Kitchen gadgets are an interesting market, it's massively influenced by fashion and media. Get your new gadget on a morning TV magazine show during a cooking se

Kitchen gadgets are an interesting market, it's massively influenced by fashion and media. Get your new gadget on a morning TV magazine show during a cooking segment, sell it for between $100 and $300, and you have a hit. The limiting factor for a business, not the idea, is that you will eventually end up competing against cheep copies of your product. There is a shelf like of something like max 5 years before your dominant, first mover, market position is completely destroyed. On top of that, most people have limited space in their kitchens, and these gadgets tent to be all roughly the same size. That limits the market, how may of these things can someone get in their cupboards without throwing out the least used one they purchased. In relatively short succession we have had an explosion of "instant pots", air fryers, sous vide, "George Forman grills", toasted sandwich makers, bread makers, ice cream makers, slow cookers, pressure cookers. People have run out of room for them all, I suspect that has had a massive impact on the market. Just casually looking back, instant pot and air fryers are circa 2010, Anova sous vide circa 2013, George Forman grills are circa 1994, and I remember ice cream and bread makers getting popular in the early 00's. So effectively we get a "new thing" every 5-10 years, I wander what the next one is?