![\"pizza](\"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pizza-peel.jpg\" "\\"pizza")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe pizza peel – When Brian\u2019s mother asked us if we wanted her pizza peel, I quickly said yes. We make pizza at least monthly, if not more often and it seemed like the peel would be fairly helpful in that venture. But I have never once used it, despite my good intentions to do so. I just find it simpler to move the pizza to and from the stone by hand.<\/p>\n
The smooth edge can opener – We bought this can opener thinking it would be an improvement over our previous one (which had stopped working entirely), but it\u2019s really not. There are some cans it wouldn\u2019t open at all and that number seemed to be increasing daily. We bit the bullet and bought a new (super-basic) one that seems to work much better, but still haven\u2019t gotten rid of the old one.<\/p>\n The spices with the built-in grinder – One of the gifts we got before our wedding was a fabulous gift basket from my mother-in-law\u2019s church. A group of women had put it together; each of them had included a recipe and ingredient or tool that would be used in the recipe\u2019s creation. It was a pretty quality collection, but one of the items was red pepper flakes with a built-in grinder that cannot be removed. It takes forever to get any sort of volume out of it and it\u2019s impossible to measure. I keep saying I\u2019m going to buy a different container of red pepper flakes, but I have a hard time throwing out perfectly good food.<\/p>\n The cocktail shaker – I think I picked up this cocktail shaker at Goodwill early in our marriage. At that point, I was very interested in creating mixed drinks and trying different cocktails. Come to find out, we\u2019re not really cocktail people, we\u2019re beer and wine people, so the shaker is largely unused. At least I can take solace in the fact that it was only a couple dollars at Goodwill.<\/p>\n A flat cheese grater \u2013 The uselessness of this item has nothing to do with the amount of cheese consumed in our home\u2014we\u2019re still consuming a lot of cheese. But this cheese grater is difficult to use; it\u2019s a little too large for any of our bowls and the feet don\u2019t stay in one place, so anytime you use it grated cheese ends up all over the kitchen. I\u2019d much prefer to grate cheese in my food processor or rotary grater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n