Every year, more and more various kitchen gadgets appear on the world market. But only some of them are truly functional, and the second are frankly useless, but at the same time very cute. Novate.ru offers a small selection of such devices so that you can independently decide whether you need such devices in your kitchen.
Surely every person has a thing at home that was presented to him in a fit of enthusiasm and unearthly love. The item refuses to be cute and cool, but the desire to use it is enough for exactly a couple of times, after which this magical kitchen gadget is sent to the farthest shelf or closet. These are the accessories for cooking that will be discussed below.
1. Coffee Joulies
This device consists of several metal capsules that are shaped like coffee beans. Their superpower lies in the fact that they can keep any drinks hot, without losing taste, for up to five hours - a kind of thermo mug at the minimum. Coffee Joulies will be very useful for people who make coffee or tea, and then safely forget about it, because you can pour a drink into a cup and sip it intermittently for at least the whole day. But for the rest of the people, the device may turn out to be absolutely useless.
2. Egg mold
If you love making unusual breakfasts (and generally have breakfast, and not limited to a cup of coffee in the morning), then an egg mold may come in handy. It can be square, round, heart-shaped, and even skull-shaped. Using such a device is very simple - just put a hot boiled egg in a mold and wait a few minutes until it acquires the desired appearance.
3. Knives for peppers and bananas
Do you like stuffing, canning, adding pepper to salads? Then you know how lazy it is sometimes to get the core out of it. Trying to simplify the task for housewives, manufacturers introduced a knife for removing seeds from peppers. According to the description, it should perform its function in the blink of an eye, while leaving smooth edges in the resulting hole. However, in reality, everything is not so rosy - you still have to get all the seeds that this magic device could not remove, and the holes are not as smooth and beautiful as in the picture. It is much easier, faster and more economical to use an ordinary thin knife.
The same can be said for banana cutters, which are sold at “ridiculous prices” stores. Seeing such a device, we immediately think that it will definitely come in handy in the kitchen, because it is very important to cut the fruit into perfectly even, identical, micrometer-accurate circles. It is not entirely clear why this cannot be done with an ordinary knife and what is the essence of the difference whether one piece is larger than the other or not. Alas, this idea comes to mind after the acquisition was made, and we played with it a couple of times. Money down the drain, but the circles are beautiful.
4. Quesadilator
The principle of operation of the quesadilator is the same as that of the waffle iron. But if you can't make a beautiful curly waffle without a special device, then you may well doubt the usefulness of a quesadilator. In fact, this device is a double frying pan that fries the cake from above and below, and also divides it into even triangular portions. And if you can't argue with the first half of the description, then it will work out very well with the second - you will still have to cut the cake into triangular pieces on your own, armed with a sharp knife. That is, in fact, this kitchen gadget fries a cake, and this is where its functions end. So is it worth spending money on the device or is it better to use a regular frying pan?
5. Egg counter
The device has several functions: after synchronizing with a smartphone, it informs you how many eggs are left in the refrigerator, sends a notification to your phone that it is time to buy a new dozen, and also highlights the egg that was put into the cell before anything else, so that you know - its expiration date will soon come to an end. If you cannot imagine your life without omelets, often cook desserts and constantly face a situation when eggs are needed, but they are not in the refrigerator, then it is quite possible that the counter will come in handy. In other cases, it is unlikely.
6. Currant holder
Smory is a traditional American delicacy that is prepared as follows: you need to buy crackers, break them into halves, put on each small piece of chocolate and marshmallows, and cover with a second cracker. After that, pour water into the holder, put the crackers, clamp them with special presses and send them to the microwave. Voila - in a couple of minutes you have a mini-dessert with melted chocolate. The question is: does this make sense? Yes, it will be delicious, but somehow there are too many body movements for the sake of such a result.
7. A fork that enhances the flavor
What about a cutlery that tricks your taste buds? I just want to voice a phrase from the cartoon "Winter in Prostokvashino" - to what technology has come! So, the principle of operation of the device is simple: you press a certain button and the food located on the fork becomes sweet or salty, although in reality it is not. Probably, the device would be useful for those people who monitor blood sugar levels.
Interesting fact: The original version of the fork was modernized, after which a special recess for fragrant drops appeared in it. Want a cake but eat mashed potatoes? Put a couple of drops on a fork for a honey cake puree.
8. Talking plug
Do you think a fork that tricks your taste buds is the strangest thing that could be? Then you just haven't heard of a talking cutlery. Yes, yes, if you eat too fast, the fork swears, or rather, lights up and vibrates. You can monitor the speed of eating a dish using a special application installed on your phone.
9. Slicer
It is very strange to see in the kitchen next to the coffee maker a roaring monster that takes up a huge amount of space and consumes a lot of electricity, called a "slicer". You can cut cheese and sausage, which, by the way, is very high in calories and not at all healthy, in the supermarket. If you forget to do this, in the kitchen there is always a cutting board and a sharp knife at hand, armed with which you can cut the necessary products in a matter of minutes. Yes, it may not be so smooth, subtle and beautiful, but you are not sending these pieces to the exhibition, in fact!
10. Apple peeler
Visually, the device resembles a meat grinder, originally from the USSR, which is attached to the table. All you need to do is to plant the apple on a long screw that will rotate and use a blade to cut the peel from the fruit. If you were faced with the task of peeling a huge number of apples, you might think about purchasing such a device. However, it is unlikely that you had to clean more than two dozen at a time, and you certainly do not carry out this procedure every day. It is better to arm yourself with an ordinary vegetable peeler or an ordinary knife - nothing will peel off the fruit as thinly and gently as you do.
11. Cooker
Probably, the manufacturers considered that neither an ordinary saucepan nor a multicooker could cope with such a complex procedure as cooking porridge. This is what the cooker was created for. Alas, there is nothing special and supernatural in it, so you will have to perform standard manipulations: add cereal, salt, pepper, pour water and set a timer. Cooking a dish takes as long as it would take to cook in a saucepan, if not more. The question is: why spend money on a special device? So we think that it is not necessary. The same multicooker will be much more practical, functional and versatile.
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