kitchen tech

When we found the Chef Sleeve a couple years back for protecting your iPad in the kitchen, we were just at the dawn of tablet-mania. Since then, it's amazing to see just how much the iPad has become a fixture in the kitchen--and some of …

Here is a typical weeknight in my house. After dinner is made and I have digested, the dishes are all done and I hear snoring out of the monitor... I think, YAY I can go sit down and wait for Jon Stewart. But then I remember, I have to p…

You know those things you don't even know you need until you try them? And then you realize they're so great you never want to live without them? That's the new tap technology of this super cool faucet. Though a faucet is a faucet in man…

While one of you will win the sweet Samsung Galaxy Note on our Mother's Day gift guide this year, we know that not every tech gift comes free. Still, it's nice to know there are some cool tech gifts for moms out there that won't cost you…

I love finding interesting gifts for camera lovers that aren't necessarily $500 lenses. The retro camera candles I recently found made me super happy, and now here's one more gift that's doing the same--just in time for Mother's Day. Flo…

One of the many things I love about summer is the enticing and oh-so-summery smell of things cooking on the grill. Mmmm...meat. My husband is the house-appointed grillmaster, but I'd like to start expanding my grilling horizons beyond ha…

We've covered virtual cupcake baking apps and even cupcake ATM machines . But if you love cupcakes (and, really, who doesn't?), here's the killer iPad app you've been waiting for. The Food Network Cupcakes! is pretty much the best thing …

The other day, I was reading a recipe off my iPad while cooking and while scrolling down, knocked the device from the shallow groove that it was propped on and...anyone have any tips on how to get flour out of an iPad crevice? My iPad ca…

You can't write on the walls. You can't write on the cabinets. You can't write on the appliances. Or wait. Thanks to Amana, actually, now you can. The Amana Jot is possibly the coolest refrigerator ever. It has everything you need in a s…

Even though I'm not cooking the turkey this year (hooray, hallelujah, amen!), I'm preparing a few side dishes and desserts. And because I'm not necessarily known for my kitchen skills, you can bet I'm going to be relying heavily on my sm…

This past week, I got a first look at an absolute game-changer of an oven: The Samsung Flex Duo Oven , which was announced at CES earlier this year. In short, it converts easily from a single oven to two, with just the insertion of a ded…

I've always known the simplehuman line of trash cans to be well designed, but it wasn't until I saw a demo of their brilliant new Sensor Can that I actually started coveting it. Coveting . A garbage can. I know. The simplehuman Sensor Ca…

I have to say that the iPad has completely changed the way I cook--no need to take up tons of counter space with my laptop, no fear of drips in the keyboard, and way fewer paper recipes printed. And now with this smart new gadget from Be…

I always think the mark of a truly stylish kitchen is a few well-placed pops of color. I never imagined that color being on the oven, but, after seeing the candy colored cookers from BlueStar Ovens, I now think that a statement-making ov…

There are many times when I rely on my iPad for recipes while cooking. But out of sheer concern that I'll get bread crumbs or flour stuck in the crevices, I keep the device far away; usually on the kitchen table, while my prep area is on…

This holiday season, my family enjoyed the spoils from my experimentation with the very cool Martha Stewart Makes Cookies iPad app , so you can imagine how excited they were when I decided to give her new smoothies app a try, just in tim…

I'm so lucky that my mother-in-law is a chef. She loves cooking so much that I don't feel bad having her cook for us whenever she comes over. She has these binders of hand-written recipes she's developed over the years and recently asked…

For a lot of moms, the iPad really is a digital cookbook. It makes perfect sense; with so many awesome cookbook apps and recipe apps , not to mention online recipe help and online meal planners , your iPad can be your lifesaver in the ki…

Every mom knows that fear of letting a toddler turn the faucet on and off by herself for the first time. I remember loving my daughter's independence, but being a wee bit panicked that she'd crank the hot water too high and scald herself…

Last week we launched our new feature Oh Appy Day! , which gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Chef Richard Blais, award winning chef, dad of two, and Top Chef All Stars Finalist, …