This Trebs Pasta Maker does it all. Just sling in the eggs and flour, push the button, sing an aria or two and presto, perfect fresh pasta for your waistline. You get 500g (1lb) of pasta out of every batch. £129.00.
Grab a bite of NYC with Katz’s Delicatessen Meats ($10-$25). The same sandwich-fillers used at the legendary Katz’s Delicatessen in Manhattan, these pounds of sliced Beef Brisket, Roast Beef, Turkey, Corned Beef, Pastrami, Tongue — or whole cuts of the same — along with Knoblewurst, Knockwurst, and Frankfurters are just the thing to kick up your next gathering. Reubens, anyone?
Grilling your own steaks but need to serve up rare, medium rare, medium, and burnt well done cuts all at the same time? Let the Steak Station ($23) help you out. It features four color-coded probes that attach to a main digital display that ensures you’ll get your meat cooked to perfection, or as close as you can get without some serious dry aging.
Yeah yeah, it’s a little early for the “stocking stuffer” talk. But hey, you buy a couple doodads now, that’s a few less doodads you gotta buy later. It’d be cool to give ninja cookie cutters to one kid and pirate ones to the other, and then have them make a gingerbread battle royale.
No, not that Smoking Gun. The Smoking Gun ($100) is an easy way to add smokey flavors without the need for excess heat or an actual smoker. Once you’ve lit the applewood, hickory, or other wood chips, all the heat is contained in the main anodized aluminum smoking chamber, resulting in cool, flavor-filled smoke that’s as useful for meats as it is for fruits and veggies. And going by that picture on the right, it looks like this gun can be used for more than wood chips.
What do coffee and F1 racing have in common? Addiction A coffee machine. Ferrari & Nespresso have teamed up to make the ultimate helmet-styled espresso machine for hard-core Ferrari and coffee lovers. The stylish coffee machine called “The Racepresso” is designed by designer Ilgar Rustamov. The helmet’s plastic visor opens up to reveal a beautiful retro-styled interior and an area where coffee is dispensed. The coffee machine will look great inside your Ferrari or even in your kitchen.
Just as chefs are forever seeking out new ways to fill our bellies, the food industry shows a insatiable appetite for novel concepts, as can be seen in our food & beverage database. Here’s a selection of new innovations designed to appeal to those hungry for a more unusual dining experience:
1. LE TROISIEME LIEU — Stealing a tradition from music and comedy clubs, Paris bar Le Troisième Lieu has declared Mondays as ‘open kitchen nights’: any aspiring chef can register to be the venue’s cook for the evening. All meals cost EUR 12.
2. PUBLIC PIE — Dutch mobile kitchen Public Pie features ovens that are integrated into the outdoor benching that is provided for patrons, meaning customers get exactly what is promised by the company motto: ‘Fresh apple pie with a hot butt’.
3. PATTY’S PIZZA — Santa Monica pizza maker Patty’s has done away with its brick-and-mortar eatery altogether, and moved its retail operation entirely online. On top of that, customers can choose to have their gourmet pizzas delivered baked or par-baked, giving them the option of completing the process their own oven.
4. LOBSTER PUSHER — How to make a sandwich more exciting to consumers? The Lobster Pusher’s answer is to make the act of buying one emulate a drug deal. Customers interested in The Merchandise—a lobster bun—must first become a member of a Facebook group. Orders for product are conducted by SMS, and handovers take place surreptitiously on street corners.
Apparently the American fast food giants haven’t had the best of luck in Japan, but after withdrawing from the market a while ago, Burger King is back with a new ‘upscale’ joint in Tokyo that also introduces their first ‘Musical Shower’ booth. Instead of a jukebox you’ll find an iPod/iPhone dock embedded in the wall that let’s you play your own music as loud as you want it. But what makes the system particularly neat is the use of a special speaker/reflector hanging above the table which pretty much ensures that only the people sitting in the booth can hear the music being played. Hopefully Burger King will start installing these special booths at other locations because it seems like a fantastic idea, and if it catches on maybe restaurants I’d actually be willing to eat at will install them too!
Just about everyone loves a hot and tasty pizza, so why change something that already works? The K! Pizzacone shop — co-owned and managed by Ingo Pinto — in midtown set out to do just that. Pizzacones, “which taste more like a calzone and have less sauce than a standard slice,” start at $4.90, about twice the price of a regular slice
It’s summer, and summer means grilling. These flexible skewers, from Fire Wire, allow you to cook your kebobs any way you want, curving them to fit the shape of your grill (or any shape you want, really). You can even marinate them while on the skewer, since you can twist the skewer shape to fit a marinade bag. Genius, really.
The Flexible Skewers are available now for around $10 for a set of 2.