Any time I get the urge to try cooking anything, I can always make it go away by watching TV chef Alton Brown. I find him quite entertaining even though the subtext of most of his segments is that everyone on the planet except Alton Brown is too friggin' stupid to be allowed near a kitchen. He sure convinces me I am.
Here, he rails against what he calls "unitaskers," which is cooking equipment that only does one thing. What's kind of funny about this is that if you ever watch him cook, you'll probably see him use twenty-three instruments and utensils that you don't own and he does. I watched his show once when he was teaching people how to make mashed potatoes and the main thing he said was never to use a potato-masher. You must squish your spuds by using a food mill.
I don't have a food mill. If I went out and bought one, it would almost surely become a "unitasker" in my kitchen because I'd probably never use it for anything except for mashed potatoes. Mr. Brown though cooks so much, that he probably has a half-dozen other uses for a food mill. I'll bet he even has eight different uses for that fire extinguisher on his wall, including having it separate egg yolks.
Anyway, here he trashes some unitaskers, many of them on the say-so of reviewers on the Internet who can't spell and who probably are just the kind of people Alton Brown thinks don't know the first thing about cooking. But I still find him entertaining…