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Frozzypack Lunchbox Keeps Your Salad Chilled For Hours

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Most people like to pack hot lunches. Some days, though, you may be more inclined to pack grub that you’d otherwise prefer to stay cold, such as fruits and salads. If you don’t have access to a fridge wherever you’re going, the Frozzypack Lunchbox should be your container of choice. While it looks just like any standard food container, the Frozzypack has a trick up its sleeve: it can keep your food chilled and fresh for up to seven hours [...]

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Baconkit Has Everything You Need To Make Bacon At Home

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You eat too much bacon. And you still can’t get enough. Might as well surrender to the bacon and make your own at home. If you have no idea how that’s done, better get the Baconkit. No need to scour local stores to compile the right tools for making your own bacon: just pick up a kit and you’re immediately ready to turn out your own fresh strips of delicious, fatty meat. Well, provided you didn’t forget to buy the [...]

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Rollie Eggmaster Lets You Make Eggs On A Stick

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There are plenty of ways to cook an egg. So far, though, I’ve never seen one that involved skewering it for eating on a stick. That is, until the Rollie Eggmaster Cooking System came along. A cooking appliance about the size of a travel mug, it features a vertical compartment that cooks your eggs into a tube shape. That way, you can stick a skewer into it for convenient snacking on the go just like you do with corndogs and [...]

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Breakfast Sandwich Maker Cooks Your Meal In Five Minutes

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Like starting you day with a breakfast sandwich? While you can do that using the mass of cooking appliances you’ve already accumulated, nothing should help you zip through preparing those sausage egg muffins or ham and cheese bagels quite like this Breakfast Sandwich Maker. Created by Hamilton Beach, the appliance is an all-in-one sandwich maker that will cook your eggs and meats, grill your cheese, and toast your bread at the exact same time. That way, you don’t have [...]

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Grillbot Cleaning Robot Is Like A Roomba For Your Grilling Adventures

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We now have home robots for autonomously vacuuming floors, cleaning pools, trimming lawns, and more. If you grill a lot, then you’ve probably been waiting for a robot to clean those thick layers of grease you leave behind after every batch of sirloins, t-bones and burgers, too. The Grillbot is exactly the robot for the job. An autonomous cleaning robot, it exists for the sole purpose of cleaning grills. Set the bot atop the grate, turn it on and it [...]

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Good Reads: Where Chef’s Eat-Restaurant-Guidebook

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You’ve grown to rely on Yelp to get your restaurant recommendations. At the end of the day, though, it’s still just a bunch of social media geeks who like to post about food on the internet. Authored by Joe Warwick, the 700-page book details over 2,000 restaurant recommendations around the world from 400+ actual chefs. After all, who better to turn to for the best places to eat than those who fashion great food for a living? Sure, you’ll [...]

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Sunnyside Egg Mold Brings The Sun To Your Plate

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I am a corny dude. When I make pancakes, I serve them with the syrup drawn up into a smiley face. When I make bacon, I stitch them together like the Epic Meal Time dudes do. When I make waffles, I put chocolate spread in the shape of a heart. I am a corny dude and it’s a good thing. Want to get even cornier? Start making your sunny side ups with the Sunnyside Egg Mold. A silicon egg shaper, [...]

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Steel Grill Fry Pan Lets You Cook Everything On A Grill

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You cook everything on a grill. It makes for less grease, a strong smoky flavor and a heck of a good time preparing food in the backyard. Problem is, not all food is ideal for the grill — sliced meats, shrimps and many vegetables will often just slip through the cracks and get swallowed by the fire when you line them up right next to the steaks. Sure, Grill Clips can remedy that some, but it can only cook a [...]

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Instant Regret Peanut Butter Comes Mixed With Spicy Chili

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Peanut butter is always good. Whether it’s the expensive stuff they serve at that luxury B&B you vacation at or the cheap 16-oz jars you buy with coupons at the local grocery, peanut butter never disappoints. As in, never. Maybe the Instant Regret Offensively Hot Peanut Butter can change that. Clocking in at a scorching 12 million Scoville heat units, it’s erstwhile regular crunchy peanut butter reinforced with a big load of chili peppers. That way, you can get your [...]

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Hot Can Christmas Dinner: Because It’s A Lonely World Out There

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We’re not sure why the Hot Can Christmas Dinner is marketed specifically for the holidays. If you’re eating alone during Christmas, you’re probably eating alone most of the year, too. At any rate, it’s here: hot food in a can with no other appliance necessary. You want hot food but you have no cooktop, no microwave and absolutely no way to heat canned grub? That’s not a problem with this canned holiday feast (ummm… snack), which can self-heat all by [...]

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Hipster Dust Magically Infuses Your Food With Deck Flavors

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Sure, your cooking’s good, but is it hipster good? Give your dishes the post-modern irony they deserve with the Hipster Dust, a works-on-everything spice mixture that gives food the unmistakable flavor of pretentious wankery. We kid, we kid. We’re not sure about the name, but this seasoning mix claims to add a distinctly delicious flavor to everything you can whip up in the kitchen. And, no, we don’t mean microwaved frozen chicken fingers — we mean that stuff you actually [...]

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Freshpaper Promises To Keep Your Produce Fresher For Much Longer

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Sure, you can refrigerate all your fruits and vegetables to keep them fresher for a longer period of time. But what if you only shop once a month and need to make them last even longer than what a fridge could do? Freshpaper offers a solution. Made by Fenugreen, it looks nothing but a humble sheet of paper at first glance. You know, like the kind you’ll crumple up and throw at your kid sister because she’s annoying and has [...]

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Caffeinated Maple Syrup: For Pancakes With A Jolt

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You love a huge breakfast with four stacks of pancakes, a couple sausages and a Belgian waffle on the side. The problem: big meals leave you sleepy and the taste of coffee makes you want to puke. The solution: Wired Wyatt’s Caffeinated Maple Syrup. That’s right, delicious maple syrup to lace your pancakes with packed with enough dose of caffeine to keep you awake the rest of the morning. No need to sip coffee or down a can of energy [...]

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Sushi Bazooka Fires Perfect Rolls

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I’ve made sushi before. It was horrible. Making those perfect rolls just isn’t as easy as it looks in those make-sushi Youtube videos. The Sushi Bazooka aims to make the process just a little less troublesome. Anytime I hear “bazooka” in the name of a product, I immediately expect it to shoot stuff and create an explosive mess. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), that’s not exactly what this contraption does. Instead, the cylindrical gadget lets you [...]

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Trongs Are Utensils For Finger Foods

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Nobody likes getting their fingers dirty when eating. Yes, even when the food is so good it’s worth finger-lickin’. After all, you can get a call on your phone any time — do you really want to add all that grease and sauce to the dirt already covering your handset? These Trongs offer a solution. Designed for consuming finger foods, it’s a pair of plastic claws that you use in place of your actual fingers. They’ll let you hold those [...]

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Nomiku Is A Portable Sous Vide Machine

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Being a snobbish foodie ain’t easy. Last year, you spent $2000 on a sous vide appliance so you can get perfectly cooked meat without driving to an expensive restaurant. And you’ve been so spoiled by your nightly sous vide dinners that you can’t stand the thought of leaving home and eating the kind of food less sophisticated pallets enjoy. If the Nomiku manages to make it to production, you may not have to. A portable sous vide contraption, it lets [...]

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Grill Clips: Now, This Is How You Grill Veggies

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Grilled meat and vegetables always go down well together. Cooking vegetables on a grill designed to hold slabs of flesh, however, doesn’t go down quite as slick, with many likely falling right down the pit. Bring a little order to your vegetable grilling duties with the Grill Clip, which holds your thin and delicate vegetables while you expose them to an open flame. Made by Sur La Table, the tool is like an oversized tie clip that bundles your asparagus, [...]

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Let’s Pizza Vending Machine Coming To US Soon

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A pizza vending machine apparently exists. And there are plenty of them already. And no, these wonderful cooking wizards don’t just reheat frozen pizzas in a hidden microwave either. Instead, the Let’s Pizza vending machine can whip up a complete pizza from scratch, using its robotic wiles to produce freshly-baked pies in just 2.5 minutes. Made by Dutch company A1 Concepts, the contraption houses a full-fledged robot pizzaioli under its steely cabinet frame. While you can’t quite watch it perform [...]

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Taco Plates Let You Eat Tacos Like A Civilized Dude

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When I first heard the name Taco Plates, I thought it was a tortilla shaped like a plate that lets you turn practically anything served on it into a taco. And it would have been glorious. What it turned out to be isn’t so bad either — a specialty plate designed specifically for enjoying your tacos. Measuring 13 x 8.75 inches, the plate comes divided into separate compartments that let you enjoy your tacos without turning the food into a [...]

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