the price for the most useless household item goes to...

[greenelephantscarf]

... the gravy boat

• always drips
• never big enough
• alwas at the wrong end of the table
• a pain in the drawer as it's not stackable

I'm moving house. gravy boat will stay behind.

Leggylinda your gravy sounds perfect!

we had an apple corer which was downright dangerous.

Love my gravy jug but only use it every so often when we have people over. Also have two spoon rests which I use regularly.

My item has to be a n electric frying pan that's designed to cook up a whole English breakfast. Gifted - would never buy my own & it's never been out of the box.

Struggling I never used my ironing board either but I saw a great tip on here to use it as a present wrapping station at Christmas - it was brilliant, total game changer. Never use it for actual ironing though...

Juicer gets my vote

@babycatcher411 dinner situation as I read that

Stuff you buy from Lakeland.

Ice cream scoop.

Takes up so much space in the drawer, gets used 3x per year!

Could never understand why people buy electric soup makers or rice cookers. Surely you just need a big pot?

@cheesenpickles
That’s the one!

Although we also have a gasps fake Pyrex that’s even bigger when the need calls for excessive gravy quantities.

Baby bottle warmer! Took an age to heat up.

The cake serving and slicing utensil. That fucker always always without fail shows itself to me, when we've finished cake.

Bizarre meatball portioning tong\scissors hybrid. My darling mum has bought me not one, not two, but THREE of these monstrosities. They usually go to the charity shop just in time for her to present me with the next one... 🤯

I am thinking of getting an insulted gravy jug though, my MIL will love it at Christmas

Love the typo!

Waiting for somebody to say the bog brush ...

@FiveLittlePigs I added the Grammarly app to my phone, a whole host of odd typos have been added to my posts. Luckily I have a lovely MIL 🙂

We have a weird contraption for letting wine glasses drain. I don't really know what it is, or why (it has never been out of its box) but since it has resided in the back of a cupboard for almost 8 years it could be time for it to go. (It was a wedding present from DH's wine-drinking relatives.)

My ironing board is in someone else's house holding up a shelf.

On the exceedingly rare occasion I need to iron something I fold a thick blanket onto the table.

Ironfloor269 I have a Vax steam mop and put a dash of ordinary multi surface cleaner in it! Still going strong after 3 years...

My most useless household item goes to the venetian blind duster - that's supposed to do 3 slats in one go. Does it fuck!

@AgentJohnson I'll second that - we thought it was going to be really useful and in practice it took ages and only warmed about the bottom 2mm of the bottle. Tried it once and then shoved it on the top of the cupboard and used a jug and hot water from the kettle. Damn thing was so Pointless it added £250 to the jackpot.

@disfordarkchocolate an insulted gravy boat

Not the egg slicer. Not only does it deal with eggs prepared by a cackhanded OH and beetroot without making him look rather like a serial killer at 7.05am when he's doing sandwiches - what other kitchen implement enables you to play a tiny little harp when you're there?

I think the pizza slicers that appear in starter packs of utensils are pointless. They aren't sharp enough to cut pizza and loiter in drawers, waiting to damage the fingers of all who enter in search of a teaspoon.

But the most useless? The mezzaluna. Borderline lethal, never gets used out of terror/self preservation and because if you need that much chopped herbs, you use scissors. Expensive. And pointless.

the egg slicer also slices mozarella balls nicely.
and I love to play a little tune on the harp

@BlueJava second the giant Tesco ones!

Plastic pizza wheel - just pulls all t he toppings off and doesn't cut the pizza

Ice lolly moulds. Lakeland convinced me encouraged by healthy eating pinterest pins that dc would love fresh fruit lollys instead of shop bought. This works only when you have a pfb as soon as the older ones have tasted icelands best they are not fobbed off with smoothie lollys and the youngest is not impressed at not having the same as the bigger ones