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Tag Archives: Kitchen

Cookie Cutters Make Parts For Delicious 3D Dinosaurs

By David Ponce on 12/03/12 • Leave a comment!

A cookie cutter is nothing new, but a cookie cutter that makes the various parts that go into a 3D dinosaur? Sign us up!

Cookie cutters in the shape of dinosaur body parts. Cut out cookie dough, bake in the oven, then slot the cookies together to make edible dinosaurs that will stand up your plate. Create the tastiest treats this side of the Jurassic period… then eat them into extinction. Each pack includes cutters for the body parts required to bake a whole dinosaur, with 4 to collect (Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and T-Rex)

Each pack is £7.50 or about $12. You can’t choose which one you get but rather purchase a random one, which does sort of suck if you’re really keen on buying all four. But really, we don’t know that anyone will mind so much.

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Robot Tea Infuser

By David Ponce on 11/14/12 • Leave a comment!

Tea. A good number of geeks are shifting to tea just because their nerves are so frayed from years of caffeine abuse that it’s medically sound to do so. So tea infusers are always popular. Last time we told you about the Mr. Tea Infuser and y’all went all clickety-sharey with it. So how about the Robot Tea Infuser above? He’s got adjustable metal arms so it fits pretty much any size mug and at $12, is cheap enough to stuff into anyone’s stocking this Holiday season.

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That’s A Slick Looking Pizza Cutter

By David Ponce on 11/13/12 • Leave a comment!

Pizza cutters are a dime a dozen, but as far as them looking good in your kitchen and in your hands, the Pitzo above is one of the slickest we’ve seen. Featuring a design reminiscent of the bikes in Tron, the hubless steel cutting wheel is entirely housed within the handle. It’s easier to exert downward pressure with the Pitzo due to there being no lever arm; the force vector in your arm goes right through the rotation center and into the admittedly not-too-difficult task of cutting pizza. But that’s just an incidental “feature”. Really the Pitzo is all about looking good and at $35 for the stainless steel version, ($12 for plastic), it doesn’t cost an arm.

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Friis Coffee Vault

By David Ponce on 11/06/12 • Leave a comment!

Storing coffee isn’t like storing sugar. There’s delicate flavours to preserve there, and coffee beans release CO2 while in storage, so you can’t just put them in a hermetically sealed container. Well, you can… but it’s better if you put them in something like the Friis Coffee Vault. It features a one-way valve that lets the carbon dioxide out, but prevents anything else from entering and tainting that most precious of flavours.

For $22 you get a 16 oz jar, a measuring spoon and a one year supply of freshness valves.

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The Shredder Cheese Grater Looks Like Fun

By David Ponce on 10/30/12 • Leave a comment!

If you’re going to be playing the air guitar, why not be a little productive in the process? The Shredder Cheese Grater looks like a Flying-V but features a stainless steel grater. It’s quirky and fun. And it’ll likely make a mess of your entire kitchen if you use it the way we imagine someone would. We don’t care.

$10.

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The Prepara Herb Mini-Savor Keeps Things Fresh A Little Longer

By David Ponce on 10/30/12 • Leave a comment!

We’ll be honest, the last time we bought some herbs for cooking, we ended up throwing most of them out after five days. Why? Well, watching cooking shows convinced us “fresh is best”, so instead of buying the easily kept dried herbs, we bought the live ones. Used them in the recipe once and then… just put them in the fridge. You can guess the rest. Had we bought the above Prepara Herb-Savor, it would have given us a three week window in which to think of another meal to make. The little herbs would have had their bases soaking in fresh water, all the while looking like we had some futuristic space pods in the fridge. And that’s a win for everyone.

Made from BPA-free plastic, the Prepara Herb-Savour is $15 for 1 and $30 for three.

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Mr. Tea Infuser Is Just Chillin Out In A Cup Of Hot Water

By David Ponce on 10/18/12 • Leave a comment!

Mr. Tea Infuser shown above reminds us a little bit of Mr. P Tape Dispenser. He’s a relic from 2005! But Mr. Tea is pretty awesome, because he looks like he’s just taking a little dip in a hot tub there, when he’s actually infusing your tea. Cute.

It’s $10.

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Can A Microwave Make Decent Chips?

By David Ponce on 10/17/12 • 1 Comment

We love chips. Maybe not as much as Oprah loves chips, but we do love ‘em . We just don’t like the oil as much, even if that is where all the flavour lives. Still, we eat them in moderation, so we’re a little intrigued by the above chip maker.

Simply slice potatoes using the included mandoline slicer, arrange the slices on the cooking trays, and insert the trays into a microwave. The patented silicone trays create convection heat that produces perfectly cooked chips in minutes without using a drop of oil.

One reviewer on the Hammacher website said that the resulting chips were crispy indeed, but tasted more “potato-like” and “less oily.” And that it was a taste that “needed getting used to”. We’re not sure if that’s a polite way to say they tasted awful, but he did give the item a 4/5 rating. There’s three trays, so you can cook about 30 chips at once, or just about enough for a small snack. It’s $59, which isn’t exactly cheap, so we hope you’re really into low-fat cooking if you plan on getting this.

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The Ferris Wheel Spice Rack Is Like A Rolodex For Flavour

By David Ponce on 10/08/12 • Leave a comment!

Cookin up some tasty chili but can’t find that cumin? Simmering a mean pasta sauce but the darn oregano got waylaid? That’s fine, we get it, it’s complicated to keep track of all those spices. We usually got’em stashed in the plastic containers we bought them in, used once and tossed in a drawer afterwards. But if we took the time to organize things a little, we’d definitely get the above Ferris Deluxe Spice Rack. It holds 15 different spices in a convenient Rolodex-like spinning wheel and makes it super easy to get to what you’re looking for. Even better, it comes pre-filled! You can choose either “Spice Market” or “India Spice Market” for a different variety of flavours. There’s no info on price or availability, although those in the UK will get free shipping when it does go on sale. For info on the specific spices included, hit the link at the bottom.

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