This “mold is perfect for lovebirds, med school students, and aspiring cannibals.”

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Sharp has a line of microwaves that solve this issue. The ovens are built like drawers. The cooking space slides out effortlessly and can be placed under the counter.

This video gives a better view of the oven. Just don’t follow this guy’s method of inserting a casserole dish, you may end up with half of it on the floor.

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Can and Bottle Openers

One of the first things you’ll complain about is the difficulty of opening a bottle or can with only one hand. A seemingly easy task becomes a chore when you can’t hold and twist with one hand. These gadgets will make it much easier.

The Black and Decker bottle opener is also great for people with limited mobility in both hands, arthritis, or the person that opens a lot of bottles every day. It has simplified the opening of jars to a no-strain, one-hand operation. Electrically powered, the Lids Off cradles a jar on its lower turntable then grips its lid when you lower the upper housing. Push the large power button, and—voila!—the lid is twisted free. Designed for use on metal or plastic lids, the opener makes a handy tool for anyone and can be especially helpful for those with weak hands or arthritis.

This bottle opener is installed under a cabinet and holds the lid as you twist. It easily opens kitchen jars, nail polish and child-proofing on medicine bottles. This opener even comes with double sided adhesive to install without tools.

This opener sits in a drawer, so you don’t have to hold heavy jars in the air.

This automated wine opener will uncork your vino with just one finger.

You can also open your beer bottles with just one hand.

This can opener uses a scissoring motion to open cans with a single hand.

Chopping, Slicing, and Dicing

There are many one handed options for using a chopping board. These also work great for people with physical disabilities that make it difficult to hold food while cutting with a knife.

The Swedish Cutting Board is ideal for people who have had a stroke or have neurological impairments that limit them to the use of one hand. Stainless steel spikes hold food for cutting or slicing. It also features a vise to hold larger food items, jars or mixing bowls.

As you would expect, OXO has created a unique solution for chopping vegetables. This bowl and pizza-cutter like knife allow you to quickly chop lettuce and vegetables for a salad.

More helpful tools for the one-handed foodie

Decorate cookies and cakes with this one-handed decorator by Dr. Oetker. You can switch out the tips for all types of designs.

Hot pad holders don’t offer enough flexibility and protection when lifting large and heavy dishes from the oven. Use this Ove’ Glove instead.

This paper towel holder from OXO allows you to tear off individual paper towels without watching the roll spin endlessly, sending half a roll onto the floor.

This one-handed lemon/lime squeezer will make it easy to make a key lime pie during summer.

While you can find cheaper pepper mills that work with one hand, you won’t find a more elegant solution than the Peugeot electric pepper mill. You can easily adjust the coarseness of the mill and a touch of the finger is all that’s needed to season your dish.

Professional One-Armed Chef

Adrian Carter is a chef with one arm. He talked about cooking one-handed for the BBC Ouch pod cast:

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Make them festive with these Happy New Years wrappers by Dress My Cupcake, the leading cupcake decoration makers.

Personally, I would rather keep them a bit more elegant with these silver and gold cupcake wrappers. Not because I’m elegant, rather I’m too cheap to buy a set for each holiday. I can stuff my face with these for just about any holiday.

Are you looking for something to bake in these? Try these Pretty in Pink Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes or Champagne Cupcakes with Italian Buttercream from the Food Network.

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This cookbook provides 50 new uses for your favorite fire water. Such as this Sriracha Ceviche:

Named after a Thai fishing town, and created in its current form by a Vietnamese immigrant in Los Angeles, Sriracha – AKA “rooster sauce” – is experiencing a meteoric rise in mainstream popularity. But the bright-red chili sauce in the clear plastic bottle is no niche ingredient, like truffle paste or salt cod. Its five basic elements (peppers, garlic, vinegar, sugar, and salt) cover every part of the flavor spectrum, making it a surprisingly versatile additive: while The Sriracha Cookbook, as one would expect, contains many Asian recipes, it also branches out internationally with recipes like Sriracha Pesto, Sriracha Ceviche, and Bacon-Sriracha Cornbread. Most importantly, while author Randy Clemens clearly enjoys his titular ingredient (and is a confessed spice junkie), he has a strong culinary background, and his well-tested recipes succeed in making the book much more than a novelty.

—John Peck, Diesel, A Bookstore (Oakland, CA), February 2011

Some quick ideas

Gail Simmons, from Top Chef, has some more ideas for your hot sauce.

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This wallet is only slightly less tasty than the original cheese puff. It’s made out of thin, tear-proof plastic for long lasting quality. Best of all… no crumbs.

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Check out the whole collection. You can get the white party merman, the leather merman, and so much more.

The other Merman

Here’s another Merman that you may like. The Ethel Merman Experience does Nirvana.

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This toilet shaped water bowl keeps your dog or cat hydrated while keeping the pee to face ratio at the minimum.

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This ain’t your grannie’s popcorn maker. It uses a halogen heater and the built in mixer arm will make sure you pop every last kernel.

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