KITCHEN
Shiny & Sharp
GADGETS
Ice cool gadgets for hot days with Robin Alway…
The Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker,
Sage By Heston Blumenthal
RRP: £ 349.99, best price online £299.95
No one puts Heston in the back of the
cupboard. This high-end piece of ice dessert
technology actually needs to stay out on the
counter as moving it around could damage
the refrigeration compressor. You’d want this
silver beauty on full show anyway to attract
admiring glances. Then you can explain
the really clever thing it does is sense the
hardness of your frozen dessert as it churns
so you can select the perfect consistency for
ice cream, gelato, sorbet or frozen yoghurt. It
will then keep it chilled and ready to scoop
for up to three hours. Not quite as useful but
damn cute, it plays an ice cream van jingle
when it’s ready, which is sure to attract any
kids in earshot.
www.sageappliances.co.uk
Judge 1.5 Litre Ice Cream Maker
Magicup Anti-Spill
Travel Mug
RRP £64.99, best price online £29.95
Turns out that making your own ice cream is almost as
addictive as eating it. You can experiment with foodie flavours
and impress dinner party guests with a dessert that’s much easier
to make than most. Unlike the much more expensive models with
built-in freezing, this type requires pre-planning as you have to
put the bowl in your freezer for eight hours. You then take it out,
add your ingredients and it churns them for 20-40 minutes. The
result is great ice cream made from natural stuff that shames most
supermarket brands. Plus you get the chance to prove to the world
that your bacon and strawberry infusion needs to be tasted.
www.judgecookware.co.uk
RRP £19.99
All
products
from Hart’s of Stur.
Tel: 0800 371 355
www.hartsofstur.
com
Joseph Joseph QuickSnap
Easy-release Ice cube Tray
RRP £11
Jamie Oliver Easy Scoop Ice
Cream Scoop
RRP: £13.99, best price online £11.20
Is there a longer 10 minutes than
those you spend waiting for your
ice cream to become
scoopable when you take it out of
the freezer? Probably not. Praise
be to Jamie Oliver for finding time
in his packed, world-saving schedule to give us this heavy-duty zinc
alloy scoop. It’s sharp enough to
cut into the ice cream permafrost
from the coldest depths of your
freezer. We owe him another one.
www.jamieoliver.com
Carrying a full ice cube tray of
water from the sink to freezer has
long been a test of balance and
inner calm only matched by your
thwarted attempts to plonk one or
two cubes into an inviting drink
at the other end of the process.
Joseph Joseph feel your frustration
and have introduced QuickSnap
™ Plus. This means you can
use a flexible lid to get them in
the freezer without spillage and
switches on the underside of the
tray for each compartment, so
you’re finally in full, magnificent
control of ice cube release.
www.josephjoseph.com
www.menu-dorset.co.uk
It says a lot about your
fellow human that on
being told this is an
anti-spill mug, the
obvious response it to
try and disprove that
claim with computer
keyboard ruining
results. The Magicup’s
spring loaded lid is
hard to beat when
it comes to coffee
containment though, if
there’s not deliberate
intent. There’s the
added benefit of being
able to drink anywhere
around the rim of the
cup and getting that
full coffee aroma that
all serious caffeine
addicts crave.
www.hartsofstur.
com
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