News, reviews and articles about home and kitchen products.
REVIEWS – LuDela Candles aren’t your typical candles, and you know that because LuDela candles come with a remote control. It might better be called a lantern that looks like a candle, because the waxy pillar you see is merely a covering for the flame device inside. Unlike normal candles, the LuDela shell never melts, […]
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REVIEW – When you have had two total knee replacements and you have a weak back, you could use some help with the housework. I have a lot of trouble wrangling the upright Dyson we have, but I hadn’t really thought about trying a robot vacuum again because of a bad experience I had with
Roborock S5 Robotic Vacuum and Mop cleaner review Read More
NEWS – Because it’s high time that trash receptacles should not only hold our garbage but should also open the lid when we ask, I give you the Sensor Can by Simplehuman. The Sensor Can is a 15.3 gallon (58L) trashcan that has two different ways that it can be opened without having to touch the
Now you can have a conversation with your trash can because why not? Read More
NEWS – I am a huge fan of Neato’s Botvac robot vacuums. I have two of them in my home. One for the main floor and one for the basement. They are both scheduled to automatically run 3 times a week, but now that we’re replacing the carpet on our main floor with luxury vinyl
Neato Botvac D7 software update adds zone cleaning feature Read More
REVIEW – I’ve wanted a WiFi controllable thermostat for quite a while now, so when the opportunity to review the Venstar ColorTouch T7900 thermostat came along I thought this might just be the answer to my temperature war with my wife. What is it? The Venstar ColorTouch T7900 thermostat is a color touchscreen WiFi controllable
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NEWS – I reviewed the Instant Pot back in January and continue to use it regularly because I love how easy it is to use and how it makes my favorite foods taste so much better. The one that I reviewed was the Instant Pot Ultra 6 Qt but the one that is currently on
The Instant Pot is one of my fave products of 2018 and it’s on sale now! Read More
REVIEW – Today, Bob is slaying vegetables with the Gallatine Knife Set from Edge of Belgravia. It’s a set of award-winning cutlery that features a stunning avant-garde design. But there’s more to the story… these blades are made for cooking, and do that job extremely well. Trust me on this: when you see these babies
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NEWS – Tired of using drippy plastic bags and warm water or even worse a microwave to thaw out meats or fish. The THAT! Inventions defrosting tray takes the hassle out of defrosting frozen meats. No heating, batteries, or electricity required. The tray is made of highly conductive food-grade aluminum with a proprietary thermal liquid
Turbo defrost your frozen meats with this premium defrosting tray Read More
NEWS – I’ve thought about finding the perfect guitar gift for my husband, but I know I could actually never do that. Despite having a guitar tech guy he uses to fine tune his guitars, Butch can spend ages staring down the neck of a guitar, adjusting tuning, checking out the finish, trying out
Bookends made by Fender are the perfect gift for fans of Fender guitars and basses Read More
NEWS – I thought we had our tea-making process under control here, but Adagio Teas can streamline the process even more with their new VelociTEA kettle. You just add water to the kettle, choose the perfect temperature for brewing the variety of tea, put the leaves in the dishwasher-safe brew basket, then press the button
Adagio Teas simplifies making a pot of tea with the VelociTEA kettle Read More
REVIEW – The holidays are approaching, which means new LED lights to consider! These Twinkly festive lights can be programmed in nearly any color and pattern using your smartphone. What is it? This Twinkly set is a 56 LED bulb string capable of displaying millions of colors. Scroll through preset patterns, or use the Android
Twinkly App Controlled LED string light review Read More
ARTICLE – It’s that time of the year, when Christmas decorations are already up in many towns and cities, when radio stations have already switched to 24/7 Christmas music programming, and when you have to start coming up with gift ideas for the people in your life. Well, luckily for you, The Gadgeteer has some
2018 Gift Guide – Home gift ideas Read More
NEWS – Have you ever heard the expression that cooking is an art, but baking is a science? It simply means that you can still get good results when cooking even with slight variations in ingredients. Baking, however, gives the best results when you have precise amounts of the ingredients. Accurate amounts are so important
REVIEW – The Moodo Smart Home Fragrance Diffuser is a enables you to customize scents to your style and preference What is it? It’s a smart home aroma diffuser that enables you to customize your scentscapes to match your mood. And yes, “scentscapes” are a thing. Hardware specs Connects through 2.4 Ghz WiFi networks IOS
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NEWS – Need some help chopping and mixing when cooking, but you don’t have a lot of space in your kitchen for a food processor and a salad spinner? The Speedwing Manual Food Chopper can chop, mix, and spin its way through food prep while using less than 6 inches of counter space. The chopper
Mighty, mini, manual food chopper/spinner saves room in your kitchen Read More
NEWS – Back in the summer, we told you about a Wolf multi-function cooker that had sous vide cooking as one of its functions. One reader asked why her Instant Pot couldn’t do sous vide. It’s because Instant Pots are pressure cookers and are designed to cook under steam at high temperatures and pressures instead
Instant Pot offers two products for sous vide cooking Read More
NEWS – Do you wish there was an easy way to hang curtains in windows that also have mini blinds? For example, maybe you have a metal kitchen door with a mini blind over the window. You’d like to add a decorative curtain, but you don’t want to drill more holes in the metal. Install
Hang curtain rods without needing any tools Read More
REVIEW – In January, I reviewed the MEATER wireless cooking thermometer that I continue to use regularly to this day. Over the passed year, it has helped barbecue/cook perfect slabs of meats for me and my guests. I liked it so much, I have given several as gifts to friends and family members. The MEATER’s
MEATER+ wireless meat thermometer review Read More
NEWS – Actually, those countertop air fryers are basically little convection ovens, because they just use moving, heated air to dry “fry” your food. They aren’t sized nor shaped to be useful for cooking many other items, though. And granted, any convection oven could actually do the same job as a countertop air fryer, but
Cuisinart combines a toaster oven and an air fryer into one appliance Read More
REVIEW – Monitoring electrical usage is useful to reduce energy cost, to understand what electrical devices are being used in real time and historically, and to discover abnormal operation that may indicate current or anticipated problems with electrical devices. Sense Home Energy Monitoring has the potential to achieve all of this. Read on to see what
Sense home energy monitoring device review Read More