Most super-specialized kitchen gadgets
We’d never deny the need for a few good knives. Take a quick look at a bridal registry or a housewares catalog or store, though, and you’ll see that marketers have lost their ever-lovin’ minds.
Banana slicer. Cookie dough scoop. Egg cracker. Oven-rack pullers. Avocado knives. Pizza scissors, and herb scissors. Battery-operated flour sifter. Pepper corer. The “world’s fastest bottle opener.” (Gosh, whatever will you do with all those extra fractions of seconds of your life you get back?) If your BFF is having cookware parties, do not attend. Stay out of housewares stores, too. Otherwise you’ll wind up with overstuffed kitchen cabinets and drawers and an understuffed bank account.