kitchen gadgets you hate/ feel nervous about using

As a single man living alone I'm not very comfortable with kitchen/cooking and I usually eat out or bring ready food with me or call delivery .. but I get to cook sometimes and although I'm handy with a lot of things I'm very uncomfortable with sharp knives and always extra careful and slow when using them.

I tend to grate the ends of my fingers and really don't like big knives. I have just re-learned a new respenct of hand held mixers, I didn't get the wall switch off properly and cut my finger, luckily it's not too bad but it was a clear warning to be more careful.

i sometimes feel that i dont like to use microwave ovens and i feel that sometimes i feel like its going to explode on me. haha

I'm not a big fan of graters. I'm always catching them on my fingers. Also, our cooker is broken, it has be to lit with a lighter, as the ignition switch has given up. I hate using that. It's singed my nails a few times, but I'm always scared that it'll burn me when I light it.

I'm light scared with knives and graters. But what i really hate is the pressured cooker. When the water started to boil, it seems that the cover will get blast. And i'm scared of that. Because if have this experience, when my aunt is cooking using the pressured cooker. And she forget that after boiling and all the meat was already done, pressured cooker need to put in a tap water so that the heat will subside. What happened was the cover blasts and some of the meat. Need to be careful sometimes to avoid accident while cooking.

I had this popcorn air popper that I was sure was going to explode everytime I used it...something about it just seemed really unstable. I finally went with my instincts and got rid of it before there was a major accident. Now I use a stove top popper...the popcorn tastes so much better with it and I'm not as worried about getting really hurt.