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10 Food and Drink Inventions We Didnt Need

“Dude, I was camping and forgot my spork — I almost starved!”
“Oh, great. You opened the wine bottle but didn’t finish all the Grner. How are we supposed to close it up again so the wine doesn’t spoil?”
“I have a dining room full of brunch customers, dozens of eggs, and a pot of boiling water, but the egg poacher broke. Guess I have to send everybody home. Wait. You can poach eggs without an egg poacher? Shut up! Eggs Benedict for everyone!”
Bet you hear stuff like that all the time, right? Yeah, sure. The fact is that as many essential inventions and discoveries as there have been in the world of food and drink throughout the eons (check out The Daily Meal’s picks for the 50 most important), there are just as many failed, pointless, and flat-out stupid culinary gadgets cluttering history’s kitchen drawers.
You know them too well. You’ve seen these flimsy, plastic gadgets dice, splice, and not suffice on late-night television in between those infomercials for magic abs and sculpted thighs. In fact, you may have bought a few of the things before it dawned on you just how useless these one-trick phonies — uni-taskers, we call them — really were.

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