Comments on: Bad Holiday Gift Idea No. 1

By: FSW

FSW — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:07:15 +0000

That is hilarious!!! I actually got one of these last year from my mother!! I had made a huge caprese salad for Easter earlier that year (which I did fine with a knife) and she felt the need to buy me an egg/cheese slicer that was exactly like that one. That was a definite "worst holiday gift"

By: Tony Lumpkin

Tony Lumpkin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:53 +0000

My sister, a QVC addict, came to visit recently and exclaimed, as I was cutting up some carrots, "What, you are doing that with a knife!" I was dumbfounded by her remark in the same way when someone asks you with great sincerity a ridiculous question that has an obvious answer, like (as someone really recently asked me in comments on a document) "Where did this failure rate come from? Is it the percentage of times this failed?"

Is the person a moron?
Is there really anything to the question and I am a moron for missing it?
Have I really done something so sophisticated that is incomprehensible to average people?

These questions I asked myself up hearing my sister's remark. It only got worse, because I am apparently stupid, uncool, and a threat to society because I don't own of those crappy spin chopper thingies.

Marketing has people thoroughly brainwashed, especially when it comes to kitchen stuff. I like Alton Brown on Good Eats for debunking a lot of this crap (Cook's Illustrated and its sister the America's Test Kitchen Show do a good job, too).

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:40:48 +0000

Just as useful as last year's mango slicer.

By: SarahG

SarahG — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:32:42 +0000

You're crazy if you don't see the advantages of this thing. I can see how, for a single family, this might be a waste of $22. But if, for instance, you are preparing caprese for a big Italian family prone to complain about people who do a shitty job chopping stuff, this thing could be a total lifesaver!

By: sara.h

sara.h — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:59:03 +0000

that is an egg slicer!!!

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/aluminum-egg-slicer/92247040.html