Kitchen Smart Gadgets You Need Now

Properly equipping your kitchen can be first step toward improving not only your home, but your waistline too, and tech can help you do it.  Whip up healthy, delicious meals with these nifty tools and small appliances.

Breville Avance Steamer

Breville’s steamer can simultaneously steam three dishes on three tiers, and comes to temperature in just 30 seconds. Unlike boiling, which washes away vitamins, steaming keeps them intact. Plus it makes rice!

KitchenAid 5-Speed Diamond Blender

With “Intelli-Speed Motor Control,” this blender can sense what’s inside it and run at the optimum speed to process it thoroughly. Equally nice is the fact that it comes in 14 colors, from metallic chrome to wild “crystal blue,” both of which make smoothies that much more enticing.

Bite Food Scale

This Bluetooth-enabled scale communicates with your smart devices so you can get precise nutritional info on nearly anything you place on it. Quarter-pound of turkey? Half a wheel of cheese? Bam! You can find out how many calories are in it. Bite also has recipes, and can log your calorie intake down to the exact number.

Cuisinart TEA-100

Tea is full of antioxidants, lower in caffeine than most coffee, and can be a great way to avoid caloric beverages. But brewing at the wrong temperature can destroy tea’s best qualities. This little teapot not only looks good with its stainless-and-glass carafe, but comes with six presets to brew each variety at its optimum temp.

Cuisinart Smart Stick Hand Blender

If you’ve ever put off making a smoothie or a soup because you didn’t want to clean a blender, meet the immersion blender. Cuisinart’s Smart Stick is a favorite not only because it can easily purée with very little clean-up, but also because it comes in fabulous colors.

Breville Juice Fountain

No one wants to sit down and chew through six pounds of kale, spinach or collard greens (unless you’re a bunny). But you can easily down more greens by juicing them. Breville’s machine can handle most fruits and veggies whole, leaving no excuse for not getting your greens.

Sodastream

Most of us would drink more water if we always had the fizzy kind on hand, but stocking up on Perrier is expensive. Sodastream can keep you bubbly for just a few dollars a month, and you can flavor it with the natural fruit of your choice — making sugary sodas a thing of the past.

Yonanas Ice Cream Maker

If you’re the type who can sit down and polish off a pint before you realize what happened (and who isn’t?), here’s an alternative. Yonanas squashes frozen bananas into soft serve, and you can even flavor it with fresh fruit or chocolate.

Paderno Vegetable Spiralizer

Pasta is great, but too much is not a good thing. A spiralizer can turn veggies into a curly “noodles,” ready for sauce. Though there are cheaper versions, Paderno’s spiral slicer with its interchangeable blades has consistently been a top pick among cooks, who say it’s unmatched for control and precision.

DOIT Digital Air Fryer

Fried chicken? Check. French fries? Check. Doughnut holes? Check. Make the best chewy-on-the-inside, crispy-on-the-outside foods in minutes with the DOIT digital air fryer. The air fryer has 5.8 Quart Capacity that allows you to feed 3-4 people. No greases or oils required!

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