Posts under ‘Kitchen Gadgets’

My family kicked it up a notch for this year’s Thanksgiving with dueling turkeys: one deep-fried and one cooked by infrared heat. Needless to say, we’re a competitive group, so while my uncle manned the traditional deep-fried bird, my dad and brother wedged a 16-pound turkey into our 3-in-1 smoker, roaster and grill, also known [...]

The gadget gurus behind Apple’s never ending supply of iPhone applications have done it once again. Behold the iPhone FoodScanner, the ultimate technological advancement for calorie counters, food buffs and nutritional nuts everywhere.
The brainiacs at Daily Burn have introduced FoodScanner (download price: $2.99) as the first ever app that uses the iPhone’s camera to scan [...]

This stadium cake pan makes an appearance every year when I cook for the Super Bowl or for big college football games. The mold is intricately detailed in structure with every cake-filled crevice remaining true to the actual shape of an athletic stadium. For authentic stadium decor, I mix shredded coconut with green food coloring [...]

Pasta can get old after awhile, and since I was making Hungarian Pea Soup with Nokedli tonight, I decided to test out my spaetzle maker for the first time. While the gadget is simple in design, it more than serves its purpose. Each nokedli, or Hungarian dumpling, was uniform in size and texture. Best of [...]

I received this Giant Cupcake Pan for my birthday, and I couldn’t wait to test out this mold with a chocolate version of my Vanilla Cream Cupcakes recipe. The pan fits a single boxed cake mix, and the premium non-stick surface ensures easy removal of both the top and bottom parts of the two-sided mold. [...]

I suppose it’s no surprise that my favorite Christmas present was this Edges Only Brownie Pan. I was skeptical at first that one box of brownies would fill the entire pan, but the brownies were perfect - 1-inch thick, moist in the middle and the best part of all, every piece had two crunchy edges. [...]