Pink Blog

Now is a great time to buy this cotton candy maker – or fairy floss maker, since you’re buying it from the UK! I say great time because, well, the pound is not doing so well right now, and what used to cost $60 now costs $40. Of course I’m not sure that you’re going to be spending your money on something like a cotton candy maker right now, but if you were, this would be a good time to do it! Use plain sugar for white cotton candy, or add food coloring for other colors.

For those of you who don’t – ahem – eat ice cream out of the Ben and Jerry’s pint with a spoon, there is the Cuisipro Scoop and Stack. I don’t keep ice cream in the house myself, so it’s been a long time since I’ve used an ice cream scoop, and this is apparently the latest in – er – ice cream scoop technology. (Can you tell I’m trying to write this with a straight face?) You can stack your ice cream as high as you want, at least until it topples! It seems to fit a regular cake cone (the square-bottomed kind) perfectly. $15.

People, I am so confused. I thought “Smeg” was an insult, especially a British one – yes, I watch a little too much Red Dwarf! But anyway, apparently there is a company, in the UK no less, called Smeg Retro. Here in the US, “smeg” even has a very unsavory meaning, but there it is, Smeg Retro. Anyway, they have a bunch of appliances in a color called “Pink Fire” as you can see in the picture at left. But man…I’m gonna go sit over here and contemplate the wisdom of naming your business after smeg.

In my family, if we want wine chilled, we stick it in the fridge. If we need it chilled in a hurry, we have a big ol’ metal bucket that we fill with ice, and we stick the wine in that. In Karim Rashid’s crazy world, wine is chilled by putting it in the Globalight. You stick the bottle in, and LEDs light up the whole thing with a pink glow. I’m not sure how the lights keep from warming the bottle, but if you have a spare $4500, you can get this thing and tell me how it works.

I hate chopping onions. So does my spouse, who was chopping them a day or two ago. I tried to say something, and I was cut off by a sharp “not now!” – she was in so much pain from the onions that she couldn’t even talk to me. Crying when chopping onions affects millions of people, though not everyone – some people just seem to be lucky with it. For those who have difficulty, there’s instructions for chopping onions without tears, and then there’s Onion Goggles! If you keep these in a kitchen drawer and put them on whenever you need to chop an onion, you shouldn’t have any problems. They look pretty sleek (also available in white and black) and they cost $20. I have no idea how well they work, but they claim to provide a foam seal against the sulfur vapors that irritate the onion chopper’s eyes. If you try them out, please let me know how well they work!

I had no idea you can make espresso on your stovetop! I thought you needed one of those fancy machines like they have at Starbucks. But Bialetti makes the Dama, which has an easy-grip silicone handle and cooks up the coffee right at home without a giant machine. Bialetti is apparently a very famous name in Italy for coffee, and I would have expected that the Dama would be a lot more than $40, but that’s how much it sells for! It only comes in a 6-cup size, though, so you are going to be drinking a lot of espresso with this. Happily, Bialetti is donating an unspecified amount to unknown breast cancer organizations for each purchase of this equipment.

Oh, to live in Japan and speak Japanese! If I did, I would be able to order and use the Hello Kitty microwave oven from Toshiba. It’s a microwave and an oven, with the oven cooking at 1100W and the microwave cooking at 950/1300W which I think is standard here too. It features a “total deodorant” coating inside and weighs about 30 lbs; it costs about $330 but I’d say it’s an essential edition to the kitchen of any Hello Kitty-loving Japanese speaker. (Or whoever can figure out the buttons, since they’re in Japanese.)

Most people know Henry, the smiling little vacuum cleaner who is popular because he fits into small spaces – we took that picture on a cruise ship, for example. But now there’s his friend Hetty! (Maybe she’s his sister or his girlfriend, I don’t know.) Hetty has all the same features that Henry does, just a different look. She’s the same price as Henry, about $175. Why not welcome this lovely girl into your house?

It’s pink, it’s a toaster, it’s $240. I am honestly not sure why a two-slice toaster would be $240, even if it does have an ejection lever and extra-wide slots to accommodate bagels and the like. I mean…it’s a toaster. It also comes with a “sandwich cage” with a built-in drip tray. But still…it’s a toaster. And yes, I get that it was lovingly handcrafted hand-assembled in England. I even get that it has an adjustable back foot so if you can’t afford to have your counter fixed so it’s truly horizontal (because you’ve spent so much on this toaster), you’ll still be safe from sliding hot bread. But come on. It’s a toaster. And it’s $240. Regularly $300 in fact. What the hell?

In the continuing effort to make your entire kitchen pink, I have come up with this baby pink espresso maker. It’s available from Kitchen Universe for only $650. That means it would only take 371 double-shots of espresso at Starbucks to pay for itself! It’s a no brainer! Unless, of course, you choke at the idea of spending $650 on a tarted-up coffee pot. Clearly this is for pink lovers who have a lot of extra dough…