Just What We Needed Dept.: Seven Things You Don't Want for Christmas

Do these make anyone else's head hurt? I'm going to have these stuck in my head like that one song you despise, but can't stop hearing. At least three look like they could give you a good case of carpal tunnel, and worst of all, I'm trying to imagine how much water washing the goop out of the pancake french press thing-y and the butter cutter would require. Thank you for making me laugh, and so apropos on cyber Monday too!

Most of these are stoopid, but as a pie person that pie gate things is a fairly good idea, if you're concerned about your pies looking "perfect". But perfection is overrated.

Hahaha, this is awesome -- the best is that, when you click on the link to the Dough-nu-matic, it takes you to the Sky Mall website, where a little sidebar features says "You might also like..." and one of the suggested items is The Slanket. Click on the slanket, and another suggested item is a Marshmallow Shooter... for when you want to shoot someone without maiming them too badly. Oy vey.

"Build it and they will come" or "Make &*it and they will buy it".

Putting cute designs on toast might help kids eat healthier, but maybe that is a bit of a stretch.

The pancake dispenser has been around for many years and has been used in restaurants. I'm supposing this is simply a model directed towards a wider consumer market.

I used to work in a restaurant that made a lot of pancakes for breakfast, and they had the pancake batter dispenser's big brother. It was a sturdy machine, made out of heavy gauge stainless steel.

If you make on the order of 1000 pancakes a day in a busy kitchen, one of those things would be worth it. But, then again, you'd stroll on down to your local restaurant supply store and buy the real thing, probably for less than the cheap plastic device.

I actually own a pie gate, but a different model than what's shown. And, yes, I actually get enough use out of it because I love pie. And, again, I bet diners would buy a lot of them because they've got many different pies they're selling a slice at a time.

But for the rest of it, I can see all of them being replaced by a toaster oven and a good knife.

These products look like they come right out of the SKYMALL catalog!! Aaarghgh... just to think there's a market for them makes me mad.

I am sorry people but i LOVE the donut machine. If one can make vegan donuts with it, I expect to be going up a few pants sizes.

Just kidding - I can't get one as I can't afford it and my kitchen is too small and I don't need excess gadgets and don't need to tax the environment by buying plastic machines - - but, well, if you love fresh donuts as I do, at least allow us to dream...

The products for the most part are only for the wealthy or women who don't work and don't have enough to do, not many of us in that category. Nearly everyone one of these products have a gazillion parts all of which need to be washed carefully. So they will be purchased by husbands and sons who can't think of any thing better, smiled at for gifts and then consigned to the yard sale pile. Unfortunately wasting a huge number of resources in the process.

But for most of us, no one wants this stuff in their kitchen and no one wants to wash it. That one toaster where the toast drops out the bottom looks pretty good though. ONly one slice and hangs on the wall. Energy and space saving.

Good laugh - I'm quite suprised the Hot Dog Express Rotary Grill Hot Dog Maker didn't make the list. Really a must have in every kitchen, how else could one cook hot dogs.
And I just had to find out what The Slanket was and the funny thing is my husband asked me mulitple times if I would want one for Christmas this year, always the same answer - no. He must have seen it on TV.

While not as ridiculous as these things, last year for Christmas my mother bought me electric salt and pepper grinders. One of my complaints is, they are huge (probably 12 inches tall) and yet only contain a small handful of salt and pepper.

However, my major beef is, when they run out of power, they are absolutely useless. I never charge them because.. well... who thinks to charge a pepper grinder?? I am currently thinking of a way to sell them at a yard sale and replace them with the good old fashioned kind without hurting my mother's feelings

I even have this strange plastic contraption that writes comments in blogs for me AND cleans cereal off the keyboard.

Too bad I had to buy its brick-sized repair device too but they cosy up well in my 2700 sqf kitchen.

I kinda like the one click butter cutter. Most likely takes up no more space in the frig or more difficult to clean than a conventional stick butter dish.
The Presto Pizza Oven, may be nice to use in the Summer, as it should heat the kitchen as much as using the full size oven. 60 bucks is a little steep though.

We don't need any of this... even toast could be done in a pan or toaster oven. This is exactly the kind of junk piling up in landfills and making ground water & soil poisoned - i am sure the workers putting them together didnt get paid fairly, and i would bet they are shipped from china. It's amazing how big corperations now "educate" the people on how to live their life , what we need, and what is a good decision. Like good consumer zombies........they tell us, it will make our life soooooo much easier, faster, more awesome- if we didn't have to take one second to slice our own butter.
All these gadgets also indicate how the American diet has gone to cr*p & why health problems are sky rocketing out of hand. Go to Youtube and watch "The Story Of STuff" and see what process this stuff was made with.

That's how I feel about microwave ovens, coffee makers, electric can openers, mixers, food processors, coffee grinders, juicers, salad spinners and shooters, deep fryers, electric pepper grinders, bread machines, waffle irons, electric carving knives, popcorn poppers, rice cookers, sandwich makers, and of course - chocolate fountains. Sadly, none of it makes food taste better, and in many cases, worse.

I'll admit it. I was given a Pizzazz pizza oven as a gag gift 4 years ago and I love it. It really does make pizza turn out better (especially frozen pizzas). For what it's worth, I'm not wealthy, I'm a woman who works for a living, the Pizzazz doesn't have a million parts to clean, and it uses less energy (and environmental resources) than heating up my big electric oven. But don't let lil ole me interrupt the hatefest.

i actually think that the butter cutter is a good thing since i have to wash my knive and my hands everytime i am done cutting and handling the stuff. the butter cutter seems to me a decent invention and bascially you use the same amount of water to wash it compared to any butter holder.