Just in case anyone was lying awake wondering about the chemistry of clean ovens, Wired Magazine explains each individual ingredient in sprayable oven cleaner Easy-Off's most heavy-duty product. The article is primarily useful as a warning not to inhale the stuff....
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Is your apartment missing something? Like...a kitchen? Then Denmark-based furniture design company Hansen Living has just the thing for you: the Instant Kitchen! It contains an oven, gas jets, electric power, refrigerator and water in one freestanding unit. You just need to hook it up to a water supply and electricity. And find a place to put it. [via uncrate and not martha]...
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Can't decide between using chopsticks or a fork? Choplery from Brooklyn-based design group design GO! erases the decision by making one end of their utensil in the form of a pair of chopsticks and the other end a fork, knife or spoon. You can start with the non-chopstick end and switch to using chopsticks, but not so much the other way around. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]...
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Having trouble baking pizza to the perfect crispiness or churning out a crusty loaf of bread in your home kitchen? Maybe you should try the Cuisinart Brick Oven Deluxe, a one cubic foot-sized oven with brick built into the walls and a removable stone base. After using the oven, Gina Provenzano at The Epi-Log said, "Everything you bake in it comes out with a crispy, flaky exterior and a chewy, delicious interior because the stone holds heat and distributes it more uniformly."...
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I still remember my first sandwich press. I convinced my mom to let me order it after spending a day at home sick from school watching some lady make apple pies, brownies, waffles and, of course, sandwiches. I also remember my first car accident—it was caused by my fumbling for a boombox that had just tumbled off the dashboard of my Honda (the car stereo was broken). I can't help but think that S. King had me in mind when it developed the car-powered Pro 12-Volt Sandwich Maker—it's perfect for that person who is in love with cheap sandwich presses but also stupid enough to put an appliance on the dashboard....
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It's a prototype, and who knows if it'll ever go into production, but a British tinkerer has introduced jetlike fan technology into the toasting process. He was frustrated with his plodding toaster while making his favorite meal, beans on toast. "The design came out of sheer frustration that by the time the toast is ready, my beans have gone cold," he said. [via Cold Mud]...
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Popular Science's round-up of some of the more extreme kitchen gadgets available today, from the straight-out-of-the-science-lab ($3,000 Heidolph VV Micro Evaporator) to the more-likely-to-be-found-in-my-kitchen ($15 Kitchen Grips)....
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Photograph from Wikipedia Flessenlikker = "jar licker" in Dutch. Also known as a flessenschraper ("bottle scraper"). The long handle and flexible rubber spatula at the end do just what you think they would: help you get every last scrap from the bottle—especially long, narrow vessels. The joke here is that it's a Norwegian invention that has failed in every country but the Netherlands. The Dutch are smart, though: They probably get at least one more PBJ sandwich out of their respective jars than flessenlikker rejectors....
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