Tag: COOKING

Share Microwaves! According to statistics, almost all of us has one. In fact, Americans used their microwaves to cook 47 billion meals last year, which is roughly 1.1 meals-per-household every day. Next to televisions, computers and cell phones, microwave ovens may be one of the most often-used devices in the country -- and they don't even connect to Twitter (although this one has YouTube). ...

Readers, we have a confession to make. This past weekend, we went out, like the giant nerds that we are, and got ourselves an iPad. And, after spending some time with it, we had a chance to write down both our good words and gripes with the device. But we're starting to rethink the way we ought to critique this "magical and revolutionary" product. Yes, we've had netbooks and tablet PCs and ...

Share Several of us Switched writers live in New York, where kitchen space is a precious resource. But despite the fact that we cook in spaces the size of coat closets, we like to prepare dishes that make our friends jealous and our significant others fearful of losing us. [Ed. note: Matt is speaking for himself. We rely on him to feed us. Seriously.] And, while no kitchen appliance will ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. According to ...

Imagine if the seemingly endless capabilities of 'Photoshop' could be applied to something other than digital imagery. A new video by Maya Rota Klein indulges in that fantasy, making a canvas out of her kitchen counter. 'Adobe Photoshop Cook' is an adorable stop-motion flight of fancy, in which ingredients can be pulled from a series of swatches -- as easily as RGB colors. Klein does make some ...

Any fool knows that the centerpiece of a perfect Thanksgiving dinner is a giant, moist, whole turkey. But while anybody knows that fact, it takes a special kind of anybody to actually cook a bird to perfection. There's temperature and time to worry about, and you absolutely can't skimp on the basting, let alone the dressing. Lucky for us, there's a plethora of gadgets out there to help make up ...

If you're a fan of the Food Network, chances are you've seen one of the cable channel's many cake-related shows that air daily, from the crazy cake challenges to the one and only 'Ace of Cakes.' Now imagine if all of those cake makers were actually 'Star Trek,' 'Metroid,' and 'Dungeons & Dragons' fanatics. Just take a moment to picture what kind of cakes they would make in their free time.... ...

Yanko Design plays host to some pretty brilliant ideas, but this is the best we've seen in awhile: the smoke alarm remote. Smoke alarms are a necessary safety precaution, though they can be plenty inconvenient (not to mention, annoying). When you're searing or grilling in the kitchen, the last thing you want to hear is the smoke alarm screaming its head off. Beth Fuller's ingenious concept -- ...

If you're a follower of food and cooking trends, then you've probably noticed that slow cookers and crock pots are making a comeback in a big way. There's nothing like dumping a bunch of meat and vegetables in a pot, leaving it to stew, and returning home from work eight hours later to a ready-to-serve meal. But there's a big problem with these gadgets that we somehow missed all along; they're ...

We haven't figured out if eating these 1UP burgers will actually give us extra lives, but we can guarantee that we will be cooking up plenty of these in the Switched kitchen in the coming days. Potential genius, Karen Chu, has posted instruction on the DIY resource Instructables.com detailing how to create a mushroom burger that looks like the life-giving 1UP mushroom from 'Super Mario Bros.' ...

Yaskawa Electric's Motoman SDA10 robot has been out and about for a little while now (along with its not-so-distant relatives), but it's apparently not just getting by on its good looks alone, and it recently took advantage of Osaka's International Next-Generation Robot Fair to show off its newly developed cooking skills. While there unfortunately doesn't seem to be any video available, the word ...

Companies has been trying to dream up a "kitchen computer" for years. HP has been pitching itsTouchSmart as a cook-friendly information center, computers have been crammed into refrigerators, and we've even tried out the OLPC as a 21st-century replacement for the cookbook. The problem is, all these items merely put words on a screen, and don't actually offer anything that a physical cookbook ...

Those whose televisual existence hinges on a steady diet of food pornography can look forward to an interactive side dish, in the form of Destineer's upcoming 'Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine.' The game is hitting Nintendo Wii and DS this fall, with four celebrity chefs having lent their name to the project: Mario Batali, Chef Cat Cora, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, and commentator Alton ...

Hype Check: CulinaryPrep What it is: CulinaryPrep is a device built to prepare your food and eliminate food-borne bacteria, including in the process. How it works: You put your food (non-ground meat, pork, poultry, veggies), eight cups of water, and an all-natural powder (citric acid, salt, etc) into the canister, screw on the top, and use the included tube (which stretches from the main ...

Are you a terrible cook? Tired of calling your mom for help every time you burn the main course? So was Israeli student Igor Ginzburg. Tired of pizza and Taco Bell (though we aren't sure how that is possible), Ginzburg devised a cooking program for mobile phones called Chefi that alleviates the need to call mom for cooking tips. Just tell Chefi what you are making and the program tells you ...