Collection of useful kitchen tools, inventions, products and gadgets that promise to simplify your cooking experience and make it more fun.
Digital BBQ Tongs
Sensors in the tip measure the internal temperature of the meat and sound an alarm when it is cooked. [buy]
Cupmen
Keeps the lid closed while the noodles are heating up. As the temperature rises, Cupman will turn completely white, letting you know three minutes have elapsed.
Tea Bag Squeezer
Squeetea helps you squeeze every last drop from the tea bag.
Stainless Steel Straws
Perfect for cold beverages and dinner party cocktails, these cool stainless steel straws add a little zing to any drink. [buy]
Corn Cutter
Simply position the cutter over the top and press down. Sharp blade quickly separates kernels in seconds. [buy]
Eiffel Tower Cheese Grater
Eiffel Tower has been transformed into a cheese / food grater. [buy]
Teapot Frame
Cool teapot stand created by industrial designer Betina Piqueras.
Polluted Glassware
Clever glassware shaped like a barrel with etched radioactive sign. [buy]
Hot Air Corn Popper
Pops popcorn with hot air, not oil, for a healthy low calorie treat. [buy]
Ham Dogger
Useful tool forms hot dog shaped quarter-pound hamburgers. [buy]
Can Crusher
Crushes ten cans and then ejects them into your recycling bin. [buy]
Microwave Bacon Cooker
Cooks lighter, leaner and healthier bacon – cooking racks allow fat to drip into exclusive deep base. [buy]
Pineapple Easy Slicer
Makes pineapple rings while preserving the shell for use as a bowl. [buy]
Finger Guard
Stainless steel shield that protects fingers while slicing and dicing. [buy]
For more inventions, check out: 15 Unique Products for your Kitchen
yann_tiee
awesome~~ ;p
Apr 5th, 2010
GustaveCo
2 words.
Ham Dogger.
Apr 5th, 2010
Sharyn
Wow! Although I’d like them all for me to play with. I really think the Teapot Frame would be wonderful for the elderly or anyone who has problems with lifting.
Apr 5th, 2010
Mr.Rainbowfist
I want the pineapple one, after words you could make jello in the shell!
Apr 5th, 2010
ChefJoAnna
@ Mr.Rainbowfist
There are a lot of things you could do with a hollowed-out pineapple… but… you can’t make jello in a fresh pineapple shell because the enzymes in the pineapple would render the gelatin proteins unable to gel properly. Sorry!
You could use the shell with the metal drinking straws, pour in fruit juice & bunch of rum, and serve tropical cocktails! Or fill it with orange sherbet, pineapple shave-ice and guava sorbet!
Damn. Now i want tropical drinks and frozen desserts.
Apr 6th, 2010
:)
the cupman looks awesome!
the effiel tower cheese grater looks hard to grip…
Apr 6th, 2010
R
love the products,
though am not sure about the stainless steel straws… are they disposable, if not, how would anyone wash them properly!!!
Apr 6th, 2010
Cwmill
i dont see the “polluted glassware” is a useful tool… the bbq tongs are a great idea though.
Apr 6th, 2010
Critical Eye
I wonder how many crushed cans need to be recycled to make one can crusher. Hot air popcorn popper is hardly new, and not longer necessary, thanks to microwave popcorn.
Many of the other products seem very useful.
Apr 6th, 2010
Anders And
Popcorn made with hot air tastes like shit!
Apr 6th, 2010
Cory
Cupman looks great. I usually put a book on top of the cup and once it fell over.
Apr 6th, 2010
bobby
each and every itemz….awesome….simply great
Apr 6th, 2010
kochi
For once I really have to disagree … I find all that stuff pretty useless …
Apr 6th, 2010
V
…Most of this is totally useless or reduced to “unitasker”. We already have useful tool that can do what does tool do. Not to mention, that BBQ tong is ridiculous. What you need, for meat, is the temperature *inside* not out.
In the words of Alton Brown, from Good Eats, the only unitasker allowed in a kitchen should be the fire extinguisher (for safety reason).
The only one i find mildly interesting is the stainless steel straw because they are friendly-er to the environment and re-usable. If one *really* love straws, those are a great, reusable, cleanable option.
Apr 6th, 2010
Toasty O's
I think the only really viable one is the teapot stand. It could be adapted to pour from all sorts of containers, making it easier for the elderly and young people to dispense things.
The idea of crud inside one of those straws creeps me out.
Apr 6th, 2010
Jacqueline
Cupman rocks: it simply makes me laugh at the first sight. Our life need some fun like this.
Apr 6th, 2010
timmay
i like all of them, well the eiffel tower one looks kool but has no grip and who would pay $56 for the cupmen. i mean i would buy for maybe $7 no more than that
Apr 6th, 2010
coach
Teapot Frame good for lazy guy…
Apr 6th, 2010
Karin L.
Pretty cool gadgets! I have the corn remover. It’s great unless you get a cob that is really fat, then you have to get creative. LOL!
Apr 6th, 2010
marie
‘spose you could clean the straws with a pipecleaner (or whatever they are called) and very hot water.
I think I’ve had my hot air popcorn popper at least 7 years.
and the corn cutter… I assume not all corn has the same radius
cupman seems awesome!
Apr 6th, 2010
pita
it doesn’t look like it in the picture, but the corn cutter does expand depending on how big the corn cob is. It’s two curved pieces of metal that over lap so there is some room to expand. I used to work in a store that sold them.
the cupmen are cute.
Apr 6th, 2010
Hannahnn
This is awesome especially the finger guard and corn cutter.
Apr 6th, 2010
Mark from Torrance, CA
if any of you need the finger protector, please shoot yourself.
Apr 6th, 2010
MMM
OMG Air poppers were out in the 80’s (maybe 90’s)nothing new there and they even looked like this one.
The hot dogger looks like a cute idea, but would just be something else that ended up in the junk drawer (along with most of these items).
I have plastic reusable drinking straws and they come out just fine with hot water and soap (or the dishwasher).
Apr 6th, 2010
We Todd
“Mr.Rainbowfist
I want the pineapple one, after words you could make jello in the shell!”
after what words? Or did you by chance mean afterward?
Apr 6th, 2010
victoria
those are all so great! i wish i could give them to my mom on christmas or her birthday
Apr 6th, 2010
vivian
em….not that impressive collection…. they are just OK…
Apr 6th, 2010
Stephanie
ok, so some of these may not be all that interesting, but a lot of these would make great stocking stuffers, or small gifts for those who love the kitchen.
Apr 6th, 2010
stingreyvette78
i use the polluted glassware for parties we have mix drinks in them its awsome ……..the dark beer looks rad in them to
Apr 7th, 2010
Egg
Did i miss the part where bacon should be microwaved?
Get it in the frying pan.
The pineapple slicer is an awesome idea!@
Apr 7th, 2010
gati fg
Some of those simple and Good one.
Apr 7th, 2010
Sheheryar Qazi
This was very informing and some were simply awesome.
Apr 7th, 2010
BNDQ8
awesome..especially the Digital BBQ Tongs, Pineapple Easy Slicer and the Corn Cutter!!
Apr 7th, 2010
Mitzi
The pineapple corer is awesome, and I just ordered one! I don’t understand the BBQ tongs, though. You need to temp the INSIDE of the meat.. the outside will always be hot!
Apr 7th, 2010
Omega
The corn cutter thing-a-ma-jig has been around for decade, at least. And being from a family that grew our own corn and froze it, I know those things don’t work very well at all. The best way to get all the corn off a cob is — a sharp chef knife. That’s even how they do it in pro shows like Iron Chef America
Apr 7th, 2010
Albuss
Though all nice they all have one use and with the de-cluttered lifestyle in motion many of us would choose not to by.
Apr 7th, 2010
Annie
Really, anyone eating instant noodles on a regular basis probably can’t afford a $54 plastic thing (or a set of three) to put on their cup. And if they can, well, they should probably put that money toward buying healthier food instead.
As for the BBQ tongs, the site says that they do measure the internal temperature (if you look closely, the screen on the tongs says “internal temp”). I think the tip of the tongs must pierce the meat a little to get an accurate reading. They might not help if you like thicker burgers though. Or does it matter? I don’t really cook meat that often.
Apr 7th, 2010
Linda
the hot air popper is healthy. Way better and cheaper than microwave popcorn. I stopped buying microwave popcorn when i saw a news report that said the people working in the microwave popcorn factories were getting some type of lung disease from breathing in the fake butter chemicals. The straws would be hard to wash unless you rinsed them out after use, before anything can dry on the inside.
Apr 7th, 2010
Will
You only need one tool, a woman.
Apr 7th, 2010
jake
i think that the finger guard is a good idea in theory, but it needs to be made out of something that wont damage your knives. Being someone who uses kitchen knives daily at work, i know that if you cut on anything hard, (like glass or metal) it will dull your blade. I’m just worried that hitting it against the steel finger guard will dull the blade.
Apr 7th, 2010
Marilyn Doughty
I bought the pineapple corer but took it back when I found how much pineapple was wasted. Also a person with arthritis would have a difficult time with this one.
M
Apr 7th, 2010
Gian
Ham dogger definitely is best.
Apr 8th, 2010
delere
I have the stainless steel straws. They are awesome. I also like the finger tip protector. Very nice.
Apr 9th, 2010
Ben Koshkin
The Eiffel Tower cheese grater is really neat.
Ben Koshkin
Apr 9th, 2010
lanvy
If you’re willing to pay $56 for the CUPMAN….why would you eat $0.50 food???
Apr 10th, 2010
Karen
one day, when i have my own house, im going to come back to this site and look for all the cool tools ;D
Apr 10th, 2010
Bryan
Don’t squeeze your tea bags. bad form, makes your tea bitter
Apr 13th, 2010
Shannon
Very fun: my favorites are cupman and the pineapple slicer.
May 5th, 2010
Tom
Tea cradle is pointless. If you can’t lift a teapot how do you get it into the cradle?
or how do you manage to lift a kettle to fill the damn thing with?!
I’ll bet anyone who bought the finger guard used it once now it’s in a drawer, and that microwave bacon tastes awful.
like the design of the polluted glassware tho.
May 8th, 2010
Robert
@Anders And: Technically speaking there is no difference between air popped corn and corn popped in a pan or microwave. They each use the same basic physics. You can always flavor air popped corn with as much oil and fake butter substitute as you may find necessary to achieve the non-shit flavor you prefer.
For the rest of us who prefer having a little more control over the amount of chemicals in our food, air popping, while not as convenient as the microwave, offers a healthier alternative.
May 8th, 2010
jason
I would love to try a ham dog or whatever you would call it
May 8th, 2010
Reg of Sydney.
So how do you stop the bacteria from multiplying in the used and opaque steel straws? Now if they had a hot/cold pack around the outside, I might consider taking the risk. But they’d look really nasty.
Hey Mark of CA, those who needed the first, couldn’t manage the second.
May 8th, 2010
jude
anyone who buys any of these has too much money and should feed hungry people instead
May 8th, 2010
Ramsicle Pop
I totally love the unoriginal ideas! But seriously people get real with the prices!!!! $56 bucks for a freakin piece of plastic!!!! i bet i would be cheaper to make one! i mean just use a fork to put on top of the noodles that is wut i do
May 9th, 2010
Small diameter
Wouldn’t the corn slicer be too small when it gets to the larger end of the corn? Just asking
May 9th, 2010
Greg
I’ve gotten along just fine without any of these gadgets so far.
There’s no way in the world I would use one of those stainless straws!!!
May 11th, 2010
Anthony Pittarelli
100 points for the little dude that goes on the side of the micowave stuff
May 14th, 2010
Matt
One word.
LAZYNESS.
May 21st, 2010
jan
real genius!!!bravo!!
May 27th, 2010
Elaine
I’ve had the corn kernel cutter for over 20 years. I works fine but I don’t use it often.
May 30th, 2010
Sandra
Slicer ist the best
May 31st, 2010
Furry
The finger guard thing is lame for anyone who ever dices in a kitchen.. If you know how to cut properly you will know that’s what fingernails are used for. You hold the item to be cut with your nails facing the blade so you can’t be cut. The guard doesnt offer any extra protection and might actually dull your blade.. pointless !
Jun 7th, 2010
Artikel Gratis
how easily my life if this stuff was in my kitchen …
Jun 22nd, 2010
Gil
You could run a pipe cleaner through the straws.
Jun 26th, 2010
Sychh
These would definitely make spending time in the kitchen more fun :)
I especially want the tongs and glassware!
Jun 26th, 2010
Rusty
Pretty much every single thing here is a pointless gimmick. You can do all of these things with basic utensils and some common sense – with the possible exception of the popcorn maker
Jun 27th, 2010
sonikku
Squeezing a teabag releases toxins from within the tea that wouldn’t have been released unless squeezed out. It will make your tea taste bitter. If you feel the need to squeeze a teabag, it should be to lightly squeeze the excess tea off so it doesn’t leak all over your tea saucer.
Jul 11th, 2010
Bobe
Ah, consumerism at it’s finest.
Aug 10th, 2010
SEAN-IT-ALL
Materialistic BS! except for the pinnaple thing…very useful
Aug 10th, 2010
ChefYanni
The finger gaurd looks like a good way to ruin your knifes edge, learn to hold your knife and product correctly and you dont have to worry about you finger tips.
Aug 10th, 2010
Nancy Morrell
Love them!
Aug 11th, 2010
William Wilson
Very ingenious tools !!!
Aug 13th, 2010
mac
another stinking heap of useless junk, designed to remove your money,
Then in a few short years go to the land fill!
Aug 15th, 2010
bill
my great uncle made one of these can crushers by himself about ten years ago at his cabbin off the bay in wisconsin…
Aug 18th, 2010
Peter
100 points for the little dude that goes on the side of the micowave stuff, lol want him just to have!
Aug 18th, 2010
s
how about you just learn to use a knife properly?
Aug 20th, 2010
ryan
The Ramin soup gadget was my fav…I always use paper plates to keep the paper cover on while micro wavin….
Aug 21st, 2010
arleen
Nice, i hope i could have some of this items!
Aug 23rd, 2010
Shubham
man dis is owsm !! beautiful…never seen in the world…especially..d finger guard !..and the popcorn ! maker…WOW !!
Oct 30th, 2010
yes
too bad the your not supposed to squeeze the teabags
Nov 24th, 2010
Troy
@R
You could clean the steel straws with brillo pipe-cleaners! =)
Nov 24th, 2010
Nicole
I agree. This is all mostly useless stuff. And besides the sanitation issue, wouldn’t a stainless steel straw make drinks taste of metal? My parents have steel cups and I never use them unless camping because they make everything taste like it’s got a handful of change in it.
Nov 25th, 2010
Aruna
its awesome….
Nov 29th, 2010
True
Where can I purchase a single tea bag squeezer?
Jan 15th, 2011
Sean
Those straws are a terrible idea. If you use them for cold beverages as it suggests, the straw will become unbearably cold and there’s a possibility that your lips could stick to it. I know this because they sell metal Slurpee straws at 7-11, and that’s what they do. Just buy a bag of reusable plastic straws. Sure they’re made of plastic, but you can reuse them for ages.
Feb 21st, 2011
Faisal
This digital BBQ tong thing is really amazing ! loved the innovation
Feb 27th, 2011
Miles
finger guard will be very useful for my mum :D
Mar 6th, 2011
kabzar
Ham Dogger…:) NEAT!
Mar 12th, 2011
J. Anthony Carter
Most of these were pretty cool but… There was already a hot air popcorn popper and it had a tray on top for melting butter. his one looks almost identical to the original. It’s even white and black, geez!
An Eiffel Tower cheese grater is shaped too weird to work right. And the can crusher has been around for decades too. Identical design and functionality!
Apr 26th, 2011
Paul
Really, people. Do we need this crap? This is a fine example of how not to live sustainably.
Apr 27th, 2011
sonja lourenco
i have the pineapple slicer, i like it, the skin makes a fun drink cup afterward!
May 6th, 2011
jenny
I like the gadgets esp the onion cutter and the gadget for the soup. How about a gadget that prevents cuts using cans? I would love that one!
May 12th, 2011
absolutely amazed
I can’t believe how many people are “loving” this.
what a waste of money and materials.
May 12th, 2011
maurers
Pretty cool gadgets! I have the corn remover ;)
May 18th, 2011
colleen peio
All gadgets are very unique! Would love these.
Aug 1st, 2011
CJ
Wouldn’t want to squeeze the tea bags, leaves it bitter. However, that gadget would be great for squeezing lemon or lime slices.
Aug 2nd, 2011
Don
I make ham doggers by wrapping a hot dog in hamburger but i guess your way works too
Dec 3rd, 2011