Tag: KITCHEN

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 ...

In news that would make Emmett 'Doc' Brown blush with envy, one New York man claims that his plain-old cell phone has the power to light his plain-old gas oven. New York's CBS 2 reports that Brooklyn's Andrei Melnikov was taken by complete surprise when, last week, while in the kitchen, he received a call on his Sony Ericsson PDA and, seconds later, smelled the stinging stench of burning ...

Self-cleaning kitchens may no longer be relegated to those overly optimistic, '60s-era video demonstrations of 'the Home of the Future.' Scientists have demonstrated a new Teflon-like coating that, when applied to counter tops, allows them to be wiped clean with nothing more than water. The new material repels oils yet holds water, creating a thin film that makes a surface easy to clean without ...

Some ideas are so great they're worth chucking practicality and safety out the door. Enter Fred's Pac-Man Hothead, a 3-D oven mitt made from silicon in the shape of Mr. Man. It's bright yellow, machine washable, and should the idea strike you, you can use it to remove your piping hot batch of Pac-Man cookies from the oven. So what if it looks sorta awkward and likely to lead to third-degree ...

As with the tried and true toaster, the traditional pizza cutter has gone far, far too long without a redesign. Don't get us wrong -- the standard cutter seems to slice through Digiorno pies just fine, but it really doesn't add too much fun to the whole process. That's where Fred & Friends comes in. The unimaginatively named (and currently unpriced) Pizza Pro beautifully weds a circular saw ...

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 ...

Industrial designer Sung Bae Chang has finally given us mortals the ability to do that which was once considered a bona-fide miracle. Using the "Scan Toaster," anyone with a PC and a USB cable can burn the likeness of the Blessed Virgin Mary (or any image or text that you wish) onto a slice of bread. The toaster utilizes a network of toasting "modules" -- hot wires that rotate within a 30 degree ...

Some people believe Hell is a kitchen sink and a never-ending pile of dirty dishes, and for those people salvation lies at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That's where grad student Leonardo Bonanni has developed the DishMaker, a machine that creates dishware on demand, and will someday be able to recycle dirty dishes into the raw material needed to make new ones. The machine is ...

Every so often a product comes out that wows us with its sheer excess. We see flashy toys and over-the-top gadgets every day, but it takes something really special to stop us in our tracks. This is the LG HDTV Refrigerator. It will be available in the 2nd quarter of the year for $3,999. Look at it: The shiny metal, two-door number has two screens, the larger of which is a 15-inch HDTV, tuner ...