Your kitchen should have the right tools.
It may not come as a big surprise, but Im a kitchen nerd.
But while a new air fryer or wok might deserve such excitement, not every kitchen tool deserves it.
There are some tools out there vying for your precious counter space and theyre total duds.
Well, there are some issues.
It only offers one form of stirring.The stirrer only moves around one path in the pot.
My arm power is free.
Itsloud.Its a hard plastic gadget that chatters around the pan at three different intensities.
Any notion of peace and quiet youd like in the kitchen is violently tossed out the window.
This doesnt even address the elephant in the kitchenstirring isnt hard!
Its one of the easiest, no-skill required parts of cooking.
Indeed, some folks, including myself, find stirring a pot of comfort food to be rather therapeutic.
There are very few dishes that require constant stirring and something like risotto would be too thick anyway.
Ill just stick with a spoon, thanks.
An avocado slicer
Avocados have perplexed many eager eaters because of their soft flesh and secured pit.
Someone out there decided that we all need a tool to split, pit, and slice an avocado.
Although somewhat dull, its still uncomfortable to have sharp plastic press into your hand.
Instead of getting clean slices of avocado, you end up with mashed up strips.
That works for guacamole, but its certainly not as precise as a knife.
Then cut it in fine or thick slices with the same knife.
A breakfast-sandwich maker
I always give so-called uni-taskers the benefit of the doubt.
Mostly because they might be capable of way more than the label says it is.
Take the waffle maker for example.
Limiting its talent to waffles would be a sad under-use.
Its one of the mostversatile cooking appliancesyou can have in your kitchen.
The breakfast sandwich maker, however, is mostly a goofy tool.
It looks cute in the picturesa bit like a kids toybut in practice, youve got an adult headache.
I hope you like a broken yolk.
The fruit or veggie must be the right size to be pushed through, and not too hard.
If you try smashing raw beets through the dicer, youll end up with a broken chopper pretty quickly.
You might have to cut anyway.Again, the tool functions under the right circumstances.
You cant put a whole russet through the dicing blades; its too big.
If youve already started cutting with a knife, why not dice the rest of the potato?
Over time, the blades will dull, and hard-to-reach corners will get gunky.
For bigger jobs, an appliance likea food processoris worth the money.
This chunky, two-part doodad has an inner section where you place a bagel.
But as a person with a small kitchen and limited storage space, I dislike how bulky it is.
One size only.Like the avocado slicer, this tool can’t be adjusted for the size of the item.
Fugghetaboudit, they don’t even fit inside the holder.
I get it, and I love this for you.
But getting familiar with safe horizontal cuts isn’t terribly difficult or time-consuming.
