360 DEGREES Weblog

Who would have thought that the secret to great-tasting grilled food was electricity? The Bob Grillson Wood Pellet Grill ($TBA) makes a convincing case, using traditional power to burn up wooden pellets that give your food a signature flavor without the need to build an actual fire. It also sports an oiled bamboo tray for chopping, prepping, and beer-holding, a delightfully modern design, large golf caddy wheels for easy mobility, cast-iron, porcelain enameled grates, an electronic temperature control, and an integrated thermometer. What else would you expect from the only grill that has a first and last name?

When you’re sitting down to watch the game, there’s nothing more frustrating than realizing you don’t have any cold ones at the ready. What’s a parched sports fan to do? If you’ve got the newest smart fridge from LG, you’re in luck.

Whereas most fridges feature dual-storage drawers at the bottom, this baby reserves the lower-right quadrant for a blast chiller that’ll frost up your canned beverage of choice in just five minutes. Typical refrigerators take a glacial 40 minutes to get your beer, or soda, to chilly drinkability, so you’re saving valuable minutes here that could be better spent cheering your favorite team.

Whipping up a quick breakfast, replete with eggs, toast and coffee probably isn’t a challenge for most people.  Just toss a pan on the stove, some water in the coffee maker, bread in the toaster and you’re in business.  But not everybody can afford that luxury.  In fact, you might reside in a bachelor apartment, which often only includes a sink and a fridge.   Enter the Retro Series 3-in-1 Breakfast Station.

On board you’ve got yourself a dual shelf toaster oven, a non-stick hotplate for cooking up eggs and sausage, and a coffee maker capable of churning out 4 cups of Joe at a time.  You could opt for an updated version of this device, but they probably wouldn’t fit in to what is inevitably your 1930s Hollywood bachelor or bungalow apartment.

A retailer on Amazon sells this breakfast machine for $77.

Its a known fact that Japanese love their seafood. So it comes as no surprise that recently a bluefin tuna was sold for a record price. At the first auction of the year in the Tsukiji fish market, the bluefish tuna, a priced delicacy used to make sushi was sold for 56.49 m yen which is US$736,000. It is almost double the price of the bluefin tuna that broke the record last year at $400,000. Mr. Kiyoshi Kimura a shushi restauranteur bought the pricy tuna. The tuna which weight around 593 lb was caught near the Aomori Prefecture which was one of the areas devastated by last year Tsunami.

You’ve got the French Oven, so why not get yourself some matching tea/coffee mugs? These Le Creuset Stoneware Mugs ($12/each) are made with the same high-quality standards as the company’s cookware, and feature the same non-porous enamel finish to resist odors, staining, chipping, and cracking, with no chemical leaching. Available in six colorways, so you should have no trouble finding one to match your decor.

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Proper rotisserie cooking generally requires a large setup — which is a problem when you’re wanting some perfectly-cooked skewers at your next tailgate. Enter the Carson Portable Rotisserie Grill ($720). This suitcase-sized setup can hold up to seven rotating skewers — powered by an internal rechargeable battery or plug-in wall adapter — and offering a high-heat porcelain-coated charcoal tray, rugged, lightweight aluminum construction, 4,000 cubic inches of cooking volume, and the ability to turn 10-12 people into best buds with just a couple bites.

As if you didn’t have enough apps to deal with on your phone. These new Samsung Touchscreen Appified Refrigerators ($2,700-$3,500) bring the “app for that” craziness to the venerable ice box, with eight-inch touchscreens that let you check the weather, leave notes for other family members, browse recipes, jam out to Pandora, check your Twitter feed, and view photos, right from the kitchen. Oh, and we hear it does pretty well at keeping your food cold, too.

Some things were just meant to go together, like peanut butter and jelly, peas and carrots, tea and… robots? Judging by the Robot Tea Infuser ($15), it certainly appears so. This whimsical kitchen gadget holds your favorite leaves inside while using its arms to ensure that it stays below the water.

Add a serious dose of spice to your food wherever you are with some Ghost Pepper Bumps ($12). Inside this innocuous-looking travel tin lies 10 grams of freshly crushed dried Ghost Pepper chillies — the world’s hottest — ready for you to drop on top of sauces, soups, pizza, your buddy’s latte, and anything else you want to take from tasty to tragically hot.

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“It takes a bad Jew to know good barbecue.” So goes the quote that led to the formation of Bad Jew BBQ Sauce ($12/2-pack). As you might have gathered from the name, this is a Kosher BBQ sauce, giving our observant friends out there all the flavor with none of the guilt. We dare you to try it on your next pulled pork sammich.