HEATING BLENDER BY THOMSON
From hot blended soups to icecold smoothies and juices, this blender can do it all. With 900W of power and a cooking function, it makes it much easier for you to prepare a comforting bowl of fish porridge without worrying about the usual mess. Just place your ingredients in the blender, and choose to saute, blend or warm up your dish. An acoustic signal will notify you when it’s ready. The blender features four speeds and an ice-crushing option, too.
The Thomson heating blender retails for $269 and is available at major retailers such as OG, Robinsons and Tangs.
TM5 BY THERMOMIX
Consider this the ultimate all-in-one cooking assistant. If you have a small kitchen but love to cook and bake,
this multifunctional kitchen appliance may be the only thing you need. Use the Thermomix machine to weigh, chop, blend, mix and stir your ingredients, as well as cook, steam, grind, knead, whisk, and emulsify them to perfection. This all-rounder is also equipped with time, temperature, speed controls and up to 175 recipes, which you can easily access via a touchscreen. Too much for you to handle? Don’t worry – every user is assigned to a lifetime Thermomix adviser, so you can fully maximise this kitchen tool.
The TM5 by Thermomix retails for $2,320 and is available at www.thermomix.com.sg.
PANTELLIGENT FRYING PAN
This frying pan is equipped with a temperature sensor to prevent underor over-cooking of food. It monitors temperatures in real time, and tells you when to adjust the heat, as well as flip, stir, and add ingredients, through its app. With the temperatures under control, the coating on this solid die-cast aluminium pan will last much longer – and you’ll learn how long to keep your ingredients on the pan for, too! The app is also equipped with easy-to-follow recipes, and an auto-pilot mode that adjusts cooking time and temperature independently.
The Pantelligent retails for US$129 (S$178) and is available at www.pantelligent.com.
OPTIMUM KITCHEN MACHINE BY BOSCH
Unlike cooking, where adding ingredients to-taste works wonderfully, baking requires precise measurements and careful calculations. The latest version of Optimum features updated sensor technology and built-in weighing function that will tell you to add (or remove) your ingredients according to the target weight. Simply enter the desired weight, and an acoustic signal will notify you when you’re almost there. The Optimum will also stop automatically once egg whites and dough have reached the perfect consistency.
The Optimum kitchen machine retails for $2,099, and is available at Tangs and the Bosch Experience Centre, 11 Bishan Street 21, tel: 6356-1080.
INDUCTION SPHERICAL POT RICE COOKER BY TEFAL
Inspired by traditional methods of cooking rice over the fire, Tefal’s spherical and induction pot is orbed at a 62-degree angle at the brim and bottom, creating an all-around heating convection so rice grains are swirled circularly rather than vertically – this creates perfectly cooked and fluffy rice, down to the grain. This cooker can be used to prepare white, brown and glutinous rice, as well as congee, soups and perfectly rounded cakes.
The Tefal spherical pot rice cooker retails for $449 and is available at leading electrical and department stores.