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[friend_of_tofu]

I've seen some useless kitchen gadgets in my life, but this one seems quite impressively crap. Am I missing the genius here?

No wonder they're selling it.

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Comments

[valkyriekaren]

That does seem quite daft. Don't most spaghetti servers have holes in for measuring portion sizes anyway? My Ikea one does.

[the_magician]

I'd guess most people don't have spaghetti servers.

I know that I just make a rough guess when I take the spaghetti out of the package and it's close enough (or there's left overs for tomorrow!)

[friend_of_tofu]

Apparently just using your hands ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH! We need more plastic crap, that's much better.

[sunspiral]

What you said. P.T. Barnum was right.

[downybearded1]

I guess it might have a use for dieters? That might be stretching it a little... it's crap!

[friend_of_tofu]

Yeah. Cuz of course, 3 strands of spag too many is a dreadful tragedy!

[friend_of_tofu]

I do, I admit, like move-y things. But I could just play with a tin-opener or a salt lid and be satisfied, I think.

[friend_of_tofu]

Oh, I see the logic in that, but I kind of feel that learning to get portion sizes right is part of the normal trial & error stuff involved in learning to cook. Like creaming or rubbing in, it's a thing you need to have a go at.

I am NOT, by any means, a measure-by-eye person, I follow recipes very carefully, but damn, measuring spaghetti? Slightly overcooking = NOM LEFTOVERS.

[swiftangel]

I can second this... having come from a large family and not knowing how to cook for one person, something like that might have been useful had my mother not been so intelligent as to buy me a set of pots and pans small enough that I couldn't easily cook for more than one person. :)

[owlfish]

Speaking of "useful" food-related items, I ran across the water-of-the-month club recently.

[friend_of_tofu]

LOLWUT!?

OK, I sort of see where they're going with that but eeehhhhhh, their prices.

[owlfish]

Their shipping costs must be substantial.

[friend_of_tofu]

I read to think.

TAPWATER IS FINE, PEOPLE!