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Taylor Digital Measuring Cup and Scale

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Another must-have gadget for your kitchen that is very practical and can replace your existing analog, boring tool. The Taylor digital measuring cup measures both dry and liquid ingredients, and displays it on the LCD screen on the handle.

It can convert weight to volume for water, milk, oil, sugar, and flour. It can display both metric and imperial units and weigh in increments of milliliters, cups, fluid ounces, grams, and pounds.

No need to change batteries – a long-life Lithium battery is embedded.

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Price: $34.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Safe Slice Protects Your Hands and Fingers While Chopping Veggies and Foods

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Here’s a kitchen gadget that you’ll definitely like, especially if you’re not a chef – it’s the Safe Slice hand & finger protector. Ok, I gave it the rest of the name, but that’s what it does. It drips your veggies, fruits or whatever so that your fingers never come near the knife’s blade.

It can even help you slice nice and evenly or at least perpendicularly! Inexpensive, and could save on bandaids and ow-ies.

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Price: $6.49
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

via Kitchen Contraptions

Review: EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale

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If you are ready to start that long postponed diet program, and are serious about the nutritional values (or lack thereof) of what you consume, then the EatSmart digital nutrition scale is the way to go. This thorough review of the EatSmart scale will take you through what the scale can do under real-world conditions.


eatsmart-digital-nutrition-scaleAt a compact 9″ x 7″ and under 2″ high, this user-friendly scale delivers more than you would expect at first glance. It comes with a database of 999 of the most common foods and has the ability to calculate nutrients from thousands of packaged foods. The LCD display is divided into 8 sections, which affords you a lot of information at one glance. Although the nutrient values were easily readable, the one minor drawback was the very small size of the units (e.g. mg).

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Pizza Vending Machine

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Pizza Vending Machine

Crazy – you can now get pizza out of a vending machine! This huge monster is the latest fast food craze to hit the Trentino Mall in Italy. The machine allows you to choose the ingredients you want on your pizza, where it cooks it all from scratch in front of your eyes – in under 3 minutes. The pizza base is made from scratch and the flour and water are kneaded to dough in front of your eyes, you then get a choice of toppings included tomato, ham, bacon and some fresh vegetables – none of the ingredients are frozen. You can’t grumble at the price either – only $5 for a pizza, and just based on looks, it doesn’t look half-bad.

For a video, hit the source link below.

via CNET.

Oxo Food Scales

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Oxo Weighing Scales

This set of food scales is something a bit out of the ordinary – instead of having your display on a little screen under that big mixing dish where you can’t quite see it, it pulls out to allow for easy reading.

Apart from the pull-out, backlit display, the scales are pretty much like any other electric scales – they support zeroing so that you can put a dish on the scales, zero them, then weigh the weight of whatever you put in them. They can also take up to 11 pounds, which should be more than enough for the domestic baker.

via Kitchen Contraptions

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Price: $47.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

USB Hot Lunch Bag

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USB Hot Lunch Bag

Brilliant, handy, unique – all words to describe the USB Hot Lunch Bag! Perfect for keeping your lunch warm for your lunch breaks, this new lunch box plugs into your USB port and runs off your computer power to keep your lunch warm. When you think of ‘packed lunch’ you usually think, ‘cold, soggy mess’ but this need not be anymore – anything you could have at home with a cooker you can just about take on a trip with you.

With USB Thermo flasks already available on the market, it was only a matter of time before this came about. I guess the next step is thinking about the other uses for this; emergency organ transportation, or maybe even to warm your hands up on a cold winters day?

More info from the manufacturer

Price: $22.00(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Evo Grill

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Evo Grill

Summer is here; time to get outside to cook up lots of hot dogs and hamburgers. I came across a cool grill called the “Evo Grill”. I was particularly fascinated by its unique design. It has a round top on it that is used for grilling. Just think about the times that you are typically over a grill. More times than not you are there by yourself or have people behind you trying to talk to you. With this gadget you can have people surrounding the grill having the conversation with you, or perhaps even cooking something else on the other side.

Another thing that was quite interesting was its ability to have multiple temperatures across it. As mentioned above, you can have two things cooking on it at once. Perhaps you want your hot dogs to cook a little quicker than your hamburgers. That’s not a problem. You get to specify exactly how hot it is through a two burner system ranging from 250 degrees to 670 degrees!

Gimme!

Price: $3150.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Google’s Annual Food Bill: $72 million

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Silicon Alley Insider estimates that Google spends an average of over $7500 per employee per year on free food, assuming that each meal costs $30. That works out to over $72 million per year!

Is that worth it? Apart from considering how large their profit margins are and what a great perk does for employee morale, also consider this: given that a huge portion of Googlers make salaries north of $75k, a perk that costs 10% of that is easily worth it if those employees put in even 1 more hour of work per day.

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