To ask what household items were a complete waste of money?

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Have just read expensive items worth every penny thread & interested to see what others have regretted buying. I'll start off with steam mops, I've had 3 all useless & binned. Garden strimmers again I've had 3 makes and none of them any good. The last was a Gtech which promised so much including free blades for life. Hidden in the small print was the £2.99 delivery cost per packet of 20. By the 2nd use I had used 10 blades as the kept splitting. It was returned for a refund.

Things I've got rid of in the last few years include
Bread maker
Popcorn maker
Rice cooker
Chocolate fountain
Vibrating plate fitness machine thing

Twatbadging its this one
www.amazon.co.uk/Stockli-Dehydrator-Timer-metal-trays/dp/B002BHSF3O/ref=sr_1_19?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1473760838&sr=1-19&keywords=dehydrator

Make sure you get the metal trays the plastic ones crack. I got it for christmas last year and I use it weekly minimum.

Home brew beer kit.

And a gizmo that converts your vinyl records into mp3s. Really fiddly and just I didn't have time to read the lengthy manual. Think DSS has nicked off with it now.

Surprised at Soda stream, i I love ours and use it all the time. We do though live somewhere hot and drink a lot of water and i much prefer sparkly water. Is cheaper than buying the water and tastes much nicer.

Morphy Richards Multicooker
This was my only brush with slow cooking and I decided I prefer pressure cooking. I already ways and means to do the rest, so it's going to University with DS next year.
Can't wait to replace all the equipment he takes away with better new stuff for myself!

• I already HAD

I bought a steamer to make food for my son when he turned 6 months. He's now 15 months old and it's still in it's box, unused.

thanks HairsprayBabe Its cheaper than the other metal one I was looking at... by about £200!

Fed up of wasting mushrooms and fed up of the pricey dried ones. SO that's my plan. Dry mushrooms for stews and risottos and courgettes! I grow way too many and drying them seems like a better way to preserve through winter than canning or freezing.

I have a steamer which I've used once. I'd like to use it more but getting it out, finding a place for it, it's all a faff. Then there's my mum's ice cream maker, the Kenwood which I only use the mixer bowl bit of, and more.

Mind you, I'd still like a sandwich maker and a deep fat fryer even though I know I can deep fry in a saucepan.

Humphries ah - I don't like sparkling water, and it's not generally very hot where we live!

I really dislike the taste and texture of food cooked in a sow cooker, so throwing mine out/finding it a good home and buying a pressure cooker.

MN should have a Swap Shop Forum

that was 'slow' of course, I don't have a female pig in my kitchen

Chocolate fountain- a present from my mum

Kenwood chef thing- got a £15 Argos version that works much better. We call it the whizzer.

Smoothie maker - the jug is massive, heavy glass and I never need 2 litres of smoothie! I just use a small jug and stick blender. Same with soup.
Bread maker. Took too long, made mediocre, small loaves.
Too many coffee machines! One is enough, I have to regularly stop Dh from buying more.
However, stick blender and ridge monkey are the gadgets I love.

RortyCrankle Slow cookers sell well on Ebay as people use them for candle making

Ice cream maker, George Foreman, Tassimo, Rice Cooker.
My kitchen is a appliance graveyard

George Foreman Grill (Used once)
Gazebo
Juicer
Pasta maker (to start with used a lot - not been out of the cupboard in years)
Electric Knife

Soup maker
It's too big and too much of a faff, I was happy when it stopped working. Now I'm back to roughly chopping veg, cooking with stock then shove a hand blender in. No more work.

Panini / sandwich maker
Gone back to using a frying pan, much easier to clean. Or even toaster bags.

Hardly use the breadmaker, unless making dough. Small loaves with frigging big hole left in the middle.

My DH loves a gadget and our kitchen is roughly the size of a shoebox, so I'm forever trying to find space for these things that we can't chuck or give away because he's planning on using it to make dinner next week.

We never use the ice cream maker, the blender, the deep fill toasted sandwich maker, the George Foreman or the egg boiler (apparently so much better than a saucepan )

We love the Actifry, the slow cooker, the potato ricer and the cordless Dyson.

Several breast pumps! I just couldn't get my nipple in
Slowcooker just sits on top of the cupboard.
Fabric spray paint! I wanted to change the colour of the couch but you need tons of it to look good.

I'm the reverse - dehydrator sits unused because I can't quite bear to use that amount of electricity to produce minimal amounts of food.

Giant canning pressure cooker on the other hand gets lots of use, as does regular pressure cooker (apart from the fact that it's broken & haven't yet decide what size to replace it with).

Juicer would have been a waste of money except that I kind of knew it was going to be the case so bought a 2nd hand one for £15. I think I get my money's worth just about as it comes out of the shed once a year when the early apples all start to fall off the trees and need something done with them!

This is my dehydrator - even with all the trays filled it generates a pretty piddly quality of apple rings / dried tomatoes etc but simultaneously is a massive great thing to have sat on the side (to be fair it got bought when we had a couple of very productive mushroom logs - inevitably they then immediately stopped producing . . .).

I used my massive George foreman all the time until I moved to my current place which is too small. I miss it.

My mum has a bread maker, every Xmas we buy a mix as this will be the year and it never is.

Candle making in a slow cooker? I'm off to google that

Me too! Might finally have a use for it