Friday, May 21, 2010

For the person who has everything...

Poking about the web this morning and I stumbled upon the following...

4 Amazing But Completely Unnecessary Kitchen Gadgets

By Seth Porges, PopularMechanics.com

A typical toaster costs $15, and does a fine job of crisping your crusts. But for just $285 more dollars, you can watch your bread burn from behind a double-paned glass window. Unnecessary? Definitely. But boy is it fun watching the bread brown. Here's the toaster of the future-and three other expensive, over-the-top, but still awesome kitchen gadgets.


Breville One-Touch Tea Maker
$250

Sure, you can make tea by heating water on a stove top-or you can pay $250 for a single-purpose tea maker. That being said, this product is kind of amazing, and probably the most futuristic way around to drink a decidedly ancient beverage. Fill the tea basket with loose leaves, press a button, and the basket automatically lowers into the hot water like an elevator before pulling back up when the seeping is complete. I've tested it, and believe me when I say that this thing is a conversation starter. As with many coffeemakers, you can program this tea maker to have perfect tea ready and waiting when you wake up in the morning.

Magimix Vision Toaster
$300

When images of a transparent toaster hit the Web a few years ago, they went viral, proving that there was a definite desire amongst consumers to see their bread brown before their eyes. Sadly, the pellucid product in question was just a concept, one that inspired Magimix to create its own see-through toaster — a $300 countertop showpiece that toasts the bread behind a double pane of glass.


Wesco Spaceboy XL Trashcan
$250

At PM, we're suckers for all things space. So when we saw this rocket-like trash can (which will give a whole new meaning to "space junk" when it comes to the U.S. later this year), we were almost able to justify the space-high price. Almost.

Cut Brooklyn Knives
Prices vary

To some people, a kitchen knife is little more than a way to slice and dice. To others, it's a work of art, and a culinary samurai's most valuable tool. Cut Brooklyn knives are handmade by a single Brooklyn-based craftsman, and have earned a reputation for delivering some of the best-quality cutters on the market — a fact that has also earned them price tags that range in the ballpark of several hundred dollars. Still, even at these prices, would-be owners will have to wait-demand has so far exceeded the supply a single craftsman is capable of delivering, that he's suspending new orders until at least the summer.

Actually, knives could justify a high price tag. I paid a lot for a Cutco knife but I love it and would actually gradually replace all my knives with Cutco if I could afford it. I never have to sharpen the knife and it goes through everything. I have a Cutco potato peeler and scissors and they are incredibly durable. If I have to pay more for something I'll probably never replace, I think that's cost effective.

Now the tea pot....

Beverage: China Black Tea

Deb

1 comment:

  1. If I had to pick one, personally it would have to be the spaceboy futuristic trash can. Something about the word spaceboy even sounds cool...

    My beverage: Green Ginseng

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