Although I’m certainly eating fewer bagels, like none,  these days, my boys still love ‘em dearly.  I do miss a nice toasted schmear with cream cheese.  If only my body wouldn’t violently reject it.  But no.
Anyway.
Real bagels, you know, the kind from the bakery, need to be sliced in order to be toasted.  Have you [...]

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My fantastic new oven burned me last week. Burned me bad.  I still have the scar, although I’m sure, in time, it will fade, as my pain has faded.
Sniff sniff.  Waaahhhhh.
Here’s what happened:  I was minding my own business, removing a key lime pie from the second rack in the oven, when OW, @#$(*@(#*! , [...]

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Make a mess o’ pancakes or a heap o’ eggs on this double burner griddle from KitchenAid, a name you know and trust.
Well, I know it, and I trust it.  I’m in love with my KitchenAid stand mixer, and my many other KitchenAid products (except this one – do not buy this one!).
This griddle simply [...]

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Hate scraping the bowl? Me too.
Know why?  Because my fantastically awesome KitchenAid mixer is so automatic that it should do all the work for me, which means that I shouldn’t have to stop periodically and scrape the sides of the bowl.
And now I don’t have to because the Sideswipe will do it for me.
See those [...]

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Love clean dishes, but hate those scrubbie sponges that attract all kinds of funk and whatnot after their first use?  Me too.  And then I wonder if I’m really cleaning my pots and pans or just adding more bacteria than I started with.  Ick.
Spaghetti scrub to the rescue.  Listen up, because this is unique and [...]

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Sometimes you just need a quickie.
You know, where you don’t want to drag out the big guns for a small mixing job?  That’s where this powerful (290 watts and 6 speeds) hand mixer comes in handy because it’s got enough get-up-and-go to muscle through thick cookie dough as well as whip up delicate egg whites [...]

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Take all the guesswork out of those pesky recipe measurements with this handy dandy digital measuring cup slash scale.
Milliliters, cups… it’s all soooo confusing.
Not anymore with this cool tool because it combines weights and volume in one handy tool.   Measures in pounds, ounces, milliliters, grams and fluid ounces…. one of which is sure to float [...]

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In case you haven’t quite mastered that special hand position that chefs use… you know, the one where you curl back your fingers on the hand that’s holding  the food, we bring you Safe Slice.
This useful tool helps you safely grip and chop carrots, potatoes and other slippery foods so your fingers don’t end up [...]

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If you’re a child of the 80’s, you remember the Rubik’s cube.  Maybe you even solved this innocent-looking puzzle.  I know I spent some hours on this.
And if you loved it then, you can love it again now, as a salt or pepper mill.  Shaped like the classic Rubik’s cube with a ceramic mill inside.  [...]

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Sometimes your day just calls for a cupcake, but having the time to mix and bake an entire batch… just doesn’t happen as often as it used to.
Now, with The Original Cupcake Maker, you can make a mini batch in just 5 minutes.
That’s right.  FIVE.  Minutes.
In less time than it would take you to make [...]

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