You’d think you could do most things in the kitchen with a knife and a good mixing bowl. Apparently not, according to the spate of highly specific single-purpose kitchen gadgets that exist. We showed you a few last month, but it turns out there are so many more horrors that we missed.
Here’s another look into the beating heart of culinary insanity.
Apparently some people who are above cutting hot dogs with their own hands. Enter the dog dicer.
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These hard-boiled egg moulds will turn your ovum into super-creepy edible animals heads. Yum!
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Speaking of eggs, why boil a pot of water when you can drop serious cash on an EGG COOKERS?
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If hard boiled is not your thing, here’s an incredibly disturbing egg cracker.
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Oh, right. The Nana Saver is for when you just can’t finish that entire banana and want to have a slightly less fresh but still OK-to-eat banana for later.
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Remember, that’s just for ‘nanas. For cucumbers, you’re going to need this cucumber saver. Totally different animal.
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Where to start with the pomegranate deseeder? How many times a year do you eat pomegranate? How does it even work? Why?
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A dedicated slicer is the only way to get illogically perfect segments of apple.
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Because stacking three ingredients is far too complicated for your average chef, here’s a s’mores maker. Not for use over open flame!
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Buy this Ebelskiver pan only if you plan to make stuffed Swedish pancakes on the regular. Or even know what they are.
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Not technically for cooking, but once your fork starts twirling itself, all bets are off.
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You were born with hands, but they’re too sensitive to heat to handle hot toast on their own. So toast tongs exist.
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Oh, and panini tongs, if you’re extra fancy.
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We really have bigger things to discuss if you need a plastic contraption to get an orange peeled.
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This is a brush for mushrooms. Not potatoes. Not carrots. Not any other kind of vegetable. Just mushrooms.
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