Food Gadgets

The Latest Exciting New Food Gadgets

May 4, 2017

The way food is prepared and served has continued to change with time. Various new gadgets are being discovered to make the work around the kitchen easier and presentable. Some of them are unbelievably cheap and go a long way in speeding up the way food is prepared and served. You can keep up to date with how companies such as these are doing on the stock market with websites like CMC Markets.

Super Marts Melon Scoop

This gadget comes in handy for the melon-lovers as it eases the separation of the fruit from the skin. The gadget is easy to use to both kids and adults. Apart from separating the skin from the fruit, it can use to be used to separate the seeds from the fruit as well. At a price of $8 only, you can get this food gadget and avoid the work of eating melons on their skins with seeds.

Smart Planet Bacon Nation Bacon Master

For $30 you can get the Bacon Master which is an upright griddle cooker which let you prepare your bacon evenly without the need of turning it. This gadget allows fat to drain off for a healthier meal option and can be stored for used for later meal preparation.

One Click Butter Cutter

The butter cutter is used to make pats which are perfectly shaped for an even melt and spread on your bread. This gadget can also be used during cooking to make even portions of just the right amount. This gadget is useful in the kitchen considering its cheap price of $16 only.

Tour de Pizza Bicycle Pizza Cutter

The pizza cutter gadget comes in a small bicycle design which is made of stainless steel. The blade which takes the form of a bicycle wheel is strong enough to cut through any pizza thickness. This gadget comes in its own storage rack for storing the bike as it’s amazingly cute. The gadget retails at only $20.

GenTen New One-Step Corn Kerneler

Cutting the kernels off the cob is a tedious and sometimes can leave you all messy if not done with care. The children are met with the challenge of feeding on boiled maize while still intact on their cobs. This gadget comes in handy to help in removing the grains from the cob and storing them in a container attached to it. This ensures that your workplace is neat and the grains do not fall off to the floor.

T-Rex Spaghetti Measuring Tool

Many people are met with the challenging of determining the amount of food which is just enough for one meal so as to avoid wastage. This gadget helps in measuring the amou8nt of spaghetti which is just enough for a kid, an adult, or a dinosaur, which is a meal of three to four adults. The shapes on the gadgets will help in helping you measure the right amount of spaghetti to be cooked for one meal.

Ben and Jerry’s Pint Lock

At sometimes, it becomes important to secure your food, especially when you live in the same room with friends who feed on your food or children who open jars and litter the food around the house. This locking gadget helps you secure your food by ensuring that you are the only person who has access to the food stored in the jar. For a price of $15, you can save a considerable amount of money for buying food that has been misused by others.

The Robot Nutcracker

Cracking nuts is one of the hardest and tiring works, especially for children who do not have the strength for the task. The nutcracker robot gadget makes the work easy and can be used to crack any type or amount of nuts for use in the kitchen or for raw consumption. Let the name fool you, this small gadget can be acquired for $29 only.

Takara Tomy Rapid Drink Cooler

What’s cooler than carrying your fridge around during the hot season? This battery powered portable cooler makes sure that you enjoy your chilled drinks regardless of the high temperatures. The gadget chills the drinks lightning-fast by putting some ice in it. The gadget uses rechargeable batteries, making it an essential gadget for hiking as it can be charged using the car charging system on the dashboard. It comes at an amazingly cheap price of $37.

Culture

How to Have a Great Date with a Food Lover

April 28, 2017

A date in a restaurant is an ideal date for the beautiful half of humanity. And for a girl who likes to eat it is just perfect. So, if your girlfriend is a food lover, then it’s even easier for you because you don’t have to think where to invite her. You just have to choose the place where you can eat.

  1. Coffeehouse

Perhaps, it is one of the most suitable places for a date. There she can order a cup of coffee or tea, and some dessert – a cake or an ice cream. In addition, such a place is very romantic.

  1. Restaurant

It is better for you to choose a familiar restaurant with a familiar menu. There she can order different dishes. Most likely she will order a salad, fish or meat and a side dish to it. You should order a bottle of wine or any other alcohol beverage. This will help relax and defuse the situation.

  1. Fast food

This is one of the best places where you can eat cheap food. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, French fries, Coca-Cola – all of it is so harmful, but so loved by almost all the girls. But if you look for Russian girls for marriage, it is better not to invite them in such places. It is unlikely that you will be able to impress them by hamburgers, even if they love it so much. These girls want you to invite them to a more romantic place.

  1. Sushi restaurant

This can definitely be called one of the favorite places for girls. A Peking duck, different rolls and sushi, rice with seafood, noodles and this is not the whole list of what your girl can order there.

How to behave

Before you invite her to a restaurant or any other place from the list above, learn the rules of etiquette by heart: who should go first, how to behave in a restaurant and who should pay for a nice evening.

Young happy couple celebrating with champagne at picnic

Open a door for her

If you are a real man and you are going to somewhere with a woman, then you have to know that a woman should go ahead of you. It must be anytime and anywhere, not only on the way to a restaurant.

You have to open a door for a woman for she goes into a place first. But then you have to be ahead of her. What for? By the rules of etiquette, you have to enter the hall first. Doing so you protect your girlfriend from unexpected collisions and you get a real opportunity to warn her about some steps or a threshold. Remember that she is no longer just a woman beyond a threshold, she is a lady. Don’t forget to give her hand and hold a door.

Choose a table

There may be a head waiter at an entrance of an elite restaurant, who has to meet you and follow to a table with you. He or she will offer you a free or an ordered table.

In an ordinary restaurant, you simply will be asked to choose a table by yourself. Remember that choosing of a table is your privilege. Don’t shift this process to woman’s shoulders, but listen to her opinion.

Treat your girl

When a table is chosen, then pull out a chair and ask a lady to sit down. It is preferable that you let a woman sit in the most comfortable place, for example near the wall or in the middle of the hall. Sitting there she can see the greater part of the hall. And don’t offer her to sit in the aisle in any case. It is better if you sit on the left of your lady or in front of her.

At the end of a date

Here everything repeats: open a door for her, let her go ahead, and show her a way to the lobby.

Leaving a restaurant, give your lady a fur coat or any other outerwear and only then you can put on your coat. But some sources recommend do it in the opposite way. In any case, you simply have to help her put on a coat. And don’t wait until a cloakroom attendant offers to do this. You will feel uncomfortable in such a situation. And you can wear a hat and gloves only on the street.

Finally, leaving a restaurant you have to let a woman go ahead.

Who pays

If you invite a girl to a cafe, then you have to pay for her. A man must be a support, and a strong shoulder, and in financial terms as well. If you have some relations, a woman always wants to realize that next to her a man who can solve any problems.

Food, Food Gadgets

Looking Up Recipes Online

April 27, 2017

How often have you seen a dish on TV, on your Facebook feed etc. and wanted to add it to your repertoire? So the next thing you do is you run to the internet and Google some recipes for that dish. But sometimes things don’t work out the way you want them too, for various reasons your culinary efforts are not successful. Let’s take a quick look at the how’s and why’s of searching a recipe for the first time and making it go in your favor.

The first thing I want to point out is that before you even open up your browser, you should always be running an antivirus app. It can even be a free antivirus app, you don’t have to spend serious money on it or anything. And if you’re on your phone, get a mobile antivirus without thinking twice about it. ‘Nuff said.

Now, you have to keep in mind that not all recipes are created equal, and the easiest way to cook up some mediocre food is to strictly follow any recipe to the letter. What is much more recommended is to get at least four or five similar but different recipes online and compare them, meditate on it for a little bit then, think on it, then come up with your own recipe based on what you have studied. This method has literally never failed me. It requires deeper thought and even a little creativity and some informed decision making, and these are the things great food and great art are born of.

Don’t be afraid to swap out ingredients for other ingredients either, or add things you think could improve the dish. This is obviously good for dishes that aren’t spicy that can be made into spicy little paradises with a little bit of the right pepper. This means you must know your ingredients inside out, of course.

But also, don’t just stay in your comfort zone. This especially goes for cases where a recipe calls for an ingredient you are not familiar with, like some new vegetable or spice. Most US cities or major cities worldwide have “ethnic” (hate that term but you know what I mean) markets, where you can get different foodstuffs from parts of Asia or Africa that may be new to you. Obviously, taste the ingredients before they go in ANY recipe. Learn them and their uses and you may start to incoroporate them in your own cooking.

Food

What Is Sous Vide Cooking?

April 11, 2017

Succulent Healthy Gourmet Meals Cooked From The Comfort Of Home

Ever wanted to make restaurant-standard meals in your own kitchen? Invest in a sous vide cooker and enjoy perfect homecooked food.

Sous vide cooking is causing a bit of a stir amongst gastronomes. The trend that promises tender cuts of meat, improved vitamin content in your vegetables and a gourmet standard of meals is attracting foodies left, right and centre. But what is sous vide cooking?

History Of Sous Vide Cooking

The origins of this style of cooking date as far back as the turn of the 19th century when Sir Benjamin Thompson came up with a method of low temperature cooking. This method was later developed further in the 1970s by George Pralus as a technique used in the Restaurant Troisgros in Roanne, France.  He cooked foie gras in vacuum-sealed plastic bags and noticed that little fat was lost, while the meat retained its texture and appearance.

Since then, sous vide cooking has been used in top-class culinary establishments, although in recent years, the trend has entered the domestic environment. Sous vide cookers are more readily available for the general public and allow the creation of gourmet meals in a home setting.

Benefits Of Sous Vide Cooking

In sous vide, meats, seafood, vegetables or even fruit and eggs are put inside vacuum-sealed bags and placed in a water bath for an extended period of time. The food is cooked at a regulated low temperature, often for periods of one to seven hours, but sometimes for more than a day. By doing so, the food is heated evenly resulting in little moisture loss and ensuring that the inside is cooked thoroughly without overheating or causing damage to the outside of the produce.

For health enthusiasts, the nutritional content of the food is preserved. If you look at boiling your food as a comparison, then a study conducted in Germany found that between 22 to 34% of vitamin C would be lost when boiling or steaming vegetables such as broccoli. In sous vide, the nutrients are largely preserved.

Safety

Of course, when heating food in plastic bags, there are some safety concerns. These mainly surround the types of chemicals found in plastics that could leak into your food and be harmful to your general health. In particular, you should use BPA-free food storage bags that will prevent bisphenol-A and phthalates from seeping into your meals. You should also avoid those that contain PVC and use PE bags as a safe alternative. Ziploc bags are often used by sous vide practitioners as they are resealable and can be used for prolonged storage.

Get Started

It’s easy to get stuck into making your first sous vide homecooked meal. First, select the meal that you would like to prepare. Grant Creative Cuisine offer many excellent sous vide recipes which will serve as inspiration. If you are interested in becoming a sous vide devotee in the long term, then investing in a specialist water bath will be essential. However, if you are just trialling this method and have a meal that only needs an hour or less of cooking time, then you can get away with purchasing some resealable bags and an immersion circulator device to keep a constant temperature in your container of choice.

Now it’s time to get stuck in. Wow your dinner guests with a succulent meal full of texture and nutrients!

Food

Drink and Play! Top Restaurants for Gaming

April 10, 2017

It isn’t an easy task to get out of the house in the cold winter, especially when one has to consider the several kingdoms and galaxies to be conquered and saved right from your computer desk or sofa. Not only experienced gamers would understand the joy of not even having to put on a trouser, not to talk of heavy winter clothing before one can enjoy all the goodies of Mecca free slots and other casino games. However, gamers are known to be social people who enjoy the game chats and challenging others. This is why we would be looking at some top bars to go to for a pint of beer and the fun of gaming.

Top Bars To Visit To Grab A Pint And Play Games

Four Quarters: This venue came to actualisation at Peckham somewhere in early 2014 and they had just one vision. They aimed at supplying good craft beers, over ten classic cabinets for arcade, several types of toasters for sandwich charms that would go single-handed. The owners invest a lot of effort to ensure that their arcade machines are in perfect shape. This place makes a great affordable venue for one to enjoy classic games like Pac-man, King of Fighters and other several gaming options that don’t involve using a joystick and coin slots.

–           Loading Games Lounge: irrespective of changing its location for the second time to Stoke Newington from Soho and Falmouth, this bar still is the most famous and approachable in London. This is a venue that portrays so many gaming values from the game-themed cocktails to the stacks of board games that everyone can access. Even though they do not offer food, the customers are welcome to bring in their packed food or order a pizza. You can come along with your own board game and pet, if you must. Feel free to join the several tournaments and competitions that they offer at several intervals. Such a relaxed environment supports a superb gaming experience.

–           Meltdown: This one is located not far from Caledonian Road station. It is the true definition of a bar that has competitive advantages. It is marked the first bar in the UK to offer eSports and it is just one of Meltdown’s franchise. You are sure of finding games that are meant for strategic moves and swift reflexes here. A majority of the friendly games and competitions are carried out across a stack of laptops for XMG gaming. The gaming arsenal is equipped with other Wii and Xbox consoles. Which is your favourite: League of Legends, Dota 2, or Starcraft? You are allowed to play these games generally free, however, that doesn’t mean you can just grab a keyboard while a serious raid or tournament is on. As it is known that you don’t necessarily have to take parts in order to enjoy eSports, which is why Meltdown streams the largest eSports tournaments globally on a huge projector at the centre of the bar.

Now, you have three great bars in London that can take care of just about any gambling and social needs. However, if you have a favourite one that you think deserves to be on such a list, you are free to let us know in the comment.