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Bodum Bistro Line: Kitchen Appliance Porn

The International Home+Housewares Show is going on right now in Chicago. We can only imagine all of the wonderful items that are being debuted and showcased during the show. We're especially pleas...

Stoves and Ranges
Roundup

We love cooking and when we are finally homeowners, we plan on being very selective about what type of stove we have. There are so many stoves and ranges to choose from and not it's not always the ...

10 Best Places to Sit a Microwave

A few weeks ago we asked where your small appliances live -- the counter or the cabinet. One of those small appliances is the microwave, which many think can only live on a counter, but that's not th...

10 Space Saving Kitchen Appliances

The kitchen is one of those frustrating places. Unlike other rooms, where you decide what to add, the kitchen decides for you. To be considered, well, a kitchen, a few large appliances are required t...

The Arclinea Dream Kitchen

Last night we were invited to the Pacific Design Center to preview the new lines from the likes of Wolf, Sub-Zero and Arclinea. These are the sort of beautiful, minimal and luxurious kitchen station...

Chore Hero: The iPhone App That Turns Chores Into Games

When you are living alone, there's just one person to do all of the chores. It can be easy, depending if you do them regularly, or it can be hard. This gets harder when dealing with a fully family. It...

5 Kitchen Exhaust Fans That Really Suck

Having lived in several places without kitchen exhaust fans or range hoods, we can surely tell you — they're a necessity! There's some new high tech options out there geared to save energy and...

Maytag IntelliSense Technology: Preserving Your Food & $$

Maytag has brought us some great innovations in the past, including ones that improve the lives of the laziest of us. New IntelliSense technology, now in the the side by side refrigerator freezer, t...

5 Great & Smart Refrigerators For The Modern Kitchen

Fridges are a really important appliance to get for all kitchens. You need a good enough that suits your needs in order that your kitchen works well. Fridges are essential, and so they need to be pr...

Getting Online Content While You're In The Kitchen

Having access to your computer and the internet while you're in the kitchen cooking is really a smart idea, because you can just Google any question you have and quickly get an answer. Still, puttin...

A Closer Look at the Smart Tech Within the Smart Home

Last week we posted about Smart Home's 2010 opening, featuring a whole slew of new technology. Janel Laban of Apartment Therapy Chicago posted a house tour of the original interior and has now gone b...

6 Essential iTunes Cooking Apps

Cooking has always been a past time that's involved tools, whether it be cookbooks, scraps of paper holding generations old recipes, modern appliances. The apps found within the iTunes App Store have...

9 Steam Cleaners That Will Clean Almost Anything

Steam cleaning is a great way to tackle your kitchen and bathrooms alike. Both are filled with large expanses of non-porous surfaces that get extra grimy from heavy usage. Do you know what to look...

10 Best Looking Coffee Makers

Ah the coffee maker. Trusted morning pal, afternoon crutch, and the occasional cooker's helper. Making your own coffee at home cat save you a lot of dough, so allow us to show you ten of, what we fo...

Meyer Prestige Toasters

We're talking about kitchens and bathrooms this month and we've been trying to pinpoint the appliances in our kitchen that we use the most. One that immediately came to mind was our really (and I me...

Print Digital Photos onto your Kitchen Backsplash

Kitchen back splashes tend to be one of the trickier areas in a kitchen to bring color in to. Tile is the most practical, as it makes clean up easy, but can be a bit limiting in terms of design. Pari...

What Kind of Refrigerator Do You Have?

Hopefully many of you Unplggd readers also happen to be readers of The Kitchn also (because loving tech and cooking aren't exclusive passions). Faith over at our cooking and food site posed a survey ...

Modular Accordion Kitchen Countertop By Olga Kalugina

The one thing that's important in any kitchen is the ability to find stuff quickly. There's nothing more frustrating than rummaging around those cupboards in order to find something that was misplac...

Don't Judge this Digital Kitchen Scale by its Cover

Yesterday we put the spotlight on a kitchen problem that's hard to ignore, but even harder to solve -- where to store kitchen gadgets. One such tool we didn't touch upon is the digital scale. ...

Do You Use Tech in the Kitchen?

We're avid cooks and unlike most people, we don't mind admitting that about 75% of what we cook is from closely following other peoples recipes. Keep in mind that we only own one cookbook (Julia Chi...

How To Mimic LG's Decorated Appliances

Back in 2008, LG Electronics came out with a series of home appliances with interesting floral designs integrated on to their exteriors. Unfortunately, the series, dubbed Art Flowers and shown in th...

Do Your Small Appliances Live on Counters or in Cabinets?

Our kitchen holds quite a few small appliances -- rice cooker, toaster oven, mixer, food processor, and bread machine. Obviously, many of these are stored away, but I keep itching to put them all awa...

10 Best Home Appliance Integrations

Last week Gregory posed a question here on Unplggd about kitchen/laundry combos. What caught our attention in the post was the amazing interior photo he included in the write-up. If you need to add ...

How Induction Cooktops Can Turn Your Kitchen Green

We're currently struggling to cook via an ancient electric stovetop at our new apartment. It's been a learning experience going from gas to electric, but we're managing. Now, if we owned the place, w...

Dishwasher Hides Behind Recycled Shipping Crates

Hiding large appliances like refrigerators, dish washers or laundry is a near impossible task. Tucking the first two into cabinets seems redundant, but it's not like you can sew a cute cozy to go cov...