This completely unnecessary kitchen gadget has the funniest Amazon page ever.

by Mamamia Team July 7, 2015

This is a banana slicer. Don’t need one? Sure. But what you do need is to read the questions and product reviews underneath its listing on Amazon.

There are more than 500 answered questions about the Hutzler 571 banana slicer. There are more than 5,000 product reviews. And they are screamingly hilarious.

Question: “Is there a metric version? My mom lives in Europe and I don’t want to send her one that won’t work in her country.”

Answer: “I live in Canada so I just ordered it from amazon.ca and they sent me the metric version. I gotta say, the metric version is much easier to deal with than the US version. 10 slices equal one banana. Whereas in the US, it’s… what, 12 slices make one banana? That just makes no sense.”

And this is what it looks like. Photo: Amazon.

Question: "I bought one of these and from the day I set it down in my kitchen, my bananas have stopped talking to me. What now?"

Answer: "Gather all the bananas around the table. Try to figure out who their leader is. Then ever so slowly peel it and set it on the table. Tell the bananas that there is going to be an adjustment in attitudes, that things need to get back to normal. Then in a swift motion, use the slicer on the ringleader."

Question: "A friend used my H571 to slice a few bananas but accidentally sliced too many. Is there any reverse mode to unslice them? The manual is not helpful."

Answer: "Yes, I was confused as well, but after some experimentation, I found that instead of pressing down the slicer onto the banana to slice, you can unslice by pushing the unused slices back through the corresponding slots. I will post a video on YouTube when I have a free moment."

And then there are the product reviews.

Mrs Toledo claimed the banana slicer saved her marriage.

SW3K was equally appreciative.

Here's a mock infomercial about the banana slicer. Post continues after video.