80 pound only? At that size? What, is it filled with sand?

To save you doing the conversion, that's 36.3kg.

Awesome I was looking for a wedding gift

Easiest baby shower evaaa

I feel so sad for all the Kitchenaid mixers out there gathering dust because someone got it as a wedding gift and doesn’t cook.

Eventually, they end up at a thrift store, methinks.

I used to have a bread machine about that size.

Probably cheaper than solid steel, enshittification strikes again

I hope it doesn't require a subscription or internet access

At least you can stick kitchen magnets to it.

Narrator: You can't.

I love how which devices get countertop space is a real reflection on culture around the world.

Here in the UK you can always find an electric kettle, without question. In Italy a Moka pot. In Japan a rice cooker.

It says a lot about what's important to people.

It's only really in the US that you see such a proliferation of hyper-specific gadgets. Smoothie maker, waffle maker, electric egg poacher, vegetable spiralizer...

I don't know if that says anything about American culture, or just that you guys have really big kitchens.

Introducing the single use monstrosity! Used for shaving strawberries for one part of one dish!

We often do have really big kitchens, but it’s more about us being sold the idea of having whatever we want, whenever we want it, and there’s a gadget for that.

Although, I will say, in most American kitchens I’ve seen have, at least, a toaster oven. Possibly an air fryer. Those both are pretty common here.

But does it have AI?

The volume and depth of modern Japanese kitchen gadgetry puts America to shame.

Japan records centuries of history with specialized tools for making ceremonial beverages and foods.

So to your point: I think kitchen gadgets speak to highly consumerist cultures.

The key is the attachments. The pasta maker is decent, the grinder is great. Honestly, while I don’t use it weekly I certainly use it monthly.

Yeah I think my wife bought this already

As an American, I completely agree. It's gotten so bad that this attitude has leached from the suburbs where larger homes and kitchens exist into the city where there just isn't enough space. My friends think I'm being silly for not wanting an air fryer when I already have a convection oven or an instant pot when I already have a slow cooker and pressure canner. I'm very anti single use equipment or duplicate equip for the very reason that I don't have space and it's often a waste of money. But it seems like everyone around me just buys whatever and doesn't think too much about where it's going to go or how much they will use it and I just don't understand it :/

The old version didn't and some retailers still sell that.
We have found customers prefer the experience with the app! It is just the the experience without the app, but more modern. iOS only for now, but an Android version is expected soon!

I've never seen any of those with permanent counter space in any American kitchen. I've never even heard of an electric egg poacher.

It’s up there with top gaming laptops these days, but unfortunately the IO options are limited.

Our KitchenAid air fryer gets a permanent spot because it also functions as a toaster/toaster oven, proofer, dehydrator, and food/plate warmer.

Thanks, now could you convert that to American Standard lbs? /s

Huh, I'm surprised that other countries aren't big on kitchen gadgets. I'm American and I try to avoid any of those specialty gadgets. I've received several as gifts over the years, though I always end up selling or donating them

Combination units are what I like. My microwave is also an air fryer. Which is just a toaster oven with a powerful enough fan on it to qualify, really.

And then people in the US "need" to buy a $750K house with a walk-in butler pantry because the $350K houses don't have enough counter and cabinet space to store their single-use bullshit applicances. I wish I was kidding.

Also the same lady who "needs" the strawberry shaver for "cooking", actually only uses it twice per year, goes out to eat 3 times per week, and gets DoorDash meals 3 additional times per week.

They do of course, no reason to ever buy new.

TBH I use mine for the attachments taking advantage of the torquey motor more than I use it to actually mix anything. Meat and veggie grinders save me a lot of money. Unless I mix something tougher than I am, I still rather just use my own arms to mix stuff it seems. Not a brag I'm just weird.

Yeah, they switched production methods in the 90s to save on manufacturing costs.

Back in the 70s they were made from solid steel

Tbf, an instant pot can replace a slow cooker and pressure cooker, and so is less of a single use item.

And the air fryer is kinda just a riff on the toaster oven, and imo, this is a good thing for the american pallette. The problem with a full sized oven is that it takes time to heat up, so people are hesitant to use it when they just want to heat up something quick for themselves. The toaster oven/air fryer makes oven cooking more convenient. It isn't the alternative to the oven, it's the alternative to the microwave, so your leftovers will actually have texture instead of being a soggy mess.

I share a lot of your sentiment here about buying hoards of single use items. But I really put the instant pot and air fryer in a different category than, say, the vegetable juicer, electric can opener, or rolly pizza cutter.

I can't decide if I want to upvote for causing the visceral reaction to this comment, or down vote for the same.

I chose intentionally obscure and wacky gadgets to overstate the point. I don't genuinely think everyone has these :)

Deceptive marketing. The 80 lb model is the budget model, but the picture shows the much fancier 300 lb model.

Isn't a "smoothie maker" just a blender? I dunno if I would consider it one-use. More uses than a rice cooker or electric kettle

Totally agree too many folks are rampant consumers. I like to have a good think about purchases before I buy and I did so with our fryer. I would say the air fryer has supplanted the standard oven (or skillet) for a large portion of my food prep. Uses less power, heats faster which means I am more efficient. For my use case, it has been a decidedly positive experience.

Steel?

When is someone gonna innovate, and develop the tech to do this with TUNGSTEN?

Waiting for the black Friday sales

I’ve been experiencing this dilemma a lot lately and I think we need a word for it.

They make ones specifically marketed as smoothie makers, which are usually smaller than a regular blender and intended to make about 16-24oz.

Its not original but "appnauseum" comes to mind...

Solid stainless steel at that weight would be roughly 17 cm per side (assuming a cube), depending on the exact alloy.

There's no perfect reference scale, but the diagonal width of the cube is 60% the width of the drawer (by pixels). My kitchen drawer measures 40.5 cm, so the cube is some 24.5 cm across diagonally. A 17 cm cube would be just over 24 cm. I did a lot of rounding at every step, but it seems to check out pretty darn well.

That’s about the weight of four, 20 lb bags of 9mm ammo

What is that? Like 100 Budweiser's?

Yeah, but what attachments does it have?

Does it make ice?

Here (UK) a friend has wasted over a grand on some AI food prep nonsense thing.

In our culture this is understood to be a sign of deep seated emotional distress. And in accordance with our culture we ignore their distress and bring up the weather, as is tradition.

Ah! Finally a metric I can understand!

No, but it can crush it.

That looks like more than 80 pounds. Well, maybe it's hollow.

None. Though you can get another one that is almost, but not quite entirely the same as it to take up more space.