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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Anyone who has ever taken leftovers to work for their lunch knows that it can be a pain at times.  First of all you have to decide if you trust your coworkers enough to leave the food in the fridge.  Then you have to deal with a line to the microwave at some places.  I have worked at places before that don’t exactly leave me feeling encouraged to keep bringing food from home.  Well with this lunchbox, it might make things a lot easier and give you more time to relax on your lunch break.

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Picnics and pot luck dinners share something in common – plastic utensils and paper plates. Not the kind of equipment if you’re seeking to make the dining experience a little more classy. Fundraising dinners, for example, which don’t have the budget of a political campaign can’t really make an elegant impression and still keep the costs low. Enter Snap and Dine

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On the night before I went to Vegas for CES, I ate some Chinese food. Of course, it is impossible to eat Chinese food without having leftovers, and so I took a paper bag full of leftovers so I could reheat them later. I figured that there would be a microwave in the hotel waiting room or in my room.

However, that didn’t appear to be the case, and so I had to throw away a perfectly good dinner or lunch because I simply didn’t have the means to heat it up. It’s like the old cartoon where the guy is stranded on a deserted island and finds a crate of canned food, but doesn’t have a can opener.

Now, if I had the USB powered lunchbox from Thanko, all I would need to do is plug it into my laptop, insert the food, and subject it to 140 degree temperatures. No food goes to waste, and I wouldn’t have to shell out more money at an over-priced Las Vegas restaurant.

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Keeping with today’s “kitchen theme,” is a digital knife block that engages in a little germ warfare. Cross contamination can often happen in the kitchen and some residual germs can not only taint the taste of a good meal, but make someone down right ill in the process. So, it becomes important to kill the little buggers any way you can. And the Germ Eliminating Knife Block is a very useful tool to insure that food preparation is as safe as can be. How does the Germ Eliminating Knife Block do it?

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Bacon lovers, take note! The WowBacon microwave claims to let you broil your own bacon (and not fry them) in a fast and easy manner, filling up your tummy each time the munchies strike.

Its ability to let you easily and quickly make only as much freshly-broiled bacon as you want, on the spur of the moment and without the usual mess, is a convenience offered by none other. Small, takes up little space but no bacon cooker can make bacon faster. Broil a pound of regular or thick cut bacon in less than 10 minutes! Use two broilers, one in the microwave, while the other is unloaded and reloaded.

If you’re a bacon lover and won’t eat absolutely any other kind of meat, then the WowBacon is definitely the right device to bring home. Just in case somebody comes up to you and start lecturing on how bad bacon is for your health, WowBacon has come up with some counter points.

• It is crispier, has less fat. Precooked bacon must be cooked more to make it crisp, often using more towels
• Its bacon has bulk. It doesn’t taste papery
• It doesn’t limit your choices or brands
• It costs half for the same weight eaten

You can pick up a single unit for $19.95, while a Twin Pak will retail for $34.95.

There is nothing quite like having some cold ice cream during the sweltering summer heat, and with the Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker, you don’t have to go all out to purchase a tub since you can make your own ice cream yourself.

With the unique Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker, you can make ice cream anywhere! Simply add ice and rock salt into the outer chamber and ice cream mix into the inner, then have a ball as you shake it, pass it or roll it! Who would have thought soft serve ice cream makers could be so much fun! The ice cream forms when you roll the ball around. The consistency of your home made ice cream will depend on the ingredients, the ice and salt mix, the outside temperature and shaking frequency. If it’s not quite right, pop the lid back on and roll the Ice Cream Ball around for a few more minutes. Your ice cream mix can be as basic as cream, sugar and vanilla, or, if you’re feeling more adventurous, you can tempt your taste buds with more ambitious flavors, such as Cookies and Cream or Mint Choc Chip. So, if you’re out of ice cream when things heat up, make your own ice cream at home and serve it with your favorite toppings.

Darn it, why didn’t they have these when I was a kid? That way, I wouldn’t have to sneak behind my mom’s back to get some ice cream. You can pick up this delicious device from Gizoo for £19.95.

Having a sneaky way to keep fresh food around has always been an important goal for college students and geeks alike.  Usually it’s done with mini fridges, mini microwaves and hot plates.  Yet here’s another little gadget to throw on the list.  This one is a toaster that is powered by your PC.  It inserts directly into the drive bay and will fit a standard 5.25.  It includes Windows based software interface which controls the temperature and how long the toast is in for.

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