Poorly designed things that make using them difficult?

[Whatisthisfuckery]

Spice jars, who in hell has designed the dimensions of spice jars? What measurement of spices does one usually find in a recipe? Teaspoons. What can you not quite fit in a spice jar? A fucking teaspoon. Whose bloody bright idea was it to design a jar that makes it hard to dispense the most common measurement of the ingredient contained within?

Ahh, that’s better, I needed that rant.

Go on, rant away. What poorly designed thing makes you angry inside?

Pyrex measuring jugs.

You had two jobs, measuring jug, and you effed up both of them. Neither can you accurately measure nor pour without going everywhere.

Kipsy ....... rehydrate? What is this alchemy of which you speak? I've binned so many dried up packets of wipes. Do share

@Northernsoullover

Childproof washing pods containers. I can't open them. You need 3 hands! One per corner to depress the tab and one for the middle. Now my older teen and I open them together and I decant them. Bloody nightmare design

Thank god. I thought it was just me

I’ve been ok with my usual pods, but recently purchased the Surf 3 in 1 pods as my usual have been out of stock and it was like trying to get through the Krypton Factor trying to open the damn thing!

I was like “I only have one pair of hands! This needs two people to open it dammit!!”

The posters who mention shampoo and conditioner bottles and lid issues. Buy a reusable plunger. Tigi do them for their big bottles and Amazon for smaller bottles.
I have wrist and hand pain so will find ways around so many fiddly problems.
Like using an electric can opener, or my bug blue can / bottle opener thingy.

I hate my Kitchen-Aid food processor.
My husband had a bonus and asked me what I'd like as a treat.
I'd lusted after this particular food processor as it has a wide feed tube so that you can put a whole, large, say, potato in to shred etc...
The bastard device will shred half a potato then grind to a halt, as the remaining half lodges itself around the rim of the chamber which alerts the sensor to cut out. Same with carrots, onions, cabbage and so on. You have to dismantle the lid, with a Herculean force and remove the partially chopped food, then reassemble for just the same to happen with the next potato or whatever.
Oh, and the sensor is so damned sensitive, that you end up assembling then reassembling the lid that you end up swearing and end up getting the old box grater out to finish the job properly.
Grrr...

Highchairs and Car Seats bloody nightmare to clean and take apart!

Thank you to the milk pan afficionados - I know where to look now!

@grassisjeweled

Why can't you brown stuff in a slow cooker? Means you use a pan AND the sodding slow cooker

I have a sear & stew slow cooker; brown on the hib, then straight onto slow cook

*hob

My new dishwasher, in fact any appliance that has the touch sensor buttons instead of an actual button to press. My dishwasher I stand there with my finger on the "on" button forever like a fucking twat with it not switching on, but if you accidentally brush the button whilst standing at the worktop it'll not only switch on but start itself on a 3hrs 50 min wash! Plus, the bastard beeps like a humpty when it finishes. One beep fine, but this just goes right through you & doesnt stop till you open it. God forbid you dont want to empty it immediately its finished.

Also, my corded shark stick hoover. The sticky up bit where you wind the cord around is half way down the thin stick bit, meaning you cant actually stick the stick down the narrow crevices between cabinets and the sofa as it gets stuck but the bastard thing constantly hooks itself into the pockets of my trousers or hoodie. Not to mention it block ups constantly

@lovablequalities

Pyrex measuring jugs.

You had two jobs, measuring jug, and you effed up both of them. Neither can you accurately measure nor pour without going everywhere.

I was so annoyed by the new design (with the red lettering and a spout which isn't a spout) that I hunted out two old ones (with the blue lettering and the actual spout) half-litre and one-litre sizes on eBay and bought them. They were about the same price as a new one, and they work.

You do still have to look at them at their own level to get an accurate measurement, but at least you can see where the lines are when they're blue.

My cars front headlight unit.

Impossible to change a bulb just my popping off the back as not enough room for your hand. Need to take out whole unit, which means getting a mechanic to change a bloody bulb (cheaper than Halfords)

So it's not just my Pyrex jug that dribbles everywhere. I have to drag out my old chemistry trick of pouring down a stick of some sort (eg knife or back of a spoon) just to get more liquid where I want it than all over the worktops.

I have a smaller Pyrex jug that does pour but the scales aren't printed straight so give different readings on either side.

I've bought an oxo jug.

[quote CaptainCallisto]@AlanThePig - I used to work in pharmacy. If you ask, they should be able to decant all your tablets into bottles. We used to have a couple of people we did this for as we frequently had no choice in which brand tablets (and therefore packaging) we could get. If they're a decent pharmacy they shouldn't have any issue with doing this for you.[/quote]
I asked my old pharmacy this. Girl went into the back and came back out with a bottle which she handed me with a shrug.

I changed to an online one and they made a note to send paper wherever possible so 90% of the time it’s all good and the 10% it’s not I rope in DH. Thing is, summer and warmer weather my hands function a lot better so I feel a bit of a fraud asking for help when I don’t always need it.

@EdgedInBlue

My cars front headlight unit. Impossible to change a bulb just my popping off the back as not enough room for your hand. Need to take out whole unit, which means getting a mechanic to change a bloody bulb (cheaper than Halfords)

We had a car like that years ago. I recall I’d left DH on the drive trying to replace the bulb and gone to visit my Mum. 2 hours later I came back and he was in the same spot, just a lot angrier.

I leaned over, put my hand into the wheel arch, through the tiniest of holes and popped the bulb in. His face was utterly priceless.

My old landy the whole headlamp is realised by two bolts and pops out. So simple.

Crisp bags. Why are they so noisy!!! Brings all the kids running

Tesco own brand "resealable" wrap packets. Impossible to open in the first place and the 2mm rim sure as hell doesn't reseal!

@Northernsoullover

Childproof washing pods containers. I can't open them. You need 3 hands! One per corner to depress the tab and one for the middle. Now my older teen and I open them together and I decant them. Bloody nightmare design

This! Every time I say "this must have been designed by a man."

@PickAChew

So it's not just my Pyrex jug that dribbles everywhere. I have to drag out my old chemistry trick of pouring down a stick of some sort (eg knife or back of a spoon) just to get more liquid where I want it than all over the worktops.

www.wilko.com/en-uk/pyrex-025l-measuring-jug/p/0435751 has a proper spout.

For a long time the edges or the spout were level with the rest of the rim, which is completely useless for pouring, but I think they've had so many complaints they may have gone back to a proper spout -- just with the handle that catches on your sleeve and throws the contents all over the work-surface! Grrr.

Whereas the old ones had a decent god-fearing handle like a mug:
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/763283006/pyrex-measuring-jug-blue-colour-markings?ga_order=most_relevant&organic_search_click=1

Those reusable coffee cups with the flexible silicon lids that expand with the heat from the drink and you end up with coffee dribbling down you when you try to drink it.

@mommybunny

All skincare in opaque jars and bottles where you can’t tell how much you have left.

Most skincare goes off/oxidises with sunlight.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime I may just have to completely replace my useless jugs, then! The two I have are about 15 years old.

And I remember the old ones. Grew up with them.

Our kitchen cupboards. Imagine, if you will, a cupboard at a right angle to the cooker. If you're facing the cupboard, the cooker is on your left. You open the door, and the space there at the front is not even wide enough to fit a dinner plate - yet the cupboard goes all the way to the left (when you're looking at it front on) so it reaches the wall beside the cooker. And someone, in their wisdom, put the switch for the cooker at the back of the bottom shelf. We have 4 of these cupboards 😤