“The possibilities are endless with tater gloves!” That’s right, endless. Infinite. This piece of as-seen-on-TV ingenuity claims to let you “peel a potato in eight seconds.” Then you read the fine print: Potatoes need to be boiled for five minutes for gloves to work. Then you read consumer reviews: “Some of the glove is coming off into the food.” Right. Stick with a peeler, or better yet a paring knife. 
 
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 "Dude, I was camping and forgot my spork — I almost starved!" 
 
 "Oh, great. You opened the wine bottle but didn't finish all the Grüner. How are we supposed to close it up again so the wine doesn't spoil?" 
 
 "I have a dining room full of brunch customers, dozens of eggs, and a pot of boiling water, but the egg poacher broke. Guess I have to send everybody home. Wait. You can poach eggs without an egg poacher? Shut up! Eggs Benedict for everyone!" 
 
 Bet you hear stuff like that all the time, right? Yeah, sure. The fact is that as many essential inventions and discoveries as there have been in the world of food and drink throughout the eons (check out The Daily Meal's picks for the 50 most important), there are just as many failed, pointless, and flat-out stupid culinary gadgets cluttering history's kitchen drawers. 
 
 You know them too well. You've seen these flimsy, plastic gadgets dice, splice, and not suffice on late-night television in between those infomercials for magic abs and sculpted thighs. In fact, you may have bought a few of the things before it dawned on you just how useless these one-trick phonies — uni-taskers, we call them — really were. Hey, we all make mistakes in the kitchen. 
 
 As we took time to carefully identify and consider the 50 most important inventions (and discoveries) in food and drink, we couldn't help but think about their opposites, too. We're not necessarily talking about the dumbest kitchen inventions ever (though there are a few of those), but inventions that embody true mediocrity when it comes to culinary ingenuity — gadgets demonstrating, if nothing else, that it's all about the art of the pitch, and that people will often happily purchase what they already own. 
 
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– Have you ever truly benefited from a spork? Do you face a pressing need to bake muffin tops, not actual muffins? The Daily Meal rounds up the most useless food-related inventions: Quesadilla maker: Don’t you already have a pan? Spork: Use a fork or use a spoon. End of story. Wine stopper: Just use the cork. Muffin top baking pan: The whole point of muffins is that you make the whole thing, then decide what to do with the bottom. Garlic press: Turns your garlic “into mush.” Click for the full list.