Nomination for worst kitchen appliance, ever.

[cerealqueen]

We currently have a Smeg fridge freezer (looks lovely, absolutely USELESS, looks over basic functionality, and bought pre children, obviously ).

The top compartment of the freezer gets completely iced up very quickly and then the door wont quite close but you think it has, then by the time you realise, half the food in the freezer has defrosted. That is what we woke up to this morning. The worst item we have ever bought.

I hate wasting food, even worse when its home made stuff that has to get binned. GRRRRRRRRRRR.

Its was bloody expensive and not its not even frost free.

We need a under counter frost free freezer, any recommendations please!

Any other contenders for useless appliances we should avoid in the future?

Smeg oven (is there a pattern here?). Turning off the power to it on a regular basis made the LCD display stop working. We'd have managed without, exept you couldn't know what temperature the oven is - no good for baking.

We had to have the control unit replaced. £330. Would almost have been cheaper to buy a new oven, especially since the replacement display is on the blink again.

The rest of the oven isn't too bad, actually, though.

Juicer - took ages to prepare fruit and literally 15 minutes to clean the bits before it was ok to go in dishwasher. Use a liquidiser instead and get far moor goodness anyway!

Juicer for me as well - took a bloody age to clean - used it three times and gave it away.

I am glad I read this thread. Been pondering a smeg fridge for aesthetic reasons!

I don't have a worst one, I probably don't spend enough time in the kitchen to get irked enough. Best one, hands down, is the dishwasher.

Dh was building a block of swanky appartments a few years ago. He had the chance to get a Smeg fridge at a really low price, any colour he I wanted. We were even doing our kitchen up at the time and the rotter wouldn't let me have one. He said they were a joke, and even at a fraction of the usual price still a ripoff because they were so useless.

But they're so purdy!

:(

I can't have the word SMEG in my kitchen.

Sorry - I just can't...............

my dad

Woodyallen

Is he like my DP - can burn water?

He never even tried. Lord love him.

Bread machine - suspect may have been a brick maker in former life

Oh whomovedmychocolate, sorry to read that, the bread machine I bought has been a good buy, but I have to leave it on the counter or else it won't get used. And I have to use the electronic scales as the normal ones aren't as accurate and for some reason, that makes a difference so accurate scales= yummy bread, normal scales=bricks.

Cheggers - as a fridge its fine, and pretty....very roomy and does the job. Its the freezer bit of it which is rubbish. You can get full sized fridges and then have another frost free freezer if you have the room.....

We bought a Beko frost free in the end. Its great, a bit more noisy as its frost free and whatever component it has to do that make it a bit noisier but we have the washing machine on constantly so its no bother.

Yep, juicer. Nice idea but the bother of cleaning is too much. Saw one where you could line the bit where the fruit slodge goes in. Then all you would have to do is lift it out like a hoover bag, now I'd like that. Mmm, wonder if I could line the very old one we have with foil or something? (off to investigate)

I agree with the Smeg voters. Look good but not worth the money. They were considered trendy when I bought one but like cheggersplayspop we chose it for aesthetics. Thankfully it's now gone.

I don't really like my American two door fridge and will go back to a standard tall thin fridge freezer when it needs replacing.

Juicers are fucking ridiculous aren't they...yes, I'm going to go to the shop, walk past the cartons and cartons and bottles of juice that are quite reasonably priced and of usually good quality. Buy several pounds of fruit, spend hours peeling and de-pipping / de-coring it, churn through noisy juicer. Drink 50ml of brownish greenish froth. Spend several hours washing up various parts of juicer. Give away on Freegle and run back to Del Monte with open arms.

Also, you only ever need 2 knives. One big, one small. Job done.

Juicer - agree. Didn't even get mine out the box.

I have recently been given a Seal A Meal, which I thought would be a bit shite, but is in fact a rather smashing item to have in kitchen.

I have lots of 'boil-in-the-bag' sealed bags of veg in the freezer now, for ease when I have no time. And have even vacuum sealed some documents I didn't want ruined!

But they'll be ruined when you put them in the saucepan and start heating them up surely.

I don't understand.

What the veg or the documents?!

I have nominations for two of the best things bought recently - a vileda super broom - the amount of stuff it picks up is staggering and the Gtech rechargeable carpet sweeper - reduced our need to hoover, and fab for a quick going over of the carpets when you don't have time to hoover.
Like the sound of seal a meal!

My SMEG (yes the theme goes on and on!), combi oven and microwave, cost a flipping fortune (over £1,000) it's a full size oven with a microwave, the microwave is rubbish, no turntable to cold/hot spots in food and the oven contantly overheats, trips the thermostat and the whole thing turns off, can never make a roast dinner in it as it doesn't stay on long enough :(

It's this one just incase anyone is silly enough to consider buying one!