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Made of thermoelectric materials (materials that can generate an electrical current via a temperature gradient within themselves), Powerpot created by entrepreneurs David Toledo and Paul Slusser is an ideal outdoor cookware that can generate current using the heat of a fire. Except for providing energy for cooking, the Powerpot can charge your cellphones, flashlights or music players as well. It is available in two different kinds, each featuring 15 watt (large ones) and 5 watt (small ones).

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What can prevent water splattering out and making a mess when you’re making a stew? The Lid Sid! What adds some new fun to your boring cooking time? The Lid Sid! But what is the Lid Sid, indeed? It’s just a little dude bent over the edge to let the steam out whenever you’re making a stew.

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Personally I don’t need any banana slicers as I can almost eat up a banana before I get the slicer. But for those who want to entertain their guests with beautifully-cut fruits, one easy-to-use banana slicer is obviously in their great demand. Here we strongly recommend you this slicer: simply peel a banana, place the slicer on it and push it hard, then you’ll see the banana cut into pieces. More important, every piece is of the same width… (Is that really important? Not, to me. )

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Obviously this juicer is not designed for everybody, as it comes with so surprisingly high a price of up to $9,900! That’s not for kidding, sir, as the juicer is actually classified as a “restaurant juicer”, which is capable of extracting up to 84 oz. of fresh fruit every minute. Oranges, grapefruit, or pomegranates, many fruits can be placed within the chute, where the internal rotating flywheels will press them onto a stainless steel micro serrated blade which then bisects the fruit.

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Life is always the main source that designers and artists find their inspirations, and thus Junjie Piao has come up with the Pour-Smart, an L-shaped accessory for knives based on his experience of transferring food from the cutting board to bowl in daily life. It is a plastic piece built with a bar of strong magnet and therefore it can attach onto any stainless steel knives, allowing people to scoop and transfer chopped vegetables and meat more conveniently.

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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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Seesaw inspired cookie cutter is coming to you. Convenient to use, easy to wash and funny to see it placed in your kitchen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wanna to experience any modern but comfortable ways of cooking? Have a look at this 3D Food Printer. It utilizes an electronic blueprint system called “FabApps” that not only allows people to print out their food but also to design something with their imagination. All the “ink” this printer uses is edible, including melted chocolate, cheese or cookie dough. Once the users draw up the food’s design on a computer, the blueprint will then show the printer what goes where, and finally builds up your food with prepared materials. It is said that the 3D printer would soon be launched to market, helping both families and restaurants to customize interesting and healthier dishes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Housewives must have long been annoyed by cooking, as they need to screw off and screw on the caps of season food  bottles from time to time… Well, forget that and start a day with this revolutionary Salt Savor. Its silicone top can pop up and fold down with the flick of a finger, saving the users’ much trouble. Moreover, there’s also a measuring spoon stored in the back, ensuring it’s handy enough for a convenient use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Safety and reliability have long been the focus of knife holder designers, but there’re also somebody that go rightly the other way. Thus this dangerous holder was created. Without any wood or metal built around, the holder simply leaves sharp knives held by an embedded-in magnet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creativity is everywhere, and it even appears in your messy kitchen. So here we’d like to share some creative cutting boards with you guys, and hopefully they would add some fun to your dull cooking hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Watch out! Next time you pick up a knife, you should give it a second glance because what’s in your hand may not be a knife, but a ChopIN Board instead. On the other hand, the ChopIN Board is a knife holder as well, able to take knives of different sizes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This silicone egg cracker has come to simplify your home cooks. It looks just like an egg, with round body and bright yellow color. And it cracks eggs within merely a few seconds, simply press and done. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For our good health, we’d better remove excess fat that floats on the surface of foods before we get too much calories. And the best tool we find to do the fat-removing job is this Fat Magnet. When skimming the surface of soups, gravies, stews or other liquids, the device can smartly absorb fat and then leaver you a healthier life. [Read the rest of this entry...]

New and clever ideas are almost needed everywhere, and they’re main reasons that can make we feel much happier. With innovative items, we would live a comfortable day in offices, find more funs in schools and also make more delicious food in kitchens. So if you’re looking for more creative gadgets, these listed here are rightly for you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Woo” or “OMG” is the right thing this Sharp Act Knife Sharpener ready to steal from you. It is shaped like the “sawing a woman in half” magic illusion, offering smart grits to sharpen knives. Or, you can simply use it as a tool to let out your anger. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Roll & Mix is a multifunctional utensil designed by Marcial Ahsayane. It includes two parts, one is an oil bottle and the other is a pestle. Each of the two parts can be used separately and they’ll double as a rolling pin when fit together. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If all vegetables are prepared with strictly regulated size—let’s say, carrots chopped into small pieces of 4.5cm length, green pepper no shorter than 3.1cm while no longer than 3.2 cm—will dishes taste better? I don’t know, but I do know precise slicing with such OCD Chef Cutting Boards will undoubtedly take us much time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

No one-especially the president Obama- is permitted to use a real knife as paper towel holder, because they may be misleading kids to do such dangerous things. But if you really want a knife-shaped paper towel holder, this Angry Chef Paper Towel Holder is rightly for you-its sharp cutting edge is merely an illusion so it’s in fact perfectly safe for use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Your hands are too busy to pick up sandwiches or to shove them into your mouth? That’s all right, because you can still have enough sandwiches with the aids of this Sandwich Holder. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Guess what, your time with cheese can become more pleasant if you have one such Piano Cheese Board. It is made of bamboo, features a delicate piano shape with engraved keyboard and prop stick and comes with cute stainless steel tools. Wow, it is obviously the most elegant cheese board we’ve ever met! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not all whales have sharp teeth, but every Whale Knife here is really sharp. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hot summers always leave you exhausted? Never mind, as you may get vigor from these 3D Battery Ice Cubes. Just “charge up” yourself! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sometimes, we’ll need certain magic too when we’re cooking, especially when such magic can make our everyday happier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although there’re many types of food heating devices on the market, the Bon-Home Culinary Heat Lamp still gains an advantageous position as it utilizes ceramic element heating technology that keeps your food’s moisture and flavor. Ideal for busy families and office workers, and also perfect for parties since the lamp comes with multiple links. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Knife is never safe. Even in kitchens where each knife has their own positions, it is still quite possible that they will go out of the slots and fall onto the floor or your feet. Luckily the Knife Locker by Min Seong Kim will cleverly solve that problem. [Read the rest of this entry...]