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How many times do you use a pizza wheel at your house? If the answer is none, well, then you can stop reading right now. However, if you make any sort of pizza at your place - frozen or homemade - then you’ll be interested in this high performance Kitchen Aid pizza blade wheel made of stainless steel.

Like all KitchenAid items, this pizza wheel looks modern and streamlined. It has a hole in the handle for easy hanging as well as a rubber blade protector and a bottom finger guard. I bolded that word “bottom” because there is no guard on the top - you need to remember to hold this in a particular way and be careful about the top handle edge of the blade when running this back and forth.

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These Zojirushi Bento Stainless Steel Lined Jars are an interesting take on the traditional Japanese Bento Boxes that people take for lunch. Basically, they are lunchboxes. I took many a bento box to work in my college days - saved a ton on buying lunch. What’s cool about these lunch jars is that they all fit together in a vacuum insulated container that sort of looks like a big thermos. You can store either hot or cold food (but not both).

There are four food bowls that stack inside the stainless steel container. I actually had to look at one of the pictures on Amazon to figure out how they accomplish storing the food together. Basically, two of the bowls are meant for room temperature foods and stack on the top. Then there is an insulating lid under that. It’s followed by the larger bowl for your hot main dish, and underneath that you can put a jar that contains soup.

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Oster Wine Opener

May 19, 2008

Have you ever struggled mightly with pulling out that wine cork with a screw-type wine bottle opener? I sure have. And although I’ve gotten a little better at getting the cork out of bottles, I’ve …

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Bialetta Moka

March 17, 2008

I have to admit that I’ve been thoroughly making use of my Senseo coffee machine lately - so I’m posting about the Biatletta mainly because I just like the way it looks. This is the three cup aluminum version which makes three 2 ounce cups of espresso in 5 minutes. I really like the old school Italian octagonal shape (they say it was originally introduced in 1933).

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I’ve been using a standard glass Bodum Coffee Press for years now to make the morning coffee. But the sleek lines of their Columbia Stainless Steel line caught my eye the other day. …

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I’ve been researching a bit on mandolines and came across this interesting alternative slicer by Borner. It’s the Swissmar V-Slicer Plus which has three different inserts that allow you to slice, julienne, chop or shred …

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Presto Orville Corn Poppper

January 28, 2008

After picking out one too many unpopped kernels from those microwave popcorn bags lately, I certainly felt like looking up the electric hot air popcorn machines like this Presto Orville Redenbacher Popper. We used to …

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Kitchen Odor-Eater Egg

October 16, 2007

I chop and mince a lot of garlic for cooking at our house, and there’s no doubt that the smell stays around on your hands for days if not dealt with. Having heard …

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Ok, I have to admit that it doesn’t look like it would really do anything. Me, I’m more of the “flat of knife smashing” technique to get the skins off of garlic. But for the knife challenged (or for …

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Pizza Peel

August 1, 2007

I’ve been interested in a pizza peel for awhile but still haven’t gotten around to picking one up. Maybe the reason is because I don’t have a pizza stone yet!

I saw this wooden pizza peel by Sassafras the …

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