Cooking Gadgets

The Meatball Grill Basket brings flame broiled goodnews to spaghetti and meatballs.

I’m a culinary disciple of the Food Network, particularly of Alton Brown. And as such, I have an aversion for “uni-taskers,” so-called kitchen gadgets that are only for one thing and spend 99% of their time just taking up space in your kitchen. As AB puts it, the only uni-tasker in your kitchen should be a fire extinguisher, just in case. But I’m Italian, and this Meatball Grill basket may force me to say “Not so fast, AB!”

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If you’re a camper looking for a better, more portable way to bring along a BBQ grill to that campout or to the beach without cooking over a live campfire, you may want to try this “Notebook” BBQ grill.

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Microwave chip maker for healthy snacks

It may look like a slide carousel for those old vacation slides, but this nifty little invention is a do it yourself low fat potato chip maker. simply slice your potato chips wafer thing and line them up in the slots. Stick ‘em in the microwave for a minute and you have what claims to be a nice low fat potato chip. No oil, no extra calories.

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We already discussed an oven that cooks via USB, and we would be remiss in our duties at Coolest Gadgets if we did not report on other advancements in oven technology, such as this particular oven that cooks with lasers.

That’s right, lasers (just imagine the hands doing quotes like Dr. Evil). In fact, this oven uses a combination of three lasers to cook your food, which are specifically under your control. So if you want your pizza cooked at 350 degrees, you can make that distinction. I’m not really sure how that distinction is made, though. I mean, do you just use one laser for Jiffy Pop and three for a turkey?

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For those that have started grilling out already, you might want to pick up this handy gadget.  Grilling out is fun, but sometimes it can be frustrating if you’re stuck standing near the grill all day.  Then if you do happen to become distracted, you’ve just burned everyone’s dinner and there is no one around to blame except for you.  It’s the short ones you have to worry about the most though, if they aren’t fed, they will come after you.  With this remote thermometer, you’d always know when the meat is done, without having to hover over the grill all day long.

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Usually coffee is made in the old fashioned way of brewing it in the pot.  However, if you have a  stomach sensitive to the acids that are in coffee, you might find this different method quite useful.  It’ll create your coffee in a way that is far less acidic and therefore a bit more gentle on your stomach.  Of course it takes a little longer to create it initially, but it’s well worth the wait.

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Just when you thought that you can’t update something technologically, here comes the Blue Ember iQue. This grill has “an integrated computer for precision control” for cooking your meat “on the barbie”.

The user has the option of setting the time and temperature for cooking. He or she even has the option of selecting the meat, and whether it will be well done, medium rare, or whatever setting that he or she prefers. The iQue also has an integrated temperature probe, and the computer will automatically lower the heat level based on its desired settings.

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According to recent studies, Pizza is a $30 billion dollar industry. That’s a heck of a lot of cardboard boxes in our landfills. But a Pizza box company has come up with a very simple pizza box design which recycles and reuses the box the pizza comes in with a simple tear along the serrated lines. Bet you didn’t think a simple square box could be redesigned, did you?

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