We’ve got a winner in our giveaway for an OXO Handheld Mandoline. From all the entries of good folks who want to do some slicing, but not of their fingers, our winner is JULIE. (Two Julies entered, by the way. This was Julie from Michigan.) Congrats, Julie. Your new favorite kitchen gadget is on the way!
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OXO GoodGrips Handheld Mandoline is a Finger Saver, Plus a Giveaway
I love working in the kitchen, but I have to admit that I’m a total chicken when it comes to using a mandoline. Knives don’t frighten me, since I keep them really sharp with my whetstone and have pretty decent knife skills. But when I finally broke down and bought an expensive mandoline, I had [...]
Thanks to PourTaste, Some Lucky Gear Diary Reader Knows Where to Go for Happy Hour
We have a winner in our PourTaste iPhone app giveaway! Congrats to heatwave316 who will now know all the best places in town to get a properly crafted cocktail. Contact us here at contests@geardiary.com within the next 24 hours, and we’ll shoot you the download code.
Let PourTaste Point You Toward Your Next Happy Hour, Plus We Have a Giveaway!
Jon Yeager is a mixologist based out of Nashville, TN, and he desperately wants to share his knowledge with you. He has created a website which he calls “Pour Taste,” where he shares his experiences with the best cocktail lounges in bars from his travels around the country. Yeager also contributes cocktail recipes on a [...]
Meathead’s Temperature Magnet Contest Has a Winner
If you happen to be friends with Gear Diary reader Rodney St. John, you can now feel safe to go to a cookout at his house. That’s because Rodney is the lucky winner of a Meathead’s Temperature Magnet. He will have absolutely no excuse for undercooking your burger or burning your chicken wings to a [...]
AmazingRibs Meat Temperature Guide Might Just Save Your Bacon and Another Contest
There are lots of ways to determine the doneness of meat that you are grilling or roasting in your oven. (Notice I didn’t say “BBQing.” Where I come from BBQ is a noun, not a verb.) In addition to meat thermometers and a nifty little iPhone app that I’ve reviewed lately, sometimes it’s best to [...]
Our OXO Organizational Tools Giveaway has a Winner!
Our winner is Oasis789, who lamented “My dorm room is a huge mess, clothes everywhere. I gotta get me some organization!!” That sounds very familiar to me. When I was in college, Stanford did not notify you in advance who your new roommate would be. Since I drove from Tennessee and he drove from Rhode [...]
Oxo Gadgets Around the House, and a Giveaway!
Last year, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the Food Blog Forum that was being held was being held in my hometown of Nashville. A group of like-minded bloggers met to discuss all sorts of aspects to blogging about food, recipes, restaurants and gadgets. (I’m still waiting for the invite to [...]
We’ve Got a Winer…err, Winner in the Bottle on Ice Contest
Earlier this month, we told you all about the “Bottle on Ice” portable wine chiller and offered the chance to win your own vino-to-go delivery device just by telling us about a good wine you’ve discovered recently. Thanks to the gods of random number generation, our lucky winner is Linda D, who suggested Evolution 9, [...]
Just Chill Out with Bottle on Ice Wine Cooler
Contrary to popular belief, you’re not supposed to drink red wine at room temperature or white wine straight out of the refrigerator. Most whites taste best after being allowed to warm up about twenty minutes after being removed from the fridge, and your better Chardonnays and White Burgundies really shine at cellar temperature, which is [...]
iGrill + Omaha Steaks’ Steak Time App = Meat Magic
Now far be it from me to tell a man (or a woman for that matter) how to use their BBQ grill. Like politics and religion, grilling is a topic where advice is rarely appreciated or even more rarely followed. I’m sure you’re great at cooking a steak over charcoal or gas, and I wouldn’t [...]
Velocomp Introduces iBike Powerhouse for iPhone/iPod Touch
Since I am one of Gear Diary’s cooking and kitchen gadget reviewers and also write about food for a few other publications, it’s all I can do to keep myself anywhere near fighting weight. One of my favorite exercise regimens as part of the battle of the bulge is cycling, both on the road and [...]
Blacktop 360 Portable Griddle/Grill/Fryer Review
When you first see the Blacktop 360 Portable Griddle/Grill/Fryer, it’s hard not to think it’s a gimmicky product. I mean it just screams “As Seen on TV” thanks to its claim to be the Swiss Army Knife of your tailgating needs with a propane grill top, a griddle for frying or warming and even a [...]
If You’re Gonna Get Bombed Anyway, Try the ‘Bombs Away’ Shot Glasses from ConvenientGadgets.com
So does anybody actually still do shots anymore? In my younger day, I might have tipped a few back, and I do see the young folks dropping a Jägerbomb every now and then at my local watering hole. But for the most part, I like to sip my drinks rather than snapping my head back [...]
Griffin and Third Man Records Put a Spin on Your iPhone 4S with a Case Custom Cut from a 7” Vinyl Record
My hometown of Nashville, TN is full of stars, and not just the country music kind. It’s a little-known secret that lots of actors and musicians from other genres choose to live in the area because, in general, we Nashvillagers pretty much leave them alone when we see them out in public. Nicole Kidman shops [...]
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