Many housewives succumb to the advertisements of manufacturers and buy a variety of new household appliances. The lion's share of the instruments are doomed to then gather dust in the far corners. To purchase only the necessary and useful kitchen gadgets, it is enough to weigh the pros and cons of highly specialized appliances.
Extra spending
Often, housewives argue to the point of hoarseness about the benefits and uselessness of this or that kitchen appliance. One is delighted with the multicooker, the second considers her purchase to be a waste of money, since she uses this electric pan once a month. Therefore, unnecessary appliances in the kitchen can be divided into two groups: absolutely redundant and relatively useless.
The first includes gadgets that manufacturers have come up with more for enrichment than to help cooks. This is usually a highly specialized technique. For example, an electric egg cooker. Compared to traditional cooking eggs on the stove, the device has one plus - the guaranteed result of hard-boiled, in a bag or soft-boiled product. At the same time, the egg cooker takes up space in the cupboard and requires more careful washing (so that water does not get inside).
Expensive devices are most often turned into disposable toys: ice cream makers, popcorn and cotton candy machines.
Another example of useless appliances is a variety of electric knives, electric graters and slicers. Of course, they are all capable of chopping food beautifully, like a professional chef. However, having disassembled the appliances a couple of times for washing, the housewives basically decide that it is easier to chop up the salad and cut the meat with an ordinary knife. These devices are convenient only in large families, and even then a mother with many children will hardly worry every day about the sufficient fineness of sausage slices on the table.
The same category can be attributed to electric machines, which promise to reduce the process of preliminary processing of raw materials to 10-15 minutes. In everyday life, situations rarely arise that require the immediate transformation of raw meat into pickled meat. Plus, good meat doesn't need any pre-processing at all.
Fondue makers, raclette makers, sandwich makers and toasters are also quickly turning into additional dust collectors. The food prepared with their help can hardly be called familiar to the majority of the inhabitants of Russia. In addition, large amounts of raw foods such as bread and cheese lead to weight gain. For the same reason, many people include a deep fryer in the number of unnecessary gadgets: washing is inconvenient, and food turns out to be harmful.
Benefit in question
User opinions differ regarding a number of kitchen appliances. For example, a juicer is often useful for young mothers who refuse ready-made baby food. At the same time, other housewives believe that it is easier and healthier to eat a whole fruit than to disassemble and wash a bulky device every day.
If gas is installed in the house, hardly anyone will need an electric kettle. It is cheaper and faster to boil water on the stove.
Electric waffle makers, hazelnuts and other devices for making homemade delicacies are appreciated by those who do not like the products of confectionery factories. In addition, with the skill and desire, you can cook low-calorie sweets in them, if a strict diet is prescribed, but you still want something tasty. But if there are few lovers of flour products in the house, such a technique is also doomed to stand idle.
It is also difficult to say unequivocally about yogurt makers and steamers how much these devices are needed. Parents of young children and adherents of a healthy lifestyle usually use them constantly. But the owners of multicooker argue that they cope with these functions no worse, which means that it is better to buy one multifunctional device instead of several.
