popplers

What would Alton say?

I saw this goofy appliance on Accordion Guy's wedding weblog; Joey's comment (joking, I hope) was that he "need[ed] to put one of these on the registry."* Seriously, though, who has the counter space for this schwag? We have a coffee grinder and microwave (used daily), food processor and toaster (used semi-weekly), a food scale and KitchenAid mixer (used at least monthly). And I still wish that we had an island so that we had more "real estate" for chopping, staging, cooking, cleaning, etc.

*Ridiculous wedding registry requests is a separate rant; I won't go down that road right now.

Strictly speaking, the McMuffinator isn't a unitasker, but I think it belongs in the Counter Sculpture Hall of Shame, along with the Pop-Up Hot Dog Cooker, the tabletop S'Mores Maker, and the Pizzazz Pizza Oven. I think that there should be a separate Hall of Ridiculous Kitchen Gadgets for the Octodog, the Banana Guard, the In-the-Shell Egg Scrambler, and their ilk.

Conversely, the fine people at Microplane deserve to have praise and gifts lavished upon them for their awesome kitchen tools. (Their personal care products, on the other hand, give me the willies.)