The Urban Cultivator is an enclosed hydroponic system designed for growing herbs and smaller vegetables indoors. A computer unit controls water, light cycles, humidity, and air circulation. All you need to do each week is add some fertilizer, and you need to eat the greens when they’re ready to harvest of course. The consumer model dubbed the Kitchen Cultivator is like a dishwasher and needs power and water hookups. Prices for the consumer model start at US $2,200, and a larger industrial model of the Urban Cultivator starts at $6,000. Via Gizmag
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With the iPhone app Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage you can slice, blend, and dice your way through lots of fruit and be happy with the results. If you’re unfamiliar with Annoying Orange, head on over to their web site and then you’ll know why you need this app to continue on in your mobile existence.
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The Breville BJE200XL 700-Watt Compact Juice Fountain makes juicing just about anything quick and easy. The heavy-duty compact juice fountain with centered knife blade assembly features a 700-watt motor that operates at 14,000 RPM for maximum extraction of all things juice. The extra-large 3-inch centered feed tube will fit entire limes, lemons, and even oranges. There’s even a stainless-steel micro-mesh filter for keeping out the bad things you don’t want in your juice.
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Look how happy this girl is in the picture, and you’ll realize how happy you could be if you had the Joyoung Easy-Clean Automatic Hot Soy Milk Maker . This soy milk maker has six intelligent protection functions for safe operation, and comes with an easy to clean stainless steel jug, filter, blade, and heating element. The Joyoung Easy-Clean Automatic Hot Soy Milk Maker makes up to 1.6 Liter of fresh milk from soy beans, rice, mung beans, and almonds. We have a young son with soy allergies, but it’s nice to see you can make rice milk with this maker. This set also include their exclusive best taste NON-GMO (not genetically modified) Soybean samples of 0.3LB gift bag, and a special discount voucher to order from their soybean farm store.
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Did the Nasa Mars program just land a robotic garlic press on our countertops? We guess not but a Garlic Zoom XL did just land, and we’re driving it around to garlic chopping success. How does it work? Just insert one or two peeled cloves in the trapdoor on top, close it up, and then drive your Zoom around the countertop. The stainless steel blades whizz around inside, slice and dicing the garlic. Clear acrylic body with stainless-steel chopping blades Fun for kids (the driving part! Don’t let kids near the blades inside.) See-through design lets you see when garlic is chopped enough No more smelly garlic hands Blade unit removes for cleaning; top-rack dishwasher-safe
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The Oster 4722 Rice Cooker with Steaming Tray in red cooks a variety of food including rice, soup, fondu and even steams vegetables. You can prepare up to 10 cups of rice, and it also features a 1-liter steaming tray. There’s an automatic keep warm feature, and it’s very simple to use with a one touch button. We really like the red color, and the brushed look of the exterior is also a nice change over shiny plastic or just plain metal. We are eating more and more steamed vegetables this year, and we think you’ll welcome the change
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This cotton/polyester blend, is Color-fast, adjustable, stain resistant, and ready for cosplay in your kitchen. When you put on the apron and mask you can ask your cooking, “What you gonna do beef rib roast?”. We think this is a perfect gift for crime fighters who cook, and who doesn’t get better cooking results when dressed as Batman. Answer - nobody. At Batman Classic Character Kitchen Apron
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This is really an entirely new Bistro coffee maker from Bodum. Unlike the french press bistro, the water gets distributed evenly over the ground coffee through an easy to clean shower head made of plastic and silicone at an ideal temperature of well over 90ºC. The filter – titanium-plated stainless steel and finely meshed – keeps the coffee pure in taste and best of all no paper filter needed. No heating is needed because the piping hot coffee goes right into the stainless steel carafe. The thermos comes with a spout that keeps the heat where it belongs Easy press of a finger it opens only for pouring. Only turns on with the jug in place Handles of the jug and the filter are made from heatresistant silicone. At BISTRO
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Name of Product: Honeywell Surround Select Portable Electric Heaters Units: About 19,000 Distributor: Kaz USA Inc., of Southborough, Mass. Manufacturer: Ningbo SMAL Electrics Co. Ltd., of China Hazard: The heater’s internal housing, including the fan, heating element and circuitry, can detach, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Incidents/Injuries: None reported Description: This recall includes Honeywell Surround Select Series portable electric heaters with model numbers HZ-420, HZ-430, and HZ-440 and five-digit date codes that have 11 as the last two digits.
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Induction cooking employs a copper wire running under the clear ceramic surface and a strong AC current to create a magnetic field which transfers electric current to the cookware and makes heating across a pot or pan even. The result is the cooktop is not hot but the pan is and that means you can induct the electricity across the entire cooktop. The Freedom includes a 6.3-inch display that recognizes the pot’s shape and size, and retails for just over $5000 - so this ease of use and cooktop will not come cheap but might be worth a look if you’re redoing your kitchen. At Gizmodo
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