Many housewives, in an effort to organize and make life easier, acquire meaningless, sometimes absurd things. Sometimes this comes from curiosity, sometimes due to competent advertising. We offer the top of the most useless acquisitions for home and household: never buy this nonsense if your budget, nerves and free space in the house are dear to you!
Egg cooker
Are you seriously? Does it take anything more than a simple pan to boil an egg? Of course, the manufacturer claims that steaming saves the beneficial properties of egg white, which are lost when exposed to boiling water. You decide.
The same list includes deep fat fryers, ice cream makers, sandwiches, popcorn makers, pizza ovens and other utensils. Fryers cannot be washed from grease and the smell of burnt oil. Ice cream perfectly freezes in an ordinary freezer, quite inexpensive cups of silicone or cardboard in general, from the nearest coffee cafe.
Home-made ice cream is, in principle, a pleasure only for special lovers of a cold dessert, especially when you consider the cost of quality ingredients. Popcorn ... An even more useless thing. Popcorn is easily made in the microwave, which is also indicated on its packaging. From time immemorial, pizza was cooked in the oven.
Utensils that perform one highly specialized function will most likely only take up space in the kitchen. But grilled pans, slow cookers, blenders - a definite yes.
Tip
Perhaps the only useful narrow-profile device is a crepe maker, which allows you to bake 2 to 6 pancakes at once, and the temperature of the panel is strictly calculated so that the dough does not burn and bake.
Carrot Sharpener
Designed for cutting beautiful flowers from carrots. How often will you do this? Only carving enthusiasts can be justified for such an acquisition.
In the collection of strange kitchen appliances, you can include a cutlet press, a knife for soft cheeses, holders for cutting vegetables, a collector of corn kernels from ears, etc.
Chef's knife
Well, the truth is, this tool, more reminiscent of a hoe or machete, works only in the hands of professionals. In an amateur kitchen, ordinary knives are quite enough. The main thing is to correctly choose steel with a hardness of 40–61 HRc.
A chopper can also be attributed to this. Nowadays, no one already cuts bones - unless you hold your own cattle or buy half a body at a time.
And another sharp and waste of money - large sets of knives, for 10 or more items. Well, let's be realistic. For bread and meat - two large knives. For vegetables - the third. Well, a narrow knife with small cloves can be useful as a maximum - it perfectly copes with cutting fish, dissecting lemon and tomatoes. But in fact, an average knife with good sharpening will do the same.
Mushroom Hat Brush
That's what even an inveterate mushroom picker can easily do without! The brush provides dry cleaning, which allows you to store raw mushrooms for some time in the refrigerator (after washing they need to be cooked immediately). Absolutely any hard brush or knife and a damp cloth will do the job no worse. Do not get fooled by marketing.
Recipe books
Not only culinary collections, but also any other paper editions are supplanted by Internet resources. Books, newspapers and magazines benefit only from the aesthetic side. Today it is much easier to “google” the desired recipe than to look for it in the book. In addition, during the cooking process, the collection is inconvenient to read, it constantly strives to close. It will be a pity if the pages are soiled with grease or other products. Sheer disappointments.
Wet towel warmer
Apparently, this is for especially sensitive pops, in whose house there are neither batteries, nor a coil in the bathroom, and the parents' hands are cold as ice. Such devices mercilessly advertise, playing on the feelings of "responsible" parents. The gadget is powered by a network, has sections for storing diapers and napkins, as well as various accessories for child care.
Dirty diaper storage
Do not you think that it is much easier to roll up the used diaper and immediately send it to the bin, than to store all this in an expensive drive? What manufacturers just do not go to amuse the pride of proud moms and dads.
Such a container is needed only on a long trip, if the baby is less than a year and a half. But how often will you drive this far? Isn’t it easier to put the waste in a blank bag with a zipper or slider lock? It will cost less, weigh and take up space, too, the same convenience.
Devices for the preparation of baby food
The chopper for baby food is easily replaced with a blender, fork or potato kneader / crusher.
For sterilization, use a stove and a double boiler (nozzle with holes in the pan, such are in any multicooker). Ideally sterilizes pacifiers, bottles, nipples, and later - you can steam or sterilize cans for spins.
Automatic broom
This is the casing in which the brush is located, which rotates from movement. This is a simplified and less sensible modification of "Cinderella", which were popular in the USSR. I would not want to upset you if you already bought this masterpiece, but the vacuum cleaner is much more efficient, and an ordinary broom or brush can do just as well with floors and rubbish, and takes up much less space.
Tip
If the house has small children or animals with thick hair, it is better to think about a robot vacuum cleaner. According to customer reviews, it really frees up a lot of time, especially comes in handy in the kitchen, where the crumbs seem to sprinkle right out of the air.
Souvenirs
In another way, these things are called "dust collectors." Every housewife knows how hard it is to clean all these warehouses from dust. Storage of souvenirs is wonderful, but let it be only those things that are truly dear to your heart. You will be surprised, but when sorting, only a couple of these will be found. Here are paper cards and other small gifts.
Sometimes the purchase of goods from this top can not be explained even by its owner: “What came over me?” Well, if the device was inexpensive, but when expensive utensils do not meet expectations, a person can seek excuses. Unnecessary things clutter up the house, cause a bad mood. Do not fall for the tricks of advertising: without eggs cookers and similar things, your life and household will only be easier.