Ridiculous kitchen appliances

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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.

wah this Juicero guy is a pro scammer. the local small time scammers need to learn from him.