What Is The Most Useless Gadget You Have Ever Bought?

[Jackdaw33]

40 years ago I bought a Breville toasted sandwich maker. What a waste of time, space and money. Used it three times then it got binned.

[Cloverjo]

I had an onion chopper. You put half an onion in it, pushed the handle up and down as the blade rotated. It must much harder work than a knife.

[kvalidir]

Ah well actually Jack the bucket potato peeler belonged to my parents ( Dad got on alright with it) I sort of inherited it, and we are a huge family, with at that time somewhere between 12 and 20 people in the house most of the time.

[DTCwordfan]

kval's family must run a chippy......

[kvalidir]

My family would eat it all if we did ... ;-)

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

A metal detector which detected everything but metal! Brilliant at discovering buttons, broken bricks and worms.

[Mamyalynne]

All types of items suddenly emerge when you go to clear out a drawer - melon baller,butter curler,crinkle chip cutter and corn on the cob forks.

Also, hands up who has a toffee hammer despite not having bought slab toffee foe years?

Me.

[emmie]

a George Foreman grill - used it for a few times but it got so the cleaning of it took longer and longer, so that went in the bin.

[Tilly2]

Today, I have had a new gadget delivered, a Brabantia jar opener. It looks very complicated and I don't know if I will be able to open a jar of beetroot with it.

[Mamyalynne]

Wear a hazard suit Tilly, that beetroot! Dangerous stuff.

[Tilly2]

I always open them in the sink, Mamya. Less dangerous there.

[Mamyalynne]

Good move.

[emmie]

this is the best laugh i have had for ages, thank you so much, shows you we are all susceptible to good salesmen and women, or that we forget we have to clean it after use.

[Jahulaye]

I’m surprised that no one has said the most useless gadget and sometimes is the most useful gadget that can do all those jobs and more...

A man, LOOL.

[emmie]

tilly
try and tap the side of the lid with something like wooden spoon, it releases the air i think, and the lid should open quite naturally

[Mamyalynne]

Jahu, oh no - my interview procedure is very rigorous.

The useless need not apply.

[Tilly2]

Thanks Emmie, I'll give that a go.