I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don’t hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don’t even use.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    I bought a tech wood infrared double burner hot plate. It just doesn’t boil. I’m dying over here trying to boil water and it just won’t. So, I dumped everything into the insta-pot beside it in the office break room… set it to sauté* and that shit boiled right away.

    I’m about to return this POS and buy a single burner hot plate, but then I start all over again researching.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      It killed me when Charlie responds to “boilerplate language” with “Yep, we’ll all be getting back to our hotplates soon enuff!”

      • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        I bought a cheap induction element after my landlord replaced my cooktop with one that I hate because the elements are tiny. It is so much better than a standard cooktop that I pretty much use it exclusively.

      • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        These are great till you live somewhere with shitty electric. On the days when my ecig takes 6 hours to charge I can’t cook as the hot plate won’t even turn on. Fucking slumlords.