In order of uselessness :1. An Ice-Cream Maker.(Easier to buy it)2. A Teasmaid (You have to take the milk and sugar upstairs every night) 3. A George Forman contact grill.(Dries the food out especially steak) 4. Electric egg boiler (Easier to boil in pan) 4. Bread Maker.(Nice end product but easier to buy,besides you have to slice it) 5.Electric whisk with bowl(Nothing to wisk up). As you can see Im an avid buyer of useless appliances. and the most useful ? An egg decapitator,had it for years.Takes the top off boild eggs,and is far superior to banging the top with a spoon.He -Ha,Im a silly Billy.!

Useless search engines!!!:D

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51751

I once bought a rechargeable scrubbing brush, in fact I've still got it in the garage. It is the most useless item ever, but great for those who like cordless scubbing, any afficienado's out there, you can have it really cheap!

Originally posted by cgksheff
Useless search engines!!!:D

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51751

Appliance and Kitchen gadget are 2 completely seperate things ;)

Hmmm, can't think of any I don't use :confused:

Rice cooker
Magimix
Gas hair straighteners
Epilady :mad:
Plethora of power tools :D
Braun Quattro (chopper, whisk, blender thingy)
I even have a 'hygenic clipper' (nose-hair shaver) specifically for doing between the dog's paws - much safer than scissors :thumbsup:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54597

Hmm, reckon I must be the opposite from you Pattricia, as I love my ice-cream maker and bread maker, but can't imagine ever needing an egg decapitator.

We do have a sandwich toaster here that we've barely ever used, but we didn't buy it, it was on our wedding guest list, also a tiny food processor which was bought to make baby food, but we ended up using our bigger Magimix all the time instead.

I have been pretty happy with my gadgets. However, if I had to choose the most stupid one on the market it would have to be the OCTODOG! (http://www.stupid.com/stat/OCDG.html)

:P

Oh boy.

A sandwich toaster. This actually did work, but it was so small, the kids could eat the sandwiches faster than I could make them and things got ugly.

A yogurt maker. I spotted this at a garage sale. A steal at only $1. The fact that it was still pristine in it's original plastic wrapper and box with the $29.99 price tag circled in bold marker should have been a big red flag. After reading the instructions, and discovering that making yogurt involved the use of the oven, and getting up in the middle of the night to stir it, I decided that driving to the store to BUY yogurt was easier. I neatly repacked it in the box and sold it at my next garage sale. For $1.

One of those cookie shooter things that you load up with dough, and it's supposed to extrude the dough onto the cookie sheet in neat little shapes. Sort of like that Playdough toy, only the Playdough toy works better. The kids and I tried it. I got it from my sister in law (compulsive gift recycler) and I strongly suspect she got it from someone else and passed it along to me.

%*$#@*# useless iced tea maker. My husband bought this. It required so much ice, and made so little tea, I went back to boiling a pot of water on the stove and dropping in the teabags of my choice. Letting it steep, then pouring the tea into ice filled mason jars. That's the way my grandma did it.

Some appliances I can't live without. The bread maker. Besides any kind of bread we like, it makes wonderful dough for rolls, pizza, and cinnamon buns. Just drop in the ingredients, turn it on, and the machine does all the work and shuts off automatically.

The juicer. Use it everyday.

Waffle iron and coffee maker.

:) Sierra

It had to be one of those fondant-filled chocolate willies from the Ann Summers shop.

While it had no practical use I found that my horoscope for that week was spot - on when it stated that
"Mars will be in Uranus this week".... :hihi:

Originally posted by Sierra
A yogurt maker. I spotted this at a garage sale. A steal at only $1. The fact that it was still pristine in it's original plastic wrapper and box with the $29.99 price tag circled in bold marker should have been a big red flag. After reading the instructions, and discovering that making yogurt involved the use of the oven, and getting up in the middle of the night to stir it

As the saying goes:

A man will spend £20 for a £10 item he needs

A woman will spend £10 for a £20 item she doesn't need

That stupid vacuum pump thing, bloody useless.

Originally posted by Abdul
As the saying goes:

A man will spend £20 for a £10 item he needs

A woman will spend £10 for a £20 item she doesn't need

Men just don't understand. It was on SALE! ;)

:) Sierra

I would like to say my ex but think it's slightly off the subject as I didn't buy him.

hazel

I love a SALE sierrra! I always tell my other half, "i bought a skirt, and it should have been £80! wow! im so chuffed!" it doesnt actually matter that much about the current price because i just feel like i got such a bargain!

Originally posted by Chicago
I have been pretty happy with my gadgets. However, if I had to choose the most stupid one on the market it would have to be the OCTODOG! (http://www.stupid.com/stat/OCDG.html)

:P
Hmm that's pointless,

but more troubling is Why are they calling a sausage a "hot Dog" and what do they call hot dogs?

A hot dog in UK is a sausage in a small long bread stick which is sliced up one side and has some ketchup or onions in to be posh..!

When i was little my dad once bidded and won a electric razor for 50p off them con men on eastgate market at ingomells near skegg it lasted for about 1 minuiet then broke!!

Ive used my duck shaped pop corn maker once. It was an item I bought just to say Ive shopped on QVC

Anybody got a Dyson? :rolleyes: :hihi:

My Partner once bought a fake swiss army knife in Sheffield market for a £1. The corkscrew broke off in Australia so he took iit to an Australian market and complained and got $2 back.

hazel

Originally posted by Strix
Anybody got a Dyson? :rolleyes: :hihi:
Yup, we bought ours about 7 years ago, one of the best purchases we ever made.

Somebody came over last night though, took one look at at and said "Dyson!" and rolled their eyes just like Strix. I gather the later Dysons may not be quite as good as ours.

Speaking of electric razors, I bought a beard trimmer off Ebay. It's got two settings: "Grizzly Adams" and "stubble, what stubble?" and when it's running it gives off the same "burning electrics" smell that you get from the motors on Scalextrix cars.

I've also got a dyson and it's fantastic.

I once got given this thing which I have never found a use for, although I had a lodger who used to use it for a while, It's called an Iron. Apparently people used to have then to make their clothes clean in the 1970s or something..

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I once got given this thing which I have never found a use for, although I had a lodger who used to use it for a while, It's called an Iron. Apparently people used to have then to make their clothes clean in the 1970s or something..
We have one of those too! Somebody told us that they are useless unless you also have something called an "ironingboard". I mean, how crap is that, they sell you something and then you get home to find there's a part missing! I've a mind to call trading standards!

One of those mini whisks for coffee/milk. Only a couple of quid but still money down the drain, lol.

WM

Originally posted by DanSumption
We have one of those too! Somebody told us that they are useless unless you also have something called an "ironingboard". I mean, how crap is that, they sell you something and then you get home to find there's a part missing! I've a mind to call trading standards!

Well I know what an ironing board is for. When I play gigs I put my keyboard on top of it. In fact I have one at the practice studio and one at home so I don't have too much to carry..

A magic potatoe pealer thingy which gouged have the spud away.

And a thing for rubbing the wax off the car. you need to plug it in the mains a even though it spins roung you still have to rub like buggary to get the car shiney.

Another crap thingy has to be the hot dog steamer gadget with bun toatsing probe. Its only function is to take up space behind the toasted sarnie maker that rarely gets used

Just noticed the top line on my screen when Im looking at this thread say's

The most useless thing you've ever bought..Microsoft Internet Explorer.


Saying nowt. :hihi: :hihi:

Most useless thing i bought was this when they first came out Goodmans Freeview Box (http://ws4.richersounds.com/common/productpictures/medium_302127.jpg) it keeps changing channels on me, i know it needs the software updating before anyone reminds me.

Second useless item a Dyson especially made to pick up animal hairs.....works great until it packs up working after 2 mins.

Don't know wether this falls into the category of an appliance... well actually it doesn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

I once got a 'Homer Simpson Fridge Buddy'. It was a small statue of Homer that sat in your fridge. When you opened the door, the light would activate it and it would shout;

'Oooh Donughts'

or

'MMMmmmmm Chocolate'

in a very tinny version of Homer's voice.

All very funny until you are sneaking to the fridge at 3 in the morning, having convinced your partner that you're on a diet (and on the wagon) only to have the silence interrupted by,

'Doh!'

Originally posted by Deavon
I once got a 'Homer Simpson Fridge Buddy'. It was a small statue of Homer that sat in your fridge. When you opened the door, the light would activate it and it would shout;

'Oooh Donughts'

or

'MMMmmmmm Chocolate'

in a very tinny version of Homer's voice.
Must be related to "most useless appliance my daughter ever bought me" (and there's some competition on that front, believe me): a keyring with a picture of Homer on, which uttered four different cries in rotation, all so tinny as to be completely incomprehensible (I remember actually watching an episode of the Simpsons once and thinking "THAT'S IT! That's what Homer's saying on my keyring!")

The thing is too fat to comfortably fit into a pocket along with keys, and on the few times I've taken it out I always set it off accidentally at the most embarrasing moments. Which, I guess, is in the true spirit of Homer.

Originally posted by hj dary
Just noticed the top line on my screen when Im looking at this thread say's

The most useless thing you've ever bought..Microsoft Internet Explorer.
:D

Mine says "The most useless appliance you've ever bought. - Mozilla Firefox".

Originally posted by DanSumption
Somebody came over last night though, took one look at at and said "Dyson!" and rolled their eyes just like Strix.
:hihi: I was referring to this thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54196) by Chocotiger Dan ;)
(but I still don't like the things - experience from selling DC02s.... and taking the damn things back)

The most useless appliance I ever bought was a faulty computer which I acquired from my then business partner (apparently still selling computers in Sheffield).

The computer system was subsequently alleged to have been hardloaded with unlicensed operating system and application software. Many years later I learned the finance agreement was unenforceable and non-executable. Quite recently I learned via disclosures I forcibly obtained from my then solicitor that the finance company had legal duties to me via Consumer Credit Act 1974 to rectify their non-executable agreement within 12 months which never happened.

Instead this finance company, a major financial institution, had the damn cheek to default my credit references for many years, threatened to sue me many times on an invalid contract and acted in bad faith to many agreements including terms of agreement for mediation which they cancelled on short notice and told me to issue proceedings :rant:

The IT supplier shut up shop, started a new company at the same premises with the same staff selling the same kit. Within 12 months of that phoenix rising from the dust, he did a bunk with £43,000 due to HM Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue pluss £xxxx K to trade suppliers. Apparently he may still be trading in Sheffield an environs under the original company name. As a result of my later research activities I came to learn that this cad had a string of CCJs for substantial sums of money.

No-one to whom I reported seemed able or willing to take up the cudgels on my behalf. :rant:

Hard as they tried, the offending finance company failed to get a gagging order and I've done my best to ensure everyone who's anyone has been hearing about it ever since. :D

My most useless appliance - an electric toothbrush. Hate it. Don't use the thing.

I do love my kitchen appliances though. Got a Kitchenaid Artisan Mixer [in red], Kitchenaid Blender [also in red], Dualit Toaster [white w/ panels of red], Gaggia Syncrony Logic super-auto espresso machine, Cannon 1000mm range

Recently bought an Braun Activator 8595 shaver and a Eurocave climate controlled wine cabinet. Don't you just love gadgets?

My Granddad baught me a mini deep fat fryer...the basket is only as big as a small tea cup!...you can just get about a dozen chips in it...if you stand them all up to attention!
....But i like it all the same ;)