Have you ever ever owned a Vitamix? If that’s the case, then you realize that this multipurpose blender is touted as with the ability to handily combine collectively cold and hot soups, doughs, nut butters, non-dairy milks, and extra. Whereas many dwelling cooks and cooks alike adore the Vitamix (through Epicurious), plenty of individuals additionally balk at its value, with its priciest mannequin, the Ascent, promoting for as much as $800 (through Vitamix). Maybe for that purpose, the vast majority of the 515 Tasting Desk readers we polled, practically 26% of them, named the blender as probably the most overrated choice for countertop home equipment.
Scorching on the Vitamix’s heels within the ballot was the pod-based espresso maker, resembling these from Cuisinart and Nespresso (through Consumer Reports). Practically 24% of ballot respondents felt any such espresso maker is overrated. Nearly 20% of respondents named the juicer, a gadget well-known for by no means truly getting used (through Which?) as probably the most overrated small kitchen equipment, whereas beloved selections the air fryer and Instantaneous Pot did not get too many votes for being overrated — simply 17% and 13%, respectively.
Primarily based on reader sentiment, it seems like time to evaluation the best uses for the air fryer and the best uses for the Instant Pot — and get cooking.
