Ridiculous kitchen appliances

[arthur]

Nice thread. My favourite ridiculous appliance will forever be the Juicero.

• The machine was about US$400, which isn't too bad for this kind of high-tech appliance
  
• BUT each packet of juice is about US$7 and that's how the company planned to make money
  
• Packets were designed to only work with the Juicero machine
  
• BUT people found out later they can actually squeeze the juice out manually
  
• Company received a lot of bad press and eventually shut down
  
• Founder moved on to selling "raw water" for US$40 per jug
  

Of course, I appreciate entrepreneurship but Juicero was just dishonest entrepreneurship that didn't really provide value for anyone other than themselves. Quite similar to the brava oven in that regard.