I need to get out more (or maybe not).

Since we're on the subject of food, how about that peanut butter with the jelly swirled into it-- because God forbid you have to apply them separately to the bread.

I've often found myself wondering how long it would be before someone started marketing plastic liners for boxes. Just a bag, like what you would put in your wastebasket, but resized to fit cardboard boxes. Different sizes of bags, of course, but the same idea. If you use a box to store or move anything with a liquid in it, or that may spill and soften the box so it breaks, the plastic liner would catch it. Same with anything small that may fall between the folds in the box and fall out.
But that's just me.

The bloomin onion machine.
Kitchen barbeque grilles incorporated onto one of these 900 burner stoves (evertone Ive seen costs a gazillion bucks and is used once .by the design victim.

Bread makers

pizelli makers

ON the other hand, one kitchen appliance that we love is the apple peeler/corer/slicer gizmo. This little device can turn whole apples into pie chunks in a few moments.

Most cherry potters dont work well.


Note: does anybody actually peel asparagus like Julia Child used to recommend??

Oh, are we talking about existing products?
Okay, then the entire Martha Stewart line.

wait, isn't cherry potter that child wizard

now that i think about it it's probably his sister

Well at least that mixed PBJ doesn't require an hour to defrost but you're right - how ridiculous. I have to have St. Dalfour's jelly anyway so that is a total no go for me.

What is a "pizelli" maker?

I use my bread maker on the "dough" function quite a bit but I don't bake in it because I hate that square loaf. Typically I like the whole kneading thing but sometimes life doesn't accomodate my aggression towards flour.

A blooming onion machine? A machine? For real? What the heck does that do?

Arthur you are completely welcome to make up new products - that was part of the invitation! The fact that I don't completely understand your no spill/box moving/baggie deal makes it a perfect product for us to endorse.

I don't typically move liquids in boxes but I'm betting we can revolutionize the industry!

Mr. B could use "saftey bags" for any item that comes in a box or bag though - he ends up ripping the whole thing up trying to get it open. Perhaps if there was some kind of safety bag we would not end up with so much stale cereal and chips.

Could this idea be modified to account for dry goods?

That dial thing people put on the front of dishwashers that says

CLEAN/ DIRTY


If the dishs are clean, take them OUT OF THE (sorry) dishwasher and then you can put dirty ones in it. Using the clean dishs out of the dishwasher makes everyone using them put the dirty ones in the SINK or elsewhere when there is a perfectly good spot to put dirty dishes...



ahem. the dishwasher.


When I explain this to people who use the CLEAN/DIRTY dial they look at me as if I am a visiting Martian.

Joe(Nanoo Nanoo)Nation

forget what it's called, the incredible pasta pot or something...where you tip the pot and only the water comes out.

yeah, I guess pouring it into a colander, or having one of those pots where the colander nests in the pot is just too much work....

Now I see something that just a plastic tubey thing that you put the spaghetti in, pour boiling water on top leave it alone, and presto! disgusting gunky pasta!

How much more freaking easy can cooking get than boiling water, salt and macaroni?

Jesus take me now.

i actually have a pasta pot with a collander type lid, it's quite handy, the lid is half solid and half collander, you cook the pasta like normal, pop the lid on and drain away

never heard of the plastic tube thing

You gotta start watching more late night tv.


How about the gadget that makes ONE hamburger?

One of my former wives and I got that as a wedding gift.

JOe( Must have known something.)Nation

hamburger for one. Theres a message that says "I give this marriage but a few months"

So, how'd it go?

I meant a CHERRY PITTER( they dont work well)

boom, a pizelli is an italian cookie , it looks like a little sewer cap.

Bloomin onion makers are a combination cutter, like a vegematic and then a ssmal deep fryer. (Lotta **** gets dirty for little result. It is a true chochkie

She ran off with my best friend and left me with the two kids.


Hey, you know what is a really useless luxury item? The wedding ring. There's a chochkie for you, a piece of thread would work as well.

The money could be put in a nice index market fund and pay off nicely (or on some other more important item-see below**). If anyone ever got confused as to your marital status you could use your memories of events past to correct them. Hopefully before waking up the next morning in Room 624 of the Hilton. (uh, what was your name again?)

Joe(**As a friend of mine used to say "She wearing my bass boat on her third finger.")Nation

You wish.. he pretty good I hear.

"A toe straightener"

I kid you not I saw it advertised in the guide dogs for the blind catalog.

Whose toes are being straightened and why?

I dont know joe I justsaw a big toe straigner advertised.

I noticed you didn't put in your usual sig line.

dad(just helping out)pad

I was excited and curious.

Joe(and careless)Nation