I really enjoy cooking. I’m a sucker for any cooking show on the Food Network and I buy all the nifty gadgets, knives, tools they use. I even try to emulate the techniques and products that they flaunt across my television screen. “Use lots of fresh herbs!” they exclaim while they eschew any form of dried herbs as the most disgusting thing in the world. Unlike these chefs on television, I don’t go to the store (or the farmers market like they say I should) every day nor do I have bucket loads of cash lying around to pay the premium price for these herbs because they only last a few days in the fridge.

What’s a budding chef to do?

Well, you can pick up the Prepara Herb-Savor from The Sharper Image. This compact and ingenious storage device prolongs the life of your fresh herbs for up to three weeks by keeping the cut stems in water and its cover isolates your herbs from the rest of the items in your fridge. It has ample capacity but still easily fits inside a standard refrigerator door. The removable stainless steel basket keeps herbs neatly gathered together, and allows for easy washing. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a George Foreman Grill – wait, I take that back, I have a couple of George Foreman Grills. They’re great for cooking hamburgers, turkey burgers, steaks, chicken breasts, bratwursts and just about anything else that you could think to cook on a grill – you can cook on the George Foreman “Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine”. There’s ones with removable plates, ones with bun warmers, and all sorts of different sizes and shapes. But the only thing that was the same was that they all required to be plugged into the wall socket to work.

Well, until now.

The awesomeness that is ThinkGeek offers the George Foreman USB iGrill. This desktop grill is powered by one single USB 2.0 port. Read the rest of this entry »

There are knife connoisseurs and there are people who love the circus. Back in the early days of the circus, there were the knife throwers who thrilled audiences with their skills of accuracy and daring. In 1938, the infamous Wheel of Death was introduced and a moving, spinning target upped the dramatic tension of the audience. Nowadays, knife throwers aren’t as prevalent, but everyone owns knives and everyone knows that you need to store your knives in knife blocks. They are important to keeping your fine cutlery in tip top shape.

The gadget-loving people over at UrbanTrend feature the Throwzini’s Knife Block, which causes no apparent harm to the hapless red dude strapped to it. Read the rest of this entry »

If you know somebody that enjoys spending time in the kitchen then these next 6 gadgets should be right up their street, here’s our list of gift ideas for the cook.

Fast-Read Fork Thermometer

If you are fed up being served burnt burgers at your friends BBQ, give them some help with the fork thermometer.

This cooks thermometer fork uses a highly sensitive copper tip and powerful internal microprocessor to give accurate temperature readings in three seconds, less than a third of the time of lesser models. The built-in display gives information for beef, chicken, pork, and fish, providing the user with the current status (Rare, Medium, Medium-Well, and Well) for each.

Price: $29.95

Hot / Cold Serving Tray

This could come in very handy on Christmas day, the Hot / Cold Serving Tray keeps your food at the right temperature.

No need to worry about ice, or electricity, with our Hot/Cold Serving tray.

This one-of-a-kind tray features thermo-sensitive oil within it that helps keep the contents cool or warm for hours. It is a convenient, safe, clean way to serve foods to your family and guests. It heats easily in the oven or on the stove top, and it is easily cooled in the refrigerator.

Cost: $29.95

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I’m a huge fan of kitchen gadgets. You can usually find me with the television tuned to Good Eats with the notepad at the ready so I can look up and buy all the nifty kitchen gadgets that Alton Brown gloriously displays during the course of the show.

Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon some fabulous kitchen gadgets of my own. The Tovolo Standz tools are the latest cool line of kitchen gadgets to hit the market. From Amazon.com: Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t help but think why everything is going digital or electronic these days, and I would think of one item that would not need it: the spice rack.

Not so with the Kamenstein Smart Spice Rack. It comes with a revolving rack that can hold about 16 premium spices which are included. Also included is a small handheld electronic device full of recipes which you can detach and take with you shopping.

The device can also be used as a timer which will really come in handy when you are cooking. Included in the database are 200 recipes, ready to make. It has them with both metric and non-metric units. You have to admit, it is one nice rack. Yes, I did just say that. Read the rest of this entry »

The definition of handyman can be seen as “a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks” – something rare to exist nowadays. Right ladies?

Anyhow, the following 10 gadgets are suited for the almost-in-extinction handyman, from cookers to campers, and GPS lovers, we’ve got it all here.

The products are ordered by price, not by usefulness or multi-functionality.

Garmin GPSMap 76 Handheld GPS Navigator

This Garmin GPS System is made for the handyman that likes the marine life, aka driving boats. It doesn’t have much internal memory, only 8MB that are suppose to be used when adding more data from the MapSource CDs.

Other features include 500 waypoints + maps of rivers, lakes, worldwide cities, and more + computer that shows info about trip distance, average speed, and a timer.

Price: $160
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Black & Decker Alligator Lopper Electric Chain Saw

If this Black & Decker existed 50 years ago, I bet it would be a hit for sure.

The Black & Decker Aligator Electronic Chain Saw has a 4.5 Amp motor, and a 4-inch cut limit. You can use it to cut small (or big) pieces of wood to use on your fireplace, unlike what happens while using a manual chain saw, you won’t get tired.

Take a big bite out of fallen trees, tree limbs and brush with the Alligator Lopper, a revolutionary new cutting tool that provides chainsaw-like cutting performance in an un-intimidating and easy to use tool. With its scissor-like action, the Alligator Lopper’s rugged metal jaws clamp onto logs and thick branches, as well as smaller tree limbs and vines and then saws through them with ease.

Price: $99
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So you’ve got some ravenous teenagers in the home and they’re hankering for some home-made pizza instead of the stuff Dominos dish out? The Double-Deck Pizza Oven allows you to get a couple of pizzas out in double quick time as it boasts upper heating elements, sliding stainless steel shelves, a couple of pizza stones and temperatures that reach 800°F to deliver a crispy, tender and hot pizzas within a few minutes. This $250 home improvement device can make pizzas up to 12″ in diameter, capable of satisfying even the most hungry teenager at home.

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