How much junk do you have in your kitchen?

We have all sorts of gadgets now to help us in pretty much every area of our lives, but one area that seems to have more gadgets than most is the kitchen. There are hand mixers, frothers, automatic knife sharpeners, devices to give your food a smoky taste (I’m not joking), chip cutters, electric can openers, ice cream makers and that is only a small portion of what is available. Do we need any of them though?

We all know that these gadgets are exciting for about a week, and then you realize they aren’t that good and are really hard to clean, then they get put away and never see the light of day again. The next time you are eyeing up some expensive gadget in a shop then you need to walk away and have a think about whether it is actually useful or just a gimmick, and if you will actually use it much. So an ice cream maker sounds good, but you’ll soon find out it is a huge amount of effort for something you can buy a lot cheaper from the supermarket, but if you like toast then a toaster which can fit a lot of different things in it will probably be great for you. Something I think is really handy is a Masterbuilt electric turkey fryer (only if you cook a lot of turkeys though) because it stops you struggling to fit everything else in the oven around it like the sweet potatoes etc, which is a huge problem.

So there are gadgets out there that can make your life a lot easier, one of the easiest ways to find them is to ask your friends what gadgets they have and which they actually use on a regular basis, that saves you wasting money on the gimmicks as they already have!