6 gadgets are indispensable for cooking pizzas

The number of ways to eat pizza is practically infinite. You can have it delivered. You can buy it frozen. You can eat it piping hot when it comes out of the oven. You can eat it cold when it comes out of the fridge. You can eat it with a knife and fork. You can fold it like a taco. You can cut it into triangle or square slices. You can eat it in a box. You can eat it with a fox. You can even make a restaurant-quality pizza in your own home. Here’s a list of gadgets that are absolutely necessary — and a few that are absolutely not — to make pizza at home.

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Pizzeria Pronto Stovetop Pizza Oven ($120)

If you ask a pizza snob about their preferred way to cook a pie, you’ll probably hear something about wood-burning ovens. While this is undeniably a great way to cook pizza, it’s not exactly easy to get one of these ovens in your home. Well, thanks to the Pizzeria Pronto Stovetop Pizza Oven from Pizzacraft, you can make great pizza from the comfort of your own kitchen.

This stovetop pizza maker heats up quicker than a conventional oven and reaches 600 degrees Fahrenheit in just 15 minutes. The stove also features cordierite stones that trap heat — thus ensuring an even and crisp crust — and a moisture vent to prevent soggy slices. The one drawback of the Pizzeria Pronto Stovetop Pizza Oven is its size. While Pizzacraft claims that you can cook seven pizzas in an hour with this stove, you can’t cook a pie bigger than 12 inches.

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Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor ($150)

Any good pizza starts as good dough. While you can use a stand mixer with a dough hook, or even your hands, we recommend a good food processor. Not only will a food processor make the process of making dough easy, but these gadgets are also much more versatile than stand mixers. In fact, you can also use your food processor to chop up your toppings or make pizza sauce.

There are plenty of good food processors on the market, but we recommend the Cuisinart 14-cup Food Processor. This moderately-priced machine can handle relatively large batches and can make dough with a few pushes of the pulse button.

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Sagaform Pizza Scissors ($24)

Pizza scissors are not essential. However, if you’re looking for a conversation starter or if you’re just a big fan of sporks and spork-like products, these pizza scissors might be exactly what you’re looking for.
Made primarily of stainless steel, the Sagaform pizza scissors can save you seconds when it comes time to cut and serve your pizza. They even come with the word “Pizza” etched into the spatula, so you know exactly what they are supposed to be used for.

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Uuni 2S Wood-Fired Oven with Stone Baking Board ($299)

Remember when we lamented how it was nearly impossible to make a pizza on a wood-fired oven at home? Well, if you’re willing to take your pizza making outdoors, there’s the Uuni 2S wood-fired oven.
The best pizza (in whatever city you live in) can come from your backyard with this portable and affordable oven. The Uuni 2S can hit temperatures above 900 degrees Fahrenheit, which renders it possible to cook a stone-baked, wood-fired pizza in merely 60 seconds.

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Amazon

Old Stone Oven Rectangular Pizza Stone ($80)

While a wood-fired oven is ideal for cooking a pizza, a traditional oven works well if you use a good pizza stone. When picking out a pizza stone, you need consider size, material, and price.
 Clay and stone make great pizzas, for example, but they are difficult to clean. Steel stones, on the other hand, heat quickly and are easy to maintain. There are plenty of great options on the market, but the Old Stone Rectangular Pizza Stone is one of our favorites.

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Ironwood Gourmet Pizza Peel ($20)

Serious pizza makers might insist that a wood pizza peel should be used when placing your pie on the oven, while a metal peel is required to remove your cooked pizza from the flame. However, we only have enough room on this list for one more item, so which is better?

 If you can only get one, we recommend a wooden peel. The dough is less prone to stick to a wooden peel, they provide a nice surface to work on, and they’re nicer to look at.

The biggest problem with a wooden peel is that it’s thicker than a metal peel, which makes it a little more difficult to retrieve your pizza from an oven. Most wooden pizza wheels, like the Ironwood Gourmet Pizza Peel, are designed with slanted edges in an attempt to solve this problem.

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Dyson brings heating, cooling and air purification with just $ 600

 



For years, Dyson has been bringing consumers the latest in heating, cooling, and air purification. Their newest device, the Pure Hot+Cool Link fan, is poised to combine all three with smart technology to be the ultimate fan on the market.

Dyson already has the Pure Cool Link, which debuted this last spring and features cooling and air purification. Now with the addition of heat, just in time for the colder seasons, the Pure Hot+Cold Link’s sleek, finger-safe, blade-less design is perfect for all your modern air-related needs.

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Whether you use it for heat or cooling, the fan uses Dyson’s “Jet Focus” system that pushes air out in a targeted stream. It also has oscillation options with 10 different airflow settings, as well as a sleep function so you don’t have to worry about turning off the fan when it’s time to go to sleep.


The fan will have a powerful HEPA filter, which Dyson claims will remove 99.7% of all harmful air particles. This includes those released from home furnishings and carpets, like formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds. It also works on carbon and coal dust from fireplaces, as well as dander from pets and pollen from plants.


It connects to an app on your smartphone and allows you to monitor air quality in your home and activate the air filter even when you’re away from home. The Hot+Cool Link also features some built-in smart technology that can read its environment and adjust the airflow based on the air quality.

With its set of impressive features it has an equally impressive price tag at $600, a $100 increase over the Pure Cool Link model. It will be available in both blue and silver. It will be available online at Dyson’s website on September 1, with plans to roll out in U.S. stores and other international markets in early September.

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The future life is a natural life

 

If you thought your shed was modern with its electric heater and snazzy IKEA workbench, think again.

The recently announced winner of the U.K.’s prestigious Shed of the Year contest has created an extraordinary space that you could pretty much live in. And there’s not a single spiderweb or rusty saw in sight.

Kevin Herbert’s winning design, which recently came out top in a nationally televised contest, took eight years to build using mostly recycled materials.

Inside you’ll find everything you’d expect to see in a regular apartment, including a comfy-looking sofa, television, and shelves full of books and DVDs. It has a garden on the roof, too, a feature that adds plenty to its green credentials.


 

The elaborate construction has three separate sections (hang on, it’s starting to sound a bit unshed-like) that include “a spacious loft” (loft?), a large workshop space (OK, that sounds more like it), and, according to Herbert, “a secret bookcase that reveals a hidden room for the kids to enjoy.” No, we don’t know how the contest judges defined “shed,” but clearly Herbert’s grander-than-usual design was not an issue.

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In a blog post, the victorious shed builder described his creation as “a quirky getaway at the bottom of the garden,” at the same time lauding its “warm and cozy charm.”

There were nearly 3,000 entries vying for the Shed of the Year title, with Herbert’s years of hard work clearly paying off.

“We were up against some tough competition this year as the sheds were more eccentric and impressive than ever before,” Herbert said after being announced as the builder of Britain’s best shed.

If you’re impressed with what Herbert’s done with such a small space, be sure to check out this collection of equally remarkable designs showing compact living at its best.

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