What kitchen gadgets have you bought, then never used?

[lucysmam]

For me, it's the once used pasta machine that I was so keen to get my hands on. My dad bought it for me...I made some fancy bow shaped pasta and haven't used it again since (about ten years ago).

Same for the ice cream machine from Lidl last summer. I really wanted it. Made ice cream twice, it was rock hard both times :( Never used it since.

Also have a juicer. Random gift from my dad. Lives in the cupboard of doom. Never been out further than to look at it.

Ooh...annnnnd, I bought a cutter thingy for a whole pound not long ago, to make veg into fancy shapes. That's been in the cupboard of doom since too.

There is probably more tbh.

What about you lot?

My steamer has been replaced with the cook4me, before that I used it all the time. I worked out the other day that what with all the gadgets I have and use regularly, I only use the oven about once a week!

Just remembered another.....Mouli/Food Grinder.

What a messy faff that is, same as the Mandolin in that its more trouble than its worth.

George Formby grill

Breadmaker
Sandwich toaster
Slow cooker (actually broke the switch on it, but think it would have ended up in cupboard anyway)
Still tempted to get a spiraliser though

MaMaMaBelle (ELO reference? LOVE LOVE LOVE ELO!)

Have you not heard of George Formby Grills? They are like George Foremans but they play "When I'm Cleaning Windows" as it squeezes all the taste out of your bacon :o

Dont get a spiralizer, if you are in the East Midlands you can have mine, but its a waste of time and effort!

Very few that I've bought, things I've been given however.....
Found an ice cream maker in the garage, possibly we used it in the old house but the bowl bit doesn't fit the freezer here. We moved 9 years ago!

Candyfloss machine, this one my mum bought, I borrowed it for my daughter s 5th birthday. She's 14, I keep mentioning to my mum it's her but for some reason she always "forgets" it. To be fair, you only make the mistake of using it indoors once.

I'm a bit of a sucker for little silicone thins, cake pop mould, egg poaching pods etc which tend to lurk in the back of the cupboard. There's likely to be a spirizer in there too but I can forgive any gadget that gets veg into the kids, even if it doesn't get used very often.

Cheese grater which was given to us by ex fil.
Expectation : clamp to worktop using sucker, cheese in hopper, turn handle and collect grated cheese.
Reality: eventually clamp to worktop with associated bad language, turn handle twice, sucker comes off and cheese flies over the floor.
Also ice cream maker. Is in shed covered in mouse shit.
We do use our juicer though.

Spiraliser here too.

Put it together, pushed one cucumber into the machine, exuded a watery mess. Packed it up and put it in the kitchen graveyard cupboard. It lives there with the ex's meat/cheese slicer.

Pasta maker - the first batch was soggy and terrible, we went straight back to the dried stuff.
Hob-top waffle maker - pale, flabby, tasting of egg and regret. Thrown out and replaced by an electric waffle maker which makes decent waffles, but the kids still prefer pancakes made in an ordinary frying pan 'sigh'.
Electric juicer - pain in the arse to set up and clean and the orange juice was revoltingly bitter, even when we peeled the oranges first. And since the peeling takes longer than juicing oranges manually using the elderly £2.99 juicer from ikea, it never comes out of the cupboard.
Slow cooker - everything seems to have much less flavour than if it's cooked normally. Currently sitting on the counter storing sandwich bags, cake cases and other kitchen miscellanea, since it won't even fit in the sodding cupboard.
Ice cream maker - stupid, stupid impulse buy at the Ideal Home exhibition many years ago. 1. Find enough space in freezer for bucket-thing. 2. Put your prepared ice cream base in now-frozen bucket-thing. 3. Watch your ice cream base freeze to rock hard consistency around the stirrer as as you try and fail to keep stirrer moving. Thrown out and I make ice cream by taking the tub out of the freezer at hourly intervals and beating the crap out of it with a wooden spoon.
Popcorn maker - Christmas present from mum. Good fun, but it never comes out. As a teen in the family home, a popcorn maker was the centre of many fun evenings. Sadly, this one doesn't seem to compete with an X box as far as my teen is concerned.
George Foreman grill - used twice then stuck in the cupboard. We use the oven grill or a frying pan instead because it would take 20 minutes to move enough things to get out of the cupboard.
Tripod lemon squeezer - proud gift from DP, and apparently a design classic. But the elderly ikea one does the same job AND catches pips, so it is wedged awkwardly at the back of the cupboard. Because it's a huge tripod.
Babychef - cooks AND purees food for your baby. Except it was always so much quicker and easier to cook it in a saucepan and puree it in the same saucepan with a stick blender.

Looking back, this is a damning indictment of DP's and my imagined scenarios of domestic bliss compared to reality. But on the plus side, the bread maker has come out every other week for years making pizza dough for Saturday pizza nights, the stick blender is still making soups and sauces now the baby is 16 and shaving, the cafe toaster is used at least weekly (and lets me fry 12 welsh cakes in one go) and the smoothie maker may never have made a smoothie in anger but it made great pancake batter most weekends for about five years before its sad demise.

An egg roller. My DH saw it on a YouTube video and ordered one. Total waste of money.

Pasta maker

Pie maker.

This thread has reminded me of the time I got a popcorn machine for a Christmas present.

WHY?!?!?!?

haha love it PyongyangKipperbang
I'm not East Midlands, but I am a Northants girl. No doubt a spiraliser would end up joining the slow cooker in the cupboard!

Yes, love ELO

The thing I have used for one year and never since is a passata machine. Would probably have used it more if I'd not had a baby and stopped going to the allotment/growing my own tomatoes!

Have a hand spiraliser and it gets used in courgette season :)
Use our slow cooker a lot
Bread machine used to be used a lot but isn't at the moment.
Ice cream maker ditto (both these might be because I've spent the year on a diet!)
Large food processor - currently lent to friend since we don't have room for it in the kitchen. We use a Bamix attachment instead. (Bamix gets used all the time - 14 years and going strong)

Instant pot. It’s now in the loft.