All Entries Tagged With: "kitchen gadgets"
Smoking Gun Shoots Smoky Flavor Into Your Cooking
Wood is delicious. Why do you think I ate an entire chair back in grade school (at least, that’s what the doctor said when I had colonic)? If you like the taste of burnt wood, but can’t be bothered with the drawn-out cooking methods that impart it, you need a Smoking Gun.
Designed to give your food and drinks a smoked flavor no matter how you make them, the gun lets you shoot wooden goodness like a weaponized laser pistol. Your dinner guests will never know what hit them: “Why does this fried chicken taste like hickory wood? Is it voodoo magic?”
The Smoking Gun is a flavor infuser, measuring 6 .75 x 2 x 6 inches and weighing 2 lbs. Made from plastic and aluminum, the kitchen weapon can be armed by small pinches of wood, which it burns into a delicious smoke. All the heat is trapped within the anodized [...]
Perfect Portions Weighs Your Food, Computes Their Nutritional Value
Want to know the nutritional value of everything you pop in your mouth? Arm your kitchen with the Perfect Portions Digital Scale, a nutritional food scale and calculator combo in one.
Armed with a pre-filled database of 1,999 food items, it’s designed to instantly put a nutritional label on any grub portions you intend to send down your body. We’re not kidding about the nutritional label either – it uses the same familiar layout as you’ll see in food packaging when shopping at the grocery, complete with numbers for calories, calories from fat, total fat, cholesterol and more. If the preinstalled food database doesn’t quite suit your eating habits, it allows you to plug in up to 99 custom food items, so all your regular fare can be included in the automatic calculations.
The Perfect Portions Digital Scale measures 9.25 x 6 x 0.75 inches (L x W x D) and weighs [...]
Sanyo’s Gopan Cooks Rice…Into Bread
Like rice, but prefer to munch on a sandwich? Not a problem with the Gopan Rice Bread Cooker, a clever little kitchen gadget that turns grains of rice into loafs.
Created by Sanyo, the appliance looks to solve a food problem currently happening in Japan: fewer and fewer people are eating rice. According to the company, present consumption of domestic rice has been halved compared to 1962, creating a negative impact in the local agriculture. With the device, they’re hoping to revitalize the Japanese market for the staple Asian food by adapting to consumer’s changing eating habits (as opposed to just blaming McDonalds, which is what I would have done).
The Gopan Rice Bread Cooker takes regular uncooked grains of rice (along with ingredients) and puts it through an “automatic milling function” that turns the whole mass into paste. From there, the paste is kneaded, raised and baked into a regular-looking loaf [...]
Vacu Vin Steel Pineapple Slicer Makes Fruit Rings In 30 Seconds
Do you love pineapples, but can’t stand all the work it requires to peel and slice them? Not a problem with the Vacu Vin Steel Pineapple Slicer, a clever little kitchen tool that peels, cores and slices a whole pineapple in only thirty seconds.
Who needs their fruits pre-sliced and packed? Not you. Just cut the pineapple around the top, stick this device in and twist it down the pit. The integrated blades perform all the work – turn once for a single slice and twist continuously to core the whole fruit in one swoop. See the results in the photo? That’s like magic right there.
Made from stainless steel, the device is intended to be a more durable version of Vacu Vin’s original plastic slicer. It measures 4.5 x 3.4 x 9.5 inches and comes equipped with a medium-sized blade, allowing it [...]
Cravendale Milk Jug Alerts You When The Milk Has Soured
I like my milk fresh. But that’s just me. If you like your milk just a little spoiled, you should get a Cravendale Milk Jug, which alerts you via an LCD display once your milk has soured.
Okay, I’m half-kidding. The high-tech vessel is actually intended to alert people to the fact that their milk is still fresh, just in case they suspect it has soured after leaving it in the kitchen counter since morning. Rather than throw it out for fear it has spoiled, all they have to do is check out the display on the side to know whether it’s still good for tomorrow’s cereal.
Created by UK-based dairy company Cravendale, the acidity-detecting Milk Jug detects the state of the pasteurized beverage using a unique PH sensor that’s built into its base. When it recognizes the presence of bacteria that makes the milk sour, it changes the side display from [...]
Watch Your Crust Cook To A Crisp With The Artisan Fire Pizza Oven
Why confine yourself to a backyard barbecue when you can have pizza while lounging in the grass? We’re talking about the Kalamazoo Artisan Fire Pizza Oven, an old-world style crust-browning kitchen machine, designed for your outdoor countertop.
The second generation of the company’s outdoor pizza makers, it cooks the beloved comfort food with an exposed front view, letting everyone watch as the flames scorch your pie into a crisp. When was the last time grilling burgers and steaks looked this much fun? I’ll bet never.
Clad in a double-walled stainless steel body measuring 30.125 x 30 x 19.5 inches, the Artisan Fire Pizza Oven is both extremely durable and easy to clean. Cooking area is a 24 x 18 inch professional-grade composite deck, with stone lining on the roof for browning those piles of pepperoni, mushrooms and other toppings. It comes with two custom stainless steel gas burners [...]
Mugstir Lets You Have A Coffee Spoon Without Turning You Into A Pirate
I used to drop my stirring spoon on my mug when I’m drinking my coffee. Then, I saw a movie where a guy did that and ended up poking his eye out with the end of the spoon. Arrggh – he became a pirate.
Since then, I always stirred my coffee while standing in the sink. After I’m done, I would simply drop it in with the rest of the dirty dishes. Sure, it’s not an ideal solution, especially if you like to sip your coffee with a teaspoon while it’s still very, very hot.
Fortunately, Quirky’s community came up with a crowdsourced fix that’s actually about two brain cells better than what I’ve been doing. They called it the MugStir and it’s a teaspoon that hangs steadily in your mug.
It’s basically a spoon with a bent rear end, so that it effectively becomes a hook that you can hang by the [...]
Transfer Cutting Board Makes Your Kitchen Chopping And Dropping Duties Faster
Some kitchen innovations really do wonders, turning erstwhile difficult chores into simple tasks. Others like the Transfer Cutting Board may sound lazy but hey, if you’d like to save a couple extra seconds after chopping piles of garlic and onion for the duck stew, I’m sure it will help.
Laziness is underrated. If the masses weren’t so lazy, no one would bother to innovate for them. That’s why I herald the minuscule yet efficient gains this little modification to the traditional cutting board brings to kitchen critters.
The Transfer works much like any chopping board, letting you slice and dice everything you need to prepare tonight’s dinner. It’s made from solid beech wood (oiled with biological linseed oil) and sports normal-looking dimensions too. What it does differently is add a slot for a plate (9.1 inches diameter, 1.1 inch height) right under a cut-out area of the board. That way, you can [...]
Magimix Toaster Vision Lets You See Your Bread As It Burns So You Can Save Breakfast
Hate burnt toast? Join the club. Better yet, petition Magimix to hurry up in producing the Toaster Vision, a see-through toaster oven which lets you see the bread as it bakes for a second time.
Since my mental faculties are also at their slowest early morning, my ability to make decent toast is often severely compromised. I’ve never burned toast bad enough to start a fire (seriously, those people should be locked away from the kitchen), but I’ve probably had more black toast than I could care for. With this see-through appliance, you can see the toast while it browns, allowing you to save it just in time before any of the charring starts.
Magimix calls their Toaster Vision a “luxury toaster” and for good reason. Inside, it uses four quartz tubes to provide eight different levels of browning, with settings easily accessible from push-button controls. [...]
Zoku Quick Pop Maker Shapes Your Icy Treats In Just Seven Minutes
Like to make your own popsicles, but can’t stand waiting for the things to freeze? Enjoy instant gratification with the Zoku Quick Pop Maker, a “space-age” (whatever that means) ice pop maker that gets you frozen, lickable treats in just seven minutes.
I know. Seven freaking minutes to tongue-numbing bliss is pretty awesome. Even better, the Zoku looks just as easy on the eyes as the treats it creates.
To use it, simply slip the Quick Pop Maker into a freezer, letting it chill. Once you’ve made your flavors (go conventional or go crazy – you’ll be stuck eating it anyway), pull the compact base out, pour on the concoctions, drive the popsicle sticks in and wait the aforementioned 420 seconds. That’s it. You’ll be licking your frozen goodies (that didn’t sound right) in no time.
The box, which measures 8 x 4.25 x 4.5 inches, can make three 2-ounce popsicles at a [...]
How To Cook 2 Lbs Of Fries Using One Spoonful Of Oil – The T-fal ActiFry
Seldom does cooking equipment float my boat. When it can prepare 2lbs of crispy French Fries using just a spoonful of oil, however, I’d be silly not to take notice. That’s exactly what the the T-fal ActiFry does, performing cooking feats it takes the local burger joint tubs of oil to accomplish.
How is that possible? My money is on voodoo magic. According to T-fal, though, it’s a lot less esoteric than that. To accomplish the feat, the machine combines a pulse heating system and a unique stirring paddle, mixing things up to maximize the oil (a system the company claims they developed over ten years). Of course, I’m not convinced – we all know there’s a high priest involved when magical things like that happen. Regardless, that means a mere 3% fat content on your fries, as opposed to 18% from the traditional “dump it in a pot of boiling [...]
CrustaStun Single Stunner, An Electric Lobster Taser
Does the thought of boiling lobsters alive make you cringe also? Help may be on the way. Put them through the CrustaStun Single Stunner, electric zappers that will send a quick jolt of power to render the tasty crustaceans dead. That way, you don’t have to feel guilty about torturing your dinner.
Marketed as a more “humane” way of killing off crabs, lobsters and crayfish, the machine delivers 110 volts of electricity right to the marine creatures’ nervous system, acting as a veritable anesthesia so they meet their demise while feeling “no pain or distress.” It’s the first commercial products of its kind, able to plug into both North American and European outlets, while sitting on a tabletop as conveniently as a microwave oven.
The Single Stunner, which looks like a clunky scanner or a Xerox machine, renders the future main courses ready for cooking one at a time. Simply throw the [...]
