Posts Tagged ‘Kitchen’

Video: The SodaStream Revolution Drinksmaker

Video: The SodaStream Revolution Drinksmaker

If you’re old enough to remember the long, dark days of the seventies then one of the brighter moments back then was getting a glass of effervescent action from a SodaStream. The home drink-making machine was one of the gadgets to own and although it’s retained a cult following ever…

Electrolux Infisight and Zanussi QUADRO: Take your home cooking up a notch.

Electrolux Infisight and Zanussi QUADRO: Take your home cooking up a notch.

We recently did a feature on fitness gadget that covered all sorts of bits and bobs that will help you stay trim for 2013. However as I’m sure you know “great abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym” so we thought we’d also look at two new…

Great Christmas kitchen gadgets gifts

Great Christmas kitchen gadgets gifts

Food and sex are almost universal drives for human beings so I thought I’d round up kitchen gadgets gifts for Yuletide. For the food obsessed obvious. Monster knife set I don’t normally demand that my kitchen utensils be ridiculously cute but the Monster knife set from Red 5 can’t help…

Future Kitchen Technology Revealed

Future Kitchen Technology Revealed

Appliance manufacturer Gorenje and sustainable lifestyle products outfit Ecover have joined forces to put a new spin on our kitchen gadgets. These like-minded companies have introduced a whole suite of shiny black technology with the underlying ethos of environmental responsibility, reusable energy and appliance efficiency – with all the innards…

simplehuman sensor bins and sensor pumps

simplehuman sensor bins and sensor pumps

We were invited to the Good Housekeeping Institute to play with some of simplehuman’s latest innovations and to develop a serious inferiority complex over the state of our kitchens. simplehuman first caught my eye a few years back with their sensor bins. I’d be hard pushed to call a bin…

Philips Avance Juicer: Buck the festive binging

Philips Avance Juicer: Buck the festive binging

As you can’t help but notice, it’s the holiday season, with endless exhortations to eat, drink and be bloated. It can be hard to cut down on the festive cheer, hence the popularity of January dates (and don’t worry we’ll be running our fair share of gadgets and apps to…

Healthier frying from the Tefal ActiFry Plus

Healthier frying from the Tefal ActiFry Plus

Healthier chips! That’s the promise from Tefal, which has recently launched the latest version of its number one selling kitchen appliance, the Actifry. Now, I’m always a bit wary of kitchen gadgets – in most houses (even in ours where I’m always experimenting in the kitchen) they get used a…

Jamie’s Recipes for iPad

Jamie’s Recipes for iPad

It’s easy to make fun of celebrity chefs, especially Jamie Oliver – ask any lazy comedian. But it’s also worth noting that as a nation a lot of us eat *terrible* food when we really don’t need to. There’s a fallacy that good food is expensive and time-consuming and Mr…

BIBO water filter dispenser: Hot or cold water on demand

BIBO water filter dispenser: Hot or cold water on demand

Wouldn’t it be great to have boiling water without having to wait for the kettle to boil? And wouldn’t it be equally as great to have chilled water without having to wait for it to cool in the fridge? Well dream no more as now you can have boiled or…

Breville toaster radio: Breakfast gets a musical accompaniment

Breville toaster radio: Breakfast gets a musical accompaniment

Friends are often keen to hear about the latest gadgets I’m trying out, but all I seemed to get when I told them I was trying out a toaster/radio was a lot of smirks. But it’s from Breville, and it looks really cool, I proclaimed. They still weren’t convinced. However,…

Too busy to wait for the kettle to boil? You need the T6!

Too busy to wait for the kettle to boil? You need the T6!

If you have better things to do than wait for the kettle to boil, or want to create the impression that your time is too valuable for such mundanities, then you need the T6 water dispenser. The T6 (I’ll explain the name is a minute) is a counter-top machine that…

Kitchen gadgets roundup

Kitchen gadgets roundup

Listen to music while you make room in your freezer for that big leg of elk “No gimmicky offering to get tongues wagging,” assures the latest press release from Slovenian brand Gorenje (and with England actually managing to win against them we don’t need to hold that against them). World…