Cook Up a Beat with Kitchen Mix Stix

Depending on how you view things, this may or may not be foolish – Mix Stix are your classic beechwood spoons that have an indispensable place in any kitchen, although the other end of it has been shaped into a pair of drumsticks, allowing you to groove to the beat in your head while you’re waiting for a meal to be cooked:

Each purchase consists of one solid spoon and one unique music-note-slotted spoon. Get your Mix Stix here. If this isn’t your thing, don’t check out the Pastasaurus either.

Recipe Timer Offers Precision Cooking

Take a look at this kitchen timer device that works with specially designed recipe cards. Like any recipe, you have instructions only the Kitchen Timer goes one step further and provides visual and audio feedback on progress.

If a set of instructions says to cook the chicken for 30 minutes, the arm will slide down the card in that exact amount of time – now that’s precision cooking!

Designed by Emma Caselton

Smoke and a Meatball

When I think of meatballs, I remember the classic scene in Lady & the Tramp when the one dog rolls the last meatball over to the other. Cute.

I also think about how I’ve never really loved meatballs, until now. I mean how does a smoked meatball sub sound right about now? Enticing and appetizing right? Well, now you can have tasty flavors on those meatballs by using this Meatball Grill Basket…

It’s from Williams-Sonoma and it holds up to 12 meatballs! Tt has perforated walls to retain the flavors and drain the fat off of beef, chicken, or whatever other meatballs you’re making. With polypropylene handle for easy turning and even cooking it’s a steal at just $50 (about R390)! Get it here and smoke a meatball

Meet the Grillslinger Sport Boet!

It holds everything you’ll need on a convenient tool belt for easy reach. It comes with a pair of speed tongs, a spatula, two lock-and-load washable inserts, and more importantly, a holder for your beer.

It’s the Grillslinger Sport! No more laying down of your grilling tools. And he who holds the tools is The Braai Master.

Get it here for $49 (about R400). Remember, You Can’t Blog (or do anything for that matter) on an Empty Stomach.

Power Up Your Dinner Party

With the variety of salt & pepper shakers available out there, no one really wants to be boring anymore. These lovely battery-like shakers were created by Antrepo Design Industry:

It is shaped like a D sized battery and made from stainless steel and glass. I love how you can see the amount of salt and pepper left in the shakers through the power indicators on the sides. Don’t forget to check out the Rubiks Cube Shakers featured a while back!

Racing Red Kitchen Inspired by Ferrari

Ferrari may be a name too big for the average home, but a German company is determined to drive their Ferrari-theme kitchen into your home! It boasts a high gloss laminate in red with lots of black accents and characterises an ergonomic design, of course inspired by the sleek and sexy curves of the Italian cars.

It has a second island, usually omitted from contemporary kitchens, as well as a ‘S’ shaped island with a fashionable sink located in the middle part. There are tall storage and wall-fitted oven units behind the island, the lustrous kitchen includes an electric cooktop, raised about the surrounding table, on a freestanding unit, so you may prepare and serve dishes without wasting any time.

This is making me hungry!

South African Braai Etiquette

Make Great Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Everyone wants to cook like a pro. The problem is weren’t all born with the Ramsey gene!

So, we first need inspiring pictures like this to make us hungry:

Then, secondly, we need simple directions to create the real thing so we can stuff our faces!

Begin by gathering the following ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup salad oil
• 3 tsp. vanilla
• 2 bars unsweetened chocolate
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 cup coarsely chopped almonds

Now lets get our hands dirty with some easy directions:

Beat eggs well. Beat in sugar and oil. Melt chocolate and stir in with vanilla and zucchini. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture together with almonds. Spoon into 2 loaf pans well oiled or greased and floured. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done. Enter the Chocadore Easter Giveaway.

Cool in pans 15 to 20 minutes. Turn onto racks.

The Ultimate Braai. Could it Be?

This luxurious outdoor cooking design has me salivating!

Just look at those two gas burners, those stainless steel curves and them exotic wood accents surface-treated with cooked linseed oil.

Did I mention it’s also got a lava rock grill an ollare stone that’s interchangeable with a cast iron plate, steel drawers mounted on automatic closing runners, a hinged stainless steel door to close the rubbish container and and water outlet.