Just What We Needed Dept: More Useless Kitchen Accessories and NSFW Yet

"Don't be someone who needs help carrying a banana. That's not who you are"

You don't need a lot of stuff to be a good cook; Mark Bittman says ""A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All else is optional." But what amazing options there are, those single purpose kitchen gadgets that take up so much space. Choosy Beggars has come up with a roundup of 5 of the most useless kitchen devices of the summer, some of which are NSFW or TreeHugger correct.

I mean really, a fifty buck holder to barbecue meat balls. A meat ball is a small round burger. Surely you can just throw them on the grill, even if they get a big flat.

But the killer is the Roast Your Weenie Hot Dog Cooker, cut off at the waist in this picture but seen in full at Choosy Beggars, who write:

The Roast Your Weenie hot-dog cooker would be totally awesome to have on your BBQ for roughly the length of time it would take to cook exactly one hot dog at a party.

Everyone would come over and look, a lot of people would laugh, someone's disapproving girlfriend would shake her head in disgust. You might even high-five and describe how you found it to a few people. It would earn you a few moments as the center of attention before everyone went off for more beer, or conversation took another course.

And then you would have to keep it, for the rest of your life.

But then, Tina and Mike appear to have Missed Marsha Mello from the same company. Now it's a party.