How's it Hanging?

How many times have you stirred a beverage only to be left without a place to put your spoon? Well these clever hanging spoons bend in the handle to allow the spoon to hang on the inside or outside of the container.













[via Kitchen Contraptions]

Real A-peel

Changing weather=sniffles, sneezing and another cold season. Boost your immune system by soaking in all the Vitamin C goodness of oranges. But to add further "a-peel" try an Emma Orange Peeler.


Snail-shaped but incredibly functional, these designer peelers come in an assortment of colors. Orange you glad I told you?

Available at The Well Tempered Kitchen

A Clean Plate

You know that we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl. But that doesn't mean you and I shouldn't try helping Mother Earth out a bit with some environmentally-friendly mass consumption.

Consider these 100% biodegradable plates, cups and utensils from Branch. Made of a compostable sugar cane fiber known as bagasse, which is renewable and virtually unlimited worldwide, these disposable dinnerware pieces are just as sturdy as Chinet, microwavable and freezer safe.

Now you can eat your greens as well as think green.

Go, Go Gadget

Dining on the go takes on a whole new meaning with this clever cutlery set. Perfect for camping, traveling and work, this little gadget makes nomadic noshing a breeze.

[Available at Uncommon Goods]

Triple Threat

Fall in San Francisco is a harbinger of great things to come. Namely, Dungeness crab season. Come November, the markets are flooded with this delectable crustacean making the need for a handy, easy-to-use crab cracker absolutely essential. Enter Chef’n’s ingenious Wisecracker crab splitter and crackerer. This three-in-one tool splits the shell with ease and has a handle with a pick to crack tough claws and remove delicate meat from the shell.

Alas, November seems so far away.

[via Chef'n]

Finger Food

What would happen if Edward Scissorhands and Thing from the Adams Family mated? Perhaps you'd get something like this:

[Finger Forks found @ Drinkstuff]

Birthday Baby

I'm not one to toot my own birthday horn but...TOOT, TOOT!
Another year has passed and while there was no production, no extravagant plot to surprise me,and no red carpet rolled out in my honor, there was plenty of love from my dear family and friends. And cake...

[Ruffled Cake Stand - Sur La Table]

Here are some of my favorite cake crusaders.




Birthday Cakes: Recipes and Memories from Celebrated Bakers
By Kathryn Kleinman

[via Chronicle Books]

[High Heel Cake Server via Uncommon Goods]

[Cake Stencils - Williams Sonoma]

[Pewter Bird Birthday Candle Holders - Uncommon Goods]

The Father, The Son, and The...

Holy Toast?

If you're looking for inspiration with your breakfast, look no further. The easy-to-use HOLY TOAST bread stamp allows you to turn an ordinary slice of bread into, well, a miracle.

[via Perpetual Kid]

Don't Cry For Me Allium Cepa

There are many things in life to cry about. Onions shouldn't be one of them. Weep no more with these geeky chic Onion Goggles. Though its design is reminiscent of days in chem lab, the sturdy plastic frame and comfy foam seal keeps out irritating onion fumes and allows you to prep without peril.


[via Broadway Panhandler]

Not My Nanners!

I tell ya. Nothing pisses me off more than my banana getting all soft. I mean, you start the day off with a perfectly nice "nanner" and by the time you're ready to enjoy it, you find that your once firm, smooth and tempting parcel of potassium has been relegated to a mushy and oozing shell of its former self.

Nanner enthusiats fear no more. Your Musa acuminata Colla is safe thanks to the BananaBunker


Available in an assortment of colors, the BananaBunker protects your fruit from bruising when placed in unnatural banana environments, such as the backpack, the briefcase, a back pocket, or a splendid Gucci waist belt bag.


And just in case you BananaBunker virgins are shy about using your bunker for the first time, I've included some handy dandy instructions below.

*Be Safe, Use a Bunker.

Cold...Ice Cold

A recent onslaught of birthday celebrations has made me wish that the disagreeable effects of one too many Kamikazes, Buttery Nipples and Flamming whatever-you-call-its would just melt away - much like these nifty shot glasses made of ice.

Simply fill the silicone Cool Shooters tray with water, juice or perhaps a fresh fruit puree (I know you Martha Stewart types were thinking it), freeze and enjoy.

I wonder how these would hold up in a game of Quarters?

{via Perpetual Kid}

Mr. Roboto Strikes Again

Move over AIBO, there's a new AI in town.

The Associated Press reported this week of a new robot that can "taste" and identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres.

Using an infrared spectrometer, the robot can analyze an object's chemical composition and determine what the object is based on its unique spectral fingerprint.

While this may be a big win for science, I'd say it's a damn shame for Mr. Roboto. What's the fun in identifying decadent wines and cheeses if you can't partake in the hedonistic experience?!

Full article here