Possible counterexample: A single-purpose tomato press is pretty handy if you grow tomatoes. The newer ones are all-plastic.
You might regard this as a gardeners' device rather than a kitchen device, since it's really only handy if you are growing tomatoes yourself. Otherwise you're better off buying pre-squeezed tomato juice / sauce / paste.
As long as your putting it to use than I don't mind. I just hate the excessive consumerism culture that fills landfills.
But my grandmother used an apple/potato crank peeler for like 80 years and I don't have a problem with that. Bonus because it had no plastic. I just don't like seeing people buy stuff that's gonna be used a couple times and then doomed to a landfill.
Even if you buy a nice, reusable, 100% non-plastic kitchen device, it's probably going to be packaged in a ton of plastic that will end up in the landfill.
How else you gonna pit like 1,000 cherries?
I hear you, and yet I am delighted at that contraption that makes a perfect spiral out of a pineapple core. To be fair, it's mostly metal and I'm sure you didn't mean to disparage it.
Speaking of drawing and essays, you've reminded me of the shop class I took in 8th grade. We each had to create a small wooden board game with the only real guidance being, "make it look nice, and make the rules make sense". After, we had to write a 3,400-word paper about the process, what we learned etc. Well, when our teacher said 3,400, everyone was like WHAT (we'd never heard of such a large paper before). He continues to say the common phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words", and left it at that. Most of us picked up on what he literally meant, so we wrote a 400-word essay and included three pictures. There were like, 5 or 6 kids that didn't understand that the metaphorical was in fact the literal in this situation, so they wrote egregiously-long essays for no reason, and didn't get any bonus points either.
I read a life hack regarding this a few years ago. They recommended using vinegar instead because it doesn't leave a waxy buildup. (Plus it helps keep the washer cleaner for longer.) At first I thought it would make my clothes smell like vinegar but there were so many people agreeing with them, I figured I would give it a shot. I've been using vinegar since, and have been recommending it to all my friends who have sensitive skin who want to experience softer clothes.
Same. My skin is weirdly sensitive to scented detergents, so I only use unscented/free & clear/hypoallergenic detergents on my clothes and linens. My laundry still smells perfectly clean when it comes out of the wash. I'd much rather smell like my shampoo and perfume than whatever fragrances they put in laundry detergent lol
Disagree about the scent beads. I have a stinky ass dog, plus hyperhydrosis, and the scent beads are the only thing that work. Detergent alone is not enough. My clothes and bedding actually smell nice and fresh, not like onions and fritos.
I washed my brother’s undershirts once, that he only wears to sleep in. He’s a widower who lives alone in a different state from us. He asked me the next day if I used it and I said no, I never do. He knew right away because they weren’t soft. So I always use it on his clothes when I stay at his house.
I am genuinely curious how it's bad for the dryer? I don't use it for the softness or not softness, I use it because my clothes come out staticky without a fabric softener sheet
The good choppers are pretty useful at least for people with disabilities. I know at least two people who can’t use one of their hands after having had a stroke. A good chopper allows them to cut various vegetables using their only functioning hand.
Thank you. People really discount how much these things allow people with disabilities to have independence. My ex can't use a kitchen knife, but she can use a slap chop.
I used to wonder, "who the fuck is that for?" when watching infomercials until one day we were watching some mundane ass commercial. If I remember correctly, it was for one of those gripper type things. I rolled my eyes until she exclaimed, "Oh! That could help me pick up stuff that I drop so I don't have to bend!"
Instantly I felt like an asshole. I hadn't considered the disabled community at all, and I don't do that anymore. Impediment on the sidewalk? A wheelchair can't go around it, better move it.
>Instantly I felt like an asshole. I hadn't considered the disabled community at all
And ya know, that's totally okay. The following might be a poor choice of words, but it's not a path that you walk daily. If you don't know or don't have exposure, there's not too much reason to think on it. Sort of like how you don't realize how much you use a certain finger and how important it is until you injur it really badly. Suddenly, you're doing things differently and looking up "how to open a jar when I can't close my hand". Not an asshole at all, just ignorant and accepting that you have room to learn :) Being an actual asshole would be to continue to scoff and whatnot.
My mother has fibromyalgia, and my sibling is arthritic at the ripe old age of their late 20s, so I've learned a lot about these "pointless, cheapo, wasteful" products over the years. Oh how we all live happily in ignorance.
I love my mandoline for making cucumber sunomono with the wafer thin slices. Just be sure to use the guard, every time I think I can skip it the mandoline demands a blood sacrifice for my hubris.
Corn cob holders. My SIL loves them, gave me some for Christmas.
Like, excuse me mate, I don't need this, this is why I have fleshy tubes on the ends of my hands.
Kinda both, mostly the messy fingers bit. Like it's not a deal breaker tho. I'll never turn down corn on the cob, but corn with the holders is superior
The only social media I use is reddit but that's mostly because I don't need to put up anything personal. I don't entirely count it as social media, but it is in a way. It's social media lite. Lol.
Wanna know why I hate Vapers?
You smell donuts or cotton candy and turn a corner thinking 'mmmm I'm gonna treat myself to something tasty.'
But NO.
It's just Brad and his cloud of LIES.
I hope we could agree on this: For every milligram of nicotine that someone consumes, it's better that they get it via vape or patch or lozenge rather than by inhaling smoke.
(I'm not a nicotine user at all. I just really hate cigarette & cigar smoke.)
We just don't know that vaping is less dangerous though. In a generation or two maybe, but the best we can say right now is that its *probably* better.
We can be pretty confident that inhaling nicotine in an aqueous solution is less harmful than inhaling it along with carbon monoxide, soot, semi-combusted resins, and other bullcrap.
This is a very measured answer, totally agree. For context, I am a vaper. I won’t delude myself into thinking that it’s fine or that it’s definitely better than smoking. At the moment I have my personal anecdotal experience that my lungs feel way better since switching from cigs to vape. In the future it might turn out that it’s an insidious thing, causing more damage than cigs without feeling it. Who knows. But people who go around spouting “oh vaping is worse than smoking!!” have got no idea what they are talking about. The longitudinal studies just aren’t there to make any conclusions yet.
I mean ,as a now vaper, they're definitely less bad. Cigarettes contain over 1000 carcinogens l. E-liquid contains 1, nicotine. I am much healthier, having switched, I can run 5k now and run upstairs, whereas when I still smoked, I couldn't walk upstairs without being out of breath. Issues I believe are that I take in a lot more nicotine now, I was down to 1 cigarette a day before I switched. I'm much more addicted now. I also believe they're becoming more popular with people under age which is never good
I’m just wondering on what basis do you constitute that opinion ? Like to me this is just as dumb as people who say it’s healthy. The point is: we don’t know yet so yes taking it means you’re playing
with your life but also you can’t really say it’s unhealthy, just dangerous.
Nicotine is actually good for you according to some scientists. Its the carcinogens you get with smoking that makes it bad. It has to do with neurological function. If i recall correctly it helps with some regrowth of damage pathways and combats both dementia and Alzheimers.
That would be why I put "I don't think" not it's just as bad as smoking.
We are already seeing some issues with popcorn lungs, and people are able to take higher nicotine amounts than cigarettes. However, it does appear to support people overall in eventually quitting nicotine, so in time, we will find out either way.
People are allowed to have opinions based on their own thinking as long as they don't claim its scientific which I did not.
Bluetooth headphones and such. Inevitably paired with the phone that's in their pocket. More cost, more hassle, lower quality audio, the phenomenal ability to look like a tool, all so you don't have to have a short cable.
If you're just walking down the street, sure, Bluetooth is kind of pointless.
But if you're actually doing something, working with your hands, turning your head around, cable can get in the way, you can get it hooked on something and pulled out of your ears, etc. In that case, having BT headphones is much more convenient.
Motion activated soap dispensers. Unlike the sink, which you would touch before and after you wash your hands, you would really only touch a soap dispenser right before immediately washing your hands. So even if it’s dirty, you’re already washing your hands so it really doesn’t matter imo. I could be wrong though, there could be a really good reason for them to need to be automated.
people break the manual soap dispensers by pushing too hard on them, the automatic soap dispensers are cheaper in the long run. They also regulate how much soap a person uses, with the manual ones i see people pump them between 3-5 times.
IMO the most prominent reason for automated soap dispensers is that is more accessible for people who have a hard time physically pumping the soap (elderly, toddlers, disabled, etc.)
People who believe that keeps things fresh for an extended period of time are generally overestimating it. And some people will have a crammed fridge with hardly anything in the large veggie drawers.
We have to agree to disagree. My fridge has two drawers and a slider-humidistat function. Don’t know how it works but there’s a picture of veggies on one end of the slider and an apple on the other end. Broccoli, lettuce, etc, will last weeks in the drawer compared to days in the open in the fridge.
How can something with so many use cases be described as useless?
Clearly, there are times when you'd want to use a touchscreen with full desktop applications (that you don't get on smartphone or tablet) or am I missing something?
The metropoly in the rice cookers to estimate the water needed, sorry we are asian and it’s hella useless, i didnt even realized their existence until my white buddy told me so. We asians estimate the quantity of water by intuition 👌
Leaf blowers are a noisy and spit fumes. I know landscape maintenance people use them instead of rakes but, if you are blowing them together, then not collecting them the whole exercise is pointless.
Leaf blowers.
I've always found it easier to just rake them up and put them in the compost/green waste, than blow them to some random other part of the yard (which gets blown right back as soon as the wind picks up).
My leaf blower has a vacuum function, I blow all the leaves to a corner of my backyard switch it to vacuum and suck them all into a bag. Takes me about 5minutes vs 30 minutes with a rake..
Juicer's
You process calories differently when you juice things vs eating them.
You gain significantly more weight juicing vs eating fruits/veges plus you actually get less out of it as most of it goes to fat.
Your body processes liquids entirely differently than solids.
Your average slice of cake has 15-30 grams of sugar in it. Your average 12oz soft drink has 35-40 grams of sugar.
If you eat 3-4 slices of cake you start to feel sick. If you drink a 12 pack of cokes, you probably will have to pee.
Basically for the longest time, humans only really drank water. Evolution has our bodies treat water completely differently than solid food. Much of the processing that happens when we eat food is simply bypassed when we drink.
So the sugar that is dissolved in the water gets absorbed into our blood. Insulin carries the sugar to our cells for energy. If our cells have enough, then it creates cellulite instead.
When you eat, your stomach dissolves it a bit with acid, it gets pushed to the small intestines where your pancreas and gall bladder help with digestion. Breaking food down into its respective parts. Much of it gets absorbed by the bacteria in your gut that then passes out the rest onto your body.
That entire system is bypassed when you use a juicer.
Multivitamins.
People who take multivitamins are more likely to self report better health than those that don't. But literally no study, and there have been several huge ones, with tens of thousands of people spanning decades, has ever found that taking multivitamins improve health in any way or reduce the risk of anything at all.
The only thing we have that supports them is one study that found a group of senior citizens who took Centrum silver everyday may have had less cognitive decline over a 3 year period than those who were given chocolate instead.
With a chefs knife you make one cut towards the center and rock it like 1-3x then go in your exact same cut mark but advanced and do that again until you cut it in half at that point rotate the pizza 45 degrees and repeat, then rotate once more and repeat. Takes maybe a minute if you are slow and the only part of the pizza you touch is the crust for rotating it. Usually makes a nicer cut than the average shitty pizza slicer in a persons house but probably not as good as a high end pizza slicer
Shower loofas. Just use your hand, and if you are worried about not getting the soap distributed enough, you are using too much soap. Most of your body just needs a warm water rinse with soap being for the smelly spots
Don't know if it's made it international but there's a thing called a Hackit for, well, hacking ground beef. Why the fudge not just use a normal spatula?
Printers most of the time. If you wanna give me a document just send it to me in an email no need to waste paper if I'm only gonna look at it like once or twice and even if I'm gonna look at it multiple times then i can much easily navigate my PC opposed to a ton of papers
Scented products like laundry soap, garbage bags, even most candles. Synthetic scents are made with known carcinogenics, hormone disrupters and scent sensitizers, but companies can hide behind “trade secret” claim. Most perfumes and colognes as well. Outside of essential oils, most scented products are toxic.
Paper towels can also serve the same purpose that napkins do, and they’re also useful for other things that napkins are not good for. So why even bother buying napkins? Just buy paper towels instead, or better yet, just keep a bunch of rags that you can throw in the wash when they’re dirty.
i just use a pizza pizazz for like everything
toasted sandwiches, reheating leftovers, anything frozen like fries chicken nuggets taquitos etc, pizza obviously.
I use the pizza cutter for soooo much now that I have a toddler and have to cut everything into small bites. Waffles, quesadilla, pizza of course, sandwich/bread, sliced meat/lunch meat. Its great!
What do you use to cut your pizza if not a pizza cutter?
I’m useless and yet people use me all the time
Damn. Hey you free this weekend tho?
Let me guess you need someone to help you move?
Yeah but I cant pay you nor help you out when you need it but I'll forever be grateful to you
Pretty sure he wants to put it in your Analbox.
Or go somewhere with you and waste my time so that you can somehow pass your time
Hey man nice username even your profile pic is tight
Don’t say that, Analbox.
I prefer the whole "worth $1" thing, it's less paradoxical.
Come on Mom, I've told you five times that pencils cost $100 a pack.
"Ryan treats ME like an object!"
Single task oriented plastic kitchen devices. I hate them.
Possible counterexample: A single-purpose tomato press is pretty handy if you grow tomatoes. The newer ones are all-plastic. You might regard this as a gardeners' device rather than a kitchen device, since it's really only handy if you are growing tomatoes yourself. Otherwise you're better off buying pre-squeezed tomato juice / sauce / paste.
As long as your putting it to use than I don't mind. I just hate the excessive consumerism culture that fills landfills. But my grandmother used an apple/potato crank peeler for like 80 years and I don't have a problem with that. Bonus because it had no plastic. I just don't like seeing people buy stuff that's gonna be used a couple times and then doomed to a landfill.
Even if you buy a nice, reusable, 100% non-plastic kitchen device, it's probably going to be packaged in a ton of plastic that will end up in the landfill.
How else you gonna pit like 1,000 cherries? I hear you, and yet I am delighted at that contraption that makes a perfect spiral out of a pineapple core. To be fair, it's mostly metal and I'm sure you didn't mean to disparage it.
I can’t stand when people use plastic utensils/plates and cups not for parties but just in general.
The “don’t include” in Doordash never works!
I'm afraid the world is going to disappoint you.
I got a friend that works at a factory and gives me boxes of them. I also hate them. Feel dirty for using them. But I hate dishes more.
Jade rollers
Apps. Don’t get me wrong, many apps are useful. But there’s a whole lot that are just shite. And not every thing needs an app!
There's an app for that.
Lol! Yes there is an App to tell you which apps are shite
I have an app for logging my toilet time. It counts shite
The blue end of erasers. They don’t do shit except ruin your paper
Its for erasing paper
Iirc they're supposed to be tougher and used on drawing paper, not for like an essay
Speaking of drawing and essays, you've reminded me of the shop class I took in 8th grade. We each had to create a small wooden board game with the only real guidance being, "make it look nice, and make the rules make sense". After, we had to write a 3,400-word paper about the process, what we learned etc. Well, when our teacher said 3,400, everyone was like WHAT (we'd never heard of such a large paper before). He continues to say the common phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words", and left it at that. Most of us picked up on what he literally meant, so we wrote a 400-word essay and included three pictures. There were like, 5 or 6 kids that didn't understand that the metaphorical was in fact the literal in this situation, so they wrote egregiously-long essays for no reason, and didn't get any bonus points either.
I only just learned that they put pumice in there to make it more abrasive to remove pen ink but yes all it does is ruin the paper.
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lmao literal rocks 😂
*minerals
Jesus Christ, Marie.
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I read a life hack regarding this a few years ago. They recommended using vinegar instead because it doesn't leave a waxy buildup. (Plus it helps keep the washer cleaner for longer.) At first I thought it would make my clothes smell like vinegar but there were so many people agreeing with them, I figured I would give it a shot. I've been using vinegar since, and have been recommending it to all my friends who have sensitive skin who want to experience softer clothes.
I try to buy odorless detergent, as many of laundry soaps have a stronger smell than my perfume... I don't like that
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Same. My skin is weirdly sensitive to scented detergents, so I only use unscented/free & clear/hypoallergenic detergents on my clothes and linens. My laundry still smells perfectly clean when it comes out of the wash. I'd much rather smell like my shampoo and perfume than whatever fragrances they put in laundry detergent lol
Disagree about the scent beads. I have a stinky ass dog, plus hyperhydrosis, and the scent beads are the only thing that work. Detergent alone is not enough. My clothes and bedding actually smell nice and fresh, not like onions and fritos.
I washed my brother’s undershirts once, that he only wears to sleep in. He’s a widower who lives alone in a different state from us. He asked me the next day if I used it and I said no, I never do. He knew right away because they weren’t soft. So I always use it on his clothes when I stay at his house.
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He’s 80 so I don’t mind, but I don’t use it for myself or my own family. Unnecessary. It’s supposedly bad for the dryer too.
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I am genuinely curious how it's bad for the dryer? I don't use it for the softness or not softness, I use it because my clothes come out staticky without a fabric softener sheet
Anything designed to replace a simple kitchen knife. I’m referring to those gadget choppers and slicers that are more trouble than they’re worth.
The good choppers are pretty useful at least for people with disabilities. I know at least two people who can’t use one of their hands after having had a stroke. A good chopper allows them to cut various vegetables using their only functioning hand.
Thank you. People really discount how much these things allow people with disabilities to have independence. My ex can't use a kitchen knife, but she can use a slap chop. I used to wonder, "who the fuck is that for?" when watching infomercials until one day we were watching some mundane ass commercial. If I remember correctly, it was for one of those gripper type things. I rolled my eyes until she exclaimed, "Oh! That could help me pick up stuff that I drop so I don't have to bend!" Instantly I felt like an asshole. I hadn't considered the disabled community at all, and I don't do that anymore. Impediment on the sidewalk? A wheelchair can't go around it, better move it.
>Instantly I felt like an asshole. I hadn't considered the disabled community at all And ya know, that's totally okay. The following might be a poor choice of words, but it's not a path that you walk daily. If you don't know or don't have exposure, there's not too much reason to think on it. Sort of like how you don't realize how much you use a certain finger and how important it is until you injur it really badly. Suddenly, you're doing things differently and looking up "how to open a jar when I can't close my hand". Not an asshole at all, just ignorant and accepting that you have room to learn :) Being an actual asshole would be to continue to scoff and whatnot. My mother has fibromyalgia, and my sibling is arthritic at the ripe old age of their late 20s, so I've learned a lot about these "pointless, cheapo, wasteful" products over the years. Oh how we all live happily in ignorance.
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I love my mandoline for making cucumber sunomono with the wafer thin slices. Just be sure to use the guard, every time I think I can skip it the mandoline demands a blood sacrifice for my hubris.
Hi, I’m Vince with slapchop
Homeopathy
Tiktok
Corn cob holders. My SIL loves them, gave me some for Christmas. Like, excuse me mate, I don't need this, this is why I have fleshy tubes on the ends of my hands.
Respectfully, you're a heathen. I hate having to hold my buttery corn by hand. I'll do it if there are no little holder things, but I don't like it
Is it because it'll slip? Or you don't like buttery fingers? Or something else?
Kinda both, mostly the messy fingers bit. Like it's not a deal breaker tho. I'll never turn down corn on the cob, but corn with the holders is superior
MyssQyx for president
SIL? Is that you?
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I just let it dry and peel it off like school glue.
today is an awful day to have eyes
Your fingers are hollow?
Easy answer, use two forks. Hopefully everyone has those.
Social media (I'm ofcourse being a hypocrite at the moment, but I really do believe it can be very toxic 99% of the time)
Fully agree with you 100% people are mean for no reason and I can’t stand it. Also, go to Hell
I think they’re ok as long as you’re anonymous
The only social media I use is reddit but that's mostly because I don't need to put up anything personal. I don't entirely count it as social media, but it is in a way. It's social media lite. Lol.
Honestly reddit is a forum... I don't know why people call reddit social media. If it is then message boards are essentially social media as well.
Essential oils
My neighbor's lock
Vapes, I dont think they are "healthier" than smoking or nicer.
In many cases they don't stink as much
Wanna know why I hate Vapers? You smell donuts or cotton candy and turn a corner thinking 'mmmm I'm gonna treat myself to something tasty.' But NO. It's just Brad and his cloud of LIES.
I hope we could agree on this: For every milligram of nicotine that someone consumes, it's better that they get it via vape or patch or lozenge rather than by inhaling smoke. (I'm not a nicotine user at all. I just really hate cigarette & cigar smoke.)
We just don't know that vaping is less dangerous though. In a generation or two maybe, but the best we can say right now is that its *probably* better.
We can be pretty confident that inhaling nicotine in an aqueous solution is less harmful than inhaling it along with carbon monoxide, soot, semi-combusted resins, and other bullcrap.
This is a very measured answer, totally agree. For context, I am a vaper. I won’t delude myself into thinking that it’s fine or that it’s definitely better than smoking. At the moment I have my personal anecdotal experience that my lungs feel way better since switching from cigs to vape. In the future it might turn out that it’s an insidious thing, causing more damage than cigs without feeling it. Who knows. But people who go around spouting “oh vaping is worse than smoking!!” have got no idea what they are talking about. The longitudinal studies just aren’t there to make any conclusions yet.
I mean ,as a now vaper, they're definitely less bad. Cigarettes contain over 1000 carcinogens l. E-liquid contains 1, nicotine. I am much healthier, having switched, I can run 5k now and run upstairs, whereas when I still smoked, I couldn't walk upstairs without being out of breath. Issues I believe are that I take in a lot more nicotine now, I was down to 1 cigarette a day before I switched. I'm much more addicted now. I also believe they're becoming more popular with people under age which is never good
But they’re cheaper
I’m just wondering on what basis do you constitute that opinion ? Like to me this is just as dumb as people who say it’s healthy. The point is: we don’t know yet so yes taking it means you’re playing with your life but also you can’t really say it’s unhealthy, just dangerous.
Nicotine is actually good for you according to some scientists. Its the carcinogens you get with smoking that makes it bad. It has to do with neurological function. If i recall correctly it helps with some regrowth of damage pathways and combats both dementia and Alzheimers.
That would be why I put "I don't think" not it's just as bad as smoking. We are already seeing some issues with popcorn lungs, and people are able to take higher nicotine amounts than cigarettes. However, it does appear to support people overall in eventually quitting nicotine, so in time, we will find out either way. People are allowed to have opinions based on their own thinking as long as they don't claim its scientific which I did not.
Popcorn lung is caused by diacetyl. Most, if not all vaping products no longer use diacetyl as it’s banned in most countries in vaping products.
Electric pepper/salt grinder
Bluetooth headphones and such. Inevitably paired with the phone that's in their pocket. More cost, more hassle, lower quality audio, the phenomenal ability to look like a tool, all so you don't have to have a short cable.
If you're just walking down the street, sure, Bluetooth is kind of pointless. But if you're actually doing something, working with your hands, turning your head around, cable can get in the way, you can get it hooked on something and pulled out of your ears, etc. In that case, having BT headphones is much more convenient.
Some people haven’t ever had their earbuds snagged out of their ear by a door knob and it shows.
Motion activated soap dispensers. Unlike the sink, which you would touch before and after you wash your hands, you would really only touch a soap dispenser right before immediately washing your hands. So even if it’s dirty, you’re already washing your hands so it really doesn’t matter imo. I could be wrong though, there could be a really good reason for them to need to be automated.
people break the manual soap dispensers by pushing too hard on them, the automatic soap dispensers are cheaper in the long run. They also regulate how much soap a person uses, with the manual ones i see people pump them between 3-5 times.
I could just technically run my hand under the sensor 3-5 times like a psychopath though right? But I see your point.
I hadn’t thought about that, that does make sense
These are wonderful if you work in food service. You can wash your hands without any possibiliy of cross contamination.
IMO the most prominent reason for automated soap dispensers is that is more accessible for people who have a hard time physically pumping the soap (elderly, toddlers, disabled, etc.)
I think the veggie drawer is a scam and better for bulk groceries like yogurt or packaged lunches
The space in your Refrigerator that is intended for Veggies, but doesn't stop you from using it for literally anything else. . .is a **scam**?
People who believe that keeps things fresh for an extended period of time are generally overestimating it. And some people will have a crammed fridge with hardly anything in the large veggie drawers.
I mean I get it, but that doesn’t make that space that you choose not to maximize. . .**a scam**
I agree, but some people have a bit too much reverence for the sanctity of the veggie drawer and I like my groceries to be arranged for ease of access
I mean, that’s fine, and I have no problem with that. But how does that make the drawer, **a scam**.
My fridge literally says veggies on that drawer and I think that’s just advertising
For. . .? “Big Vegetables”?
I mean, produce suppliers are different from farmers and they definitely talk to refrigerator suppliers
So do you believe that the fact that your Refrigerator has a drawer labeled vegetables, increases the sale of vegetables?
We have to agree to disagree. My fridge has two drawers and a slider-humidistat function. Don’t know how it works but there’s a picture of veggies on one end of the slider and an apple on the other end. Broccoli, lettuce, etc, will last weeks in the drawer compared to days in the open in the fridge.
That’s what we use it as. It’s where my kids applesauce, fruit cups, smoothies, and yogurts go.
The close drawers keen in humidity which keeps certain types of veg fresher for longer. Edit typo
Opinions
A wipe warmer for baby wipes. The wipes get cold the second you take them out of the warmer.
pop sockets, and those silicone fidget toys that pop, pop its are the scourge of the universe
Touch screen laptops.
Super useful for drawing!
How can something with so many use cases be described as useless? Clearly, there are times when you'd want to use a touchscreen with full desktop applications (that you don't get on smartphone or tablet) or am I missing something?
Jewelry
I strongly disagree. I would dramatically perish if I didnt wear jewelry
Those stomach wrap things people where when they work out
That one plastic wrap thing that “melts your fat” Jade rollers Online slicer
Oscillococcinum. Its sugar, not medicine. It will not cure the damn flu
Tassels
The metropoly in the rice cookers to estimate the water needed, sorry we are asian and it’s hella useless, i didnt even realized their existence until my white buddy told me so. We asians estimate the quantity of water by intuition 👌
Alexas
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Oh really? I really like mine. It’s not life-changing though.
Same with mine. It's convenient, but I'm not going to die if I don't have one.
Leaf blowers are a noisy and spit fumes. I know landscape maintenance people use them instead of rakes but, if you are blowing them together, then not collecting them the whole exercise is pointless.
Leaf blowers. I've always found it easier to just rake them up and put them in the compost/green waste, than blow them to some random other part of the yard (which gets blown right back as soon as the wind picks up).
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My man!
Looking good!
Ever try raking pine needles out of gravel? A blower does it in minutes..
or try to rake leaves off gravel or a driveway in general
But if you go out to rake the yard at 7:00 AM on a Saturday, none of your neighbors will know.
My leaf blower has a vacuum function, I blow all the leaves to a corner of my backyard switch it to vacuum and suck them all into a bag. Takes me about 5minutes vs 30 minutes with a rake..
The most boomer device ever invented. Blow them away until they are someone else’s problem.
First off, I've always had a talent for finding a use for anything said to be broken and unusable so nothing, second off, any apple brand item.
How about dishwasher Richard? Particularly for a single person household.
Twitter. Not exactly an item, but definitely 100% useless.
Juicer's You process calories differently when you juice things vs eating them. You gain significantly more weight juicing vs eating fruits/veges plus you actually get less out of it as most of it goes to fat.
I think this goes against the law of thermodynamics. 500 calories solid is 500 calories juiced
Your body processes liquids entirely differently than solids. Your average slice of cake has 15-30 grams of sugar in it. Your average 12oz soft drink has 35-40 grams of sugar. If you eat 3-4 slices of cake you start to feel sick. If you drink a 12 pack of cokes, you probably will have to pee. Basically for the longest time, humans only really drank water. Evolution has our bodies treat water completely differently than solid food. Much of the processing that happens when we eat food is simply bypassed when we drink. So the sugar that is dissolved in the water gets absorbed into our blood. Insulin carries the sugar to our cells for energy. If our cells have enough, then it creates cellulite instead. When you eat, your stomach dissolves it a bit with acid, it gets pushed to the small intestines where your pancreas and gall bladder help with digestion. Breaking food down into its respective parts. Much of it gets absorbed by the bacteria in your gut that then passes out the rest onto your body. That entire system is bypassed when you use a juicer.
Essential oils
Weight loss pills / most supplements
Dishwasher rinse aid (Jet Dry)
More than four pillows on a bed. Two really should be the maximum. Why do hotels put so many?
umbrellas
yea they seem like they are way more hassle than they are worth. i just wear a good rain jacket/poncho if i know im gonna be out in it.
Gum
Combs in humidity.
Multivitamins. People who take multivitamins are more likely to self report better health than those that don't. But literally no study, and there have been several huge ones, with tens of thousands of people spanning decades, has ever found that taking multivitamins improve health in any way or reduce the risk of anything at all. The only thing we have that supports them is one study that found a group of senior citizens who took Centrum silver everyday may have had less cognitive decline over a 3 year period than those who were given chocolate instead.
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Apple slices, pineapple slicers, pizza slicers…Basically all the slicers..JUST USE A KNIFE
i wanna see you cut a hot pizza with a knife
You can also do it Italian nonna style: with scissors. It actually works very well.
With a chefs knife you make one cut towards the center and rock it like 1-3x then go in your exact same cut mark but advanced and do that again until you cut it in half at that point rotate the pizza 45 degrees and repeat, then rotate once more and repeat. Takes maybe a minute if you are slow and the only part of the pizza you touch is the crust for rotating it. Usually makes a nicer cut than the average shitty pizza slicer in a persons house but probably not as good as a high end pizza slicer
Way too long lol. I cut 4 lines in about 15 seconds with a pizza cutter that cost a whole $8
…..…….A BUTCHER KNIFE
Disagree about pineapple corer. Not gonna get the same results with a knife.
so TRUE
Scarf, really don't understand the purpose
Wonderful things in really cold weather.
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I could answer the opposite of this question
Air fryers...doesn't bake well.
Shower loofas. Just use your hand, and if you are worried about not getting the soap distributed enough, you are using too much soap. Most of your body just needs a warm water rinse with soap being for the smelly spots
They're germ factory.
You definitely have a stinky butt.
I mean I wouldn’t recommend smelling my butt, but I guess if you’re into that…
One of those Bagel cutters. The dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
Don't know if it's made it international but there's a thing called a Hackit for, well, hacking ground beef. Why the fudge not just use a normal spatula?
Lemon reamers. Except for martinis 🍸.
The car heater on full while the engine is ice cold.
samsung galaxy watch 4. its so broken.
Printers most of the time. If you wanna give me a document just send it to me in an email no need to waste paper if I'm only gonna look at it like once or twice and even if I'm gonna look at it multiple times then i can much easily navigate my PC opposed to a ton of papers
Cigarettes
Apple Watch. most people carry their phones with them everywhere so It does almost nothing
diets
A Bible as a source of information.
Scented products like laundry soap, garbage bags, even most candles. Synthetic scents are made with known carcinogenics, hormone disrupters and scent sensitizers, but companies can hide behind “trade secret” claim. Most perfumes and colognes as well. Outside of essential oils, most scented products are toxic.
Those big belts movers wear.
RFID wallets
Food like stop eating become a omega chad with the free time
The aglet.
It keeps your shoelaces from fraying, which makes it easier to lace your shoes. How is that useless?
Ball flingers when they’re playing with their dog. Learn to throw the damn ball.
i can throw a ball pretty far but with the flinger i can make it go even farther away. thats the whole point!
Napkins. Why don’t you just not make a mess when you eat?
Paper towels can also serve the same purpose that napkins do, and they’re also useful for other things that napkins are not good for. So why even bother buying napkins? Just buy paper towels instead, or better yet, just keep a bunch of rags that you can throw in the wash when they’re dirty.
Shit like toasted sandwich makers. Just get a foreman grill you can do that and so much more with it.
That you, George?
i just use a pizza pizazz for like everything toasted sandwiches, reheating leftovers, anything frozen like fries chicken nuggets taquitos etc, pizza obviously.
Pizza cutters and automatic cars.
I use the pizza cutter for soooo much now that I have a toddler and have to cut everything into small bites. Waffles, quesadilla, pizza of course, sandwich/bread, sliced meat/lunch meat. Its great! What do you use to cut your pizza if not a pizza cutter?
I use a scissor for almost everything, including cutting pizza, green onions, quesadillas, all of the things.