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What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by pineapplelover@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Filibuster.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

[Scratches sweaty forehead awkwardly] Do you...do you know wat that means? Ya, wats it mean?

[–] Jazsta@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe need to get induction instead of radiant? Induction is much more efficient.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Get an induction plate.

[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 1 points 11 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.