10 Summer Gadgets To Kick Off Your Season In Style

10 Summer Gadgets To Kick Off Your Season In Style

Hey Steamy Fam! I'm coming to you with another sizzling summer must-haves list! With the temperatures rising, it's the perfect time to upgrade your kitchen gear with some seasonal flair. I've picked out ten gadgets that will elevate your culinary game and bring some...

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Deep Fried Turkey Without Oil

Deep Fried Turkey Without Oil

How to make deep fried turkey without oil! Every year, for the past 16 years, we've deep-fried a turkey for Thanksgiving. It took a near-accident near year 2 for us to realize that there must be a better way than to dangerously heat up 6 gallons of cooking oil on my...

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Our favorite cooking thermometer

Our favorite cooking thermometer

Earlier this year, thermometer companies were sending us their cooking thermomters to test. So far, we've tested 14 different units, from cheap $8.99 thermometers to fancy wireless bluetooth connectivity with app. Time and time again, we come back to Thermoworks and...

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Fini Cutlery Knives Review & Giveaway

Fini Cutlery Knives Review & Giveaway

I know, I know. These are the funniest looking knives you've ever seen. They are stumpy and are missing half the handle! But don't underestimate the Fini Cutlery Knives, we've been testing this set for over 45 days with daily use. Our Fini Cutlery Knives review...

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The Best Garlic Press – a new winner!

The Best Garlic Press – a new winner!

Why the Dreamfarm Garject is the best garlic press: Hefty chrome-plated die-cast zinc metal makes it easier to press garlic with little effort. Eject button! No handling the stinky peel Squeegee action means you get every last nugget of garlic Review includes PROs and...

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FoodSniffer Review & Giveaway

FoodSniffer Review & Giveaway

Over two years ago, I backed a crowdfunding campaign for FoodSniffer, an electronic "nose" for detecting raw meats/seafood gone bad. One of my friends had gotten really sick from consuming bad ground turkey, so I knew this would be a device that my friend would...

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Chefsteps Joule Sous Vide Review & Giveaway

Chefsteps Joule Sous Vide Review & Giveaway

Joule Sous Vide Review Since 2009, I have been cooking sous vide twice a week, sometimes even more. There's no other cooking method that can guarantee nearly perfect results every time. We've done extensive reviews on some of the most popular sous vide machines:...

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My Favorite Vietnamese Cookbooks

My Favorite Vietnamese Cookbooks

For the past 10 years of Steamy Kitchen, we've specialized in Asian cuisine, with cookbooks, free recipes and how-to videos. Our collection of Asian cookbooks will rival any bookstore! Here are our very favorite Vietnamese cookbooks. Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles...

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My favorite peeler, hands down

My favorite peeler, hands down

My favorite vegetable and fruit peeler of all time is the Oxo Good Grips Peeler. I've used the same peeler for the past 5 years and have bought dozens of them as gifts to friends and family. It fits in my hand perfectly, the grip is soft - so that when I'm peeling...

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Amazing Wok Invention

Amazing Wok Invention

I'd like to say I'm venture capitalist. Or at least pretend to be one. I've backed just a total of 96 startup projects via Kickstarter and Indiegogo. If you count the additional six projects that I pledged funding to but didn't succeed, that's 105 companies that I've...

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Favorite Kitchen Tools

Favorite Kitchen Tools

This is a list of my favorite kitchen tools - the tried and true, much loved and much used things in my kitchen that I cannot live without!   This is my favorite vegetable peeler of all time! The Oxo Good Grips Swivel Peeler is inexpensive (less than $10), the...

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