So you’ve got your perfect designer kitchen, and it’s making your well-loved toaster and kettle look a little, well, tired. If you’re on the hunt for gorgeous gadgets that are exceptionally useful as well as being great looking, here’s our pick for 2014.
Coffee makers
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| Price: £129 | Tassimo – Bosch Tassimo Joy |
Everything starts with a decent cup of coffee. There’s a diverse range of machines available, depending on your taste, and from Tassimo to Nespresso there’s an easy to use pod system that will wake you up in the morning. For sheer variety, brands like Tassimo and Dolce Gusto are hard to beat, while for the more exclusive coffee drinker there’s the Nespresso. Coffee will never taste the same from a jar again.
Juicers
Another breakfast staple and beloved breakfast of many a fitness aficionado is a fresh juice, with or without wheatgrass or maca or whichever wonder ingredient is doing the rounds. The best thing about a juicer is that you can design your own blends and make them as super-healthy or deliciously decadent as you like. Powerful motors make easy work of the hardest fruits and vegetables. Favourite brands include Dualit and Magimix, which will help you whizz up creamy cocktails as well as saintly smoothies.
Grills
Enjoy an indoor barbecue, with meat cooked virtually fat-free and a range of deliciously chargrilled meal options. Compact, easy to clean and great for saving money, grills are ideal for quick and healthy dinners. George Foreman is well known for his Lean, Mean Grilling machines, but there are some excellent grills available from Russell Hobbs and Tefal which are well worth checking out too.
Blenders
Fabulous for soup, smoothies and anything that needs to be whizzed up in a hurry, a blender is a necessity in the modern kitchen. Kitchen Aid and Kenwood are top of the list for blenders able to handle everything from simple smoothie-making to hard core ice crushing, chopping and slicing. You’ll wonder what you ever did without one.
Ice cream makers
OK, so maybe the ice cream maker is an indulgence, but once you’ve got one, you won’t buy shop-bought again. That space on the worktop is just perfect, right?
As with every other designer kitchen gadget, there’s a range of options from cheap and cheerful to Cuisinart and Magimix, but they all create delicious ice cream, sorbet and gelato and the only limit to the flavours you can concoct is your imagination. You’ll never want ice cream with additives ever again…
