You gotta wonder.....on some sites you read how people don't cook as much as before, so who is buying all these blenders, processors, mixers, choppers, HEAVY multiple piece dish sets, serving bowls, platters, knives, shears, etc etc etc???
WHO is making all that hot soup with the ear splittingly loud Vitamix??????????
Easier ( and quieter) to open a can.
Couple that with the thousands who are retiring every day, who now have time to evaluate all the junk they've bought over a lifetime that they used ONE TIME and pushed it into the back of the cupboards...that they now have to deal with...along with the realization of how much you spent on all that unused clutter.....
I'm retired, and my friends who are retired seem to all be getting rid of all the duplicate and useless "stuff" they've accumulated...Think of all the single people who live alone after kids leave, a spouse dies or a divorce...who needs fifty sheet sets, 30 blankets or throws, or enough dishes and utensils that would supply a restaurant, or worst of all, all those large-footprint plastic Chinese made "gadgets"....
It seems the older you get, the more you rely on the "old reliables" in your cupboards....you use the same things over and over again...and forget the gadgets that were supposed to make life so easy breezy....
I chuckle when I see David present ANOTHER implement advertised that chops or mixes or yada yada yada....95% of what you need to cut can be done with a 4" paring knife, or, if REALLY necessary, a "chef's knife"....LOL......
I'd rather have the money in my retirement account than a bunch of 400 dollar mixers, 500 dollar blenders, 300 dollar coffee makers, ..... ANYTHING that is made of cheap plastic and consists of a million pieces to store or wash, or the newest hyped stuff ..$700 pot and pan sets that, David assertsbreathlessly "I own in my kitchen!!!!!"
Might as well just donate the CASH you'd spend on this stuff to the Salvation Army,,,it's where most of it will end up anyway...!!!!
Actually...they are selling the "idea" that one will have large warm family dinners with heaping bowls of home-made mashed potatoes or some casserole that took hours to prepare and cook.( in your countertop oven don't forget!!!)...or that many people are making HUGE batches of cookies for the kids or people who may "drop in" for a visit......
And my favorite....drum roll.....the "Smoker" shown with about 100 pounds of meat smoking away on 4 shelves......yep..something I need TWO of!!!!
I made a huge batch of cookies with my Kitchen Aid mixer about 15 years ago. I still have some left to use up in case my gift closet goes dry and I need to give something to the hordes that drop in unannounced....
(ANd because I don't use that mixer enough to EVER have justified it's purchase price, the bowl lift mechanism no longer works. I was surprised at this because I think I made about two batches of anything in it before it got pushed into a closet for fifteen years. I fell for the "idea" and not the reality.)
Cooking shows will go the way of ornaments, quilts, real gold jewelry, stuffed animals and Tiffany-Style lamps. If it doesn't have a screen or charger attached to it, people don't want it today.
Rant over.
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