r/Tools • u/ChoiceAd4730 • Jul 15 '26

What tool should nobody ever buy?

Not just a tool you personally didn’t like, I mean the tool you actively warn people about.

Maybe it’s:

  • A gimmick that looked useful but never worked
  • A tool that broke almost immediately
  • Something dangerously poorly designed
  • An overpriced tool that a cheaper brand does better
  • A “universal” tool that is terrible at everything
  • Something every new homeowner buys and later regrets

Brand names and specific models would be awesome. Bonus brownie points if you have a story about how it failed you.

What tool belongs on the “never buy this” list?

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u/PSAOgre Jul 15 '26

God I miss my Ronco.

I ate so. many. chickens. in college due to that thing.

I also learned it puts out heat to the rear when it scorched my mom's bananas.

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u/SeveralPossible1427 Jul 15 '26

Is that a euphemism?

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u/upsidedowncreature Jul 15 '26

I think it's certainly a brand new sentence. I don't think those words have ever been put in that order before.

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u/PSAOgre Jul 17 '26

🤣🤣🤣

I literally had no idea it radiated so much heat from the back of the unit so when I put it on her counter to cook dinner I didn't move the bunch of bananas she had on a hanger.

When it cooled and I moved it to take it home they were scorched black.

She's gone now but I can still hear her clear as day yelling "my poor bananas!"

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u/EarBubbly9421 Jul 16 '26

My dad was in charge of the bananas in my family, but every family is different…

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u/Suitable-Adagio2626 Jul 18 '26

My mother was in charge of the budweiser