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Potato chip maker for the microwave.
One of these microwave chip makers might very well be the next addition to our ever growing kit of kitchen gadgets. But we do not have ordinary potato chips in mind for it. Instead, we are thinking of making apple chips for desserts like sherbet made from granny smith apples. The only thing you are supposed to have to do is slice the potatoes (or apples), put the slices in the stand, and cook in the micro wave for six minutes. The gadget is supposed to be available in Japanese stores, but you can get it from J-Box for USD 14:80 plus shipping USD 5:80. A similar product is on fiwa-shop on German E-bay for EUR 5:- plus shipping EUR 3:90. [Via]

30 March 2007

Fridge bin liner and vegetable saver.
Frequent tipster Magnus I.B. is back with a guest review. This time he shares his experience with the fridge vegetable bin liner. He writes (our translation and slightly edited):

"It's a perforated and slightly spongy mat mad of a "non-slip" material. You cut it to size and put it on the bottom of the vegetable bin in your refrigerator. With the mat in place you can take the vegetables out of their plastic wrappers and bags (not cucumber or salad; they need the wrappers to keep their moisture), which keeps them from collecting the moisture that makes vegetables spoil faster. Besides, it looks a lot nicer with the vegetables out of the wrappers. And if something would spoil anyway (like a piece of forgotten cucumber turning into a messy mush) you're still good, since the mat keeps the fresh vegetables away from the goo. I have had mine for close to two years and I would not want to have to do without it."

Thanks, Magnus, for the tip and the review! Now, if you want one of these mats, too, they are available from (among other places) Canadian web-shop Ashton Green for CAD 3:95. A similar mat is on Amazon for USD 2:49.

6 March 2007

Make sure the meat is okay to eat.
An increasing number of people are suspicious to the food they are offered in stores, and recurring stories of filth and re-stamping in the food industry does not improve the sentiment. Some merchants seem capable of gambling with their customers' health and lives to make an extra buck. If that is your mind-set it will be pretty easy to put a fresh best-before date on a stale steak. However, there's countermeasures. Smart Stuff reader Dag N. found this tool at Sharper Image, and Dag thinks every home should have one. Or at least every restaurant. The SensorfreshQ meat tester is an electronic nose that sniffs the air above the meat and analyzes the bacterial activity with four sensitive sensors. The machine is promised to work with both (uncooked) meat and poultry and it is USD 89:95 at The Sharper Image or on Amazon

5 March 2007

Push and pull oven hook.
Now, as all our regular readers surely know, we prefer a good Nomex oven mitt anytime for handling hot pots and pans. But at the same time we understand that everybody else does not. So for all those out there who prefer a more mechanical way of handling hot pans and such things, here is the push/pull oven hook. We do think it is pretty clever. And it is not very expensive, either; just USD 5.99 (about SEK 42:-) on Walter Drake. [Via].

28 February 2007

Splash proof recipe holder.
The makers of Clipline sent us a sample some time back, but we have frankly had a hard time figuring out what we would want to do with it. The Clipline consists of a sheet of plexi glass, a wooden holder (available in lots of sizes and colors) and screws to put it up. You screw the holder and the sheet of plexi to the wall and - presto! - you have a picture holder that allows easy exchange of pictures. We do not feel any urgent need to put photos on our walls, but if we had had a brick-and-mortar store, we would have used it for display purposes. After some thinking, however, we have figured out what we would want to use it for - as a recipe holder on the back-splash. This version takes A4-paper (the size we use to print recipes from the 'net) and it is SEK 250:- (approx. USD 35:50) on Clipline's website.

28 January 2007

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A similar product is on fiwa-shop on German E-bay for EUR 5:- plus shipping EUR 3:90. [Via] 30 March 2007 Fridge bin liner and vegetable saver. Frequent tipster Magnus I.B. is back with a guest review. This time he shares his experience with the fridge vegetable bin liner. He writes (our translation and slightly edited): "It's a perforated and slightly spongy mat mad of a "non-slip" material. You cut it to size and put it on the bottom of the vegetable bin in your refrigerator. With the mat in place you can take the vegetables out of their plastic wrappers and bags (not cucumber or salad; they need the wrappers to keep their moisture), which keeps them from collecting the moisture that makes vegetables spoil faster. Besides, it looks a lot nicer with the vegetables out of the wrappers. And if something would spoil anyway (like a piece of forgotten cucumber turning into a messy mush) you're still good, since the mat keeps the fresh vegetables away from the goo. I have had mine for close to two years and I would not want to have to do without it." Thanks, Magnus, for the tip and the review! Now, if you want one of these mats, too, they are available from (among other places) Canadian web-shop Ashton Green for CAD 3:95. A similar mat is on Amazon for USD 2:49. 6 March 2007 Make sure the meat is okay to eat. An increasing number of people are suspicious to the food they are offered in stores, and recurring stories of filth and re-stamping in the food industry does not improve the sentiment. Some merchants seem capable of gambling with their customers' health and lives to make an extra buck. If that is your mind-set it will be pretty easy to put a fresh best-before date on a stale steak. However, there's countermeasures. Smart Stuff reader Dag N. found this tool at Sharper Image, and Dag thinks every home should have one. Or at least every restaurant. The SensorfreshQ meat tester is an electronic nose that sniffs the air above the meat and analyzes the bacterial activity with four sensitive sensors. The machine is promised to work with both (uncooked) meat and poultry and it is USD 89:95 at The Sharper Image or on Amazon 5 March 2007 Push and pull oven hook. Now, as all our regular readers surely know, we prefer a good Nomex oven mitt anytime for handling hot pots and pans. But at the same time we understand that everybody else does not. So for all those out there who prefer a more mechanical way of handling hot pans and such things, here is the push/pull oven hook. We do think it is pretty clever. And it is not very expensive, either; just USD 5.99 (about SEK 42:-) on Walter Drake. [Via]. 28 February 2007 Splash proof recipe holder. The makers of Clipline sent us a sample some time back, but we have frankly had a hard time figuring out what we would want to do with it. The Clipline consists of a sheet of plexi glass, a wooden holder (available in lots of sizes and colors) and screws to put it up. You screw the holder and the sheet of plexi to the wall and - presto! - you have a picture holder that allows easy exchange of pictures. We do not feel any urgent need to put photos on our walls, but if we had had a brick-and-mortar store, we would have used it for display purposes. After some thinking, however, we have figured out what we would want to use it for - as a recipe holder on the back-splash. This version takes A4-paper (the size we use to print recipes from the 'net) and it is SEK 250:- (approx. 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