If you will allow me to vent for a sec.  I need to ask a simple question.  Why are all of my Turkish kitchen appliances pieces of shit?  Seriously, I need to know.  I have yet to come across a kitchen appliance that doesn’t break after using it one time.  Let me see… oh yes first to go was the blender.  Oh wait, let me clarify – that didn’t work when we plugged it in.  Second to go was my beloved popcorn maker.  If you know me, to say that I love popcorn is an understatement.  So when I had to part with my two favorite air-poppers for obvious electric voltage reasons when we moved, you can understand how upset I was to be without one for a while.  And low and behold the P.O.S. broke the second time we used it.  Motor burnt.  And it smelled bad.  Definitely not like popcorn.

After that was the friggin mixer.  Now tell me how I’m supposed to make cookies or good mashed potatoes without a mixer.  I mean come on folks.  Annoying.  That one burnt out on the first use – and let me note the total usage time totaled oh about 45 seconds.  Yeah.  What else?  Our tea maker fizzled on us one day, but it got revived from the dead somehow.  So it’s still kickin but deserves a mention here, although I will note that it is now considered a fire hazard.   And today our “robot” (as it’s called in Turkish), which is the do-everything chopper/mixer/blender/puree-er/processer/soup-er/etc, bit the dust.  I just don’t get it.  I mean this guy almost got thrown over the side of the balcony afterwards.  Robot and I definitely had it out before this one finally took it’s last breath.

So I just want to know why.  Why oh why do all of my Turkish kitchen appliances SUCK?  Is it me?  In four months five appliances don’t make it to the second use.  I can’t believe it’s me or my luck.  Somebody please send me some good-kitchen-appliance-vibes!  Please!  The only thing that has saved me is our toaster that we use religiously every day and has worked just fine (Arzum brand, may I note) and this hand mixer thing-a-ma-jig that you can make smoothies with, blend soup in the pot, chop stuff, etc.  It has a tiny little blade but packs a lot of punch, let me tell you.  Props to the people at Braun.  I hug that little guy every time before I put him back up on the shelf.  Ok now you think I’m losing it.

Thanks for listening to me vent… if anyone is listening.