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Rapidly chill freshly-brewed coffee or tea without diluting it with the HyperChiller

By Janet Cloninger / May 18, 2018 / News / Beverage, Coffee, Home and Kitchen, Tea / Leave a Comment

The HyperChiller can reduce the temperature of any drink (other than carbonated beverages) by up to 130°F in sixty seconds. Imagine being able to chill freshly-brewed coffee or tea enough for an iced beverage without watering it down by pouring it over ice cubes. And it’s not just for hot beverages; you can also cool […]

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VentiFresh small space air purifier review

By Julie Strietelmeier / May 17, 2018 / Reviews / Air Filtration, Health and fitness, Home and Kitchen, Pet Gadgets / 6 Comments

Do you have any small spaces in your home that are stinky? Maybe it’s a trashcan in the kitchen, a closet where you keep your sneakers, or maybe it’s your cat’s litter box? How do you get rid of odors without burning candles or spraying aerosol air fresheners that just cover up the stink with

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FridgeCam lets you see inside your fridge even when you’re at the grocery store

By Julie Strietelmeier / May 14, 2018 / News / Camera, Home and Kitchen / 8 Comments

Do you ever find yourself at the grocery store wondering if you should buy a new bottle of salad dressing, or a head of lettuce only to get home and find that you bought a second of head of lettuce when you didn’t need one. Now you’ll end up wasting the food. Is there a

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The Burger Master is here to make your summer BBQ easier

By Michael Strange / May 11, 2018 / News / Cooking, Grilling, Home and Kitchen / 1 Comment

We’ve all been there before. You’re having a BBQ for friends or family which usually means making lots and lots of burgers. Making all of those patties takes time and can be pretty messy. The Burger Master by Shape + Store can help you with that. More burgers faster Burger Master is essentially a burger

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The Cuisinart DCC-3000 Coffee-on-Demand 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker gets your day off to a great start

By Julian Perry / May 8, 2018 / News / Coffee Brewer, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

If you are anything like me, your work day has to start with a cup or two of coffee. I particularly like the French Vanilla flavor, and everyone in the office knows when I get to work in the mornings, because of the great aroma of that Folgers French Vanilla ground coffee. They have become

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Cooking is easy as pie with this smart kitchen scale

By Janet Cloninger / May 7, 2018 / News / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

The Drop Scale, paired with its app, is the easy way to find and prepare what’s for dinner. The Drop Recipe app has hundreds of recipes to choose from, and the app guides you, step-by-step, through adding each ingredient as you go. Weighing and measuring with the scale is interactive with the app, so if

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Class up how you serve boxed wine

By Janet Cloninger / May 4, 2018 / News / Beverage, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

Wine snobbery aside, there’s nothing wrong with boxed wine, but you have to admit those boxes aren’t the classiest items to grace your party buffet. These shiny, wood-grain spheres can hold up to 3 liters of wine, and they look much nicer than any cardboard box. The Wine Dispensing Sphere can be used with the

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Easily clean pet hair off of carpet with the OXO Good Grips Furlifter Carpet Rake

By Kathleen Chapman / May 3, 2018 / News / Cleaning, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

Pets shed a lot. Enough to make you think you could make a completely new Fido with all that fur, right? And cleaning up all that fur is the pits. It’s worse if your home has a lot of carpeting because that means you have to pull out the vacuum. If you dread this torturous

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IKEA is offering a connected home lighting kit and accessories

By Janet Cloninger / April 30, 2018 / News / Home and Kitchen, LED lighting / 1 Comment

If you want to introduce an internet-connected home lighting kit for a reasonable price, and you don’t care about color-changing bulbs, you need to check out the Tradfri kit from IKEA. Of course, these lights come with a smartphone app (Android Kitkat 4.4 or Lollipop 5.0 or Apple iOS 8 or later), and it’s Apple

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Easily crack the top off soft- or hard-boiled eggs

By Janet Cloninger / April 24, 2018 / News / Cooking, Food, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

I only eat hard-boiled eggs, but I’ve always loved the dishes and the style of eating soft-cooked eggs still in the shell while they are cradled in an egg cup. I periodically think about getting some nice egg cups and setting my peeled hard-boiled egg in one while I eat breakfast. But I’m going off

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Aicook Blender, 15-Piece Smoothie Blender Mixer review

By Julian Perry / April 18, 2018 / Reviews / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / 3 Comments

What is it? The Aicook 15-Piece Blender is a portable blender that is designed to blend fruits, and vegetables, and many other ingredients that are used to create smoothies or health drinks, etc. What’s in the box Package contents: 1 x High torque power (Base unit) 1 x Stainless steel flat blade 1 x Stainless

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Send your fresh fruits and veggies to VeggiDome!

By Janet Cloninger / April 16, 2018 / News / Food, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

I don’t know how often I get some fresh scallions or broccoli, stick them in the fridge under all the other produce I have in there, and find them again after they are limp and inedible. With the VeggiDome, I could store them on display in the kitchen, so I don’t forget them, in a

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Aicok SV-8001 Sous Vide Cooker review

By Janet Cloninger / April 14, 2018 / Reviews / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / 12 Comments

Living all my life in the southern United States, I grew up eating my mother’s fried chicken, which is so often considered a staple of southern cooking. My mother’s chicken was great – juicy, tender, well-done, and tasty. I didn’t quite inherit my mother’s skills, and I was never able to produce fried chicken as

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Simplify holiday decorating with these lighted window sheers

By Janet Cloninger / April 13, 2018 / News / Decorate, Home and Kitchen / 1 Comment

I know, Christmas is over, but it’s never too early to think about simplifying your life when it’s time to decorate again. These Holiday Illuminated Sheers will make decorating your windows as easy as hanging a curtain. Each 78.75″ long x 47″ wide white panel has 200 LEDs that turn your window into a festive display.

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Hang posters without damaging your walls

By Janet Cloninger / April 5, 2018 / News / Decorate, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

When I was living in college dorms and in my first rental apartments, I had a lot of posters I decorated with that I really liked. I didn’t want to damage them with tape on the corners nor holes from thumbtacks, and there were rules about damaging the walls, so I had to get creative

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Stir up some tasty popcorn with the Whirley popcorn maker

By Janet Cloninger / April 4, 2018 / News / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

I used to have a popcorn maker similar to the Whirley Stainless-Steel Induction Popcorn Maker, but it wouldn’t work on our induction cooktop when we upgraded. We had to resort to microwave popcorn because I wouldn’t allow my husband to shake one of our cast iron pans on the new cooktop. With the old popper, shaking

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You’ll never peel another boiled egg again

By Janet Cloninger / April 2, 2018 / News / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / 14 Comments

There are all these tips for making boiled eggs that peel easily, but nothing ever seems to work for me. Every egg I boil is so hard to peel that I lose half of the egg white trying to get the shell off. I’ve given up and just started buying pre-boiled, pre-peeled eggs from the

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Keep your feet toasty warm with this heated pouch

By Janet Cloninger / March 31, 2018 / News / Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

I suffer from cold feet. They get so cold that sometimes a night sleeping under a couple of blankets isn’t enough to warm them up. I need the Ultra-Plush Foot Warmer for those days when my feet are so cold that nothing seems to warm them. The Ultra-Plus warmer plugs into an AC outlet, and

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Enjoy spreadable butter with the Butterie dish

By Janet Cloninger / March 24, 2018 / News / Food, Home and Kitchen / 2 Comments

Over the years, there’s been a lot of discussion of how to get spreadable butter here on The Gadgeteer. We’ve examined heated knives, water-immersion chambers, and even electric butter dishes. This Butterie dish keeps it simple by just keeping the butter covered and sitting on the kitchen counter. Butterie is made of 95% BPA-free plastic and

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Ecobee recruits Amazon’s Alexa for their new Switch+ smart switch

By Michael Strange / March 24, 2018 / News / Alexa, Home and Kitchen, Home Automation / Leave a Comment

The ecobee Switch + is the smarter light switch with built-in Amazon Alexa. Unlike other smart switches that just work with Alexa, the ecobee Switch + has the voice assistant built right in. Use the built-in mic to ask Alexa for lights, news, music, and more. Or control other voice-enabled devices in your home. Depending

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