‘Shoot it with a gun!’ Background check.HELLO! I had to resort to carefully attempt to slice those bananas with my bare hands.” Well.my parole officer won’t allow me to be around knives. The best thing about it is surely the now-legendary review on Amazon that starts this way: “For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. I thought this was a gag gift at first (as a gag gift, it’s pretty great!), but it turns out there are companies that actually sell this plastic, yellow, banana-shaped slicer. Let’s start with the king of ridiculous devices, the banana slicer that launched a zillion online comments. He took on the task of finding the 10 Most Ridiculous Kitchen Tools. Luckily for me, my excellent colleague at Food & Wine, food editor Daniel Gritzer, is the Simon Cowell of the kitchen equipment world. Or find kitchen equipment that enables those kinds of reviews. It’s followed by the “Saved My Marriage” comment, which compares the banana slicer to the wheel, penicillin and the iPhone. Banana!” Currently, almost 48,000 people have found this review helpful.

I’m thinking, of course, of the Hutzler Banana Slicer, and the 2011 review, titled “No More Winning For You, Mr. Some kitchen equipment must have been created just so it could get the most hilarious review on Amazon. When she tells us where to find our culinary heart's desire, we listen up. Kate Krader ( on Twitter) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor.

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