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“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world”, even though Archimedes’ Lever Law indeed hasn’t been used to move the earth, it does have served us quite much in various ways in our daily life, and this Kuhn Rikon Ratchet Pepper Grinder is rightly a clever product made based on that. The item has a long arm that you can crank back and forth, making it easy for both kids and elderly people to operate. Moreover, it has a smart appearance too, so that you’ll be in a good mood when working with these little guys.

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Thermodor’s Freedom full-surface adaptive induction unit is a revolutionary cooktop for this year’s CES. It has a 6-inch touchscreen that displays the pot’s shape and position, allowing the users to easily control each vessel’s cooking temperature and its maximum output power could reach up to 4600 watt. Because of its seamless layout, the cooktop also allows pots to be reconfigured while cooking without the need to wait for an element to heat up. Announced to be ship in Jul 2012, Thermador’s Freedom will be priced at about $4949 (WOW!!).

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One, two or even ten different shapes of baking pans are not enough to people in deep love of baking cakes, so what they really need may be this Ribbon Adjustable Baking Pan. It’s made of silicon and magnets, attaching onto steel baking sheets in various shapes and sizes, so as to create beautifully-crafted delicious cakes.

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Somebody cares quite much about the environment, so they are trying hard to avoid using too many bowls or bags in order to save water and other resources; others, like me, are just too lazy to do the housework so we try to use as few bowls as we can too. Yaps, we may have different motives, but we’re all forwarding in the same direction and we all need the “Twist” by Nick Burrows. It’s transformable, capable of shifting between a bag, a microwave oven proof container and an ordinary bowl. Just twist to change it, and then you can do something beneficial to both you and the environment.

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Interesting spaghetti measuring tool from Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson, offers four different sizes, a “kid” for kids, a “lady” for the females, a “man” for the males and a “horse” for a whole family (four people). So which is your choice? Honestly I can eat a “horse” for one meal…

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Better food with lemon juice, while better lemon juice with Stem Food Sprayer. The Stem is designed to save us out of boring work of cutting a lemon and squeezing it. Instead, it can spray juice directly onto food as you insert it into a citrus fruit and press the button. Just easy as that, but pity it’s merely a concept till now. Well, good news is Quirky is looking to manufacture it in the very near future, and it is collecting advices on the Stem’s price. So if you want to save money, go and leave your suggestions!

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Why does Alireza Alavi build the conceptual burner with a same shape of mosquito coils? I’ve no idea of the possible reason but actually the device concerns nothing to mosquito coils. Its real feature lies in the double knobs, a gas control knob for adjusting the flame size and a burner control knob for adjusting the spiral burner size.  With that unique design, you can get a better control of the fire during cooking and thus to save fuel at the same time.

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A good design should be something considering the human’s real needs and trying to accomplish a simple but practical function, just like this Angle Measuring Cup by Umut Demirel. The device contains not only ordinary volume makings but also diagonal lines that indicate quantities during pouring. With the Angle’s help, you can then pour out the required measure in an easier way.

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Though many of my friends love cup noodles, they seldom know that the first cup noodle was launched by Nissin Food in 1971. Now forty years have passed, the Nissin has collaborated with Japan’s Vstone (JP) robotics to make some Cup Noodle Robot Timers in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of cup noodles. There will be totally 10,000 timers sold to the public under some sort of a lottery system.

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“Catch” features a temperature-resistant construction, performing well to prevent the grease or sauce from splattering whenever you rest it flat on a pan or use it as a barrier around the pan. When not in use, simply fold it up and put it in the drawer, and that wouldn’t require too much space.

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Squeeze these soft balls to dispense seasoning! While you squeeze them, you’ll not only see the seasoning coming out of these balls continuously, but also you can feel how tiny the salt and pepper are… Oh God, that’s really bit of weird.

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Colorful gadgets that serve as both a measuring spoon and a fridge magnet to bring you a new experience of cooking, available in several different colors.

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It seems like a smart container, what do you think the item is used for?

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Hello you housewives, what about your dinners today? What, the pepper fall onto the table again?! Well, you should throw those traditional mills away and have a try with this no-spill one. It features a movable cap connected to the handle, thus the cap will protect pepper spilling when you stop working with the device.

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Can you believe that the “Chopp” is claimed to be the last chopping board you need to buy?! Although I have no liking for exaggeration, I must admit that the ergonomic chopping board does deserve the praise. It’s a board with interchangeable functionality, including a hollow base to hold the chopped food, a cheese grater, a preparation aid for fruit, an egg holder and so on. Made of high density Polyethylene and ABS PC, as well as fused with Antimicrobial material, the Chopp is both durable and healthy for use. Hey, Alastair Crompton, reserve me a Chopp please.

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