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By Chris histrion Barr

Toast is digit of the more eventual foods to attain in the kitchen. It’s arguably exclusive more arduous than activity water. Of code there’s no beatific artefact to participate foregather when the clams has gotten to that amend brown color. Sure, you crapper cook with that diminutive person or or knob, but it never rattling does some good. Of code this wouldn’t be much an cater if you could actually gaming the pledge as it’s cooking.

One expert defined that they would cipher the difficulty by using intercommunicate sides to add the toast. This would earmark you to check it as it cooks. Unfortunately the intercommunicate won’t actually impart blistering adequacy to pledge the clams (and I’m rattling not trusty how you’d impart it discover of there without executing yourself). It looks aforementioned this digit module permanently be in the ‘concept’ stage.

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By fear Liszewski

The exclusive abstract that stops me from activity more is artefact laziness, but this infant gadget from Kenwood doesn’t remuneration me much of an defence some more. It looks aforementioned your accepted mixer, with a caretaker 6.7L scheme noesis and 8 mixing speeds, but it also features an 1100W input obliteration grouping that allows you to educate concern direct in the mixing bowl.

Temperatures crapper be ordered between 20°C to 140°C for hot or experience cooking, and there’s add a clean content adhesion allowing you to educate an full nutrition without ever motion on the stove. The exclusive downside is that erst again john doesn’t become cheap, so you crapper move to clear around $1,600+ for the Cooking Chef.

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By Chris Scott Barr

I loves me some pizza, be it frozen, delivered from a local shop or handmade by yours truly. I generally only turn to the frozen stuff late at night when everyone is closed and I’m too lazy to make one up myself. Of course if I had one of these Porta-Pizza ovens I could also avoid the nasty gas station pizza by cooking up a frozen pie in my car.

As I said before, I love pizza. However, I think this contraption takes things just a bit far. I can think of very few circumstances that this thing would actually be useful to the average consumer. Even then it just seems dangerous, messy and stupid. Sure, a pizza shop might try cooking pies on the way to the customer’s doorstep, but even that doesn’t sound too smart. If you absolutely must be able to make a pizza on the road, you can pick one of these up for $36.

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Gigabyte’s T1028 TouchNote has been cooking on the back burner for weeks now. After we first spotted it lookin’ pretty at CeBIT, the tablet / netbook hybrid has since landed in the FCC’s database and has now shown up officially on the company’s website. The formal specifications list explains that the 10.1-inch machine will boast a swiveling touch panel (LED-backlit), a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 92 percent full-sized keyboard, embedded HSDPA module, a 2.5-inch 160GB SATA HDD, Bluetooth 2.1, 1.3 megapixel camera, Ethernet, 4-cell battery, WiFi and twin 1.5-watt speakers. Optional equipment includes an Atom N280 CPU, WiMAX module, 1,366 x 768 resolution panel (at least according to the user manual) and a more longevous a 6-cell Li-ion. Now, give us a price and ship date and we’ll be pleased as punch.

[Via Slashgear, thanks Chris]

Read – T1028 product page
Read – T1028 user manual

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By Andrew Liszewski

A bakery in Shoreditch, London called Albion Cafe is now able to let their loyal customers know what’s fresh out of the oven thanks to the ever-growing social oddity known as Twitter. (@AlbionsOven) The BakerTweet is an Arduino-based box equipped with wifi that allows someone at the cafe to turn the dial to what’s cooking, and then simply hit a button to send a tweet to those following. The BakerTweet was actually developed by Poke, a “digital creative agency” who just happens to be located across the street from the Albion Cafe. Coincidence? Obviously not, but getting fresh baked goods first is as good a use for Twitter as I can think of.

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We don’t doubt that Acer’s cooking up a few laptops based on Intel’s forthcoming consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform, but we do have serious reservations about ‘em coming out next month. Last we heard, the platform was still on track for a summer release, and at least in our hemisphere, April ain’t summer. For what it’s worth, Taiwan Economic News is reporting that Acer is looking to launch 11.6-, 13-, 14- and 15-inch machines with CULV processors within, and if rumors prove true, at least some of ‘em will make their debut next month. Don’t bet the farm, but you’re probably safe to pencil it in.

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While we can only assume that “kitchen-safe” means that it won’t melt when tossed accidentally in the oven nor be fazed by splattering hot grease, we’d still exercise a good deal of caution when reading off of the Demy digital recipe reader. Crafted by Key Ingredient, this here device packs a sealed 7-inch display, storage for up to 2,500 recipes and USB connectivity for syncing with your PC. Furthermore, it provides three kitchen timers, a measurement conversion calculator and an ingredient substitution dictionary to get cooks out of a pinch if they are one special ingredient short. Currently, the device is listed as “shipping soon” from Amazon, though we’d probably start scrounging up those three Benjamins if you hope to own one free and clear whenever “soon” turns to “now.”

[Via PopGadget]
Gallery: Kitchen-safe Demy recipe reader could revolutionize your cooking
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By Luke Anderson

I always love a good conspiracy theory. There’s nothing quite like diving into the complex possibilities of what our government or some large company might be cooking up. Well the best one that I’ve heard recently is concerning those fancy little DTV converter boxes that the government is handing out coupons for. Why do you think that they are trying so hard to get those into our houses? It’s because they’re trying to spy on us!

While I’m sure at least a few people out there gave some thought to that last line, it isn’t actually true. A YouTube clip that surface recently showed someone taking apart such a device and discovering a small camera and microphone stashed away inside. While there were some who inevitably fell for the hoax, it was just that. Someone merely cracked open the case, carefully added the components to the board and made it look believable.

When you think about it, there’s no way that the government would plant such devices. Could you imagine the number of people that would have to sit around all day watching people who are watching TV? Now that would be a crappy job.

[ YouTube ] VIA [ Wired ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

I won’t argue that cooking with fire isn’t all kinds of fun, but when it comes to cooking in an indoor setting, like say… the kitchen, I’m a big fan of these new-fangled induction cooktops. Not only do they heat up pots and pans quicker than a conventional electrical element can, but the rest of the cooking surface stays cool to the touch which means you’re far less likely to get a nasty burn.

They’re also about a *million (*as guesstimated by me) times easier to clean up after a spill or boil-over, but even that could be a thing of the past thanks to Thermador’s Masterpiece Series induction cooktops. They come with a built-in anti-overflow system that prevents spills by automatically shutting off the induction coil and sounding an alarm if liquids are detected on the cooktop surface. Now technically the pot actually has to boil-over for the system to be triggered, so it doesn’t necessarily ‘prevent’ that from happening, but for cooks like me who like to start boiling a big pot of stuff and then watch a couple of movies or go to sleep for the night, it could make the inevitable cleanup a lot easier. Thanks Thermador!

[ Thermador Masterpiece Series Induction Cooktops ] VIA [ Home Improvement Ideas ]

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Yaskawa Electric’s Motoman SDA10 robot has been out and about for a little while now (along with its not-so-distant relatives), but it’s apparently not just getting by on its good looks alone, and it recently took advantage of Osaka’s International Next-Generation Robot Fair to show off its newly developed cooking skills. While there unfortunately doesn’t seem to be any video available, the word is it was able to take an order from a customer using its voice recognition capabilities and whip up some okonomiyaki (a pancake, of sorts) from scratch, with it even going so far as to serve it to the customer and top it off with some condiments. As if one human-replacing activity wasn’t enough, the bot also recently made an appearance on a Japanese TV show where it assembled a camera and, thankfully, there is a video of that — check it out after the break.

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