There are so many different tools that can revolutionize your kitchen and the way you make food and drink. However, not all of these innovative tools live up to their hype, and they can often end up simply collecting dust in your kitchen due to their limited use or redundancy.
Some gadgets prove to be unnecessary, overcomplicating simple tasks or offering little more than what a basic tool could achieve. Here are 18 of the most useless appliances you don’t need in your kitchen.
Pizza Oven
The New York Times highlights that pizzas are “consumed by about one in eight people on any given day, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture.” Despite our love for pizza, there’s really no need to spend our precious dollars on a pizza oven! Pizza ovens are solely used for making pizza, which can just as easily be baked in a regular oven. They also require a lot of cleaning and maintenance and take up a lot of space on your counter.
Garlic Peeler
It’s so simple to peel garlic by hand, so why spend money on an unnecessary gadget to do it for you? You can also use the side of a knife to peel garlic quickly and easily, so a garlic peeler is a pretty redundant tool to have in your kitchen. It’s only useful for one specific task, making it a waste of space. It might be small, but it still adds unnecessary clutter to your kitchen drawers!
Soda Machine
Soda machines can cost a lot of money to use regularly, as you have to continuously buy CO2 cartridges and flavorings on top of the cost of the appliance itself and running costs. They also use a lot of counter space for something that only has one small purpose! Soda machines are only useful for people who frequently drink soda and really aren’t worth the money you have to spend on them for anyone else.
Milk Frother
Milk frothers have one single function: frothing milk (as the name clearly suggests). Single-use appliances like this are often a waste of space in your kitchen, as they’re rarely used. Milk frothers are also pretty redundant and pointless, as frothing milk is a task that can easily be done with a whisk or jar. This appliance also requires power or batteries, which adds to household waste.
Electric Can Opener
Electric can openers are another pointless tool some people might have in their kitchen. Manual can openers work perfectly well, so there’s no need for an electric one! They’re bulky and take up more space than a manual can opener. Electric can openers require regular cleaning to prevent build up too. They’re also especially useless during a power outage, so you may as well stick to using a manual can opener.
Rice Cooker
Why spend your hard-earned cash on a rice cooker when you can just simply cook your rice on the stovetop? A rice cooker is a pointless kitchen appliance that takes up a significant amount of space on your countertop for a single-purpose item. The inner pot and lid also need thorough cleaning after each use, which wastes more of your time. Practice makes perfect making rice on a stovetop, so keep at it!
Waffle Maker
“Americans pay an average of $429.33 per month for their utility bills,” according to Forbes, and extra unnecessary appliances like waffle makers can increase these costs even more. A waffle maker will typically only be used occasionally, which leads to long periods of storage, wasting space. This appliance is quite bulky too, meaning it can be hard to store in smaller kitchens. Cleaning waffle makers can also be difficult due to their intricate designs.
Electric Salad Spinner
Another ridiculously unnecessary kitchen gadget is an electric salad spinner. These tools make drying your salad much more complicated than it needs to be. The task of drying salads can be accomplished far more easily with a towel or by draining them in a collider. Electric salad spinners are also large and can take up a lot of counter or cabinet space, and they’re often used once for novelty and then forgotten about.
Spiralizer
While its name might make it sound like a really cool gadget, a spiralizer is pretty useless and unnecessary in reality. The one purpose of a spiralizer is to create vegetable spirals (why?). It’s a bulky gadget that’s typically rarely used. It also requires quite a lot of effort to use and simply using a knife is often faster. There’s really no need to make vegetables into spirals, just cut them into normal shapes!
Egg Separator
Egg separators have very limited function and only serve the purpose of separating egg yolks from whites. This is something that can easily be done by hand, so owning this gadget is really not necessary! Egg separators just add even more pointless clutter to your kitchen drawers. They can also be tricky and messy to use compared to other more traditional methods of separating egg whites from yolks.
Ice Cream Maker
If you have an ice cream maker, be honest, when’s the last time you used it? Making ice cream can be time-consuming and requires pre-planning, so it’s typically not done very often. This appliance is generally only used during certain seasons or on special occasions, and the rest of the time it’s stored away somewhere in your kitchen, using up precious space. It can take up quite a large amount of storage space too, as it’s a pretty bulky item.
Fondue Sets
Another pointless kitchen appliance that’s rarely used and usually only brought out for special events or gatherings is a fondue set. However much you love cheese, you’re never going to find yourself using a fondue set enough to make it worth the money and space it takes up in your kitchen. These sets also require careful cleaning and maintenance of multiple parts, making eating fondue more hassle than necessary.
Bread Maker
Business Insider reports that “the price of white bread hit a national average of $1.87 in December 2022 – more than $0.30 more than in the same month in 2021.” Even with bread being this expensive, it’s still not worth investing in a bread maker. These gadgets are generally only used occasionally, which leads to storage issues. Bread makers are also large, taking up significant counter or cabinet space. Try making bread in the oven instead, as this can be just as effective!
Egg Cooker
Who needs a specific tool just to cook their eggs? The answer is nobody! An egg cooker provides the single use of cooking eggs, which can just as quickly and easily be done on the stovetop. It’s another unnecessary appliance that simply wastes space in your kitchen and increases your utility bill. You can also often only cook a small number of eggs at a time with an egg cooker, which can be extremely inconvenient.
Butter Spreader
A butter spreader is a pointless tool and a waste of your money! You’ve likely never even heard of a butter spreader, but its one purpose, as you can probably guess, is to spread butter onto bread or whatever else you want to butter. It’s essentially just a special type of knife used for spreading butter, but butter can easily be spread with a regular knife, so this item just adds unnecessary clutter to your drawer.
Single-Use Blender Attachments
There are many single-use blender attachments on the market, but none of them are particularly useful or necessary. Many of these attachments often replicate the functions of the main blender unit, meaning there’s no point in purchasing these extra tools, as they will typically just take up additional space for minimal added functionality. These single-use blender attachments can also make an appliance that’s otherwise simple to use much more complicated.
Muffin Maker
We all love a sweet treat every now and again, and muffins are a favorite for many people. However, regardless of how much you love muffins, a muffin maker will always be a pointless appliance to have. Most people will end up rarely using a muffin maker, due to its limited versatility, leaving it to gather dust and waste space in their kitchen. Just stick to getting your muffins from the grocery store or try baking them in more traditional ways.
Pancake Batter Dispenser
Have you ever thought you needed a special tool to help you pour your pancake batter? Probably not. Most people simply use a spoon or ladle and this works perfectly fine, so a pancake batter dispenser is pretty redundant and pointless. It’s yet another single-use item that unnecessarily takes up space in your drawer or cabinet. Pancake batter dispensers can also be quite difficult to clean thoroughly, making the cleanup after having pancakes needlessly time-consuming.
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