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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Back in college, in the olden days, I had a hot pot, affectionately termed Polly Hot Pot (I don’t know we called it that), in which I made everything imaginable, so as to avoid the food in the dorm cafeteria.
Polly Hot Pot never failed.  She persevered through it all: mac-n-cheese, Chunky soup, chocolate fondue, hot [...]

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With all the things that moms are required to attend to these days, helping with homework, batting practice, combing hair, washing clothes, etc., any tool that makes life easier is totally welcome.
And this is one of those things.
This digital spoon scale measures both weight and volumes for precise cooking results.  You heard me.  This [...]

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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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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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All those hours in the gym won’t increase your jar-opening muscle one bit.  Your heart will be strong and your pants will fit better, but you won’t be able to open that jar of olives any easier.
And it seems that one of two things is happening, either a) I’m getting weaker or b) companies using [...]

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Whether cooking for 1 or 100, this recipe calculator easily scales any recipe to suit the number of servings you need as well as converts between U.S. and those pesky foreign weights or measures.
Also functions as a multi-function digital timer with alarm and, AND, get this… it works as a standard calculator.
Get one today if [...]

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I’m in love.
You know that feeling?  You can’t get enough of each other and just can not stop staring and touching and kissing?
That’s how my new oven and I feel about each other.  Well, minus the kissing…. it hasn’t kissed me.
As I discussed here, our microwave blew a gasket two days before Thanksgiving, forcing me [...]

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