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Have you ever tasted hell? You know, that fire pit of regret?

Maybe you didn’t grow up in a country with a queen. And I’m not talking about the sassy ones with mustaches.

Marmite is 100% devil spawn. It’s a yeasty jam that parents force feed their children because it’s the only form of torture allowed in the Geneva Accord.

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This bread machine has features you won’t find in lesser bread machines. You can even use it to make meatloaf and strawberry jam. It’s got a rectangular bowl and two mixers to create large, perfectly baked loafs. It has 10 pre-programmed settings, 3 crust shades, LCD control panel and a 13-hour delay timer.

Here’s a review of the machine by JR.com

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These little ants will work hard to make sure your picnic table is not disturbed by the breezes. Just clip them to the table cloth and their weight will keep it from flapping in the wind like Aunt Melba’s arms.

If you like these little guys, you’ll love their big brother salt and pepper shakers

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One of the guys nonchalantly said “honey we are about to make some mozzarella, do you want to join us?”. He then reached into a bowl of cloudy water, pulled out a hunk of white goo, and with a few twists there was a shiny ball of mozzarella.

It was magic. How could it be so easy to create cheese? How could I do that?

How to make fresh Mozzarella

This video shows you what went into making that cloudy water full of squishy gems.

Mozzarella making kits

These kits include everything but the milk to make fresh mozzarella for your next soiree. They include instructions, rennet, thermometers, and other ingredients.

This kit includes more supplies so you can create many batches of mozzarella and ricotta cheese.

The mozzarella action figure

Pretty soon you’ll be the main mozzarella manufacturer on the block. You may need some protection from the throngs of people at your door. You’ll need to get the Moofia Mozzarella to guard your back.

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Inspired by a truly timeless and beloved icon, this adorable wine caddy’s cheeky sock-monkey design places it right at home at any uproarious dinner party, picnic, backyard barbecue, or other casual soiree. The real wool caddy–made from an authentic all-American red-heeled sock–slips easily around any standard-size bottle of wine, champagne, sparkling juice, or other favorite beverage, protecting it from damage while lightly insulating its contents between loosely knitted layers.

Even better, its dimensional button eyes, gaping mouth, and classic brown “body” match the original sock monkey detail for detail, creating an instant conversation piece around the table or when gathered on the patio.

Little Monkey Holder

This little monkey will keep the wine handy while you pouring the good stuff and preparing for some good monkey business.

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Is it Mr. coffee filter? Aunt Pickle? Superintendent flour sifter? They’ll all bow to the awesome power of Mr Icing Spreader.

Just look at that powerful stance, the dominating head, and cutting edge side-grooved haircut. Mr. Spreader is also perfect for applying icing to your cake when he’s not kicking assparagus.

These muffin accessories will inspire you to go beyond the basic blueberry muffin.

Mini Muffin Pan

The mini muffin pan is great if you are taking food to work and want to make sure you have enough for everyone. This pan bakes 24 small muffins at a time.

Mega-Sized Muffins

These over-sized muffins are a meal by themselves. This pan can bake 6 mega muffins or use it for small cakes and other desserts.

Muffin Top Pan

Perhaps you don’t want them big or small. You only want the top of the muffin. These pans also work perfectly for whoopie pies.

Get squared away with these muffins

Squared muffin cups are surprisingly effective. This pan also works great for corn bread and mini-cakes.

Make your muffins more shapely with these fun pans

How about some zoo-riffic muffins with these animal shaped pans.

If you’re making muffins for your sweetie, try these heart-shaped muffins.

You can also add some flowers:

These bone-shaped muffins are good for the dog lover and their pets.

King Tut would be proud of these pyramid shaped muffins.

Make some muffins today

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1. Spanish Paella Pan and Ingredients

Paella is the national dish of Spain. It’s a complex dish of rice, safron, seafood, chicken, rabbit, and other meats. Each region has their own specialty and there’s always a party when the paella pan comes out. This gift set includes a paella pan as well as a selection of Spanish ingredients to start the paella party.

2. Sushi Kit

This sushi kit has everything you need to make and eat sushi, That is everything but the actual rice, nori, and fish. It has the wooden bowl for prepping the rice, the rolling mat, and service set.

Sushi making also requires a good set of knives for precision cutting. This set of sushi knives are hand made in Japan, yet still affordable.

3. Indian Thali Set

Meals in India are often served as a series of small dishes. These are served on platters with different containers or compartments. This thali server has an intricate pattern and several dishes to elegantly serve a meal.

4. Party Size Brick Pizza Oven

This pizza oven is great for parties and families that can never agree on toppings. It’s got an earthenware dome with multiple openings that let each person create their own personal sized pizza and watch it bake. Think of it as an Italian fondue pot.

5. German Spetzle Maker

Spetzle is a small dumpling-like noodle that is very popular in Germany. This tool works great for making spetzle, but can also be used for mashed potatoes, apple sauce, and other similar foods where you want a smooth consistency without lumps.

6. Electric Arepas Maker

An arepa is a dish made of corn and is popular in both Colombia and Venezuela. It is similar to the the Salvadoran pupusa. This arepa maker by Oster allows you to cook 6 of these at the same time. Epicurious.com has a great recipe for Columbian Arepas:

These tasty cornmeal cakes can be found grilled, baked, or fried in several Latin American countries. We love this Colombian version—the outside fries up crisp and golden, while the cheesy middle stays wonderfully moist. They can be eaten as a side dish or paired with hot chocolate for an afternoon snack.

Read the full recipe: Columbian Arepas – Epicurious.com

7. Persian Electric Samovar Tea Service

This electric samovar serves tea the Persian way. There are two pots, the one on top holds a concentrated tea, while the one below holds hot water. Pour some of the concentrated tea into your cup and then dilute it to your satisfaction.

8. Polish Pierogi

Poland, like France, is a country where people really know food. One can stop at a wayside inn in the country or at a modest restaurant in a working-class city neighborhood and be served a meal worth remembering. This pierogi tray is sturdy and makes 6 of the dumplings at a time. You can also use it for making potstickers and other similar dumplings.

9. Turkish Coffee Set

Turkish coffee is strong. Real strong. It’s so strong, the grinds have their own psychic powers. This set includes the coffee pot and two cups. Just remember, don’t drink that last sip.

10. Stainless Steel Chinese Hot Pot

Many of the items on this list encourage family-style dining. This Chinese hot pot is no exception.

In the winter season, when chilly temperatures and frigid winds prevail over the land, people like to eat food that instantly warms their bodies and lifts their spirits. For that, the hot pot is a delicious and hearty choice. Families or groups of friends sit around a table and eat from a steaming pot in the middle, cooking and drinking and chatting. Eating hot pot is not a passive activity: diners must select morsels of prepared raw food from plates scattered around the table, place them in the pot, wait for them to cook, fish them out of the soup, dip them in the preferred sauce, and then eat them hot, fresh, and tender. They can also ladle up the broth from the pot and drink it.
Chinese Hot Pot – Chinatown Connection

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1. OXO’s Angled Measuring Cups

Imagine you are measuring a cup of hot water. You pour the water into a measuring cup and then lift the cup to your eyes to see if it hits the right mark. This gives inaccurate readings due to the cup not being level. So then you put it onto the counter and bend down to see the marks.

OXO removes the bending and guesswork of measuring with these ingenious cups. There’s a angled ledge within the cups. To measure, you simply pour in your liquid and look straight down into the cup. It’s accurate and very easy to use.

2. Rabbit Wine Opener

The Rabbit wine opener takes the effort out of uncorking a bottle of wine. It’s simple to use and makes anyone as graceful as a sommelier. This candy apple red version also looks great in the bar.

3. Vibrating Kitchen Timer

The kitchen can be a noisy environment, especially when there are multiple dishes on the stove at the same time. This easy to use timer lets you know it’s time to take the cake out of the oven with a vibration as well as an auditory alarm. It features large buttons and one-handed operation. You can also set it to remind you about the roast in the oven, the beans on the stove, and the pie-crust in the freezer.

This kitchen timer by General Tools also provides a flashing light alarm.

4. Remote Grill Thermometer

Avoid repetitive trips to the patio to check the barbq with this remote temperature probe. Simple insert the probe into the meat on your grill and carry the remote with you.

Choose from eight entree programs including beef, lamb, veal, hamburger, pork, turkey, chicken, and fish, along with four doneness selections, which include rare, medium rare, medium, and well done. Two verbal and three audio alert options indicate the status of food–almost ready, ready, and overcooked. After reaching the selected temperature, an audio alarm will sound.

5. Black and Decker Jar Opener

Opening jars can literally be a pain for those with arthritis and stiff joints. This bottle opener by Black and Decker looks good on the counter and makes opening most jars a piece of cake.

6. Salt and Pepper Grinders

OXO is known for extremely well designed items that are easy to use. These grinders are no exception. This review says it best.

My sister turned me onto OXO kitchenware a few years back. She has issues gripping utensils. I liked them for their construction, how well they work and easy clean up. I saw these mills and loved the look and the quality materials they are made of. They are solidly constructed yet still light enough not to cause issues for those that OXO items were designed.

Both mills have adjustments on the collar above the see-through storage portion. There are little “ears” that allow selection of one of five various settings for “fine” through coarse granules to exit the mill.
I wouldn’t call any of the dispensed salt or pepper “fine” but that’s perfectly okay for me and my family. Please consider other options if you like “pepper dust” as these puppies just won’t grind that fine.

As others have noted, the mills set “upright” with the ceramic teeth facing the sky. It seems a little point, but how often have you lifted your old pepper mill to find flecks on the counter or table top? Filling and actual turning of the base portion to dispense either the pepper or salt is effortless.
Bruce Porter – Amazon.com

7. Collapsible Step Stool

Every kitchen should have a step stool. I’m over 6 feet tall and I use this stool all the time to reach the deepest sections of the upper cabinets. It’s sturdy and very easy to fold up for storage. Just push the red button and lift up on the handle and it collapses for storage next to the fridge. It has non-slip feet and can hold a big bubba like me.

8. GelPro Floor Mat for the Kitchen

It’s not easy to stand in the kitchen for long periods of time. Especially when making a big batch of strawberry preserves and you have to stir the pot for 30+ minutes. This thick, cushioned floor mat takes the stress off your angles and makes extended kitchen chores much nicer. You can get it in various colors and sizes.

9. KittyKaddy Pet Feeder

Pets make a home. The KittyKaddy makes it easier to give cats fresh water and food. There’s a long handle that prevents bending over to reach the bowls. The K9Kaddy is for dogs and there’s even a cat litter box with a tall handle.

10. Audible Alarm To Know When to Say When

Avoid burns from overfilling coffee and team mugs with this audible alarm. It sits on the side of your mug, glass, or pot and lets you know when you’ve poured in enough liquid. It’s easy to use and great for those with vision problems.

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1. Herbal tea sipping straw

This device is for sipping herbal tea and is clearly the most healthful and convenient method devised by man to increase oral absorption, which carries nutrients through the lining of the mouth directly into the blood stream.

2. Green Bean Slicer

How could they possibly live without a green bean splitter?

3. Automated shopping list with voice recognition

This memo machine has a magnetic base to conveniently store on the fridge. It stores a shopping list for quicker grocery trips.

4. Louisiana Roux Spoon

The Cajun gift set includes a stainless custom Cajun Roux Spoon, a full 10-1/4-Inch long, its well -1/2-inch deep with 2 full-Inch wide. The end is custom blunt, with a slight angle to it just perfect for the right handed chef for stirring that rich dark roux (sauce) which the south is best known for.

5. Ultimate Nut Cracker

America’s finest nutcracker – Reed’s Rocket Nutcracker has a unique design that cracks soft shell nuts faster, better and easier than before. The Rocket Nutcracker offers 5-star cracking action – gripping the nut firmly with 5 points of contact and giving greater power while assuring cleaner, larger nut meats.

6. Rabbit teeth bottle opener

This Bugs Bunny bottle opener gets the party started right.

7. Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer

Deep frying turkeys is popular. It’s also extremely dangerous and leads to many house fires every year. This fryer tames the experience by replacing an open flame with an enclosed electric fryer.

If this thing can handle a turkey, imagine how many fries you could create during a BarBQ.

8. Pour the Perfect Black and Tan with this Turtle

Who would’ve thought turtles would make such good bar tenders? Place this little guy on a glass and pour your Guiness over it. The shell breaks up the stream into tiny rivers, which allows for better layering and the perfect drink.

He’s also a snapping turtle and his mouth can be used as a bottle opener.

9. Two-caret Diamond Coffee Mug

This mug’s handle slips over your finger and provides the biggest bling in the office. It comes in a gift box that makes the cup look like a Kardashian wedding ring.

10. Manneken Pis Liquor Dispenser

This little guy adds a bit of class to any highball. It’s based on the statue that has become an icon for Brussels.

Manneken Pis (literally little man pee in Dutch, also known in French as le Petit Julien), is a famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain’s basin. It was designed by Jerome Duquesnoy and put in place in 1618 or 1619.[1]
Manneken Pis – Wikipedia

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