I’ve always thought that cooking requires the most minimal of tools. It should be kept to the basics of knives, pans and cutting boards. Not to my amazement, we humans who have created artificial intelligence and have ventured the surface of the moon, still have a difficult handling knives in the kitchen. Luckily, our innovative nature has prompted us into creating some of the most ridicules and useless kitchen tools out there.

Here are twenty kitchen gadgets that your should probably be embarrassed to own.

1. I guess this could be fun to use but it also comes with the risk of looking ridiculous.

2. Really? REALLY? Who doesn't know how to peek a banana???

3. I'm not sure you should even be able to purchase knives if you own one of these.

4. Why would anybody need to cook four different pastas at the same time? That's not even practical.

5. For when you need a toothpick but are also willing to accidentally stab your hand about nine times.

6. This give the phase "stop poking at your food" a new meaning.

7. You shouldn't even be allowed to indulge in the magic of chicken wings if you use these finger mittens. How dare you.

8. How lazy do you have to be to not want to lift a jug of juice.

9. Honestly, what did knives ever do to you?

10. For when you're feeling pretty square and like making things more difficult than they need to be.

11. We get it. You have the right to bare arms. Now please squeeze out the mustard from the bottle like a normal person.

12. Is it really so hard to spin around a fork manually?

13. If you need this gadget, than please do yourself a favor and get rid of all of your knives and forks. Really, you should not be near anything sharp or pokey.

14. All this does is cook an egg into a disgusting looking egg-tube and I do not trust the judgment of anyone who uses it or owns one.

15. I'm not entirely mad at these meat brass knuckles but I'm not amused by them either.

16. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

17. This is not right. This "Sushi Bazooka" should not be tolerated.

18. I...I actually love this. It's functional and adorable and I have no complaints. Overall a 10/10.

19. No words. I have no words.

20. Oh okay. Could have used a fork but no. I'll just snatch a pickle out with this incredibly long claw thing. Practical.

It's really amazing how far we have come in the culinary gadgetry industry.