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I love how the typical contents of a kitchen around the world are a real reflection on that culture. Here in the UK you can always find an electric kettle, without question. In Italy a Moka pot. In Japan a rice cooker. It says a lot about what’s important to people. It’s only really in the US that you see such a proliferation of hyper-specific kitchen gadgets. Smoothie maker, waffle maker, electric egg poacher, vegetable spiralizer… I don’t know if that says anything about American culture, or just that you guys have really big kitchens.

As an American, I completely agree. It’s gotten so bad that this attitude has leached from the suburbs where larger homes and kitchens exist into the city where there just isn’t enough space. My friends think I’m being silly for not wanting an air fryer when I already have a convection oven or an instant pot when I already have a slow cooker and pressure canner. I’m very anti single use equipment or duplicate equip for the very reason that I don’t have space and it’s often a waste of money. But it seems like everyone around me just buys whatever and doesn’t think too much about where it’s going to go or how much they will use it and I just don’t understand it :/