File This Under More Incredibly Pointless Things People Buy

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Shopping at Bed Bath and Beyond for a few of the folks on our list, Mortgaged and I stumbled across this:

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[serista]

The pigs in a blanket thing is pretty dumb, though my mom- who cooks- does own the mini pie maker. I think it works a little faster and she doesn't own mini-pie plates. And if you only have one oven, it allows you to multitask a little bit better... But most of the individual electrics seem silly.

[blithescribe]

Your Mom's reasoning on the pie maker sounds a little like the no or reduced kitchen situation and does make sense. Having one or two such gadgets does not make a person inept but the sheere quantity of the more pigs in a blanket-ish ones lead me to believe that the target demographic has many such items in their home.

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That is a fantastic photo of you and your son, by the way.

[adriannevandal]

I'm all for kitchen gadgets, but that's going a bit too far into the lazy cooking mode, for me...

[blithescribe]

I'm all for gadgets too, but like blenders and food processors and our stand mixer...oh and the stick blender! My favorite. But not this kind of gadget.

[anonymous]

I saw that this weekend as well and thought similarly...*really?* I will defend the iced tea maker though...I love mine, and while I could do a similar task with hot water in a pitcher, then adding ice..since I did not already have said pitcher, getting the iced tea maker was not that much more expensive and since I make iced tea ALL THE TIME, it get s lot of use and is quite convenient. but I would agree, we now have available to us mini appliances for every which task and its pretty absurd!

[blithescribe]

LOL! I accept your iced tea maker defense. I guess I should ammend my rant to, while we all may have our pet uni-tasking gadget or two, a kitchen full of them would just be silly.