"sf" > wrote in message
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Re "parties" -

> >
> This is the VERY first time I've heard that Pampered Chef is
> sold that way!

Really? How do you know them, then? Catalog/internet only?

I had never even heard of Pampered Chef before one of the wife's
friends had a "party," and she bought some of her first bits of
useless junk. I've TRIED to tell her that I am just not that fond
of "gadgets" (the sort of thing that Alton Brown refers to as
"single-taskers") in the kitchen, especially when they're this poorly
made, but we still seem to get more of them, somehow. Again,
the stoneware was OK (though the pizza stone was small), but
the rest of it I would gladly toss immediately if I didn't think she'd
notice. The absolute worst was a hooped-blade-with-wires thing
that is supposed to be used to cutting avocado halves while they're
still in the skin, but I can't for the life of me see why anyone would
ever want to use it - it simply doesn't FIT 99% of the avocadoes,
and those few that it sort of works on, it...well, only "sort of"
works on!

Bob M.