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Cut butter better with Precise Butter Cutter

Posted in Kitchen by Conner Flynn on October 9th, 2007

Precise Butter CutterThat’s a mouthful. You know the lines on the butter wrapper that you never pay attention to? Well, they are important. Just ask the baker in your home? Sure, you enjoy the taste of butter, but have you ever stopped to think about what goes into measuring it out just right, so you don’t suffer a stroke while eating your muffins? As it stands now, (since the actual stick of butter itself is not marked) you have to cut butter with the wrapper on.

Foldable oven lets you cook anywhere

Posted in Grilling, Kitchen, Outdoors by Conner Flynn on October 9th, 2007

Foldable cloth fabric ovenThis is for the gadget lover that enjoys food a little too much. It resembles a cloth lunchbox, but don’t let that fool you. This foldable new “easy bake oven” is perfect for the outdoorsman who absolutely must bake a small cake while enjoying nature.

Your culinary camping experience will be made possible by researchers with the Taiwan Textile Institute, who developed a cloth that can withstand high temperatures. They turned their discovery into this foldable oven, great for military use as well as other outdoor catering activities. They claim it can reach 300 degree temperatures.

The space age breakfast

Posted in Home, Kenwood, Kitchen by Chetz on September 25th, 2007

Kenwood 21st century breakfast set has some high tech features for your kitchenWe’ve seen additions to your tap that will illuminate a colored light so you can visually distinguish between hot and cold running water before but Kenwood’s 21st century breakfast set takes things a step further.

The Response 1.7-liter kettle changes color as the water inside starts to get warm and then boil. As the temperature of the water approaches 80 degrees the kettle’s middle will cycle from blue to purple to pink to orange. A very handy feature lets you maintain a steady 80-degree temperature …

Transparent Toaster Concept

Posted in Concepts, Kitchen by Reuben Drake on September 3rd, 2007

Transparent Toaster ConceptMaybe it’s because many of us geeks heated up wires with electricity to create a make-shift toaster as our 5th grade science project, or possibly it’s that toast is one of the tried and true breakfast foods that we have trouble screwing up? Whatever the reason toasters seem to be a popular item with gadget lovers everywhere, despite a limited variety of designs available to consumers.

When we saw this transparent toaster concept we couldn’t help but share. It uses heated glass to burn a single piece of bread in plain view right before your eyes, eliminating all guessing as to what setting your toaster needs today to get it just right. How to clean it and where the crumbs go and how you get your toast out of it may still have to be worked out, but we’d be one of the first few in line to give it a try.

Nostalgic Phone Salt and Pepper Shaker

Posted in Home, Kitchen by Darrin Olson on June 29th, 2007

Salt and Pepper Shaker made from old phone ear and mouth piecesIf you’re wondering what happened to all those bricked phones that used to have the 20 foot coiled cord in your kitchen before everything went cordless, you’ll be happy to see that some of them have been put to good use, maybe. It appears that at least a few of them ended up in hands of Netherlands designer Henk Stallinga where he turned them into salt and pepper shakers.

It actually seems to work out well, where the earpiece has fewer holes and the mouthpeice has more …

DaysAgo Counter Helps Avoid Eating Mold

Posted in Kitchen by Darrin Olson on May 12th, 2007

DaysAgo Digital Day CounterGone are the days where you had the daunting task of writing the date on an open container in your refrigerator and then being forced to conjure up the current date and calculate the difference between then and now. The DaysAgo Digital Day Counter now counts the days for you to end all question about just how old that casserole is.

The DayAgo counter can stick onto something either with a magnet or a suction cup and counts up to 99 days. Once it’s done it can be removed and reused on something else by …

Rechargeable Blender from Coleman

Posted in Coleman, Kitchen, Outdoors by Darrin Olson on May 11th, 2007

Rechargeable portable blenderOne thing that really makes it difficult when trying to rough-it in a camp site is the noticeable lack of frozen drinks. Sure you have plenty of ice in the cooler, but what if you want to blend up a margarita or other frozen concoction?

Well, it’s a good thing Coleman is looking out for you with their rechargeable blender. This camping gadget is able to blend up a 48 oz pitcher of drinks in about 30 seconds and can mix up as many as 30 pitchers in one charge, which should get most people …

SmartShopper Grocery Gizmo

Posted in Kitchen, SmartShopper by Chetz on April 13th, 2007

SmartShopper for grocery lists and errands60 years ago the futurists of the day told us that the 21st century will be a paperless society. A quick look around any office will prove that the dead tree technology isn’t going away anytime soon but there are more and more alternatives to use a high tech replacement for the old tried and true method.

Consider the weekly grocery list. All you need is a pencil and paper and a good memory, but we all know that writing down everything that you need to pick up doesn’t happen as often …

Heat Sensitive Spoon

Posted in Home, Kitchen by Darrin Olson on December 31st, 2006

Heat Sensitive SpoonIn the world of low-tech gadgets this heat sensitive spoon is one of those items that is actually pretty cool. It can be used in the microwave to sense the temperature of whatever is being heated up and indicate when it’s at 120 degrees Fahrenheit by a change in color. Conceivable just the opposite could apply, where this spoon would also indicate when something has cooled below 120 degrees avoiding someone sticking their finger in your food either way.

The heat sensitive spoon is meant for microwave preparation only as it is only heat resistant …

Pop Art Toaster Burns Patterns Onto Your Bread

Posted in Home, Kitchen by Darrin Olson on December 5th, 2006

Pop Art ToasterNot to often does a guy get to write about breakfast gadgets but it’s a good thing that cool gadgets are everywhere, including your kitchen!

This is the Pop Art Toaster, intended to burn a little fun into your morning routine. I can understand how you can get tired of plain old toast in the morning. With this you can surprise your significant other in the morning with a special unexpected message, burned right into their breakfast bread. What better way to say you care than sending a message charred into bread?

You can obtain …

Smart Range turns Amateur Chef into Iron Chef

Posted in Kitchen by Quagmire on October 7th, 2006

VitaCraft Cookware

Watch out Emeril and Bobby Flay, a whole new cadre of amateur chefs are about to achieve a level of cooking previously reserved for celebrity chefs.

Vita Craft has introduced Smart Range, a new line of intelligent cooking technology that helps you create healthier, easier meals - every time.

The Smart Range cookware utilizes an RFID computer chip that is built into each pan handle. The chip is used to communicate with the cook top and recipe cards and monitor each cooking step for a particular dish. The RFID chip in each Vita Craft …


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