What common household appliances have you never used in your life?

[Spinneret]

I would say a air fryer

 

[PrincessShmoo]

What common household appliances have you never used in your life?​

Air fryer
Instant pot
Bread maker
Trash compactor
Induction stove
Pressure cooker
Toaster oven
Coffee maker
Coffee pot
Food processor
Rice cooker
Juicer
Yogurt maker
Coffee grinder
Deep fryer
Food dehydrator
Air purifier

 

[mrodgers]

Well, I would have said none, but wouldn't have thought of half those that PrincessShmoo listed, so thanks for the multiple choice answers, LOL.

Rice cooker, Juicer, never even knew a yogurt maker was a thing.

I've used a trash compactor working in a grocery store, but never in a residential at home kitchen setting.

I don't drink coffee, not sure what the difference between a coffee maker and pot is, but I brew my iced tea in a coffee pot or maker or thing water pours over the teabags (coffee if making coffee) and drips into a pot.

I will actually use the coffee grinder sometime this weekend as I just dried 20 or so bulbs of garlic in my food dehydrator to grind up into garlic powder to finally have some garlic flavor in my garlic powder. And I just made spaghetti sauce tonight from the tomatoes I dehydrated, ground up, and mixed 4:1 water with the tomato powder to make the sauce along with adding a lot of basil I dried over the summer.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Dish washer
Garbage disposal
Trash compactor
Instant Pot
Bread Maker
Pressure Cooker
Toaster oven
Rice cooker
Juicer
Yogurt maker
Food Dehydrator
Waffle iron
Panini Press

 

[Meriweather]

Panini Press
Trash compactor
Toaster oven
Coffee pot
Yogurt maker
Coffee grinder

 

[tvguy]

Well, I would have said none, but wouldn't have thought of half those that PrincessShmoo listed, so thanks for the multiple choice answers, LOL.

No so sure how common some of those are. I remember trash compactors being a hot item in the 1970s, and I see they still sell them, but I don't think I have ever been in a house with one.

For me, a Keurig.

 

[thewishfire]

Dishwasher! Never used mine growing up, so never thought to use it after I left home. My current apartment doesn't even have one. I have put dishes in other people's dishwasher, but that's about it.

 

[RangerPooh]

Air fryer

 

[ronandannette]

Air fryer
Insta-pot (or any type of pressure cooker)
Almost any kind of single-purpose electric gadget

It’s really easier to list what I do have (have used).

 

[Mrs.AMC]

What common household appliances have you never used in your life?​

Air fryer
Instant pot
Bread maker
Trash compactor
Induction stove
Pressure cooker
Toaster oven
Coffee maker
Coffee pot
Food processor
Rice cooker
Juicer
Yogurt maker
Coffee grinder
Deep fryer
Food dehydrator
Air purifier

Well, I would have said none, but wouldn't have thought of half those that PrincessShmoo listed, so thanks for the multiple choice answers, LOL.

Rice cooker, Juicer, never even knew a yogurt maker was a thing.

I've used a trash compactor working in a grocery store, but never in a residential at home kitchen setting.

I don't drink coffee, not sure what the difference between a coffee maker and pot is, but I brew my iced tea in a coffee pot or maker or thing water pours over the teabags (coffee if making coffee) and drips into a pot.

I will actually use the coffee grinder sometime this weekend as I just dried 20 or so bulbs of garlic in my food dehydrator to grind up into garlic powder to finally have some garlic flavor in my garlic powder. And I just made spaghetti sauce tonight from the tomatoes I dehydrated, ground up, and mixed 4:1 water with the tomato powder to make the sauce along with adding a lot of basil I dried over the summer.

I'd think you'd be hard pressed to use "common" as a description for most of those things
Appliance yes
Common, no.
I get that what's common is different to everyone but the use of common would be the majority of homes have it, it's rare for a home NOT to have it
Induction stove is not common
Coffee pot would be.
Toaster Oven maybe. though I think that's even stretching to think of it as an item in most households. Toaster yes, Toaster oven, not so much.

So in the end there's 2 different answers running simultaneously
What appliance have you never used and which ones are common appliances

And if you want to get real complicated an Instant Pot can make yogurt, is a pressure cooker, a rice cooker, a food dehydrator, and a crock pot. Does that mean it's 5 appliances you haven't used, or 1, LOL

I don't think there are any common ones I have never used.
Not common now.
As mentioned, Trash Compactors were common in homes when I was a kid but we never put one in. They were almost always broken in our friends homes and all the ones I know of still in a home are broken. So I've never actually used one

There are a few of appliances I've never used. Most I've used at least once.
Never used a
Stand alone Food dehydrator or Yogurt Maker (have an Instant Pot but have not made yogurt or dehydrated food so does that count?)

 

[MamaMermaid]

Most common: coffee maker. Hubby and I don't really drink coffee and when I do, I buy it at Starbucks so it's basically dessert

 

[_19disnA]

Never owned a trash compactor. I seem to recall the were first popular when some cities tried to limit the number of trash bags you could put out at the curb weekly. While that seemed like a good idea in theory, squishing all of your trash into a smaller bundle doesn't resolve the issue of how heavy it will be to remove or the odor associated with garbage sitting around in your kitchen. Large families will clearly generate more trash then smaller ones, so the idea never caught on as a viable solution to trash disposal.

Many cities now have those large/sturdy plastic bins for both trash and recycling. Easier/faster/less labor for the trash company and you don't have those trash bags making a mess on the street. While we live, you can request more then one of those bins if you regularly have a large amount of trash.

 

[bcwife76]

Trash compactors aren't a 'thing' here, I've never seen one in my life.

Never owned a juicer, a panini press or an immersion blender.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Never owned a trash compactor. I seem to recall the were first popular when some cities tried to limit the number of trash bags you could put out at the curb weekly. While that seemed like a good idea in theory, squishing all of your trash into a smaller bundle doesn't resolve the issue of how heavy it will be to remove or the odor associated with garbage sitting around in your kitchen. Large families will clearly generate more trash then smaller ones, so the idea never caught on as a viable solution to trash disposal.

Many cities now have those large/sturdy plastic bins for both trash and recycling. Easier/faster/less labor for the trash company and you don't have those trash bags making a mess on the street. While we live, you can request more then one of those bins if you regularly have a large amount of trash.

Trash compactors aren't a 'thing' here, I've never seen one in my life.

I've never lived in a house without one.

 

[tvguy]

Never owned a trash compactor. I seem to recall the were first popular when some cities tried to limit the number of trash bags you could put out at the curb weekly. While that seemed like a good idea in theory, squishing all of your trash into a smaller bundle doesn't resolve the issue of how heavy it will be to remove or the odor associated with garbage sitting around in your kitchen. Large families will clearly generate more trash then smaller ones, so the idea never caught on as a viable solution to trash disposal.

Many cities now have those large/sturdy plastic bins for both trash and recycling. Easier/faster/less labor for the trash company and you don't have those trash bags making a mess on the street. While we live, you can request more then one of those bins if you regularly have a large amount of trash.

We never were able to just put bags of trash out. When I was a kid you used to have to buy those 31 gallon galvanized trash cans, and the garbage men would come in your back yard and empty them into a big metal container they carried on their shoulder, then carried them out to the garbage truck.
No the county provides those 90 gallon plastic cans that can be picked up by the garbage trucks with a claw. Been that way for about 30 years now. They did finally add the option of smaller, 30ish gallon automatic pickup plastic cans because people wanted cheaper options, but it's only $2.50 a month cheaper so never bothered getting a smaller one even though our 90 gallon can is never more than a quarter full.

 

[bcla]

Never used a convection oven before.

 

[mmouse37]

Never used an Instapot or pressure cooker.

When you talk about a juicer are your talking about the kind that you put whole fruits or vegetables in to get juice? If so, never used one of those but love my small electric juicer for citrus. Had it for about 30 years.

Had an air fryer and got rid of it. didn't hold enough. Then I read that the convection option on my regular oven works basically the same as an air fryer so I have been using that option more.

Don't drink coffee but use a coffee pot for other people.

Never used a dehydrator or yogurt maker.

I thought every house had a toaster oven. I can't live without one. Such a help when I don't want to put the big oven on or just heating something small. Makes great toast too!!

I absolutely could not live without my electric kettle. Don't know how I managed before I got one. I use it several times a day. Have gone through a few of them over the years but just got a new one that is my favorite so far. It is insulated, cool to the touch, keeps things hot for a long time, automatically turns off and I can set a water temperature and keep it at that temp for hours.

This is the one I just got:

https://www.amazon.com/DASH-Insulat...mzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc

MJ

 

[bcwife76]

I've never lived in a house without one.

Is it a BC thing as in we are lacking them here in BC? lol because I've lived here my whole life, in lots of places and never had one. Never seen one in a house or apartment I've ever visited too. Not trying to be funny but I have literally never seen one in anyones' home here EVER. I had to google an image of it thinking maybe people just mean garburator and call it something else.....looks kind of like a dishwasher? Maybe I've seen one and thought it was just a dishwasher

 

[CdnCarrie]

Is it a BC thing as in we are lacking them here in BC? lol because I've lived here my whole life, in lots of places and never had one. Never seen one in a house or apartment I've ever visited too. Not trying to be funny but I have literally never seen one in anyones' home here EVER. I had to google an image of it thinking maybe people just mean garburator and call it something else.....looks kind of like a dishwasher? Maybe I've seen one and thought it was just a dishwasher

Oh I do mean a garburator! Thought that’s what you meant.

 

[ronandannette]

I've never lived in a house without one.

Really? I'm with @bcwife76 in that I've never even seen one and in 16 years, my company has never put a single one in a new build.

Oh I do mean a garburator! Thought that’s what you meant.

OK, a garburator, not a trash compactor. YES!! Love garburators and I've not been without one forever either but they are surprisingly not a very common feature customers are choosing these days.