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DailyDirt: Useful Cooking Gadgets?

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There is a constant stream of kitchen gadgetry aiming to save everyone time, effort and money. Just watch any TV channel when the paid programming kicks in, and you’ll eventually see an infomercial for a revolutionary new cooking tool that you can’t imagine ever living without. Sure, most of these inventions are probably made of flimsy plastic that will break after a few weeks of casual use, but you’ll already have broken even on the time you saved, right? Here are just a few links to some neat kitchen tools that you might want to try throw in a drawer and forget about.

• A submission for the James Dyson award proposes a kitchen device that uses a laser for automatically cutting up common fruits/vegetables and meat. Warning: Do not look at laser with remaining eye. [url]
• There are a couple cheap robots that will help stir the pots on your stove while you’re cooking, but they aren’t very good at doing their job. What do you expect for a robot that costs under $10? [url]
• If a robot can’t help with the simple job of stirring liquids in the kitchen, maybe a passive design would be more reliable — a specially shaped pot can create a small whirlpool when water is heated in it. If you’re too lazy to stir a pot of boiling water (and whatever food you’re cooking), you’re probably not cooking that much in the first place…. [url]

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