Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?

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Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them? - Lemmy.World

I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now. What are your small, “random” or “junk drawer” type of gadgets that you actually use or like having around?

I got a carbonization machine. I’ve been drinking way more water these days. I always thought I liked soda because of the sugar. Actually I liked the fizziness. It gets fizzier than anything else I’ve ever drank.
I can’t agree more! I have tried both soda stream and drinkmate and would recommend the drinkmate. It’s just better, you can fizz juice and non-water drinks. Soda stream is also a consumer boycott target if you don’t want to support the genocide in Palestine. 😬
I’ve been wanting to get one for forever, but was told you couldn’t carbonate non water drinks, and to mix flavor into the carbonated water (which, to my thinking, would make it go flat…). In the drink mate, could I make Kool aid (with Splenda) and carbonate that? Cause if I can have fizzy cherry drink, I’ll be a happy boy.

If you corbonise rose wine in the soda stream, put less than you would have put water. Like 80%. Or the bottle might like get a bit stuck. Or so I have heard.

Also guess don’t put sugary wine in it, never knew why you shouldn’t though, CO2 doesn’t react with sugar, right? Please do tell if you know!

It dislodges and shoots red wine all over your kitchen.