Your worst kitchen purchase

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Everyone's got one. Something you bought that you thought would be cool or useful, made a debut on the day of purchase and hasn't seen the light of day since. Worst of all, it was expensive.

Mine's probably a £25 clay cooking pot. Used once and it's such a ***** to clean and prepare that it's useless. Still taking up a shed load of space in the cupboard too.

Hate to say it but our £56 Le Creuset griddle pan is pretty redundant too, though it does get some forced use because of its price. For pretty much every application our normal Tefal pan is better and it doesn't smoke the flat out either.

Yours?
 
The wife... *badum tishhh* (made better by being single)

In reality the tajine, made an amazing meal with it, just a pig to cook with.
 
Similar to OP, a ceramic tagine. Can't be used on the stove to start off so need to start in a pan and then transfer to the tagine....or just do the whole process in one of the two le creuset cast iron casseroles we already have

Usually research purchases but this was an impulse buy, it was only cheap but it takes up a lot of space.

d_brennen said:
I keep falling for cheap garlic crushers that last ~1 year :(
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I haven't managed to break this one yet, usually do. The way the metal is shaped leads me to believe it will last, you can't really see from the pic but there's a stamped "basket" that sort of sits in there. They had them in store.

http://www.tesco.com/direct/go-cook..._cmp=ppc_g__&gclid=CLPo89KCxLgCFfQetAodWAQAtQ
 
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I just use a mini-grater / mandolin for my garlic.

I've got both a smoothie maker and another juicer which have hardly ever seen the light of day. Cost me loads as well.
 
I have a hand held blender/wand type thing, used it about 3 times before I decided chunky curry/soup was better than smoothies, but it was only about a fiver so I'm not too heartbroken.

Garlic I find is actually less hassle and less messy if you just peel it and slice it with a small veggie knife.
 
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ive not used this for ages.. maybe not for a year and only bought it ~18 months ago
but to be fair this thread is making me want to get it back into action, it does make great cheese n ham toasties :)
 
Bread maker. I think I've made four loaves in eight years. It's moved house with us three times.

My Le Cruset griddle is also fairly redundant. I just can't be bothered with it.
 
George Foreman - don't use it and don't like it.
Juicer may be but i do like like, makes great juice.
Aeropress - why did I buy that when i have an espresso machine i have no idea, was going to use it at work but just not going to happen.
 
Anything le crueset

Too big too heavy too delicate

Fantastic waste of good money, give me my stellar stainless set any day and a tefal frying pan
 
Slow cooker, personally I love the things however we never use it....

Best extravagantish purchase would be a panini press.
 
My Dad gave me Krupps coffee / expresso machine. Never been used. Has bits missing and has just sat on the worktop for 2 years.

I asked the other-halfs Dad for a blender one year for Xmas. That was a mistake. He bought us some kind of Kenwood all in one juice bar thing that's a nonsense. Impossible to clean, never mind use.

Other than that, the worst thing I've bought is my kitchen. Unfortunately it came with my house and looks quite nice. But in reality it's an MFI abomination that irritates me to high heaven every time I cook more than a pizza or a heat a bowl of soup. Nothing works as it should, if it works at all.
 
My girlfriend's parents bought us a le creuset griddle pan on a whim because I was twittering about wanting one for steak. Now I much prefer doing my steak in a flat pan. The guilt :(
 
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