Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: The batter dispenser

By: A milestone for Unclutterer - Simpler Living - timesunion.com - Albany NY

A milestone for Unclutterer - Simpler Living - timesunion.com - Albany NY — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:17:41 +0000

[...] is the Unitasker, a weekly feature that highlights items created to do only one thing (like this batter dispenser). Many of them actually end up serving another purpose: contributing to [...]

By: Leonie

Leonie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:17:36 +0000

I find these posts fascinating . Yes, a lot of these items are silly and seem to be worthless or unitaskers. In this day and age of trying to find multitakers, or being more conscious of the environment (less stuff to buy, less packaging to get rid off…resources can be allocated elsewhere) the fact that unitaskers exist is very interesting.

I lived in several developing countries in the course of my work (not sure china would appreciate my calling Tibet a developing country…), and I would find people going through trash – gathering paper and cardboard to sell,plastic to reuse, glass etc…

I’d love to take some of the unitaskers you’ve shared here and ask people in India, China, Indonesia….what they think…

I mean can you imagine? A specific tool JUST for pouring batter? When you can use a bowl – multiple uses!! including but not limited to:

1. if it’s aluminim – a good drum to bang on for kids…or a space helmet…
2. using as a salad bowl…soup bowl…etc..

So please, do continue with the unitaskers…and yes…those who don’t get that it’s a “joke” (roll eyes) .who cares…

By: Rachella

Rachella — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:17:32 +0000

This is hilarious. Do people actually buy these types of products.

By: karen

karen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:25:34 +0000

please do NOT add ‘joke’ to the title. i find the troll posts amusing ; )

By: koz

koz — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:14:28 +0000

I’m with Valerie… If people don’t get it, who cares? They’re obviously not diehards like us, anyway!

By: Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:22:37 +0000

Um, a ladle works for me.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:16:48 +0000

Dear Unclutterer: It’s not your fault that people don’t ‘get’ that unitaskers are jokes. You try. People should take the time they spend writing a mean comment to double check that they understood what you said.

I was also thinking that thoses dispensers would be a pain to fill. When I was a kid, my Dad used to make either pancakes or waffles every Sunday. We used to ‘fight’ over the bonuses from him dripping batter on the griddle making mini-pancakes.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:17:21 +0000

I got one of these as a gift. What a mess. Drips everywhere. Getting batter into it is a huge mess in itself. The batter that comes out is not in fact particularly uniform. And it holds almost no batter, so plan on filling it up 3 or 4 times.

To be fair, cleaning it is not hard.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:01:00 +0000

I keep a cleaned out ketchup bottle to squirt pancake batter.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:01:50 +0000

Julie – I grew up with one of those (we always called it a cookie press). Maybe it’s just because it has a sentimental place in my heart, but I love them. And everyone is always very impressed by the cookies that they make because they’re different. A unitasker, yes, but the cookies are definitely different than just using a cookie cutter.

By: Mo

Mo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:01:11 +0000

Don’t know if Bisquick still makes it, but they used to sell pancake mix in a plastic bottle. It was sized so that you just added water and shook it to mix the batter and poured it from the bottle onto the pan. Hideously wasteful, but great! Well, I just cleaned the bottle out and figured out a recipe to fit the bottle. My husband is not a pancake eater, so I think it got used to store paint at some point, but I think I might use a mason jar for the same purpose.

By: Another Deb

Another Deb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:07:33 +0000

I used to have an anecdotal list of “Stuff You Can Always Find At Garage Sales” as I could catch about 20 on a Saturday morning back in the days I was outfitting my house.

Waffle Irons topped the list. And they were ALWAYS dirty.

By: chat

chat — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:23:09 +0000

I actually use ziplock bags as good batter dispensers for pancakes, cupcakes, and others. I pour the batter in the bag, and then cut a small hole in one of the bag corners. Cleaning up is a breeze since I can just dump the plastic bag. No need for these newfangled devices.

By: JPLemme

JPLemme — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:51:43 +0000

@Taryn

RE: Waffle Irons as unitaskers.

What did it feel like when your soul died?

/JK
//Mostly
///I loves my waffles

By: Viv Evans

Viv Evans — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:47:32 +0000

I could see using this if I had 17 kids and made a lot of pancakes. However, like my juicer and spice grinder and a lot of other stuff that seemed like a good idea at the time, cleaning it would be a real pain.