10 kitchen gadgets you really don’t need – from garlic presses to spiralizers

The average household has more than 300 worth of unused cookery kit. Here, experts offer tips on how to make bread, ice-cream and other delicious foods without fancy contraptions

Jacob Kenedy's home kitchen is full of things he rarely uses: a sushi mat, a coconut grater, a pestle and mortar, even a borrowed turbotiere (a kite-shaped pan specifically for poaching turbot). I'm the worst," confesses the chef-owner at Bocca di Lupo in central London. I buy gadgets all the time. I'm a kleptomaniac of other cuisines; I've an enormous kitchen island full of crap."

Kenedy is not alone. In a survey last year, tapwarehouse.com found that 41% of tagine owners had never used theirs. Spiralizers, waffle-irons and juicers are all gathering dust, too, with the average household home to 311 of unused kitchen equipment.