Archive for the ‘Kitchen Gadgets’ Category
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 |
Are you a devoted housewife? Do you spend a lot of time in the kitchen? Do all those common kitchen gadgets drive you crazy? There are some funny kitchen gadgets you may want to check out:
The Pop-Up Hotdog Cooker. If you are a fast food fan, if not, your husband and children certainly are, this gadget is the easiest way to cook a delicious homemade hot dog. You can even let you kids make their own hotdogs, that simple it is. It is also healthier than other strangely prepared hotdogs.
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You will love this Pop-Up Hotdog Cooker even more if you are a toasted buns lover. This cool gadget offers you the possibility to cook two hot dogs and toast the buns at the same exact time and they will be equally tasty. And it takes only a few minutes to prepare, letting you enjoy some spare time in front of the TV. You have to follow only a few easy steps: drop your favorite hot dogs into the center basket; then place the buns in the two toasting baskets on either side of the center basket. Then you’ll have to wait just a few minutes, and your hotdogs and buns will pop up just like a toaster.
It has a 660-watt electronic heating coil and 4 controllable heat settings.
Since it uses a normal household outlet, it can be used practically anywhere you go. It measures 8 ½ inches high by 10 ½ inches wide by 5 ¼ inches deep, so it can be placed anywhere, in case you desire a quick snack.
The Electric Knife. Every time you are cooking for many people you must think that having an
electric carving knife in your kitchen can come in practical if you are left all alone with the preparations. If you need to buy an
electric knife, you have to pay attention to the blades: one is for slicing meats (longer) and one is for bread or vegetables (shorter). Other thing you must pay attention is that the power cord is long enough to reach all the parts of your kitchen. A high torque motor will allow you to cut through the thickest of meats. If you choose a gadget without power cord, make sure the knife will stay charged long enough so you can cut through an entire turkey or ham. Dead batteries won’t really help you at your work. Detachable blades are easier to clean, and hand washing is suggested over dishwasher use. It seems that in the majority of cases, the cheaper models broke more often and the blades were suspect at cutting again and again. Some knives make too much noise and others don’t let you get a good grip while cutting.
If you decide a good quality gadget than you’ll have to pay at least $50, but in this way you will get through many years of successful cutting and slicing. The best electric knife can be purchased at
Cuisinart, which has the top rated electric knives per Amazon.com, Cooking.com, and the Wall Street Journal. Other producers of
electric knives are brands like
Black and Decker,
Hamilton Beach, and
Oster, but the quality is just not the same.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 |
If you want to purchase kitchen gadgets with discounts, you should know that you can find a lot of sales online and all you have to do is to check out the websites.
The first website that offers kitchen gadget at sale prices is ChefResource.com – here you will find a lot of kitchen tools and gadgets with discounts.
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For example, we found the Trio Tri Blade Peeler with a sale price of $14.95 when the regular price is $20.00. This is useful gadget that every kitchen must have because it comes with three blades in one: a julienne peeler, a serrated peeler and a regular peeler all in one great kitchen tool.
This tool gives you the possibility to choose the blade you want to use, so you can work with vegetable and fruits with the same tool. For example, the julienne peeler is great for potatoes, cucumber or carrots and the serrate blade is good for softer fruits like pears and kiwi.
On the ChefResource.com we also found the Half Pint Whipped Cream Whipper. This kitchen tool comes with a
sale price of $39.95 and the original price was $50.00. The tool is especially designed for your home kitchen and it is great for desert, ice-cream and coffee. The tool is easy to use, all you have to do is to pour in the ingredients for your perfect whipped cream, charge and dispense. This
kitchen gadget comes with its own charger.
On the website mentioned above you will find many other great kitchen tools and gadgets including: small appliances, barware, wine glasses and cookware.
iKictchne.com is another website where you will find kitchen gadgets on sale. This website has great discounts and you can choose from cookware, bakeware, small appliances and many more.
On this website we found from Nostalgia Electrics a great looking Lighted Punch Fountain perfect for parties. With this gadget you can pour up to 2 gallon of beverage (you can change the punch with beverage for kids when you make a party for your children). The beverage is pumped to the top of the fountain and then it drops like a waterfall. You will find this great gadget with 50% off – from $89.99 regular price to $39.99 sale price.
If you want an alternative to those expensive, full-size wine cellars you can try this great Private Reserve Wine Cellar from Cuisinart. This great looking unit holds up to six bottlers of wine and it is lightweight because it uses thermoelectric technology to cool the bottle of wines. The appliance doesn’t make any noise or vibrations, so you can enjoy a fresh and cool glass of wine any time you want. Other features include: LED read out, thermostat, chrome handle and stainless steel. You will find it with a sale price of $99.99.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
The Tablespoon Deep Fryer makes almost 2 lbs. of succulent and crispy fried food with just one tablespoon of oil. This cool kitchen gadget comes with an internal convection oven that is able to heat up to 338 degrees F and the hot air cooks spring rolls, shrimps or chicken wings with a moist interior and a great crunchy exterior.
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The gadget has also an integrated paddle that automatically mixes and turns all the ingredients with oil for an even cooking. You will find this cool kitchen gadget at Hammacher.com with a price of $299.95.
If you like those steam cookers and you use them a lot, you will like the next kitchen gadget – the Intellisteam from Morphy Richards. This is more than just a simple steam cooker, because it has the possibility to cook three courses in the same time, but at different temperatures. Each container comes with individually controlled heaters with gives you the possibility to cook, for example, vegetable, meat and potatoes in the same time. This
cool kitchen gadget is dishwasher safe and you can find more information about on the Morphy Richards website where you will find it at the price of $160.
Every kitchen needs to have a toaster, but this is probably one of the most boring kitchen gadgets because it has the same classic look for decades. But the next toaster is not like that, because it has a modern design that mimics a printer. The only difference between this toaster and a printer is that it spits out great toast instead of printing out pages.
The top of the toaster gives you the possibility to place several pieces of bread and the toast drops in a nice looking stack. Unfortunately, this is still a concept toaster and if you want to read more information about it check out the OhGizmo website.
The click oven mitts have a great design inspired by the hand cursor from your personal computer. They look great and they were designed by Anderson Horta a Brazilian designer. They are creative and also useful in every kitchen. If you want to purchase them, check out the Bazar Design website where you will find more information about the click oven mitts.
The next cool gadget for your kitchen is the Peter Petrie Egg Separator. This kitchen tool separates the albumen from the yolk. All you have to do is to crack an egg into this gadget and to tilt it forward, the yolk will be blocked by the nose and the albumen will drip into your bowl through the tools nose. The Peter Petrie Egg Separator is perfect for cakes, omelets and other recipes.
You will find many other kitchen gadgets on Amazon or coolest – gadgets.com. Check them out if you want to purchase a new kitchen tool or gadgets for your home.
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
If you are a coffee drinker you will enjoy this article, because we are going to present you the coolest coffee cups we found. The beverage you drink is important to keep you awake in those long study nights or to wake you in the morning. The brand of coffee you drink is important, but the cup or the mug is also very important.
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One of the coolest coffee cups is the one that changes the exterior design when to fill it. This coffee cup is covered with a heat sensitive pigment and when you fill the cup with hot coffee it changes from black to white and from off to on. The ON feature is great because it tells you if the coffee cup is full and the OFF feature tells you if the cup is empty or the coffee got cold.
The Self – Stirring Coffee Mug make the perfect coffee mix on its own, all you have to do is to use the ingredients you want; cream, sugar, milk and, of course, coffee and the cup will stir your beverage in a perfect mix. This coffee cup comes with a special base which works with 2 AA batteries and the all you have to do is press a button to stir the coffee. This cool coffee cup cost $19.
If you just started dinking coffee and you need something to make you decide which is the perfect combination for you or you need to try different combinations before you pick your favorite one, the next cool coffee cup is for you. The cup comes with a color matching guide and each color means a different combination of coffee, milk, sugar and cream. With this mug you will always know how to make your favorite coffee and you will never get it wrong again.
The next coffee mug is a very useful one because it comes with the room you need for your biscuits. You can put in the special base of the mug 3 or more biscuits depending on the size of them and with this mug you won’t have to worry about plates or extra saucers.
If you love triple espresso, but your cup is too small and you need to refill every time you want a new espresso, you can try the next cool coffee cup – the Stacked Coffee Mugs. As the name implies, this is actually only one coffee cup but it looks like you are holding and you are drinking from 3 coffee cups stacked together.
This cool coffee cup is made from durable porcelain and it is also dishwasher safe. You will find online other cool coffee cups made by famous designers or not, but you have a lot to choose from if you want to find the perfect one for you.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
If you want to have a great party or you want to make a surprise birthday party for your friend, the cake is a must. You can try to do it yourself or you can try to buy one; we suggest that you purchase one because we found online some great and cool cakes.
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The Mike’s Amazing Cakes website has some of the coolest cakes we ever seen. They look so good and real that everyone could thing that they are sculptures and not sweet baked cakes. The website gives you the possibility to choose the cake and the fillings and you can also order a special one made just for you or your friends. The cakes are baked with natural ingredients and they are not frozen. The fillings come with chocolate, natural liqueurs, flavorings and real butter.
You can choose from fillings like: passion fruit, pineapple, key line, almond, orange, coconut, rum, amaretto, mocha and more.Each cake is designed by the executive pastry Chef and Owner Mike McCarey for a particular event or individual, so each cake is special, complexly custom and unique. The cakes ca come in 1, 2 or 3 dimensions and it can be shipped anywhere in the country.
Below you can see an amazing dragon cake for the ultimate gamer. The cake is very realistic and it looks so good that it could stay like this forever. Well, it didn’t because it was eaten in minutes and it was delicious.On the website you can also find many other amazing and cool cakes, just let your imaginations loose and you can have a unique cake just for you.
The next cool cake is a watermelon cake. This cake is perfect for a hot summer day or a nice picnic. And it is very easy to make, all you have to do is make a cake mix with egg whites, oil and purred watermelon and for a realistic look you have to add chocolate chips to make a nice watermelon cake with seeds. And for the watermelon rind you have to add am layer of green fondant and you will have a cool watermelon cake.
You will find the steps for making this nice cake and also all the ingredients you need on the Bake Decorate Celebrate.com website.The next cool cake is the Super (Mario) Cake – this cake looks like a toy, but is not because you can eat it all, accept for the Princess and Mario on top. This was a wedding cake and it is incredibly well-designed.
Another cool cake we find is the Homemade XBOX 360 Birthday Cake by Paul from Canada. It actually looks like a XBOX 360 and it also has a controller. If you want to see cool homemade cakes and maybe become inspired for your own birthday cake, you can look on the Coolest Birthday Cakes.com website. Here you will find a lot of nice cakes, food-shaped cakes, character cakes, baby cakes, animal cakes and more.
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