Gadgets For Mom

What would a kitchen be without gadgets? A place where cooking and baking would be chores  not fun.These do all doodads help us with the most mundane of tasks and often elevate our ingredients to a higher level.Luckily for all the home chefs out there there is always a new one being invented.

Penelope Green , a style writer for the New York Times Style section covered  the newest and brightest in the paper's Design section today. It 's a full and interesting article, along with being the perfect gift guide for those who haven't done their Mother's Day shopping as of yet. She interviewed both Scott Goldsmith whose family has owned S. Feldman's Housewares  since 1929 and Amanda Hesser, the food writer , cofounder and chief executive of Food52, a kitchen and home website. There's also some input from Christopher Kimball, he of America's Test Kitchen fame and Milk Street. What is hot out there?Mr Goldsmith's site and store S. Feldman Housewares has a yellow silicon Food Pod that acts as both a colander and steamer/It looks  like something that's found at the bottom of the ocean.It let's you boil everything from veggies to eggs to shellfish. It does make for less messy draining and is perfect for those  who love hard boiled eggs or shrimp. He also sells onion goggles which stops a home chef from crying when slicing Bermudas.Unfortunately it doesn't fit over regular glasses. S. Feldman also sells a Pushberry a wagon wheel  looking device that perfectly hulls and slices strawberries.Avocado slicers and pitters are  big item too, thanks to more and more people making their own guac at home.

Christopher Kimball  had his own opinions on various gadgets. He has three categories for them. The first is Completely Idiotic Useless Objects. Things That Are Not Worth The Storage Space and Things That Seem Practical But You Can Actually Do Better with A Knife. He does agree that a well designed tool is immensely valuable.he feels that maybe it's not worth the effort to get specialty gadgets that would only be used once a month. He still  has bought gadgets. The BeepEgg was intrigue at first site at Chicago's annual International Home And Housewares Show a few years back. It was a cute egg shaped timer that plays music like "Killing Me Softly" when the time is up. It's a great idea for those who make egg salads or are big on poached eggs for breakfast. Another interesting gadget is the Spreadthat butter spreader that warms up from the het of the user's hands. This makes for a smoother  melty butter however the stuff melts naturally if the bread or bagel has just popped out of the toaster. Creator Howard Chiu, a former aerospace engineer, used his background to create  tubes coated with titanium  that warms from body heat. He has also expanded that to gravy warmers, ice cream scoopers and meat thaws. Then there is Kraigh and Anna Stewart who came up with reusable  silicon string to truss up chickens.

As long as there are kitchens, there will always be gadgets. Some will be fin, some will be handy  Either way they make for some interesting prepping and cooking.