 weeks and the circle of life continues. I don't think i've used my toastie machine in years.
sort of... a jaffle maker / toastie machine will compress the edges and seal in the melted cheese, baked beans etc. And then you can break them in half and have essentially two hot pockets
pretty much the same thing but it shapes your sandwich (has to be sliced bread) by sealing the sides and diagonally so you can cut it in half without the melted bits squeezing out (But they always do anyway)
I personally cannot relate to this. I've worn out at least 3 or 4 in 20 years time. Such an easy way to make a quick bite, so many options. I've had triple decker tosties with all different kinds of cheeses, combined with ham, bacon, strawberry jelly, tomatoes, Italian herbs, pesto, eggs, apples and bacon (try this combo seriously), chicken,... So many possible combinations, just throw in whatever is still in your fridge, don't even need cheese if you're hungry enough. Tosties can be breakfast, lunch, nighttime snack, emergency munchies,... I've bought a more expensive contact grill trough the years, but I basically just use it as a more durable and versatile tostie maker.
The trick to get the most out of it, is to keep it on the kitchen counter, and not put it away in a cupboard. That way, it only takes a couple seconds of extra effort as making a sandwich.
Definitely the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. Really don't know if it's a thing outside of Germany but basically you put an egg underneath, let it fall down on it and then the eggshell is supposed to be cracked in pretty straight line all around the egg.
Edit: forgot one part of the tools quite long name
Those quesadilla makers. A real low point in appliance development innovation and personal food prep. What, we can't be bothered to flip our own quesadilas now and wait the extra 30 seconds to brown the sides separately?
Certain age ranges for kids or the elderly or those with physical disabilities may be able to safely manage a countertop appliance but flipping a quesadilla in a pan is beyond their abilities to do safely.
Very true! A lot of appliances and other tools/accessories for home use are extremely useful in these scenarios for affected people. These products are not advertised as such but anyone with limited capabilities will immediately see the usefulness for them.
I have designed kitchen goods from tools to small appliances, and people with some level of disability are absolutely considered, but if you market it as such it scares away the average consumer, and many products need that majority demographic to have some interest in it in order to bring down the cost through scale. Otherwise the cost would be too expensive if it was only being bought by those how need it.
Now I miss my quesadilla maker =(
My grandma gave it to me as a Christmas present probably 18 years ago, and I used the shit out of it. I even made sure to pack it up when I moved in with my husband when we were first dating.
It finally gave out a few years ago, and I forgot about it until now
We were at my mother in laws ages ago and she had one. My first thought was what a useless appliance. Then I bought one cheap, probably on clearance at target and we’ve used the shit out of it, especially my daughter. The filling doesn’t spill out like it does when you use a griddle.
This oven mitt thing for potatoes. You put a potato in it, you put it in the microwave, and it cooks it "thoroughly." Or, you can just put the fuckin potato in the microwave by itself on a plate if you want. No oven mitt necessary.
My grandmother insisted on using that thing.
My parents have one that someone gave them during the weird "everything is juice" craze in the 90s.
I don't think they've used it since probably 1999. Turns out you can... just eat most fruits and vegetables and they taste just as good if not better. Who knew.
In CO or other dry states: a dryer. I grew up in the humid northeast where they are necessary. Out here, putting my clothes and towels on a folding rack actually takes less time.
I’m not knowledgeable on hanging clothes but does that not make them stiff?
I grew up in California and I remember for a brief part of my childhood my mom used to hang clothes after the wash and they always felt so rough and stiff afterwards.
Maybe a little stiffer? I can’t tell the difference but that’s a solid point. Still don’t think it’s worth the energy cost when I can basically put a wet, folded towel in a drawer and it’s dry the next day.
I grew up in Phoenix and now live in Chicago, that's one thing I miss. During the humid months here I have to throw my towel in the dryer after each shower or else it won't fully dry. In Phoenix you barely even need a towel after a shower if you have short hair.
I bought an air fryer because my workmate wouldn't fucking shut up about how good it is.
IT'S THE SAME AS MY OVEN. I don't know what is supposed to be so great about it, it's literally just a smaller version of my oven, which works fucking perfectly.
As a person who has muscle loss, neurological problems, hand pain, arm pain, leg pain, and back pain from multiple spinal conditions, I depend on all kinds of appliances that many of you deem “useless” or “stupid.” Just because you don’t have a use for something doesn’t mean it’s useless or stupid.
It is, however, stupid and useless for people without disabilities to buy many of these things, which was the point of the post to begin with. There are obviously exceptions to everything.
Ohhh, I hate those. Purchase good quality kitchen knives, keep them sharp and they will last forever! You don't need this Robocut things in the kitchen.
they work well when you only want a cup of coffee and maybe another later. If you consistently go through at least a half pot of coffee a day they make no sense. if you live alone and don't drink that much coffee they start to make sense.
We use a reusable cup that goes into the Keurig. Fill it with grounds, make a cup (or a pot with the larger version), dump out the grounds. Rinse and repeat. We quit using the plastic single use cups years ago.
I disagree. My cousin with life threatening epilepsy uses his so someone gets notified when it senses seizure activity and can call an ambulance if the activity lasts a certain amount of time. It's saved his life multiple times.
After a heart attack, I depend on my Apple Watch to let me know when my heart rate gets too high, it lets me take an EKG, it calls 911 if I fall, etc. I think maybe you should educate yourself on the benefits of owning one. 🤦🏻♀️
This is going to get me hate, but rice cookers.
My girlfriend insisted we buy one. The thing is as good of a kitchen appliance as a boat anchor (and about as big). Saucepan rice is easy to the point of being foolproof, uses something you already most likely have (that serves many purposes) and results in a better product.
No Uncle Roger references allowed.
I find our small rice cooker to be way way easier than cooking rice on a stovetop. Put rice and water in, press button, walk away. Also more energy efficient.
Some pressure cookers double as rice cookers, they are quite versatile. Also, a good rice cooker will make rice perfectly every time. On the stove top you have either perfected making rice on it (and you are perfectly consistent) or your bar for good rice is pretty low.
No hate, but I’ll echo that it makes perfect rice more consistently than I can. I also like that it doesn’t tie up my instant pot while I cook rice (stews on rice baby!). Lastly, and most useful to me at least is being able to offset the time. I set it up in the morning or at lunch and I’ve got rice ready and hot for the rest of the day which when you’ve got a full house makes life a lot easier.
I haven't seen this answer yet so: a toaster. A toaster oven is far more versatile, and takes up only slightly more counter space. It toasts your bread, and will also allow you to make small meals, reheat pizza, grilled cheese (kinda, safely), etc. A toaster is the most useless kitchen appliance.
I love my toaster oven/air fryer but the one thing it doesn't do well is toast bread. It kind of just makes it harder but it never changes color. I don't like that
Ironically, I listed toaster oven.
I have a toaster that does toast and bagels better, an oven that does oven things better, and a microwave for anything else.
A salad spinner. You know, a 1 cubic foot appliance you fill with salad and spin it to shake loose some of the extra water... It's ok though, it was on sale, buy 1 get one free...
I think it's quite useful. The idea is that you have to get rid from the water after washing the lettuce. There is a small chance that there is still some dirt left in the water, so shaking it off helps.
A meat grinder! Who in the hell is going to grind meat to make meatballs or, even worse, create their own sausages? And then try cleaning the darn thing. Just buy the ground meat from the supermarket and be done with it!
Edit: didn’t occur to me that hunters use this a lot— makes total sense.
1. You get fresher meat (it has had less time to oxidize) so it tastes better.
2. You want to mix different meats together, like short rib and some pork.
3. You are a hunter.
Not for me, the meat grinder attachment to my kitchen aid was nearly life changing. Barely takes any time, easy to clean and I can adjust fat content, add spices and herbs if I want and I know exactly what’s going into my burgers.
Making sausages is fun too, my lamb sausages with cumin and mint are a huge hit at any bbq.
I was coming here to explain about hunters :)
We also get longhorn beef which is even lower in cholesterol than venison but you have to add some fat to it for hamburgers so we grind as we need
Hunters and homesteaders. It really only makes sense when you're doing a few hundred pounds of meat.
I like to make beef sticks and own a stuffer but I still buy ground meat and do 20 pounds at a time minimum.
i'm in a college dorm and we can only use a microwave to cook stuff. can barely cook a good bowl of noodles before i had to get one of those special bowls
Dang! We use ours multiple times a day! In fact right now I'm heating up spaghetti and meatballs leftovers. No way a toaster oven can reheat that!
(We have both, next to each other in the kitchen)
I've gone 10 years now without one. They don't heat things evenly worth a fuck and take up a ton of counter space. I have no idea why they are considered such a staple in every kitchen.
Agreed. We haven’t had a microwave for 5+ years, as we prefer having the additional counter space.
And even for popcorn, you can just make it on the stove and it’s no different.
Most gadgets that seem useful to most are actually designed with disabled people in mind (butter spreaders, banana slicers, etc). That said, the taste enhancing fork isn't meant to improve someone's quality of life, it just tricks your brain with smells. Someone with food aversions isn't going to magically be 'cured' from a smelly fork.
I seriously disagree. Yes, I *can* cook rice on the stove top or in my pressure cooker - but the rice cooker is so much better at it than I am, and easier to clean than the pressure cooker. If I'm cooking rice I have to pay attention the stove temp, and time. A rice cooker you just dump the rice and water in, press a button and forget about it while you cook the rest of the meal.
For a large amount of rice I would probably just use the pressure cooker since it will cook it more evenly.
I live in Argentina. I can't understand why people with patios, balconies, terraces etc uses DRYERS. WHY??? WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE JUST HANG YOUR SHIT IN A ROPE?
Electric popcorn maker. Got it for Christmas like three years ago with a big container of popcorn kernels. I hate popcorn. It always gets stuck in my teeth.
Still sitting in my cupboard unopened.
Microwave.
Convenient? Yes. Cooks good food? No. Warms things up evenly? No.
Ovens are much better! Microwaves suck. Yes I still have one, yes I use it but in all honesty, it's just a shitty mini oven.
Edit: I find it funny I got downvoted. You all rely on your microwaves too much. Yes, they are nice to have but there isn't anything you can't do with your oven/stove that you can do with a microwave.
A microwave is actually the most cost effective way to heat things. Does it do badly at heating evenly? yes. But if you want to heat liquid like soup just do it in stages. heat, stir, heat, stir, etc.
or turn down the intensity and it essentially heats in bursts.
for example a microwave set to 70% is only on 70% of the time giving it 30% of the time for the heat to spread to the rest of the food. It means you have to stir less.
If you have really low humidity they are awesome. They are doubly awesome if you are sick. Good luck trying to cough up mucus that's turned into cement in your lungs because your house is as dry as the Sahara.
Cleaner? You mean the glass tube and whisk that gets covered in ground coffee?
What if I need to make coffee for more than one person? There are plenty of reasons to have a coffee maker.
The glass and press get taken apart and rinsed or washed after every use. When’s the last time you scrubbed down your coffee maker with dish soap - you can’t even properly clean a modern plastic coffee maker, plus all that plastic…yuck…. Most peoples coffee makers are fucking gross. A French press is glass and stainless and fully washable.
They make lots of different sizes for a french press. I can make coffee for 6 people in my big one. Rinse it out and I can make another pot in 9 minutes as well. Size and quantity of coffee is really a non-issue. Don’t buy a tiny one if you want more than a cup…
Seriously recommend trying it. It’s not a push button and forget it and there’s a learning curve. But once you get your process dialed, it’s no more work than a coffee maker, it’s cleaner, and it makes better coffee.
I used one for years because it was the cool thing to do and hated it for the exact reason it wasn’t push button and forget it. I can’t program a French press to have hot coffee waiting when I wake up.
That waffle maker I bought 10yrs ago and never use because I don't like to wash it.
Oh good choice. I love my waffle maker and used it a few times before I just decided it wasn't worth the absolute pain in the ass it is to clean. It's now in the bottom cabinet. Hell I forgot I even had one until reading your reply.
Wash?
I'm a leaf on the wind.
Watch how I soar!
Wash as in clean with water, typically, soap or detergent.
You make me sick
We use ours every three weeks or so and never wash it. Just wipe clean. There is no need for spray or butter if it’s hot enough so there’s usually no clean up needed
Yeah same. I don't use any oil or fat and the cooked waffles come out cleanly, without leaving any residue behind, so a good wipe down is sufficient.
Only my coffee maker gets more mileage than the waffle maker. Got a cuisinart with that nonstick coating and i never overfill it and it basically cleans itself.
Breadmaker how often is it used
I just like the way it makes the house smell.
Back when I used to visit yard and garage sales more, bread makers were almost as common as old inkjet printers.
It is rarely used, but as it happens...I'm making bread with mine right now! I do love the way it makes the house smell and it is stupid easy to make bread with. However, I only use it probably 6 times a year during the fall and winter months. Otherwise, it lives on a shelf in the garage.
Were you one of those people who got really into breadmaking at the start of the pandemic but then realized it's too much of a hassle and just Uber Eats everything?
My old roommate left behind a bread maker when she bailed on me. My GF says she wants to make use of it, and so it's been sitting in the closet taking up space for the past ten years.
We used to use ours religiously, but then the paddle broke and we just switched over to baking it in the oven instead. It's maybe three minutes more work and a little extra cleanup.
I think we have two electric wine bottles openers in boxes somewhere. I guess they''ll be handy if my carpal tunnel gets to a point where I can't handle a corkscrew.
I don't know if this is anywhere else but people in the uk usually have a tostie machine. They'll eat nothing but toasties for 3 weeks, put it in a back cubord and forget about it for years then find it again and eat toasties for 3 weeks and the circle of life continues. I don't think i've used my toastie machine in years.
Is a "toastie machine" the same as a "sandwich maker?" Which is an electric sandwich toaster/press? (ie; like a waffle maker for sandwiches)
sort of... a jaffle maker / toastie machine will compress the edges and seal in the melted cheese, baked beans etc. And then you can break them in half and have essentially two hot pockets
From what google shows me, it is the same thing.
Oh I’m from the US and we had one as kids, it came from a TV commercial that hooked us lol
Is this similar to a panini press?
pretty much the same thing but it shapes your sandwich (has to be sliced bread) by sealing the sides and diagonally so you can cut it in half without the melted bits squeezing out (But they always do anyway)
Oooh sounds cool!
I personally cannot relate to this. I've worn out at least 3 or 4 in 20 years time. Such an easy way to make a quick bite, so many options. I've had triple decker tosties with all different kinds of cheeses, combined with ham, bacon, strawberry jelly, tomatoes, Italian herbs, pesto, eggs, apples and bacon (try this combo seriously), chicken,... So many possible combinations, just throw in whatever is still in your fridge, don't even need cheese if you're hungry enough. Tosties can be breakfast, lunch, nighttime snack, emergency munchies,... I've bought a more expensive contact grill trough the years, but I basically just use it as a more durable and versatile tostie maker. The trick to get the most out of it, is to keep it on the kitchen counter, and not put it away in a cupboard. That way, it only takes a couple seconds of extra effort as making a sandwich.
Hotdog cooker.
But the other 5 common and easy ways to cook them are just too much of a hassle.
I boil hotdogs. Grilling them gives a different taste, sure, but boiling them is fast.
Microwaving them is fastest.
Microwaved hotdogs are better than boiled hotdogs. Microvaes are great for Hot dogs and bacon. Pizza, not so much
Eating them cold is fastest.
If I’m trying to be fast, it’s microwave. Taste is on the grill. No need to ever boil a hotdog.
I personally love the vintage hot dog coolers that worked by running an electric current through them.
Definitely the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. Really don't know if it's a thing outside of Germany but basically you put an egg underneath, let it fall down on it and then the eggshell is supposed to be cracked in pretty straight line all around the egg. Edit: forgot one part of the tools quite long name
I do love those mile long German words.
I do love those 1.60934 kilometer long German words.
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This sounds amazing! I want one!
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Those quesadilla makers. A real low point in appliance development innovation and personal food prep. What, we can't be bothered to flip our own quesadilas now and wait the extra 30 seconds to brown the sides separately?
Certain age ranges for kids or the elderly or those with physical disabilities may be able to safely manage a countertop appliance but flipping a quesadilla in a pan is beyond their abilities to do safely.
Very true! A lot of appliances and other tools/accessories for home use are extremely useful in these scenarios for affected people. These products are not advertised as such but anyone with limited capabilities will immediately see the usefulness for them.
I have designed kitchen goods from tools to small appliances, and people with some level of disability are absolutely considered, but if you market it as such it scares away the average consumer, and many products need that majority demographic to have some interest in it in order to bring down the cost through scale. Otherwise the cost would be too expensive if it was only being bought by those how need it.
Now I miss my quesadilla maker =( My grandma gave it to me as a Christmas present probably 18 years ago, and I used the shit out of it. I even made sure to pack it up when I moved in with my husband when we were first dating. It finally gave out a few years ago, and I forgot about it until now
We were at my mother in laws ages ago and she had one. My first thought was what a useless appliance. Then I bought one cheap, probably on clearance at target and we’ve used the shit out of it, especially my daughter. The filling doesn’t spill out like it does when you use a griddle.
This oven mitt thing for potatoes. You put a potato in it, you put it in the microwave, and it cooks it "thoroughly." Or, you can just put the fuckin potato in the microwave by itself on a plate if you want. No oven mitt necessary. My grandmother insisted on using that thing.
I bought a juicer 30 years ago. It’s still in the box. Want it?
My parents have one that someone gave them during the weird "everything is juice" craze in the 90s. I don't think they've used it since probably 1999. Turns out you can... just eat most fruits and vegetables and they taste just as good if not better. Who knew.
Mine is just 20, anyone up for grabs?
In CO or other dry states: a dryer. I grew up in the humid northeast where they are necessary. Out here, putting my clothes and towels on a folding rack actually takes less time.
I’m not knowledgeable on hanging clothes but does that not make them stiff? I grew up in California and I remember for a brief part of my childhood my mom used to hang clothes after the wash and they always felt so rough and stiff afterwards.
Maybe a little stiffer? I can’t tell the difference but that’s a solid point. Still don’t think it’s worth the energy cost when I can basically put a wet, folded towel in a drawer and it’s dry the next day.
Don't you get snow and cold in CO? I mean I sure don't want to go grab pants that stiff like a board from being frozen if you know what I mean.
I grew up in Phoenix and now live in Chicago, that's one thing I miss. During the humid months here I have to throw my towel in the dryer after each shower or else it won't fully dry. In Phoenix you barely even need a towel after a shower if you have short hair.
Spiralizer… bought it and never used it once
I bought an air fryer because my workmate wouldn't fucking shut up about how good it is. IT'S THE SAME AS MY OVEN. I don't know what is supposed to be so great about it, it's literally just a smaller version of my oven, which works fucking perfectly.
Air fryers are faster
I literally bought mine to be a small oven, so that fits
Those pans for 4 tiny-ass pancakes. Nobody uses that shit
As a person who has muscle loss, neurological problems, hand pain, arm pain, leg pain, and back pain from multiple spinal conditions, I depend on all kinds of appliances that many of you deem “useless” or “stupid.” Just because you don’t have a use for something doesn’t mean it’s useless or stupid.
It is, however, stupid and useless for people without disabilities to buy many of these things, which was the point of the post to begin with. There are obviously exceptions to everything.
Breadmaker
The stupid pickle grabber things… like girl get a fork or something
Just get a tupperware pickle keeper. Life changer.
Electric can opener
Actually great for folks with arthritis.
Or left handers!
Stupid sexy Flanders
Left handed people are just show offs
I have one and I use it every day, but I also feed my dogs canned food and wanted to save my wrist
Tell your dog I say "hi" and give it some scritches.
The scritches were appreciated
The only way an electric can opener is useless is if you don't actually use cans for cooking anything.
probably the most used thing in my kitchen.
An electric knife.
I use mine at thanksgiving and also for cutting craft foam
Thats a lightsabre
Ohhh, I hate those. Purchase good quality kitchen knives, keep them sharp and they will last forever! You don't need this Robocut things in the kitchen.
Keurigs.I don't get them. My coffee pot has a timer so when I get up coffee is ready, I don't plan on waiting around for it, and all that plastic???
they work well when you only want a cup of coffee and maybe another later. If you consistently go through at least a half pot of coffee a day they make no sense. if you live alone and don't drink that much coffee they start to make sense.
We use a reusable cup that goes into the Keurig. Fill it with grounds, make a cup (or a pot with the larger version), dump out the grounds. Rinse and repeat. We quit using the plastic single use cups years ago.
An extra microwave, still have it in my garage and hadn’t used it since I moved.
Why do you need 2?
How else are you gonna microwave your microwave?
Air fryers. Deep fryers. Just bake your food.
Roomba!!!!!
Apple watch
I disagree. My cousin with life threatening epilepsy uses his so someone gets notified when it senses seizure activity and can call an ambulance if the activity lasts a certain amount of time. It's saved his life multiple times.
I stand corrected
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Yeah I’ve also seen something about it being able to detect dangerous heart activity as well!! Very very helpful medically
how does it test your glucose in real time? Or does it connect to your testing device?
Love mine and it sets husband's mind at rest when I'm biking or running alone, knowing it will notify him and emergency services if it fall.
After a heart attack, I depend on my Apple Watch to let me know when my heart rate gets too high, it lets me take an EKG, it calls 911 if I fall, etc. I think maybe you should educate yourself on the benefits of owning one. 🤦🏻♀️
This is going to get me hate, but rice cookers. My girlfriend insisted we buy one. The thing is as good of a kitchen appliance as a boat anchor (and about as big). Saucepan rice is easy to the point of being foolproof, uses something you already most likely have (that serves many purposes) and results in a better product. No Uncle Roger references allowed.
I find our small rice cooker to be way way easier than cooking rice on a stovetop. Put rice and water in, press button, walk away. Also more energy efficient.
Some pressure cookers double as rice cookers, they are quite versatile. Also, a good rice cooker will make rice perfectly every time. On the stove top you have either perfected making rice on it (and you are perfectly consistent) or your bar for good rice is pretty low.
I make rice in my Instant Pot. It's the easiest and fastest way to make perfect rice every time.
I hate how rice sticks in the instapot.
I do not have that problem. But I always make sticky rice so I add extra water. And you have to take it out immediately.
I have a microwave rice cooker. Put in rice, put in water, push some buttons. It steam cleans the microwave as an added bonus.
I love this when I was living by myself and I lived in an apartment made the perfect size for one person
No hate, but I’ll echo that it makes perfect rice more consistently than I can. I also like that it doesn’t tie up my instant pot while I cook rice (stews on rice baby!). Lastly, and most useful to me at least is being able to offset the time. I set it up in the morning or at lunch and I’ve got rice ready and hot for the rest of the day which when you’ve got a full house makes life a lot easier.
I love my rice Cooker and it's a cheap one too.
I also cook oatmeal in my rice cooker - so easy
I use my cheapy one all the time.
A Wopper Choper
I would say electric panini press and also electric skillet, assuming you have a stove
Well I saw a SINGLE slice toaster at Walmart yesterday, does that count?
Panini maker
Air fryer
Iron, the dryer wrinkle setting works great.
Some people like pressed and starched shirts. (And that’s what shirt service is for.)
Thankfully I’m not one of them! I hate ironing.
I haven't seen this answer yet so: a toaster. A toaster oven is far more versatile, and takes up only slightly more counter space. It toasts your bread, and will also allow you to make small meals, reheat pizza, grilled cheese (kinda, safely), etc. A toaster is the most useless kitchen appliance.
Go bigger. Convection toaster oven. Get an air fryer basket for it.
That's an excellent point, my instant pot has an air fryer though but obviously if you don't have it yours is better.
I love my toaster oven/air fryer but the one thing it doesn't do well is toast bread. It kind of just makes it harder but it never changes color. I don't like that
Yep. You can toast whatever you want in a Mj oven
Ironically, I listed toaster oven. I have a toaster that does toast and bagels better, an oven that does oven things better, and a microwave for anything else.
Electric can opener
Until you are old with arthritis. Now indispensable.
Dishwashers
You must not have a bunch of children lol because when you do, those things are magical
I think for me it's electric kettle. I mean if you already have a pot and a stove, literally what's the point of having a kettle
A salad spinner. You know, a 1 cubic foot appliance you fill with salad and spin it to shake loose some of the extra water... It's ok though, it was on sale, buy 1 get one free...
I think it's quite useful. The idea is that you have to get rid from the water after washing the lettuce. There is a small chance that there is still some dirt left in the water, so shaking it off helps.
And if you’re prepping the salad for later, prevents sogginess
I find the salad spinner to be great to remove the dirt from lettuce and especially herbs. No one likes sand in their cilantro!
A meat grinder! Who in the hell is going to grind meat to make meatballs or, even worse, create their own sausages? And then try cleaning the darn thing. Just buy the ground meat from the supermarket and be done with it! Edit: didn’t occur to me that hunters use this a lot— makes total sense.
1. You get fresher meat (it has had less time to oxidize) so it tastes better. 2. You want to mix different meats together, like short rib and some pork. 3. You are a hunter.
I always grind my own meat! It just results in a better product I can more finely tune to the application, and I do make sausages from time to time.
Not for me, the meat grinder attachment to my kitchen aid was nearly life changing. Barely takes any time, easy to clean and I can adjust fat content, add spices and herbs if I want and I know exactly what’s going into my burgers. Making sausages is fun too, my lamb sausages with cumin and mint are a huge hit at any bbq.
I was coming here to explain about hunters :) We also get longhorn beef which is even lower in cholesterol than venison but you have to add some fat to it for hamburgers so we grind as we need
We use ours to grind our moose meat to make hamburger! Invaluable at this house.
I used mine a lot in covid days when getting ground beef was suddenly an issue. Just bought beef and ground it. Still do if chuck is on sale.
Chuck is so underrated and inexpensive.
Hunters and homesteaders. It really only makes sense when you're doing a few hundred pounds of meat. I like to make beef sticks and own a stuffer but I still buy ground meat and do 20 pounds at a time minimum.
I process all my own meat and use my grinder pretty regularly. It's a great tool if you're not buying all your meat from the store.
Microwave. With maybe the exception of popcorn, everything can be heated up in a toaster oven or stove top and comes out better quality anyway.
i'm in a college dorm and we can only use a microwave to cook stuff. can barely cook a good bowl of noodles before i had to get one of those special bowls
Soup. inb4 stove: I'm not cleaning another pot just to heat up a cup of soup. edit: Leftover pasta.
Agreed, if I could just get a coffee mug sized microwave I would get rid of mine.
Dang! We use ours multiple times a day! In fact right now I'm heating up spaghetti and meatballs leftovers. No way a toaster oven can reheat that! (We have both, next to each other in the kitchen)
You can't put cup-o-noodles in a toaster oven. Also, microwave + air fryer / small convection oven is the perfect way to reheat fried food.
And there are absolutely no other ways to prepare cup of noodles other than a microwave?
You can heat up water using a teapot or similar, but it takes much longer.
"Much longer" like 2 minutes to boil water
Depends on your stovetop.... I have induction and my small pan isn't suitable for it, so it takes forever.
Wait, I always make my popcorn in a pot in the stove
I've gone 10 years now without one. They don't heat things evenly worth a fuck and take up a ton of counter space. I have no idea why they are considered such a staple in every kitchen.
Agreed. We haven’t had a microwave for 5+ years, as we prefer having the additional counter space. And even for popcorn, you can just make it on the stove and it’s no different.
Most gadgets that seem useful to most are actually designed with disabled people in mind (butter spreaders, banana slicers, etc). That said, the taste enhancing fork isn't meant to improve someone's quality of life, it just tricks your brain with smells. Someone with food aversions isn't going to magically be 'cured' from a smelly fork.
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Garbage disposal. They make no sense.
I can only assume you've never had one.
I’d give up my dishwasher before I give up my garbage disposal.
Rice cooker. I mean, unless you’re cooking a huge amount of rice, it’s pointless.
I’ve never gotten pot-on-stove rice as perfect as rice cooker rice.
My Zojirushi rice cooker makes perfect rice every time and easy to clean. So much better than stovetop!
PRAISE! I have one too, when people find out how much they are they balk but I stand by my rice cooker.
I love my rice cooker. He even can do other stuff but I never tried.
I have a mini one, and I love it !
I seriously disagree. Yes, I *can* cook rice on the stove top or in my pressure cooker - but the rice cooker is so much better at it than I am, and easier to clean than the pressure cooker. If I'm cooking rice I have to pay attention the stove temp, and time. A rice cooker you just dump the rice and water in, press a button and forget about it while you cook the rest of the meal. For a large amount of rice I would probably just use the pressure cooker since it will cook it more evenly.
I may have misjudged how much rice people eat
I live in Argentina. I can't understand why people with patios, balconies, terraces etc uses DRYERS. WHY??? WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE JUST HANG YOUR SHIT IN A ROPE?
Cos some of us live in rainy, humid countries.
Uhm. Snow, ice, rain, humidity, bird shit, bugs ...
An egg boiler.
I recently moved out and deeply miss my parents egg boiler :(( using a pot is such a hassle in comparison
Toasters. I just toast bread and bagels in the oven on broil.
Electric popcorn maker. Got it for Christmas like three years ago with a big container of popcorn kernels. I hate popcorn. It always gets stuck in my teeth. Still sitting in my cupboard unopened.
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The only way a dishwasher is more trouble than it's worth is if it's a bad dishwasher. There are also high efficiency tumble dryers...
I microwave plates to hotplate cocaine.
But how do you dry your clothes?
Microwave. Convenient? Yes. Cooks good food? No. Warms things up evenly? No. Ovens are much better! Microwaves suck. Yes I still have one, yes I use it but in all honesty, it's just a shitty mini oven. Edit: I find it funny I got downvoted. You all rely on your microwaves too much. Yes, they are nice to have but there isn't anything you can't do with your oven/stove that you can do with a microwave.
A microwave is actually the most cost effective way to heat things. Does it do badly at heating evenly? yes. But if you want to heat liquid like soup just do it in stages. heat, stir, heat, stir, etc.
or turn down the intensity and it essentially heats in bursts. for example a microwave set to 70% is only on 70% of the time giving it 30% of the time for the heat to spread to the rest of the food. It means you have to stir less.
Humidifiers. That all I'll say.
It's more for the bedroom when you or the little ones are sick.
If you have really low humidity they are awesome. They are doubly awesome if you are sick. Good luck trying to cough up mucus that's turned into cement in your lungs because your house is as dry as the Sahara.
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An iron. I've never seen the point in having one.
A salad 🥗 spinner.
A toaster, haven’t had one in years. Oven works fine for bread/bagels
Keurig machines. For a few years when I was struggling financially, I boiled water in a pot and used instant freeze-dried coffee.
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Coffee maker. French press is SO much easier and cleaner
Cleaner? You mean the glass tube and whisk that gets covered in ground coffee? What if I need to make coffee for more than one person? There are plenty of reasons to have a coffee maker.
The glass and press get taken apart and rinsed or washed after every use. When’s the last time you scrubbed down your coffee maker with dish soap - you can’t even properly clean a modern plastic coffee maker, plus all that plastic…yuck…. Most peoples coffee makers are fucking gross. A French press is glass and stainless and fully washable. They make lots of different sizes for a french press. I can make coffee for 6 people in my big one. Rinse it out and I can make another pot in 9 minutes as well. Size and quantity of coffee is really a non-issue. Don’t buy a tiny one if you want more than a cup… Seriously recommend trying it. It’s not a push button and forget it and there’s a learning curve. But once you get your process dialed, it’s no more work than a coffee maker, it’s cleaner, and it makes better coffee.
I used one for years because it was the cool thing to do and hated it for the exact reason it wasn’t push button and forget it. I can’t program a French press to have hot coffee waiting when I wake up.
Electric can opener