Archive for the ‘Kitchen Gadgets’ Category
Friday, August 7th, 2009 |
There are many useful objects in the kitchen area, which many people should have them, but sometimes, kitchen becomes boring if you use daily the same simple, boring knife, or you peel the vegetables with the same old peeler. Here you can find some gadgets which will enlighten your kitchen, and which will make the time spent in it more pleasurable. Kitchen gadgets bring a fresh breeze in the space where you spend time for cooking.
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Check out these kitchen gagdets and see which would be best for your kitchen!
If you like strange lights, you can try this Mechanical Timer with LED LIght, which will stay on as long as you had set it up from the timer bar. It can be useful for the moment when you want to have a snack in the middle of the night. It works on mechanical energy: when you rotate the base, in order to set up the time, the mechanism inside cranks and the stored energy will power the light in the upper part. It’s not a complicated system, which you can use easily for counting minutes until the food is done, or to control how many minutes you spend in the kitchen in the middle of the night, eating icecream. This is a design concept by Jasper Hou and I like it because it’s a small ambiental light, elegant for the kitchen.
I think that an automatic machine which makes pancakes is a great
gadget for a pancake lover’s kitchen. When you don’t have time to flip them and you know that you have guests and you need to make a huge quantity of pancakes, here comes Chefstack Automatic Pancake Machine. It can make pancakes of 4-inches size, and you don’t have to worry for the time spent next to it, because it takes no more than 30 seconds until one pancake is done. This machine isn’t larger than a microwave oven and it is very popular in coffee shops, pastry shops and other small businesses. This machine costs around $3,500 and actually I think that no machine in this world can make better pancakes than the fluffy ones made by human hand. You can try it to compensate the time spent in the kitchen preparing them and flipping them, and you also avoid the heat and the stress of not burning the pancakes.
If your kitchen worst nightmare is peeling vegetables, you can get Veggie Peel, which has also a special chamber made of plastic for catching the peels. It is very easy to separate the trash and throw it away, because the special chamber is removable and easy to clean. The peeler has a double-sided, curved grip made of rubber, and it is easy to use both for left-handed people and right-handed people. It can be purchase for $20, but in this price the famous Ginsu steak knives are not included. So, if you like “candied carrots” or french fries, now you have an easier method for making them.
There is another
cool gadget for the kitchen, which solves the problem of the water purity in your home. Zuvo Water Purator has a five step filtration process, and I am sure that the filtrated water is pretty good for the organism. You should know that the producing company donates 5% of their profits to the poor countries which need purification systems.The five steps for purificating water are: ozonization, treatment with UV light, than photo oxidation, and then filtration and post-filtration. You can purchase it for $199.99 from SmartHome.
I would like to try all these
gadgets in my
kitchen, and I think that they are pretty useful and they would look great in a futuristic design kitchen, but not only.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 |
Because I like to complain about all sorts of things, irrespective of the fact they’re justified or not, I have always managed to find a reason to make me feel unhappy. It’s like nothing’s enough for me, it’s like there is more to be done, even if sometimes I feel like I’ve done my best.
Sometimes I wish I had more than just two hands, because there are so many things to do and no time for all of them to be done. So this is one of the reasons I have frequently complained about: the lack of the third hand, which would have been so very useful.
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Imagine you’re at a cocktail party and you have to carry all over the place the glass of wine. But you want something to eat. And you can’t find a solution so that you don’t have to leave the glass on a table. The Mantara Dish is a plate idea designed for the cocktail parties you’ll have the chance to attend.
Created by designer Gabriel Contino, the Mantara Dish gives is something to help you get out of trouble when you have a drink in your left hand and your right is anxious to grab a plate of food. So, Mantara comes with a stylish design, but the most important aspect refers to the small place where you can “park†the glass. In addition, there is a nice that is meant to secure the spoon or the fork or whatever you might be using.
Too bad it doesn’t come with a mind reader and a speaker, to help you entertain the young beautiful ladies whom you won’t be able to chatter with, as you’ll be busy relieving your hunger.
(Source: YankoDesign)
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 |
I thought that summer barbeques with friends and family taking place at the end of the week in quiet places, where only nature is around, far away from the noisy city life, from daily worries and unpleasant events, were a common activity only here in my country.
But it seems that I was wrong. Because when someone says “Fire up the grill!â€, well… it means that you should fire it up, leave the worries behind, at least for a while and get the party started.
It’s summer and the sunny days should be a reason enough for people to leave their homes and try to make the best of their free time. The Meatball Grill Basket offered by Williams-Sonoma is precisely what you need if you’re a person who like to eat royally.
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“Our ingenious grilling tool gives smoky open-fire flavor to homemade meatballs. The sturdy stainless-steel basket has 12 perforated wells to drain excess fat as meat is infused with flavor and browns perfectly. With the lid closed, the meatballs are held securely in place and out of the fire. The removable polypropylene handle makes the basket easy to turn – just flip it over for even cooking. The basket works with beef, lamb and poultry as well as vegetable mixtures.â€
The basket can be hand-washed and measures no more than 9 ¾ x 20 ½ inches (the handle is included). It can be purchased from Williams-Sonoma for $49.95.
(Source: Dvice)
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
It’s maybe each and every human being’s dream to have more space to dispose of, because when you feel like the walls are trying to swallow you with your desk and everything, all you want is to just free yourself of that unpleasant burden created by the invading spaces.
This is why Heinz is very eager to turn a very successful prototype into reality. Called the Beanzwave, the prototype I mentioned earlier is said to be the world’s smallest microwave and it’s powered by USB. One obstacle the company should surpass right now is related to the costs which will certainly lead to a very expensive product.
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“The mini microwave is being developed as a partner to Heinz Snap Pots, baked beans in single-serving containers. The Snap Pots, available in the U.K., fit perfectly into the Beanzwave. But the $160 device will only be released commercially if consumer feedback is positive and if component prices drop in the near future.â€
So, measuring no more than 7.4 (tall) x 6.2 (wide) x 5.9 (deep) inches, the mini microwave can be used for either heating a can of beans/soup/anything.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009 |
The issue of consciously underfed people, girls most of the times, is very important these days, in this world that promotes a spider’s waist that is usually associated with beauty. We all look for appreciation and it seems that the way we look is sometimes treated with exaggeration. Starvation isn’t a solution to any problem that we might have, so I can’t understand why human beings take the wrong decision when it comes to this eating problem.
Therefore, I don’t know how many of us would enjoy the benefits of a brand new lunch box that gives us the chance to eat a more elaborate meal than we usually do. But if the only impediment when it comes to eat more healthily when we’re away from home is that it’s difficult for us to carry the meal, then the Sunch Lunch Box Tray is precisely what we need. And do you know why? Because the lunch box turns into a tray with all sorts of dishes that help you have the greatest feast ever.
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Designed by Soo Kang Lee, the Sunch completes makes the list of lunch box ideas complete. Not to mention it is a very innovative one, as each side of the box opens up, flatten out and then become the table that you’ve always dreamed about.
(Source: Yanko Design)
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