June 30, 2008
Fête Serving Plates - Keep Your Food Hot or Cold
If you want your food to remain hot for more than two minutes, Rosalin Chanyasak has designed this prototype called "The Fête Serving Plate". It uses thermoelectric technology to maintain either hot or cold temperatures, and is made of polycarbonate. LED icons show the ingredient list for alergy info - which is pretty high end. Let's hope these come to market in the near future.
Via Gear Live at Yanko Design
June 27, 2008
Pandigital Kitchen Technology Center - Music, Movies and Even Recipes for the Kitchen
The Pandigital Kitchen Technology Center lcd picture frame that puts everything in the kitchen at the end of your fingertips. You can pull up recipes, music, movies and more. The KTC has one gigabyte of memory that you upload MP3s, photos and video. Its 15 inch, 1280x720 screen also supports HDTV playback. It will be available in August for $400.
Via DVICE
June 26, 2008
Review: Nuwave Pro Digital-Controlled Infrared Tabletop Oven
Infrared ovens are the latest small appliance rage, and we've been fortunate enough over the past few weeks to be cooking with the Nuwave 20322 Pro Digital-Controlled Infrared Tabletop Oven. We were skeptical at first if this appliance could really make great tasting ribs, chicken, vegetables, and other foods, but we are skeptical no longer. The Nuwave oven delivers great tasting foods cooked perfectly, and it's easy. You simply set the timer and position the included racks and in whatever time you need the food to cook - you get moist really tasty results.
The Nuwave oven uses confection, infrared, and conduction cooking methods.
The Nuwave Pro cooks foods while keeping them moist on the inside, crisp and browned on the outside with out using any fats or oils. The Nuwave Pro Infrared Oven works with a patented trio of cooking methods: Conduction to apply heat directly to food, Convection to circulate the heat around the food, and Far Infrared radiant heat to penetrate the food to cook from the inside out.
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June 25, 2008
AeroGarden Garden Starter Tray
This garden starter tray allows you to start up to 70 seedlings in your AeroGarden with no dirt. You just transport the seedlings to an outdoor garden in two to six weeks. The starter tray includes nutrients or a full set of seedlings.
At AeroGarden Garden Starter Tray
June 24, 2008
Vacuum Carafes Summer by Stelton
I was thinking that I needed a carafe for iced tea and I came across these. These jugs are lined with a thermal glass vacuum and has a magnetized rocker stopper to keep your beverage hot or cold. It comes in three colors: white, light beige, and pistachio.
At Vacuum Carafes
June 23, 2008
Portable Kitchen Cubes - Pick Yours A La Carte
You can configure these kitchen cubes in any configuration you desire - a stove, sink, and counter top are the options to pick from, and you can have multiple cubes of each as well. Each piece is 2 feet wide and one foot deep unassembled, which means they'll fit into tight spaces, and smaller apartments. These are perfect for a summer home or camp renovation, or perhaps you have a loft they'd look good in as well.
Via Gizmodo at Stadtnomaden
June 20, 2008
Cuisinart Automatic Ice Cream Makers - Make Your Belly Happy This Weekend
Sure we've featured this ice cream maker and others here at Kitchen Contraptions, but face it - if you don't have an ice cream maker your belly is not going to be happy this summer weekend. Imagine being able to create delicious frozen desserts easily any time, and imagine distracting the kids while the ice cream is making long enough to have a little nap in the hammock. After your nap you'll wake up to fresh home made ice cream. All this is possible, and we can tell you right now it's easy with the Cuisinart Automatic ice cream maker.
At Cuisinart 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream Makers
June 19, 2008
Electrolux Kitchen Stars - Become a Star in Your Kitchen
Electrolux wants to have you send in pictures and win one of their new Eureka Electrolux Ergorapido vacuums - all you have to be is a Kitchen Star. Who is a Kitchen Star? You are a Kitchen Star if you have one or more freestanding or built-in Electrolux appliances in your kitchen and have a story to tell about a moment when you felt like a star in your kitchen.
How to become a Kitchen Star? Send a photograph of yourself in your kitchen with a short description of a “kitchen star moment” – perhaps a perfectly cooked meal on a date, or when you redecorated your kitchen, gave birth on the kitchen floor, proposed to your wife at the breakfast table, or just cooked that very special meal for a very special person.
The selected 90 Kitchen Stars will all receive the iconic Eureka Electrolux Ergorapido in addition to being featured in the online gallery, the photo exhibition as well as the book and any other material developed around the Electrolux anniversary celebrations.
At Kitchen Stars and Eureka Electrolux Ergorapido
June 18, 2008
The Kitchen Composter - Make Your Own Fertilizer
We're really into composting our un-eaten food and used coffee grounds here at Kitchen Contraptions. You'll instantly feel better, knowing you're not just throwing those scraps into the trash where they'll end up in a landfill. Instead, you can get this composter and start making your own fertilizer.
The NatureMill Pro Composter will get you composting in 3 easy steps:
- Add waste items any time, any day - vegetables, coffee grounds, even dairy, meat, or fish!
- Naturemill does the rest! The upper chamber mixes, heats, and aerates. Compost later transfers to the lower chamber, so you can add fresh items.
- Remove rich compost fertilizer every 2 weeks when the red light comes on
Via Coolest Gadgets at NatureMill Plus Home Indoor Compost System
June 16, 2008
Basting Sauce Pot & Brush
This seems like a great thing to have next the grill. This stainless-steel pot as a brush built into the lid. The brush comes with two silicone brush heads -- one thick and one thin.
At Basting Sauce Pot & Brush
June 13, 2008
Sangria Serving Madness - Drink Sangria In Style
It's summer, and it's time for a little sangria fun. We often mix up a pitcher or two or three over a nice hot summer night, and we like to drink them in style. This 7 piece set from Libbey includes one 76 ounce pitcher and 6 10.5 ounce footed poco grande glasses. If sangria is not your thing, it's perfect for piña coladas, ice tea, or even boring old water.
At Libbey 7 Piece Sangria Set
June 12, 2008
Floating BBQ Donut Kitchen - Grill on the High Seas
We're all about grilling this month here at Kitchen Contraptions, and that's why we bring you the bbq-donut®. The brainchild of German inventor and entrepreneur Sebastian Schmitt, the BBQ Donut allows you to float, grill, and chill. Power to the bbq-donut® is supplied via a Torqeedo Travel 400 Electro-outboard motor giving it a top speed of around 4km/h.
The bbq-donut® uses a low-smoke, charcoal-burning barbecue from Outdoorchef that sits in the middle, and there are integrated cavities in the table for safely holding drinks, plates and cutlery. One would not want to drop their knife, and have their donut sink to the bottom.
Via Gizmag
June 11, 2008
Berndes SignoCast Classic 7-Quart Stock Pot
This is a nice looking pot. This 7-quart cast aluminum stock pot has three layers of nonstick surface prevent sticking. It also has an ovenproof glass lid. And it comes with mittens for the handles, so you can move the pot from the stove.
At Berndes SignoCast Classic 7-Quart Stock Pot
June 10, 2008
Folding Grill Tools
It is grill day here at Kitchen Contraptions because it is too hot today to think about doing anything inside the kitchen for dinner tonight. I don't have a good place to put the grill tools when we're not grilling. These stainless steel grill tools with wood handles fold for compact storage. You can get a brush, tongs, and a spatula.
At Folding Grill Tools
The Original Grillslinger Barbecue Tool System
Serious grilling may require a belt. This belt and tool set has three washable inserts to hold a grill knife, tongs, and spatula.
At The Original Grillslinger Barbecue Tool System
June 9, 2008
Evo Grill - The $3000 Open Faced Grill
We love to grill, and we love the fact the grill is outside not heating up the house when cooking. The Evo Grill will set you back $3150, so this grill is not for everyone. We like the the circular, flat-top and open design. The dual burner flameless cooktop and precise heating controls let you handle a variety of foods, and it can be used with other cookware for boiling and poaching. There's also a hood, if you like to close the grill down for some serious temperature assaults.
Via Uncrate at Williams Sonoma
June 6, 2008
Prepara 'Herb-Savor'
This is a constant problem in our house. We buy herbs and they go bad before we have a chance to use them up. This preserves herbs for up to three weeks. You fill it with water and store in the fridge.
At Prepara 'Herb-Savor'
June 5, 2008
Joseph Joseph Square Colander
Square is the new round when it comes to colanders. The cool thing about this handle to allow you to lift and empty the colander with one hand. It also has rounded corners, so you can poor the contents out.
At Joseph Joseph Square Colander
June 4, 2008
Tomato Machines - Juice and Strain Those Tomatoes
We've been wondering what we would do with all of the tomatoes we've been growing towards the end of the Summer, and now we have our answer - JUICE EM! We've always got more than we can eat in a salad and this tomato juicer and strainer might do the trick.
Available in multiple sizes and configurations to meet the needs of restaurants, caterers, working farms and home canning, OMRA vegetable mills remove the seeds and skin from a variety of fruits and vegetables, yielding smooth puree ideal for soups, sauces and preserves. The OMRA tomato machines are wildly popular and one of the only brands of Italian made "spremipomodoro" available in the US. These things can turn out up to 800 pounds per hour of vegetable puree madness, so we think we'll be all set at the end of the Summer when tomato picking begins.
At Tomato Machines - Tomato Juicer - Tomato Strainers
June 3, 2008
Reveo Gourmet Gourmet - Meat Marinator Mixes Drinks Too
Always on the lookout for Father's Day kitchen contraptions, we've gotten word our favorite meat tumbler from Reveo can now mix drinks too. Yep. The Virtuoso Reveo Gourmet can both marinate your meat, and also mix up a pretty amazing Cosmopolitan (or whatever you're drinking). Personally we recommend using it to mix up a batch of drinks first, and then get on with the meat marinating.
"The Reveo Gourmet enhances the preparation of elegant, mouth-watering meals that take only 20-40 minutes, instead of 24-48 hours of traditional marinating methods. While dinner guests wait to be served, aspiring mixology maestros can use the Reveo to infuse beverages with fresh ingredients," says Massimo Baldini, managing director for Eastman Outdoors, the maker of the Virtuoso Reveo Gourmet.
We'll take a giant steak of infused with gin and vodka any time over a non-marinated piece of meat. And the best part? A perfectly mixed drink can be had while you wait for it to cook if you get the Reveo.
At Reveo and Eastman Outdoors 38229 Reveo MariVac Food Tumbler
June 2, 2008
May 2008 Monthly Round-Up for Kitchen Contraptions
A very cool grilling temperature probe.
Another month goes by here at Kitchen Contraptions with Spring in full bloom, and the kitchen gadgets flowing into Summer. We've had quite a few reviews this past month, and we've also found a ton of interesting kitchen contraptions from bread machines to toasters. We've even featured a little bacon salt this past month...BACON? SALT? What? Stay tuned for more news and reviews for Kitchen Contraptions in the Summer months ahead.
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