Single Use Appliances

You know my long standing policy on single use appliances right?  "Just say no."

If you are an appliance and your only purpose is to make waffles you are not welcome in my kitchen.  That's right you cute little popsicle maker go home.  And melon ball-er you are dead to me. 

There was that one time that the apple peeler-slicer-corer tried to sneak in but I had his number.  Don't let the hyphenated name fool you.  It's a single use appliance that will only make an appearance once a year in the fall...

Of course you can come to my kitchen and point out my hypocrisy if you'd like while you drink iced tea and stir it with an iced tea spoon, but in general I'm anti-mono-use-appliance.  (I also have sugar cube tongs, but they were a wedding gift 21 years ago and I feel sentimental about them.)

But the other day Amazon.com (this is not an endorsement) had on it's front page a link to the funniest product reviews ever.

I feel the time has come to seriously reconsider the single use appliance policy.

For your pleasure I introduce the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer
 

Click on the name above or cut and past this link (http://amzn.to/17Yrlnr)  to the 4,461 reviews of this product.  (I know I'm prone to hyperbole, but I'm not kidding about this) Each one is funnier than the next.  

 

I'm not sure if I can legally quote any of the reviews here due to copyright but here's a sample of their flavor:  

• "Wow this product changed my life and saved my marriage thanks to time saved slicing bananas."  

•  "My grocery store only sells left handed bananas and this is a right handed product."  

• "Thank goodness for this product, I can stop using the hammer I usually slice bananas with"

• and my favorite asking if the measurements are metric or English.

 

I'm embarrassed to say how hard we laughed as a family reading these.  More than one of us had tears streaming down her face.

You're welcome or I'm sorry, depending on how hard you laugh and how much time you waste reading these reviews. (But you are already reading this blog, so that ship may have already sailed.)

I'll read your comments later.  I'm off to buy a corn butter-er and a cherry pit-er right now....

Shh.....Don't tell Phi what she's getting for Christmas this year.