Grocery wars - kitchen multi-tasker edition

If you ask me, Alton Brown is the most influential food personality of his generation. The man taught me how to make mayonnaise, for Pete's sake. In the kitchen, he draws a sharp line between uni-taskers, items which can only be used for the one thing they were designed to do (bad) and multi-taskers, which can be adapted to serve different purposes (good). If you've ever seen the episode where he makes beef jerky and builds a dehydrator out of a window fan, a stack of furnace filters, and a bungee cord, you know what i'm talking about.

So while it's good to see that philosophy taking hold in the food industry, i have to wonder if they're not carrying it a bit too far over at Compare Foods this week.