Technology can help to save you time in the kitchen – so say the manufacturers of high-tech kitchen gadgets. We sniffed out some of the more useful and accessible gadgets for the cook at home.
By: Sharlene Tan
Perfect Chill
The Kalorik Tabletop Wine Cooler is the high-tech gadget for the wine aficionado. Not content with a commonplace ice bucket for your luxuriously expensive champagne? Now you can control the temperature at which you chill your wine, right there on the table. This wine cooler has four pre-programmed temperatures for red, white, rose and champagne, but the temperature in each chamber can also be changed manually, which means you can have a bottle of white wine and champagne chilling at the same time.
Cook like a Chef
Sous vide, French for “under vacuum”, is a method of cooking that maintains the integrity and natural flavours of the ingredients by cooking food at low temperatures in vacuum-sealed bags. Restaurant chefs such as Thomas Keller of The French Laundry (he’s written a book about sous vide cooking) have been using this method in their professional kitchens for some years now, but it is only recently that this method has reached the home kitchen with the SousVide Supreme. About the size of a breadmaker, it has a computer-controlled temperature and timer, and lets you cook like a professional without the fuss and muss.
Spill-Proof Recipe Reader
Tired of stained cookbooks? The Demy , a spill-proof recipe reader might come in handy. Stains can easily be wiped off its high-resolution colour touchscreen. Plus, it comes with many other features that would please any cook, such as three built-in timers and a conversion tool, which is always handy when you’re trying to remember how many pounds make up a kilogram.
Marinate in Minutes
Most recipes tell you to marinate your meat for a minimum of two or three hours, and some of them are best left overnight. But busy women know how easy it is to forget something like that, and at other times, you just need to have your meat marinated this instant! The Reveo, a vacuum-sealed, rotating barrel allows the marinating process to be sped up, and according to the manufacturer, requires just 2 to 20 minutes, depending on the type of food being marinated. The vacuum supposedly stretches the fibres of the food, allowing the marinade to speedily penetrate all areas.
Deep Fry with Less Oil
The ActiFry by T-fal uses a heat pulse and stirring paddle system, which enables deep frying with far less oil. T-fal says that just one tablespoon of oil is needed to fry one kilo of French fries. This not only makes deep frying healthier, it becomes safer too. The use of this automated deep fryer also means that the smell of cooking oil will not permeate your house.
Have a nifty kitchen gadget that you can’t live without? Tell us about it!
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