Kitchen gadgets that never get used

[Southwest12]

I was tidying out my kitchen cupboards on Sunday and found this (hope the picture is attached!) for making coconut pyramids. My mum bought it years ago, god knows how many given that Lakeland dropped the plastics part of their name 22 years ago! She never opened it. I then took it and I’ve never opened it! It sits in the cupboard waiting for the day that I need to make coconut pyramids...

Has anyone else got any “must have” kitchen gadgets that have never been used but are still sat waiting for that just in case moment?

Spiraliser
Bread machine

Southwest12

I remember Christopher Wenner making the moon Blue Peter and I think we made them in the early 80s.

Typos them on Blue Peter I.e. coconut pyramids

Aero latte (is that made up?) coffee milk frother. Hate milky coffee.
Piping bag (with various nozzles). Don’t have a sweet tooth. Don’t think I have baked a cake for decades.
Grapefruit knife. Too much faff.
Sodastream - have it away - keep wishing I still had it but know it would not get used.
Yoghurt maker - used this like a fiend for year or so - now never. It is not small !

Going through my recently passed away ma’s kitchen stuff shortly. No doubt I will stumble on lots of gems from decades ago forgotten in deep cupboards.

Pasta maker. We got it for a wedding present 25 years ago, used it twice then donated it to a charity shop.

We used to ha e an ice cream maker and I used it loads. It eventually broke and I keep meaning to buy another one. Maybe I should search charity shops in the hope of finding a nearly new one thrown out by one of you lot!

Potato ricer OH bought, managed to lose it when we moved

Just remembered I bought my ma many of the things I will find and have to deal with including the large potato ricer - never used.

Also agree with the slow cooker being wasted too.
I can't find much I'd like to do in it, and where can I find time to cut it up and Chuck it all in there in the mornings and worry about it catching fire and burning my house down all day.

A ginormous Bosch food processor that doesn't even fit in the kitchen. I had to buy a big plastic crate box for it and all its attachments. It was used twice in four years

Juicer - complete faff to use and clean producing nothing that tastes better or less expensive than an upmarket bought juice anyway.

A set of measuring cups. Never used , despite doing lots of baking.

Air fryer and potato chipper thingy - thought I'd always be knocking up healthier chips in my lovely air fryer. Turns out it really is just a whole lot easier and not much different to chuck frozen chips in the oven. Air fryer now resides in the loft.

Rice cooker, used it a fair bit at first but then discovered microwave sushi rice on Amazon in bulk and now said rice cooker gathers dust.

Love love love my garlic press and soup maker, can't believe others find them unused

Much as I do love a slow-cooked stew I've never got the time-saving aspect of 'oh you just throw it in and you've got dinner ready when you come home'. Surely you've still got to chop a load of veg, herbs, and prep the meat etc (I like to brown mine first) so you're just doing this first thing in the morning when I'm still half asleep and don't fancy chopping raw beef instead of in the evening?

I've been meaning to start a thrilling thread for ages about whether my garlic crusher is particularly shit or whether they're all like that. Only crushes about 1/3 of it, the rest just squishes into a blob which I have to pick out and either keep crushing in different iterations or give up and chop.

Pasta machine, pineapple corer/slicer (this is actually very good but we very rarely buy pineapples), fondue set (used to use it about 20 years ago but like a pp haven't had the gel fuel things for ages).

The most used are Instant Pot, Kenwood Prospero stand mixer/food processor, Kenwood mini chopper, Aeropress for coffee, electric hand mixer, stick blender.

Things we use occasionally and definitely worth keeping - ice cream machine, smoothie maker, cherry stoner (we have a cherry tree and use it when making jam), mango corer, melon baller (gets used on Halloween pumpkins).

I agree with a pp about the Ikea garlic press, it is excellent, just pop in the unpeeled clove and press, lift out the skin and pop in the dishwasher.

Have an avocado slicer that doesn't seem to work. Scoops out ok but doesn't slice properly?

Food processor/liquidiser unit out so used, mini chopper, hand blender all used plus garlic crusher. Slow cooker still in cupboard

Got rid of electric and can opener, ice cream maker, slow cooker, manual pasta maker (now have Kenwood attachment) all to very happy people! Wonder how long they lasted before they went to different happy people?

@MeetOnTheledge. Off topic I know (sorry!) but we have a cherry tree but never seem to see any of the fruit. How do you stop the birds from eating all the fruit?

A Brussels sprout peeler, I can peel 3million sprouts in the time it takes to do 1
Someone gave me a slow cooker but I gave it back again unused.

Most years we don't get much of a crop because of the birds Norugratsatall, however there have been a couple of bumper years when we have had masses. Things have improved since we acquired cats .

'Best' one (not ours) was a rice cooker, still boxed, that gathered dust on some friends' landing literally for years.
He was a hoarder and addicted to all sorts of gadgets, many of which were never used.

After he died his wife found half a dozen each of electric shavers and blood pressure monitors.
I asked why on earth he'd want so many.
'Well, because he couldn't find the first (amid all the accumulated stuff) so he'd go and buy another, rinse and repeat.'

His most lethal kitchen gadget was a mandolin, with which he managed to slice off a good part of a fingertip. After which my dh went and dropped the wretched thing in the bin.

Gadget-hoarding friend: 'But I paid twenty odd quid for that!'
Dh: 'Tough!'

Oh I love my pineapple corer. Is it wrong I often buy pineapple literally just so I can use the corer?

Waffle cone maker (used once)
Cake pop maker (used once)
Pasta machine (used quite a few times but over the space of about ten years)
Juicer (used occasionally and I can't bring myself to get rid of it)
Spiraliser

Ones that get used a lot:
Kenwood Chef
Thermomix
Instant Pot electric pressure cooker
Ice cream machine gets used fairly regularly, I make the custard base in the thermomix and freeze it in the ice cream machine

The Tassimo, the panini press, food processor, stick blender, deep fryer, electric can opener, knife sharpener, mandolin, plastic bag sealer, crumb sweeper-upper, steam mop [deep breath], electric frying pan, cupcake maker, Juice Tiger and it's descendant the Nutribullet, icing set, blowtorch.....etc etc

Always, I just googled garlic twist and I think I need one! Would you recommend a particular one?

I have few gadgets and do tend to use the ones I do – juicer, food processor and stick blender (if that counts). I do though have a breadmaker that's lived in a cupboard for years. It was lovely to wake up to the smell of fresh bread, but the loaves tended to come out a bit heavy and rather too damp.

When I bought the garlic twist from a kitchen shop. Adult sons fell about laughing. Said they were for ganja leaves. It is amazing, plastic, two pieces, I used it for garlic, basil, other herbs, then either rinse out or OH has put it in the dishwasher. So easy to clean.

Coconut pyramid maker?? That is the most ridiculous waste of space.
I've just cleared my kitchen and donated an egg slicer and avocado scooper/slicer in one to the charity shop. Never used in 5 years. bought at one of those ridiculous parties where you feel under pressure and they were the cheapest thing in the damn catalogue!