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[โ€“] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pizza baking sheets. They didn't fit in my oven.

A paella pan. I don't like paella.

A coffee grinder. It just doesn't grind coffee beans to the right size.

A random Italian cookbook. I have a chefs degree. I'm well down with basic Italian cooking.

See, I cook every day. Twice. And on occasion I love to cook for friends but that also means I'm over poor quality cooking stuff. I'll buy my own gear. Most people think they do me a favour but I just have useless stuff piling up over the years. I'm grateful to get gifts but last year I just told people right a way that if they want to give me cooking related gifts I would be equally happy with some special sort of salt of some fun ingredients to cook with. Those things don't last as long but it would make for a much better gift for a food enthousiast.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

same. Don't buy me electronics. I'm too much of a snob to use what you bought. Either stick to the Christmas wish list we all agreed on, or keep the receipt.

[โ€“] Mesa@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

All the computer mice, headphones, and keyboards...

The connector cable it comes with will spend 10,000x as much time in my hand than the item you intended to give me.

[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it gets that way when people know something major you do. The amount of lame chemistry shirts and such is far too high.

I know they mean well, and I definitely appreciate it. But it does get a bit old.