kitchens

Your Microwave Is Packed With Radiation-Resistant Bacteria

A recent study examining 30 microwave ovens discovered nearly 750 different species of bacteria, some of which are considered harmful to humans.

Health Adam Kovac Aug 8

IKEA Wants You to Plan Your Next Kitchen in VR

It can be hard to imagine how your place will look when you’ve remodelled it. But IKEA has a solution, with a new VR system being made available on Steam that will help you plan your kitchen. The new app, which uses the HTC Vive headset, currently allows you to explore three different kitchen set-ups.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 5

Panasonic Wants To Transform Home Cooking With Their Countertop Induction Oven

This is pretty cool: Panasonic has announced at the International Home & Hardwares Show that they will be producing a Countertop Induction Oven. Induction Cooking uses magnetic induction to heat a ferrometal pan or cooking vessel, rather than using a flame or an electrical method that heats through resistance (like you’d find in a toaster…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Mar 6

The 1950s “Miracle Kitchen” of the Future Had Its Own Roomba

In July 1959, the magazine Look ran an article describing the “miracle kitchen” of the future, ostensibly about the amazing advances that Americans would see in their own homes. In reality, it was part of a much larger propaganda battle of the Cold War–and it involved a proto-roomba. Last year we looked at the American…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 27

How This Revolutionary Industrial Glass Made Its Way Into Your Kitchen

You might not know it by name, but chances are you have a Pyrex dish in your kitchen right now—most Americans probably do. A fascinating history over at Collectors Weekly traces the ubiquitous supermaterial as part of an exhibition which opened this week at the Corning Museum of Glass. Pyrex was invented in 1915 after…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jun 11

These Engineers Want to Replace Your Oven With a Countertop Gadget

The Soylent experiment may not have revolutionized the way we eat forever, but Silicon Valley isn’t content to let the kitchen go undisrupted. Meet June, a countertop device powered by carbon fiber wands that wants to make interacting with your oven more like interacting with your phone. On paper, June sounds a lot like a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 9

Ikea’s Futuristic Concept Kitchen Is Designed for Drought and Scarcity

More than any other room in your house, the kitchen has changed radically in the past 100 years. And according to Ikea, it’s going to change even more over the next decade. Welcome to Concept Kitchen 2025, an exhibit and collection of prototypes that is the result of more than a year of development with…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 21

There’s a Miniature Ocean Trapped Inside This Kitchen Island

Forget about wasting all that valuable space underneath a kitchen island by filling it with pots, pans, and other bakeware. Designer Robert Kolenik has a much better idea: turn it into a gigantic saltwater aquarium that seemingly doubles as the perfect place to toss food scraps. But here’s the most impressive part, you don’t actually…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 28

The All-American Expo That Invaded Cold War Russia

Over the course of six weeks during the height of the Cold War, almost three million Soviets visited an exhibition that celebrated America. American kitchens, American art, American cars, and most especially American capitalism. The American National Exhibition in Moscow was a full-court press to convince the Soviet people of American superiority. It was supposed…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 24

GE Designed a Compact Kitchen Just For Super-Tiny Apartments

Apartment sizers are getting smaller and smaller across the board. And lest the world’s city-dwellers go without appliances, GE is working on a solution: Meet the Micro Kitchen, an innocuous-looking drawer that contains every appliance you could need. According to the most recent census, 81 percent of Americans now live in cities. That means that…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 23

Today’s “Kitchen of 2063” Sounds a Lot Like Martha Stewart’s ’90s Dream

The high-end appliance company Miele recently commissioned an interesting study about the kitchen of the future. It projected that in 50 years our food will be 3D-printed, walls in our homes will grow food, and we’ll even have mini-fish farms right in our kitchens. But you’d be forgiven for feeling like you’ve heard this all…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 17

Sometimes the Kitchen of the Future Was Having No Kitchen At All

The American kitchen has always been a battleground for competing visions of the future. But one of the most radical ideas for the kitchen of tomorrow wasn’t some Space Age design with all the bells and whistles — it was actually having no kitchen at all. At the turn of the 20th century the kitchen…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 8

Other Kitchen Devices Can Harness Power from Your Microwave

When your microwave is sitting there glowing and spinning inside, do you ever wonder where all those stray rays of energy go? Turns out they usually just slip out the door, into thin air. But a Japanese scientists has found away to harness that power and use it to juice your other appliances. Yoshihiro Kawahara,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 20

Asimov’s 2014 Predictions Were Shockingly Conservative For 1964

In 1964, sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov penned a piece for the New York Times with his predictions for the world of 2014. Looking at the World’s Fair of 50 years hence, Asimov imagined 3D TV, underground cities, and colonies on the moon. Many people online have hailed this as an incredible example of prescient thinking,…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 29

The 1940s Kitchen of Tomorrow Was Difficult to Parody

Pre-dehydrated food processor? Non-functional sinks installed purely for style? A streamlined… baby? When it comes to midcentury visions of tomorrow, sometimes it’s hard to tell the spoofs from the earnest predictions. But what’s even more interesting is why the parodies popped up in the first place. Back in the 1940s, designers promised Americans that once…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 2

How We Imagined The Push-Button Kitchen Before Microwaves Existed

Through modern eyes, most American cuisine in the 1950s may not seem like the most appetizing stuff. There was an abundance of strange meats, way too much jello, and hot dogs in just about everything (and vice versa). Sometimes the combination of the three made for a fascinatingly grotesque display. But while some of the…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 2

The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

If you can’t help but stare in awe whenever you get the chance to peek inside a professional kitchen at a restaurant, you’ll be ecstatic to hear that KWC’s Waterstation is actually designed for home use. Albeit a home with a very big kitchen and enough disposable income to afford a $15,000 sink, but it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 4

This Fully Loaded, Column of a Kitchen Is Actually Becoming a Real Thing

With populations growing and cities overcrowding, space-saving designs are amassing a huge, highly lucrative following. The only problem is that they often stay just that—designs. But after being unveiled at the recent Milan Furniture Fair, at least one innovative appliance is leaving concept land to become a reality: Ecooking, a fully functional, vertical kitchen. https://gizmodo.com/the-tiny-transforming-apartment-that-packs-eight-rooms-5967622…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 17

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen Using Stuff From Your Kitchen

Punxsutawney Phil has deigned us worthy of an early thaw so there’s no use procrastinating on your spring cleaning—even if your kitchen is dirtier than a roadside truck stop Blimpie’s. Here’s how to make your kitchen sparkle using supplies that’re already there (or at least should be). Stainless Steel Stainless steel is throughout the kitchen…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 25

Is This a Gorgeous Range Hood Or a UFO Abduction Tube?

At some point over the past year appliance makers began a design war to see who could come up with the most innovative and original range hood designs. And with its new retractable Pareo hood, Italy’s Faber has just made a strong push towards victory and bringing an end to that war of aesthetics. Three…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 7

kitchens

Your Microwave Is Packed With Radiation-Resistant Bacteria

IKEA Wants You to Plan Your Next Kitchen in VR

Panasonic Wants To Transform Home Cooking With Their Countertop Induction Oven

The 1950s “Miracle Kitchen” of the Future Had Its Own Roomba

How This Revolutionary Industrial Glass Made Its Way Into Your Kitchen

These Engineers Want to Replace Your Oven With a Countertop Gadget

Ikea’s Futuristic Concept Kitchen Is Designed for Drought and Scarcity

There’s a Miniature Ocean Trapped Inside This Kitchen Island

The All-American Expo That Invaded Cold War Russia

GE Designed a Compact Kitchen Just For Super-Tiny Apartments

Today’s “Kitchen of 2063” Sounds a Lot Like Martha Stewart’s ’90s Dream

Sometimes the Kitchen of the Future Was Having No Kitchen At All

Other Kitchen Devices Can Harness Power from Your Microwave

Asimov’s 2014 Predictions Were Shockingly Conservative For 1964

The 1940s Kitchen of Tomorrow Was Difficult to Parody

How We Imagined The Push-Button Kitchen Before Microwaves Existed

The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

This Fully Loaded, Column of a Kitchen Is Actually Becoming a Real Thing

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen Using Stuff From Your Kitchen

Is This a Gorgeous Range Hood Or a UFO Abduction Tube?

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