Appliances | Beyond The Kitchen Sink

When Ice Cream Is On A Waffleâ€¦

When is a waffle maker not a waffle maker? When itâ€™s a waffle cone maker. The Smart Planet Original Waffle Cone Factory produces thin waffles that are perfect for rolling up into cones (a cone-form is included). Similar to how pizza on a bagel magically allows for pizza to be eaten anytime, ice cream on a waffle means you can eat ice cream anytime. (Or would it be waffles anytime? Either way it is win/win.)

If you find it hard to justify owning a waffle maker that only produces waffle cones, just consider that it could also be used to make waffles for ice cream sandwiches See? Not a unitasker!

It’s Always A Circus In The Morning With The Original Circus Waffler

Nonstick Circus Waffle Maker by Smart Planet -- The Original Circus Waffler

Kids running around like monkeys in the morning? Tame them with the Nonstick Circus Waffle Maker by Smart Planet. Measuring 9.25-inches by 9.75-inches, the Original Circus Waffler makes three circus-themed Belgian-style waffles in less than four minutes.

Just like mornings can be on the blurry side (not too much for the kids, hopefully), so too can be this waffler. I see an elephant for sure, and I’m guessing the other two are a lion and a clown. But hey, the kids won’t care how abstract the waffles look when you cover them with butter and syrup. Add some whipped cream to top them off, and your calm little angels will be monkeys again in no time.

The Zeolites Are Coming (To Do Your Dishes)

The term ‘Green’ gets thrown about a lot these days, but unfortunately it is too often only backed up by a lot of hot air. However, hot air does come in handy when it comes to certain kitchen appliances, in this case, dishwashers.

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Slow cooker serving buffet triples whatâ€™s for dinner

You know the problem with slow cookers? Theyâ€™re slow. While that may be a benefit to the actual cooking process, it does nothing for the eating process. (Well, until all that patience pays off, that is.) By the time dinner is done, it is completely likely that your appetite has shifted and you are in the mood to eat something totally different. But with a slow cooker filled with delicious stew or soup right in front of you, itâ€™s hard to resistâ€”even though itâ€™s not exactly what you wanted.

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Results are in: Cadillac takes the Kitchen Sink beyond

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In 1956 General Motors for some reason put a sink in a Caddy. Itâ€™s called the Maharani Special and was built for the traveling (of course) Motorama exhibition. Apparently at the time, people didnâ€™t see the need for a full-service kitchen installed in the passenger seat of their cars, but times have changed, and the Kitchen Sink Cadillac is changing hands.

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Cookbook of the future

Itâ€™s coming: the future of the kitchen is coming. We may not have jetpacks and flying cars yet, but the connected kitchen is right on the horizon. Kitchen appliance manufacturers still see a future where the refrigerator talks to the microwave and tells people what to eat for dinner, but for the meantime, a more realistic goal seems to be popping up.

Small internet-friendly devices are going to be key to the kitchens of the future. Companies have been producing small â€˜cookbook readersâ€™ for some time, but so far it doesnâ€™t seem to have taken hold in the publicâ€™s imagination quite yet. After all, with laptops and netbooks being so small and portable (along with Bing now offering recipe searches), a new recipe or an old favorite is only a click away.

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