(forgive the facial expression in the above screen-grab...not my most flattering moment)
The recent phenomenon of reality cooking shows has made
millions realize that being a dab hand in the kitchen is not necessarily as
hard as it looks…And as the general population gets whisking, baking, grilling
& poaching, we thought it was time to augment the skills needed to deliver
great dishes with just a little technology…
We start simple… how to boil an egg…
What could be more useful than a boilable egg timer. Simply
pop it into the pot of boiling water along with your eggs and just follow the
indicator depending on how you want your eggs boiled, soft, medium or hard.
(see video for results) At R80 it's a little expensive to tell you when the egg is ready but it does work.
So you’ve had the egg, now it’s time for a bit of
refreshment. This nifty little gadget called the Zoku Slush Maker does just that by making a slush and it’s so easy. Place the inside cup section into the freezer
for around 8 – 12 hours, then pour any liquid into the cup and start scraping
down the sides. Within minutes you have a slush. Clever and refreshing!
However, it’s R250 and can only make one slush at a time so it’s quite
expensive and if you think about it, selfish too, well unless of course you share...but I don't think you'll want to :)
Then it comes to that time of the day when you feel like a
quick pick me up coffee but with a twist, or in this case a whisk. The
aerolatte will whip up some beautiful milk froth to put on top of your coffee. Put the milk into a glass, grab your aerolatte, start whipping and within seconds you'll have a professional looking coffee ready to serve at a restaurant
near you…well, almost. It’ll set you back R150 but will make you look like a
million bucks when you serve a frothed coffee to your guests.
On the topic of coffee, let’s take a look at these 2
beauties. The new Nescafe Dolce Gusto (on the left) and the Nespresso UMilk (on the right). Both work on a
coffee pod system that produce single coffees at the touch of a button. The Nespresso uMilk uses a single pod to make your coffee to which you can then add your own
warmed, delicious, frothed milk using the integrated aeroccino machine. The dolce
gusto however uses 2 pods to make a coffee because the one is a milk
substitute. Ugh! Not great! The machines and pods are relatively the same
price. The Nespresso uMilk with aeroccino is R2550 with a R300 voucher for
coffee and the Nescafe Dolce Gusto is R2490 with no vouchers. The Nespresso
coffee is slightly cheaper and in my opinion, MUCH better and because of that
reason alone, I’d buy the Nespresso no question!
So with a bounty of gadgets to make you look impressive in
the kitchen, what are you waiting for? Go get 'em, Gordon/Jamie/Nigella/Nigel/Guy/Ina/etc etc
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