Tried making a single loaf of sourdough with mine and ended up with what looked like a flour avalanche in a bowl. The thing basically threw a tantrum and refused to mix anything under five pounds. Now it's a very expensive paperweight that takes up half my counter, but hey, at least my hand mixer still gets a workout.

Three resets in one week, that's worse than my old water heater timer ever was.

Ripped the paint right off a medieval floor tile once with a steel scraper. Spent the whole afternoon trying to glue the flakes back on. Supervisor just shook his head and handed me a toothbrush.

...and honestly that reminds me of the time I messed up a whole batch of journals because I thought I could just skip the pressing step entirely. I had like 8 of them stacked under a bunch of heavy books for two days and the spines came out all wavy, plus the covers warped at the corners. I even tried steaming one to fix it, which just made the paper crinkle. So yeah, I get why you'd think it's a gimmick at first, but once you actually feel how even the pressure is, it's hard to go back. My only regret is I didn't buy one sooner, but I did save a ton of money by getting a used one with a few rust spots that cleaned up fine.

My brother skipped the torque specs on his truck and blew the engine two weeks later.