Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Onion ring holder

By: Ring Holder

Ring Holder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:15:15 +0000

It’s creative way to serve onion ring at the restaurant. It can be used to serve donut.

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:36:31 +0000

I hate to say, only because I hate a unitasker about the same as most of the people that view Unitasker Wednesday, but with the right salt & pepper shakers or condiment bottles, couldn’t this item also be used as a tabletop paper towel dispenser with convenient condiment or s&p holder?

At a last min glance, maybe it could be used as one of those ground stakes to keep your dog on a leash. I’d only suggest this use if you own a teacup dog of sorts. You could even put a tiny snack sized amount of food and a “sippy” of water in the ramekin holders on the side, perfect for that dog with the owner on the go.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:11:24 +0000

This IS a unitasker even in a restaurant, and, HELLO… I would like my food faster and would rather not think that my order is being held up by the cook having to stack 15 orders of onion rings. I’d love to hear the opinion of a busy fry cook!

By: Lorne

Lorne — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:44:41 +0000

You could use three of them to play Towers of Hanoi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:32:38 +0000

it holds onion rings, ketchup AND mustard?
No really.. this is a must-have!

greetings from the netherlands!

By: Tabatha

Tabatha — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:38:23 +0000

i think this item is riotous, the first thing that came to mind when i saw it, was that it was ridiculous and funny, even for a restaurant. i think people are letting these posts bother them a bit to much. like someone else suggested, just skim over it if you don’t like it.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:44:08 +0000

This could also be a receipt holder for someone with a serious shopping problem. :p

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:14:09 +0000

@JM — As I’ve said before, there are no “rules” to Unitasker Wednesday. No checklists. No guidelines. No creeds and no laws. It’s just clutter that we find funny. That’s it. We don’t care who manufactured it or why. We don’t even care if we own the items. It’s just for fun.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:55:21 +0000

“I don’t care if anyone agrees with me or not, this is funny to ME! Can you imagine going into someone’s house and having them serve you onion rings on this?? Riotous. I would start laughing, have the hostess pose with me in pictures with it, and probably make up songs about it and serenade the guests. If you don’t see how funny this is, I don’t know what to tell you.”

@Erin,
I think you are missing the point some people are trying to make here. The point being that no one is probably going to buy this for their house because it is designed for the restaurant, hotel, and buffet industry (the web site even says so). I mean, the company is called “Dine Art”. Obviously something might appear funny if it was put in an environment it wasn’t designed for. Pizza ovens with conveyor belts make sense for pizza joints, but would obviously seem strange in a residential kitchen. Single purpose items abound in the restaurant industry, but they make sense for presentation, space saving measures, or because they are making a TON of one item.

The onion ring holder is not funny, hardly outlandish and definitely not “Riotous”.

By: Maura

Maura — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:48:37 +0000

Again with the donuts — (or even bagels, as one suggested)… Unless all of the donuts were the same variety, I would NOT use this to serve donuts.

I’d like the chocolate coated one, second from the bottom, please.

Ah – no.

By: zig

zig — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:45:53 +0000

I just showed the picture of this thing to my dh and he said “Uh, why would you buy that thing??”. So I guess he thinks that this thing is a total waste to.

Zig

By: Bella

Bella — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:23:10 +0000

My opinion on whether or not it was a good unitasker choice aside, I’ve been CRAVING onion rings for two days now!! It wouldn’t hurt me to resist an impulse every once and a while, but this has been excruciating for me! Let’s not even get started with the donuts… Thanks Uncluttered!

By: Nat

Nat — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:10:04 +0000

Guess I’m in the minority. I still think this is a unitasker if a restaurant served this up to me instead of on a basket or a plate. Plus, IMHO, I think the presentation is ugly. I love eating onion rings, but I would never call a stack of brown fried food great design. However, in fairness, I guess you could put donuts on it instead and then it would have to be a multitasker.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:53:37 +0000

Ditto @ Karyn’s last post

LONG LIVE UNITASKER WEDNESDAYS!!!

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:52:11 +0000

@H.Mann — I don’t care if anyone agrees with me or not, this is funny to ME! Can you imagine going into someone’s house and having them serve you onion rings on this?? Riotous. I would start laughing, have the hostess pose with me in pictures with it, and probably make up songs about it and serenade the guests. If you don’t see how funny this is, I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t think I’m the one who has lost her perspective. Unitasker Wednesday columns are about having fun and enjoying the more humorous side of organizing and uncluttering — there aren’t “rules” about what is funny and what isn’t. Things are just funny.

I’ve often thought about renaming the Unitasker Wednesday column “Sh*t That Makes Me Laugh” … but since I try to keep this a family-safe blog, I likely won’t change it.

By: Karyn

Karyn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:12:28 +0000

Just because something is targeted for restaurant use or some other “specialty” focus doesn’t make it any less a Unitasker. Why do people think that restaurant clutter is any more acceptable than residential clutter???

Erin: Please DO NOT listen to the naysayers. I’ve been afraid that the negative, fartly comments from the disparagers of your chosen Unitaskers will discourage you from posting future Unitasker entries. Please don’t let that happen!

I’m not being a sycophant, here; I genuinely enjoy Unitasker Wednesdays. Some of them make me laugh more than others, but they’re all in good fun. If people don’t like these posts, I’d rather they just skip over them and focus on the posts they do find relevant–just as I, and others, skim over the uncluttering tips that don’t apply to our own lives.

LONG LIVE UNITASKER WEDNESDAYS!!!

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:56:43 +0000

@Scott: Impaled can also mean to render the subject helpless as if by impaling or piercing through. Those rings look pretty helpless to me!

I enjoy Unitasker Wednesdays, and have never (to my memory) seen one that was not in fact a Unitasker. Yeh, the degree of their Unitaskeryness varies, but the point is always the same. Even if it’s something as arguable as this onion ring holder, it’s still a lighthearted reminder to maintain perspective on products and their uses. We can’t have SnackDaddy’s and Spin the Bottle games every week.

On that note, maybe it’s a good sign that Erin is running out of easy to find ridiculous products. Maybe there’s just fewer of them, and that can’t be bad. Or maybe readers should help out and contribute more. We’re all here because we love this site. Consider being constructive rather than derisive. :]

By: H.Mann

H.Mann — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:30:46 +0000

@ Erin,

Items intended to be used as: toys, art, specialty novelty items, commercial/industrial use, etc… Stop using these for Unitasker Wednesdays.

Read the comments – the majority of your readers have common sense and agree every week – the things you pick on are ill chosen. Drop Unitasker Wednesdays or find some genuinely ridiculous items. You are losing credibility as a perceptive person.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:26 +0000

Agreed that it’s too easy to grab stuff meant for an industry. Wait until you see this in Target…then post it.

@Bea: impaled? Um, onion rings already have a hole in them…no need to impale them…they fit nicely over the rod…

And I have to agree I like my onion rings in a basket, sometimes. Other times, I like the presentation here. Not EVERY restaurant has to present their food like a greasy spoon. And no trash paper results from this presentation either.

But yes, IF this was being marketed to individual consumers…it would classify for a unitasker.

Maybe Unitasker Wednesday doesn’t have to be an EVERY Wednesday thing…

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:40 +0000

Opinion following:
Those should be renamed onion wheels – LOL.
While they are indeed ring shaped and made of onion… Thick slabs of fried onion are just not appealing.
Onion rings are best when sliced as thin as possible and coated with a thin batter that will fry up light and flaky.

Been to Red Robin… not impressed… it’s like a burger-oriented Applebee’s…