Kitchen Garden Forum

Now I've seen the ultimate in idiotic kitchen gadgetry - a strawberry slicer for £3.99 in the latest Lakeland catalogue. Who buys these things? Reminds me of the vegetable chopper I bought at a Ideal Home Exhibition 30 years ago which looked wonderful when being expertly demonstrated, but which rotted in my cupboard for years before finally disappearing in a car boot sale.

Here are some useless garden related gadgets.

Yes, I once bought one of those solar fountains too, try an oxygenate my mini pond. It only lasted a few weeks before it gave up the ghost.

How many of us have bought gadgets over the years only to find them at the back of a cupboard years later?
Usually a kitchen knife works better than all the gadgets offered.

Keep it simple

Seedling

This reminds me of a programme on TV some months ago that listed the various 'must have' things that people had bought over the years and no longer used.

One was the Hostess Trolley.....I still see a lot of these about, all with ornaments on and used simply as a sideboard....does anyone still use the Hostess Trolley as it was designed to be used?

we use our hostess trolley as intended regularly..it comes out every xmas for a few hours then back to the hall. same as i wash my car regularly.... every year before the mot test,

I bought a juicer a few years ago but gave up using it because it was such a palaver to clean it! Took ages! And even when properly clean, the fruit juices had marked all the white plastic bits into a dirty grey. So we actually threw it away.

I must admit i'm not much of a gadget man, i just like to keep things simple.
Some of the best tools i've got are pretty old and proved the test of time.

I have a very useful bean slicer which I inherited from my grandmother. You push the bean in and turn the handle. She bought it at an Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1920's!

Some of the best tools i've got are pretty old and proved the test of time.

Arf arf

Best gadget I ever got was;;;; "The WIFE!"

Though she likes to be referred to;;" As my Wife!"

Oi;;;;;;;;

Lurganspade. You are right, the Memsahibs have their uses.

Dear Pongeroon, i hope you're not being cheeky.

Pongeroon is merely saying what I thought when I read that thread Cheeky? Probably.

Shallot Man wrote:Lurganspade. You are right, the Memsahibs have their uses.

Well!!! Shallot Man.

My wife is a perfect angel!

She is always up in the air about something!

Oi!!!!!!!