In the Kitchen

If throwing chilling pool parties is your way of living life but something that put a halt to your party plans is your fridge showing ‘No Ice’, then we have got the solution for you. Get home this Portable Ice maker, which will make loads of ice anywhere you want and anytime you want.

The Portable Ice Maker is quick enough to make as many as 12 cubes every 6 minutes, which makes up to a total of 30 pounds of ice within 24 hours. So, from now onwards, you just need to match your demand with its supply.

Now, just this, the Ice maker also gives you three options to choose from relating to the size of the cube to suit your glass and drink.

Price: $300

Everyone knows the famous proverb that ’stomach is the way to win a man’s heart’. But what is the latest way to win a woman’s heart? The answer is this heart shaped sink. Isn’t it cute?

I simply rejoice whenever I come across any opportunity that gives me the chance to defy the rule books. Take this nutcracker from nice2have, for instance. It makes us think twice about Newton’s third law of motion.

This amazing nutcracker consists of a stainless steel bottom which is covered with non-slip rubber and a dome-shaped top that features a ribbed metal fitting. All you have to do is place the nut on the bottom, cover it with the dome top and slightly tap on it.

And there it goes, cracking the nut with the least effort from your side. The simple mechanism offers you the chance to crack the toughest of nuts with great ease of action.

If this fails to impress you, than I’m sure you don’t love simplicity.

This amazing nutcracker is priced at €29.00

Buy it here.

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Ever thought of a museum full of salt and pepper shakers? Well, here’s your dream museum. People in Iowa were really moved by one woman’s salt and pepper shaker collection. So, with the fund coming from the city council of Traer, a museum will be created. The Traer museum will be home to Ruth Rasmussen’s collection of salt and pepper shakers.

Cooking and its storage can be a complex matter especially in the developing world with grave ramifications for public health and fitness. To solve this intricate matter, a consortium of educational institutes, universities and other organizations from the UK, US, and developing nations such as Bangladesh are coming together by creating a single multifaceted device, that surprisingly provides refrigeration, electricity, and heat for cooking at the same time.

The project is named as SCORE (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity). The $4 million project aims at finding more efficient and secure ways of utilizing biomass fuels such as wood. The consortium’s appliance is based on thermo acoustic technology that has been under active development at Los Alamos Laboratories working in collaboration with University of Nottingham, University of Manchester, Imperial College London, and Queen Mary, University of London.

A wood-burning furnace is attached to a pipe that is shaped like a pulse jet engine. The heat from the stove is sucked out with the help of a tube attached to it. Hence, the stove performs heating and refrigeration simultaneously. A “reverse loudspeaker” that vibrates to and fro is placed to generate electricity.

Malnutrition takes most of the lives in the underdeveloped world. Basically because of poverty, the difficulties surface in preparing and storing food. Moreover, backward regions have more or less no facilities for refrigeration because of the absence of electricity. Preparing food using local resources, results in energy waste which is estimated to be as high as 93 percent.

However, world and science has advanced further, enhancing technology solutions for every problem. But what do such advancement do to help the poor? This makes us to question how much of a difference this three-in-one device makes to the downtrodden. Here, we have a well-targeted device that requires high technology to develop, but low technology to build and maintain. It is hoped that with the help of local support and training the price also kept low, the combination cooker-generator-refrigerator could prove useful.

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Cooking is no easy job; however, it can be made so. How? Well, the answer to almost every problem related to cooking comes with this Siemens 36″ avantGarde Gas on Glass cooktop, ER947501UC. I fell in love with this piece at the first look and I can say that I have never ever seen such an elegant and beautiful cooking system. The system features one-piece black ceramic glass which unifies with 5 sealed burners not only in design but also as per the arty class. Out of the five, one19100 BTU Siemens wok burner makes sure that anything can be cooked even those items which need high levels of heat. The rest 4 burners supply up to 26000 BTUs. The extra large Grates can handle enough pressure and thus, no need to fear when you place those heavy iron skillets provided by your grandma for cooking.

Studio apartments are becoming popular as real estate prices zoom towards the north. As small spaces become the need of the hour, it is important to have multi functional units that serve dual or multi purposes.

A great design is one that is really adaptable to your lifestyle and that which could be transformed according to your needs. Designer Wiwat Pitakpongsanit has come up with a stunner - an alluring kitchen design that is just apt for multi functional spaces.

The kitchen unit is designed in such a way that you could transform the unit to your needs – to cook, serve, eat, work, or socialize just by flipping the counters in the right direction and creating the work surface of your moment.

While the hob, sink and the worktop are like a normal kitchen unit, you need to slide the worktop counter so that it covers up the sink and the hob and then, pull out the slide leather chairs and transform it into a dining area or use it as your work space by organizing your laptop and stationeries.

Check out the design and see if you like it. I just fell in love with it!

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With style creeping into every aspect of our daily life why not give our kitchen a stylish clean up as well? Now you think I sound crazy? Well, I am not crazy you can indeed get down to doing away with the so called bacteria or fungus or even your pet cat’s puke stains within moments and that too using chic state of art technology. I am talking about the Culinary Prep, the Lotus Sanitizing System from Tersano.

What is this exceptional sanitizing system after all? This one of a kind device is built in such a way that a blast of ozone from it works to eliminate any bacteria, fungus that a surface in your kitchen or water or raw foods may be harboring. The device is environment friendly and works on the basis of a chemical reaction. Air is taken into the device and subjected to an electric current this causes the conversion of oxygen molecules to ozone. It is this ozone that on coming in contact with any surface or organism reacts with it. The eventual effect being the organisms are killed.

To help you out a squirt bottle is provided in which you can collect water that has been infused with ozone. The whole process of obtaining a bowl of ozone infused water should take you about just four minutes. It is claimed that using this water to wash up your veggies or fruits or tabletops can help you get rid of 99% of the microbes plaguing their surfaces. The ozone infused water is said to be effective for as long as 15 minutes.

Many would be wary of using the appliance owing to the possible harm ozone could cause human beings. However there is nothing to worry as the machine gives out small amounts of ozone to be of any danger to humans. As a precaution, people are advised not to drink out of the squirt bottle. The by-product given out as well is harmless as it is mere oxygen molecules.

Well, so now you have a clean kitchen and appropriately washed veggies and fruits thanks to the lotus sanitizing system. However, do you know how much did that just cost you? The home ozone generator will draw you a bill of $169.99. Therefore, style does come at a price!

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Summer is a special time for mango lovers. Raw mangoes give a tangy flavor when added to any food. Maavinakaaayi Chitranna is what Kannadigas call Mango Rice and also means the same when translated literally. This is my favorite among all the mango recipes. Try this yummy mouth-watering treat and I promise that you’ll end up polishing it off to the last grain and ask for more!

You’ll need:

2-3 cups of cooked rice
1 cup fresh grated coconut ( optional but preffered!)
1/2 cup grated raw green mango
3-4 tbsp oil
10 green chillies
2-3 red chillies
Handful of roasted peanuts
3 spoons urad dal
1/2 tsp turmeric
2 strings of curry leaves
¼ tsp Asafoetida
1/2 tsp mustard

Here’s how you do it:

1. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
2. Add mustard and when it pops, add urad dal, roasted peanuts, curry leaves, green chillies, red chillies, turmeric, hing and stir for about 2-3 minutes.
3. Now, add the grated coconut and stir for a minute.
4. Switch off the flame and now add grated raw mango and mix it well. Add salt to taste.
5. Spread the cooked rice on a plated to cool. Mix the above prepared mixture to the rice.
6.Garnish with coriander. ( You could add roasted cashew nuts to make it richer!)

Simply Enjoy :p!

I wonder why anyone couldn’t think about this invention. Since time immemorial we have been crying while cutting onions, and coming out with so many complicated choppers to avoid tears...but why in the world could no one think about making goggles that could keep that harsh onion fumes from reaching your eyes?

Any ways...better late than never, we have got these special Onion Glasses, which resemble your swimming glasses but have a foam sea that’ll keep the tears out.
Price: $19.95

Via: Cooking-Gadgets