Totally Useless Kitchen Equipment

As Thanksgiving rolls around, many of us will be in the kitchen cooking up traditional Turkey Day favorites like mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, turkey, and pumpkin pie. If your family is more like mine, however, no one in your family likes turkey and stuffing leaves you unenthusiastic, so you do non-traditional feasts for Thanksgiving. Last year, my mom and I made a clam bake for Thanksgiving! I wish I had photographs to show you all, it was so delicious. Previous family Thanksgivings have also included roast duck, rack of lamb, and pernil.

Regardless of what you and your family make for Thanksgiving, cooking the meal is usually a monumental task that uses up lots of dishes, utensils, and kitchen implements. Places like Williams Sonoma and Sur la Table sell lots of nifty gadgets to make your cooking expedition easier. Sometimes though, their inventions are totally useless, but at least they lead to a lot of hilarity when browsing your local crockery/cookware shop!

The Huffington Post in this article has compiled a list of 10 of the most useless cooking devices of all time (and the last one contains three-in-one!). I think my favorite is the Roll 'N Pour, for those of us who just can't manage to pour soda out of bottles or milk out of half gallons:

/Edit @ 3:53 pm check out the cabinets behind this guy! SO INTENSE!

Yup, I've definitely gotta get me one of those!

Happy cooking!

Flash Sale Shoppers Beware!

While procrastinating instead of working on a paper due Monday, I found this article from the New York Times warning about blind faith in flash sale sites like Gilt or RueLaLa.

The takeaway point is to double-check prices with sites like www.6pm.com or www.overstock.com because they are often cheaper than on flash sale sites. However, all these kinds of websites tend to be cheaper than the original retail price in store or merchandise ordered from the vendor directly. An easy way to double check prices is to search for the item name and brand in Google, then click "Shopping Results for X".

I've had a similar experience with Salemail. I wanted some BCBG pumps on sale, listed at about $50. I decided to Google them on a whim and found them for $20 on www.6pm.com! They ended up being too big so I gave them to my friend Miranda as a Christmas present, but they were really nice:




Happy shopping!