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January 24, 2004
Confessions of a Gadget Queen
As I have mentioned before, I have a failing for buying all kinds of kitchen gadgets and appliances. To be honest, I'll buy almost any gadget or appliance, if it looks cool enough.
Sometimes I screw up. I bought a very expensive Hoover Wind Tunnel vaccum cleaner - the one without the bag and with a Hepa filter, and it is a giant pain in the ass. Dirt gets stuck in the hose that is between the beater bar and the place where the dirt is supposed to go on a regular basis. Then John has to take it all apart and put it back together (because he has more patience with things like that than I do - not that he does it with a smile on his face). I had an earlier version with the Hepa filter only with bags, and it did a great job - I just wore it out with all our critters shedding all over the place.
Another bad purchase was a rotisserie. What a mess to clean up. It is hard to put the chicken or whatever in it, and though it does a great job of cooking, it is such an ordeal to clean all the parts that I only used it once. It is going to the GoodWill - maybe someone with more patience than I can use it.
I thought that this would be a really nice thing to have - but it is hardly a true convection oven - it actually takes longer to bake cookies in than a conventional oven. It has already gone out in the trash. Worthless POS!
Now, though, I see that Cuisinart has a convection oven out - but I'll check reviews before I buy that one!
This grill was a big mistake too - I should know by now that you can't make a good appliance that is supposed to do 5 tasks well.
Next time, I'll talk about cool things that really work as advertised that I have purchased.
Posted by Beth at January 24, 2004 01:01 PM