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Opposite is true for single use kitchen gadgets: https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/alton-brown-is-righ...

Single-use gadgets can be blessings for the disabled and differently abled. The author of this article is sneering at the disabled for having different tool needs than herself.

My 80-something grandmother uses a garlic press and several sizes of vegetable holders for slicing veggies. I guess she's just so uncool.

Most of these single use things are a product of Teleshopping and other terrible marketing schemes.

I'd say single-use kitchen items are worth it if you use them every week. If you use them only once a year and the function can also be performed by something else, it's just clutter.

We've got several knives and several pans, because different versions of the same thing are useful for slightly different purposes. We've got separate pans for pancakes and that works very well for us, because they're lighter and you can actually flip them.

> Instead of tablespoons and teaspoons, it has: a dash, a pinch, a smidgen, and a drop.

I wish recipes would stop using these vague terms. Just give me the exact number of grams or whatever and I'll gladly measure it on my food scale.

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