Kitchen Gadgets, Appliances, Kitchen Toys

A better hot dog cooker?

November 30, 2005 on 8:40 pm | In Kitchen Gadgets | No Comments

If you’re cooking hot dogs for two, I think this thing looks great:

You get to set the adjustments, pop in two hot dogs and two buns, and they’re ready at the same time. Pretty slick. Toasted hot dog buns are great.

However, I actually usually have 5 people eating at once!

This one cooks more dogs, and warms more buns, and also is cute:

This hot dog rotisserie is a bargain at $49 and free shipping:

And the best priced hot dot rotisserie is $39, cooking 4 jumbo dogs or 8 breakfast sausages at once, plus bun warming:

In fact, that would be a great way to have lunch ready and hot when the kids come home and still leave plenty of time for blogging.

And for the left over hot dogs, keep ‘em fresh in the fridge:

The best ice cream maker or other frozen dessert maker

November 23, 2005 on 8:50 pm | In Kitchen Gadgets | No Comments

My daughter has been making homemade ice cream. It’s the best. Real cream, real chocolate or cocoa, real vanilla. Skip the artificial ingredients and the partially hydrogenated vegetable fats (they make me belch!), and the polyethylene glycol (yup, check your store bought ice cream to make sure it doesn’t have antifreeze in it!).

One ice cream she made was a delightful honey vanilla flavor. It was so rich and simple. A chocolate ice cream topped a chocolate birthday cake for the little one.

But she does it the hard way, taking out the semi-frozen dessert and using the hand mixer to whip air into the mixture as it freezes several times. It’s time consuming, and the bowls have to be washed numerous times.

Then I saw the ice cream maker of my dreams:


The Best Frozen Dessert Machine

Love at first site.

It’s an elecronically cooled precision instrument. That means your ice cream comes out perfect.

It’s got a 1 1/2 quart capacity bowl. That means you have enough ice cream for guests, too.

It’s got a built in stirring mechanism and timer. That means you get to rest while your ice cream sets.

Now, all I have to do is figure out where to come up with $600 for my new ice cream maker!

The Best Frozen Dessert Machine