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This double fan oven, De Dietrich DOD798W in gloss white glass offers unprecedented features and is a fantastic appliance for family kitchens or for those who regularly entertain. Together with 10 oven functions in each oven, it offers the De Dietrich Multifunction Plus Cooking mode and pyrolytic self-cleaning in both ovens, ensuring the most cost effective and time saving cleaning available. The double fan oven also benefits from an animated digital display [...]
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The De Dietrich DOV745X is Compact 45 De Dietrich steam oven that allows you to use steam cooking, the healthiest way to cook and do it in style. Just by cooking foods in their own juices helps preserve vitamins, mineral salts, colours and textures. Most importantly, steaming brings out the true flavours of food more effectively than any other method of cooking. This sleek 45cm steam oven has an animated [...]
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Powerful and stylish De Dietrich microwave oven, the DME795X is compact built-in combination microwave with a 45cm height and a 40-litre capacity. This is one of several De Dietrich fully integrated microwave ovens with 1.75 kW grill, and is perfectly designed to complement a standard single oven or as an alternative if space in the kitchen is limited. It has a drop down door and 10 oven functions such as Microwave, Speed Defrost, Microwave and Fan, Microwave and Full [...]
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February was another cool but amazing month of Kitchen Contraptions – filled with kitchen gadgets, grilling, and other kitchen wonders like the new. Thanks again to all of our loyal readers for visiting us each day, and you can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Cutting Boards
Cutting Boards for Tall Cooks
Espresso Machines
Nespresso Le Cube C185 Espresso Machine Now only $199
Free Standing [...]
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The new KitchenAid range cookers are among the most powerful, best performing cooking appliances KitchenAid has ever offered. Part of the new professional-grade, commercial-style collection of cooking appliances which also includes high performance cooktops and powerful ventilation hoods, these new dual-fuel KitchenAid range cookers all designed to enable chef-worthy results at [...]
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The new KitchenAid refrigerator offers contoured doors, chrome details and a full color LCD screen. Those are among the more noticeable changes to this French Door bottom freezer refrigerator, but KitchenAid does not stop there and improvements over previous models go far beyond skin deep. The new bottom freezer refrigerator offers more shelf space, larger refrigerator capacity and advanced LED [...]
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The new range of Maytag appliances unveiled last month at 2010 International Builders’ Show brings even more cooking power in your kitchen, helping you get it all done. Whether remodeling or replacing kitchen appliances, Maytag Appliances offer performance and flexibility for today’s needs. A kitchen is a cook’s fingerprint, each one is unique to [...]
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We’re always looking out for a really well reviewed rice cooker, and this Sanyo has the stars. This micro-computerized cooker makes up to 10 cups of cooked rice, and also functions as a slow cooker, pressure cooker, and steamer. We like multi-function appliances, and getting a bit of all of them into one is going to save counter space. It also has a nonstick inner pot, and 1-touch cooking options including a 24-hour timer. measuring cup, spatula, and manual with recipes are included with this rice cooker and steamer.
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This stylish induction cooktop from ATAG features 4 induction elements on black vitroceramic glass, including powerful 3.7 kW zone, two 3.0 kW zones and auxiliary 2.2 kW zone. Main benefits and features include modern slide controls, automatic programmable cooking options, residual heat indicators for each zone, timers, child lock, pot/pan detectors and optional stainless steel [...]
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The Jet Saveur combi auto steam grill microwave, Whirlpool VT266, is one of the several combi microwave ovens, available for UK consumers who want to add another dimension to their kitchens. Equipped with special Crisp System for evenly crisp cooking results and steam function for healthy and better tasting meals, these freestanding combi microwaves deliver variety of meals quickly and efficiently. Whirlpool also incorporated the revolutionary 3D emission system for completely even microwave energy distribution, Jet Defrost for incredibly fast [...]
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Ekokook’s entire layout has been well thought out with fresh vegetable storage, water conservation, container gardening, waste sorting, recycling, and composting in mind. Each bin does some green function including a built-in compost ready locker to ensure you’ll return the unused food back to mother earth. We also love the lines of the design with bright white and chartreuse green colors screaming modern and eco-friendly. If you combine the Ekokook with the Cornucopia food replicator of the future, we [...]
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Vicera sent us a set of their ceramic Chef’s Knife, Santoku Knife, and Utility Knife to review over the past two weeks. We’ve been using these knives daily in our cooking, and compared to the Kyocera knives which we’ve been using – we simply like these knives better. They are dishwasher safe, and the white blade compared to the black ceramic blade of the Kyocera knives is much thinner and we think [...]
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The 80cm wide EHD80170P is sleek induction hob by Electrolux, featuring 4 induction zones with touch controls and individual zone timers. The extra large induction zone makes it very user-friendly and there is a useful booster setting for fast cooking. The auto heat up brings food to the boil and automatically reduces it to a preselected level for ease of use. Fast and safe, the induction hob uses an electromagnetic coil beneath the cooking zones to create an induction field [...]
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With the launch of its Ora-Ito minimalist collection of black and silver kitchen appliances 2 years ago, Gorenje sealed its reputation as a bold and genuinely innovative brand of quality. Now Gorenje is predicting that its stunning new Ora-Ito White Collection will possibly surpass the success of its black range.
Dedicated to developing technologically advanced solutions that improve with each generation of appliances, Gorenje constant objective is to produce a balanced marriage of the innovative and the easy to use. The Ora-Ito White Collection of appliances, aptly [...]
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At just $17.95, the Finger tongs are silicone cooking tongs you wear on your hand, making it look like a giant puppet. The finger tong slides on to either your right or left hand and gives precise control when flipping food, turning sausage, stir-frying, etc. Tongs are 7 in length and are dishwasher safe.
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The latest contemporary range cooker from Caple, the Sense CR1204 reflects the company passion for design and drive for a constant redevelopment and expansion of its portfolio of contemporary kitchen appliances. With home cooking getting more popular again, the state-of-the-art contemporary range allows keen cooks to take advantage of a cooker whatever their kitchen style. Bringing a touch of flair, the [...]
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The energy efficient Hoover induction hobs deliver precise and controllable heat. Equipped with electromagnetic coil located below the ceramic cooking surface, such 75cm wide hobs are quite safe, because you can heat the surface only when a saucepan with a ferrous metal base is placed on it. The heat is generated in the pan and is transferred to the food contained within. Hoover incorporated touch sensitive digital controls that enable easy operation at the touch of a button, [...]
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The stylish HPD 90NX is a 5 burner double oven gas range and one of the better Hoover range cookers, offering 2 large capacity ovens, 5 burners including large ring burner ideal for wok cooking, cast iron pan supports and large storage drawer. Hoover equipped these [...]
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We’ve been covering the first “affordable” home sous vide cooking machine, and are pretty excited about it. We also are very excited about the uber review just published over at Gizmodo. If you don’t know what a SousVide oven is – it offers the product of decades of refinement by top chefs, the SousVide Supreme Water Oven cooks sealed food at precise preset temperatures for consistent cooking, and wonderful flavors. Vacuum-sealed food loses virtually none of its flavor or nutrients during cooking, and the pressure encourages [...]
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Zanussi is launching a brand new range of cookers in April 2010, all beautifully designed with sleek lines and new handles. They are available in 55cm and 60cm wide models with both electric and gas configurations. These new ranges have a larger main oven capacity so more dishes can be cooked at once. What is more, both cavities are ‘A’ energy rated, saving costs and helping the environment. The cookers are simple to use with Easy Access Controls positioned at the top, front of the hob for easy access and out of reach from little fingers. [...]
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The new large capacity, ‘AA’ rated Electrolux electric range, the EKC607601X is stainless steel, 60cm freestanding double oven range cooker that offers innovative and visually impressive 3D linear design creating the perfect focal point in any kitchen. Equipped with two large [...]
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We’ve had this steamer now for just over 2 years, and have to say – it’s amazing. We cook rice, vegetables, and fish in this, along with occasionally steaming hot dogs and buns. The 2-Tiered 6-quart capacity steamer creates instant steam for preparing all kinds of food. You can delay cooking up to 12-hours, and the LCD display with 95-minute timer is easy to read and use. The other thing we like – it cleans up really easily – allowing you to empty the water and refill between [...]
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January was another cool but amazing month of Kitchen Contraptions – filled with kitchen gadgets, grilling, and other kitchen wonders like the new. Thanks again to all of our loyal readers for visiting us each day, and you can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Bowls
Pyrex Smart Essentials 8-Piece Mixing Bowl Set – Classic Pyrex Bowls
Cutting Boards
Compact Herb Chopper
Espresso Machines
Handpresso HPWILD Wild 16-Bar Hand-Pump Espresso Machine
Grilling
Steak [...]
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The ‘A’ rated HX 45.15 is the combo multifunction turbo oven and at approximately € 845 is one of the more expensive wall ovens offered by Teka. Comes with touch control panel, digital display and sleek stainless steel fingerprint proof finish. Its upper 46 litre cavity has crystal clean enamel finish and offers 9 cooking functions, drop-down maxi grill, full glass inner door, triple glazed door, telescopic tray guide, 4 [...]
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New York Times guest blogger Paula Crossfield relies on her pressure cooker to make everything from soup to risotto, and says she regularly marvels at the better flavor this method of cooking produces. The key to pressure cooking is in the liquid you add to your grains, beans, veggies and meat. Liquids heat fast, and the steam produced helps build pressure in the sealed pot, quickly tenderizing the fibers of the food inside. The result of that contained cooking holds [...]
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Steak Station can monitor four steaks at the same time, allowing those commanding the grill to confidently cook multiple steaks each to the desired degree of doneness (we’ll take medium rare please). A monitor allows for quick and easy evaluation of how much a steak has been cooked. The colorful Steak Station probes measure from 115°F to 170°F, indicating a complete spectrum of doneness and helping you remember whose steak is whose. Steak Station can also be used in the oven as a regular meat thermometer to monitor meats throughout the [...]
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(Reuters) Creditors of South Korea’s Daewoo Electronics have chosen five candidates including Electrolux (ELUXb.ST) and Ripplewood to buy the appliance maker in a preliminary bidding, a local media report said.
It is the fourth attempt to sell creditors-owned Daewoo Electronics, once a flagship of the failed Daewoo Group.
MoneyToday said that Daewoo’s creditors shortlisted five viable candidates among those who submitted letters of intent — Sweden’s appliance giant Electrolux, U.S. private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings, South Korean cooking appliance maker Tong Yang Magic (023020.KQ), a Middle East firm and an appliance player in [...]
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Bosch is taking part in the International Builders Show 2010 with a live, full-kitchen installed with cooking and cleaning products. This real-installation will demonstrate how Bosch appliances can help any home project achieve higher standards in water- and energy-efficiency.
Bosch is the only US appliance manufacturer with entire product lines of ENERGY STAR qualified dishwashers, washers and refrigeration. Bosch appliances featured in the IBS home include:
800 Plus [...]
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There’s always someone dreaming of the future, and this time they’ve done an amazing job with a 3D food printer. Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zorhan, the members of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group have developed a futuristic cooking concept, Cornucopia. The Cornucopia countertop food fabricator with an intuitive interface doesn’t ask you to print a menu instead it prints the food. This inventive cooktop promises to print out the food right in front of you. It’s a concept for now but once it’s out for the production, it’s gonna be important part of our hi-tech modern houses.
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I’m terrible at cooking pasta – you know why? I have no idea on the time different pasta takes, and it looks like this Perfect Pasta Timer would help me out. This pasta timer accounts for the shape of the noodle and the amount being cooked, signaling when the pasta is cooked to your preferred taste. Its LCD control panel allows you to select from the ten most common pasta shapes, input the amount (1/5, 1/2, or 1 lb.), and choose al dente or regular. The LCD is removable, allowing the probe to be washed in [...]
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The idea behind this interactive kitchen guide from De Dietrich is to help those aspiring home cooks who have been searching of the simplest way to prepare dishes worthy of the greatest professional chefs. The Chef will open a whole new culinary world. It combines the recipe bank and handy kitchen scale with interactive cooking guide full of instructions and important details to take you throughout the preparations of the most intricate dishes. The Recipe screens grant you the freedom [...]
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Cooking with the sun is all the rage, and if you’re in a place like Haiti with no power and very little resources – a sun oven is going to be a great alternative. That’s right – the people over at Global Sun Oven are donating these for disaster relief in Haiti, and we encourage you to click through and help out. If you’re so inclined to also purchase one for yourself, each Sun Oven comes with the following goodness:
Free Black Round Covered Enamelware cooking pot Built in thermometer Attached one piece collapsible reflectors Spill-proof [...]
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This SousVide Supreme Water Oven combines a thermostatically controlled, touchpad enabled, super slow cooker function with vacuum packed foodstuffs and water to deliver perfectly cooked fish, vegetables, and other sealed items of your choice.
The product of decades of refinement by top chefs, the SousVide Supreme Water Oven cooks sealed food at precise preset temperatures for consistent cooking, and wonderful flavors. Vacuum-sealed food loses virtually none of its flavor or nutrients during cooking, and the pressure encourages flash marinating, naturally enhancing the delicious tastes and aromas [...]
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The Morphy Richards Intellisteam steamer is an excellent way to cook meats, fish, vegetables and more. Equipped with the unique, intelligent digital timer with alarm, this steamer retains vitamins and minerals in your favourite foods, and delivers perfectly cooked, healthy dishes precisely on time. Morphy Richards also integrated a pre-set time guide for different foods such as chicken, fish, vegetables, rice and sauces eliminating all guesswork as well as Personal Memory function so your cooking times can be personalised and saved to memory for future use.
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We’re warming up to the idea of replacing all of our pans with enameled cast iron like this Le Creuset skillet. We really want to get rid of any pans with non-stick coating, and these pans made of enameled cast iron excell in heat distribution, retention and have a satin coated finish without non-stick stuff. They are also compatible with gas, electric, induction, and ceramic top ranges for all types of cooking.
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We’ve featured the T-Fal Actifry in the past, and we really liked the promise of no-oil frying. The T-fal Actifry promises to fry your favorite foods using just 1 tbsp of oil – so there is oil in this frying method. The price is $300 – and it’s been out for about a year in the UK, and is now just hitting the US market.
What is the T-Fal Actifry? Basically, it’s a big nonstick pan equipped with a constantly rotating silicone stirrer. You load all the food into the [...]
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The 80 cm wide Gaggenau electric cooktop with stainless steel frame features the illuminated professional control knobs and is therefore ideal for combination with the Vario appliances in the Gaggenau 400 series. It offers the flexible combinable roaster zone made of two SuperQuick 18 cm diameter elements, powerful and versatile three-position cooking zone with a full 27 cm diameter, and a small 15 [...]
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Discover fuller flavours in the comfort of your kitchen with powerful Philips indoor table grill. It comes with extra thick grill plate which retains more heat than your standard table grill and thanks to the constant high temperature, the flavours and juices are sealed for your enjoyment. The compact and fast-heating 2.3 kW indoor table grill makes delicious entries quickly. As soon as the food comes into contact with the grill surface, it begins to sizzle and brown, forming a tasty crust that keeps all the goodness and flavour inside, where it belongs. Philips designed ribbed-and-smooth [...]
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If you read our post on cooking a turkey in the dishwasher and you tried it, we have a second cooking adventure for you: A Lasagna!
A man named Pete at The Warp and The Weft has the whole project mapped out. We’ll share some of it here for you:
The basic steps are as follows and can be found at wikihow.com:
Ingredients: * 1/2 jar of favorite pasta sauce * 3 fresh lasagna pasta sheets (or ‘oven ready’ lasagna sheets) * 1/2 16.8 oz container of Ricotta cheese * 1/2 package of mixed grated cheese * [...]
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Water cooking is the new rage. It involves slowly heating vacuum-sealed food in a water oven at low temperatures. The method allows the food to stew in its own juices and so locks in flavors and the pressure encourages flash marinating. This water oven cooks at preset temperatures, so there is no need to stir or monitor. Food can be cooked for hours and not be overcooked.
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The new compact microwaves from Sharp come with grill function, offering a dual microwave-grill capability with cooking modes like Vegetarian and Low Fat that are popular with a busy consumer of today. Available in white, silver or black, a new compact Sharp microwave fits into any kitchen setting. The new 2-in-1 grill microwaves are energy efficient, so when eating your perfectly crispy baked casseroles, kebabs or fish fillets, you know they are cooked in Eco friendly manner. The compact 20 liter microwaves has a microwave power of 800 [...]
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This RoHS compliant, stainless steel inside-out built-in steam oven with grill offers 8 cooking functions, 2 steaming rack levels, reheat and defrost settings, steam cooling and venting systems, auto-switch off, water gauge display, out-of-water warning, child safety lock, cooking and drip trays and end of cooking signal. Frigidaire.



Couple of sleek Frigidaire microwave ovens designed for European markets, and finished in brushed stainless steel and glass. Either, the 30 liter Frigidaire FMT530K3JSJ above or the 23 liter FMT523K3JWJ microwave below make a nice choice for design conscious consumers and provide cooking performance with many useful options and features. Both ovens are RoHS compliant, [...]
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Happy New Year! December was another cool but amazing month of Kitchen Contraptions – filled with kitchen gadgets, grilling, and other kitchen wonders like the new. Thanks again to all of our loyal readers for visiting us each day, and you can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
General News
Zombie Toast – Bring Out the Zombie Rye Please
Grilling
George Foreman GGR50B Indoor/Outdoor Grill
Kitchen Gadgets
Silicone Steam Pod, Silicone Cooking Bag, [...]
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As you can see from the previous Teka cooktop review, we do like them. The GKST 90 DBM Profi is one versatile electric cooktop, featuring timer, minute minder, Keep Warm function, Stop and Go button, lock and parental controls. This electric cooktop also comes with 5 cooking zones with 9.4 kW in total power including, – 2.3 kW triple cooking zone – two single cooking zones 1.2 kW each – 2.3 kW multizone – 2.4 kW grill cooking zone Safety features include auto shutdown, electric circuit sensor [...]
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Designed by Lorenzo Lispi, the modern Elica Atlantis offers rigorously linear and functional style with strong cantilevered angles of shimmering stainless steel that hovers over a slim leaf of glass, surrounding the central body with light and air. Its back lit, light soft push-button controls allow operations to be run simply and intuitively, while four 20 watt halogen lamps guarantee perfect illumination of the cooking area. Elica equips Atlantis with a 3-speed blower giving you an option of ducted [...]
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Here’s something to do while the kids are home from school and you have vacation-itis. Entertain the folks with dinner cooked in the dishwasher.
Cooking Method & Considerations
Allow one 50-minute cycle for every 2lb of weight. Hermetically seal a seasoned turkey inside several appropriate turkey-sized oven bags.
Place the turkey in the dishwasher to steam-cook.
When cooking a turkey, ensure that the temperature of the meat doesn’t rise above [...]
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Here is an interesting way to steam veggies or cook eggs. You fill the pod with veggies or eggs and drop it in the water or hang it over the edge. It has a snap-on lid with a long handle, so it can be removed safely.
At Silicone Steam Pod, Silicone Cooking Bag, Cook Eggs



Instead of using plastic wrap to cook food in the microwave, you can use these reuseable splatter covers. The covers can be placed on top of dishes to keep the food from making a mess in the microwave and then stored flat in a drawer.
At Microwave Splatter Covers, Reusable Cooking Covers



The Barazza Velvet Touch Screen oven comes in several configurations and finishes, combining technological excellence with the pure elegance of a minimalist design to match decor and style of your modern kitchen. The automatic door, whether drop-down or side-opening, opens with gentle touch of the Velvet screen display. Or you can opt for a traditional drop-down door with handle design. Some models also come with 18/10 [...]
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