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20 Cool and Useful Kitchen Tools.

Creative products and gadgets that will make a cool addition to any modern kitchen. Avocado Cuber: Useful product designed for making uniform-sized cubes of avocado. Onion Holder: With this tool you'll be able to create straight, even slices from one end of the onion to the other. Corn Zipper: This product quickly and safely removes kernels from the corn while protecting the fingers. Garlic Rocker: This excellent designed kitchen tool uses downward pressure and a 'rocking' mechanism for crushing and mincing garlic. Banana Slicer: Just peel your banana, and push this gadget down from top; it creates evenly sliced pieces. Tomato/Mozzarella Slicer: This useful tool swiftly cuts ripe tomatoes and creamy mozzarella into uniform slices. Apple Corer: This ergonomically designed tool makes coring apples easy. Strawberry Huller: This cool kitchen tool quickly removes the leaves and stem from a strawberry. Rotato Potato Peeler: This cool innovative tool peels off potato skin in one continuous spiral.

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50+ Substitutions For Common Ingredients | Inspiring Pretty August 31, 2011 1 comment courtesy of thecouponhigh.net Have you ever been in the middle of a recipe and suddenly realized that you don’t have all the ingredients you need? It’s such a hassling feeling knowing you have to go to the store again for just one thing and now this recipe will take much longer than you planned. All Spice, 1 TSP ¼ TSP cinnamon, ½ TSP ground cloves & ¼ TSP nutmeg Arrowroot, 1 TBSP 2 ¼ TBSP cornstarch Baking Powder, 1 TSP ¼ TSP baking soda, ½ TSP cream of tartar Balsamic Vinegar, 1 TBSP 1 TBSP apple cider/red wine & ½ TSP sugar Beef or Chicken Broth, 1 cup 1 cup boiling water & 1 bouillon cube Beer Equal parts white grape juice, apple juice or apple cider Brown Sugar, Dark, 1 cup 1 cup light brown sugar & 1 TBSP molasses Brown Sugar, Light, 1 cup ½ cup dark brown sugar * ½ cup granulated sugar or 1 cup granulated sugar & 2 TBSP molasses Bread Crumbs, Dry Equal parts crackers Butter Equal parts margarine or equal parts vegetable shortening Butter, Melted Equal parts oil Buttermilk, 1 cup

The Coolest Or Nerdiest Office Gadgets - 30 Examples The office is most of the times a cold and impersonal place that most of the times and that must be corrected. You could do that by getting some gadgets to make you feel more like home or to entertain you in the working breaks. In my opinion, the employer should buy some of these gadgets cause in a way or another they actually increase the work productivity. A happy worker is an efficient worker. Tell that to your boss and slam this article in his face calling it “the Christmas wishlist”. USB cup warmer – £9.99 Why is it that a really good cuppa always seems to cool at 10 times the normal rate when you’re working at your computer? Knuckle duster mug – £9.95 – £10.95 Don’t be a MUG! Funslides carpet skates – $19.95 Bendi Light Up Wateproof Keyboard – £29.99 There is a whole world of life inside your keyboard, biscuit crumbs, coffee spills, bits of yesterday’s sandwich, and all sorts of other undesirable muck that floats in un-invited. Excalibur USB Beverage Warmer/Cooler – $24.99 Yes.

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Twenty for Twenty Article The Floating House Built literally on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, by MOS Architects, Floating House is a private dwelling produced in such a way that it is unaffected by the lakes' drastically varying water levels. From month-to-month, year-to-year, the house adapts to the water level change by floating atop of a structure built atop steel pontoons. "Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use of the unique character of the site: Lake Huron as a waterway. Construction materials were instead delivered to the contractor’s fabrication shop, located on the lake shore. www.mos-office.net

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