Kitchen Appliances

We simply love a good free-standing kitchen piece, and this cabinet with double bowl sink from Ikea is also easy to place and move. It features adjustable legsm stands steady on uneven surfaces, and the sink comes in stainless steel. There is no pre-drilled hole in the sink unit, giving you free choice in placing the faucet which we really like. At VÄRDE Sink cabinet/sink w double-bowl

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This knife, fork, spoon set has Lego like attachments for all utensils with the handles made out of silicone. So if you’re kids are messing around enough at dinner or snack time then we recommend getting them these. Perhaps after they stop messing around they’ll realize how fun eating can be.

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We’ve not tried the hot stone grill cooking concept yet at our dinner table, but it looks really amazing. Basically the stone has two warmers that allow the stone to heat up like a grill so you can cook meats, vegetables, poultry, sausages right at your dinner table. We’ve also seen this with hot salt stone cooking, but this one forgoes the salt to give you more of an all around cooking / grilling surface. Rok cooking is one of the companies making both commercial and consumer versions of the hot grill stones. This video shows you basically what to expect on using one of these hot stones. At The Original Hot Cooking Stone

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Fat magnet absorbs fat so you don’t have to eat it and well get fat. Fat Magnet helps to instantly reduce calories, lower cholesterol and create healthier meals by removing and absorbing excess fat that floats on the surface of foods. You just freeze Fat Magnet, and then skim the surface and fat is gone sucked up into the Fat Magnet. Fat Magnet is designed to be used in soups, gravies, stews, chili and other liquids.

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This 12-cup whistling kettle made of thermal-shock-resistant borosilicate glass features a removable lid, heat-resistant phenolic handle, and a drip-free spout. What we really like is how it can be used on gas or electric stovetops, and best of all it’s dishwasher-safe. If you’ve never had a clear glass kettle the thing about it that makes it fun is seeing the water boil. We love knowing before the whistle that the water is about ready to go. At Medelco 1-WK112-BL-4 12-Cup Glass Stovetop Whistling Kettle

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That’s right you heard us - we’re on a break. We’ll see you in a week right back here at KitchenContraptions.com and we’ll have loads of new info as we move into the Fall on kitchen gadgets, small appliances, and well - anything kitchen related. Thanks for all your support over the past 7 years, and we’lll see you in a week more refreshed and ready than ever.

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There’s just something so classic about this tea kettle from Le Creuset. This kettle just has the look and gets the job done by conducting heat efficiently and boiling water quickly to waste less energy. The kettle is coated with durable porcelain enamel and will not corrode, and the handle locks into position for easy pouring. And yes - it has a whistle and it’s quite loud when the water reaches a rolling boil. And if you have one of those fancy induction cooking surfaces - it works on them as well as regular stoves. At Le Creuset Demi Teakettle

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Now that August is here and we have all had a chance to experience the heat of summer, I have a question – have any readers used a portable air conditioner? Not the fixed models that mount in the window, but the free-standing style that sit in the middle of a room with a tube that allows it to vent outdoors. How about a Swamp, or Evaporative cooler? The efficacy of the air conditioners seems doubtful to me. Do they have the power to cool a room when at the same time they are producing so much energy (that’s heat!) to run the motor? Many years ago, my in-laws had what we called a swamp cooler. It was also free-standing and worked by blowing air over water soaked pads. The air that came into the room was cooled as it passed through the pads.

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It’s that time of year when yes it’s hot but soon it will be a bit cooler, and then I’ll need to well make giant amounts of smoked meats and fry a turkey. It happens every fall, and we end up having more cookouts because more people are around on the weekend then in the summer. I think this versatile cooker which can fry, grill, or smoke with gas, or grill or smoke with charcoal will meet all of my outdoor cooking needs. There’s a heat indicator, and even stay-cool wooden handles.

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If you’re like us and like to cut up a ton of stuff on a cutting board and then attempt to get it to the stove top and then spill have it off the cutting board while you scrape it in - then getting a bench scraper is for you too. The bench scrape shovel in orange for collecting and transporting ingredients from the cutting board to a pot on the stovetop, or clearing away food debris will save your cooking life. The shovel face crafted in durable, nonporous stainless steel features a soft taper at shovel’s edge for scooping ease. We use ours when prepping lots of little things like garlic and onions and putting them in the pan with one big scrape. At Rachael Ray Tools Bench Scrape Shovel

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