Category — Cookware

Sure, the real season doesn’t start for weeks, but considering the Hall of Fame Game was on TV last night, we might as well kick off a little early. Besides, we all need time to get those snack trays ready.

Perhaps this year is the year – no not for your lousy team to make the playoffs, but to step up the game in the kitchen. Naturally, football-shaped food is key. The Wilton Mini Football Silicone Mold provides an easy way to cook up some new classics. Just like real football, the bakeware is meant for all types of weather – the pan is freezer, refrigerator, oven, microwave and dishwasher safe.

Nobody wants to be faced with choices when they are presented with cake (or brownies). The answer to any and all cake-related questions should be a simple ‘yes’. Now it can be. Whether you have a thing for yellow, strawberry or chocolate, the Dividable Brownie/Cake Pan can provide. Featuring three dividers that can be used (or not) to separate different batters, the customizable pan can bake up to four different varieties of cake or brownies at a time.

Most cake recipes don’t usually come in sizes made for a fourth of a 13 x 9 pan, so it might be prudent to pick up four pans for four cakes. Of course, then that would negate the need for the dividers, but hey, then you would have four big cakes instead of four little cakes. Yes.

Pots and pans are as simple as it gets when it comes to cookware. Just make ‘em out of something that can stand up to the heat while not spilling ingredients all over the place. Sure, choice of materials used in construction can always be a factor, but generally speaking the same basic shape of an open-mouthed vessel usually applies.

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Square brownies are great and all, but they are so, well… square. So, you’re chomping happily along, and before you know it you reach the end of an edge. The problem? Too many corners. The answer? More edge, in the shape of a wedge.

Eliminating the spectre of all-corner brownies, the Brownie Wedge Pan by Nordic Ware, loses one of the four corners and makes it all edge. Sure, you could just cut a square brownie diagonally, but then that wouldn’t be a real brownie edge, and with brownies, it’s all about the edge. And with sixteen edge-heavy wedges per batch, the wedge pan has an edge over the competition.

Beer can chicken making gadgets come in all shapes and sizes, but rarely do they double as anything else. Which is usually fine: the idea is to add a flavoring liquid of your choice (that’s right—gasp—it doesn’t have to be beer) and let it bubble up and permeate the meat while it is cooking. Results are tender, delicious and juicy.

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Morning is the one time of the day best served on automatic. From timed coffee makers to toaster-ovens that deliver perfectly browned toast, bagels or pastries, breakfast probably is the last meal that anyone wants to pay any attention to while actually making it. Still, I can’t help being drawn to the MoMA Stovetop Toaster.

Looking somewhat like a rectangular un-popped Jiffy Pop container, the handheld toaster is meant to be used on a gas or electric range. Place a slice of bread on top of the gridded side and set it on the burner. It might not be the most precise of kitchen gadgets, but for only eight bucks, it won’t cost a lot to find out just how asleep you really are in the morning while making breakfast.