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Kitchenware News & Housewares Review Show Daily 6 1 Sunday, March 3, 2019 The Swan comes in retail-friendly packaging and master packs of 12, so it is really easy to buy, and an opening trial order sample pack with free shipping is available. The Swan is a product of the Wine Lovers group, a consortium of professional- grade wine accessories. Visit booth #N8517 to learn about the foremost wine education tool in the world – Le Nez du Vin. It is the gold standard in wine education. You will also see the amazing, handblown wine glasses of Bottega del Vino Crystal – a Decanter (Cont'd. from p. 1) world class line of beautiful, wine driven stemware that is light, strong and 100 per- cent dishwasher safe. And you can see our award-winning Spot-Not series of decanter polishing and glass polishing tools. Wine Lovers welcome independent gourmet/kitchen stores, gift shops and importers from other countries. You are the preferred customer and Wine Lovers loves working with you! For more information, stop by booth #N8517 or go to www.winelovers collection.com. landing on countertops. The CrackSpot's safe to touch plastic "blade" limits shell fragments and allows you to crack eggs with confidence. With the success of its multipurpose silicone WaveSponge that features a scraper and squeegee to quickly get stuck-on food off pots, pans, countertops and more, Fusionbrands focused on the delicate side of clean-up and created the new BendItBrush, a shape changing gen- tle cleaning brush for glasses. The brush is designed to make cleaning the edges, rims and bottoms of glasses a breeze. BendItBrush has soft silicone scrubbers on the outside to thoroughly clean tough lipstick stains off the edges of glasses. It also features a unique embedded alu- minum band that straightens to offer length and rigidity for getting to the rem- nants at the bottom of the glass. The gray color matches the current WaveSponge so the products go hand in hand, and side by side by in the sink. The next product is the new ClipCut, a bag cutter and clip all in one. Say good- bye to battling to open stubborn chip and cereal bags and annoyingly tearing them all the way down the side. With a built-in concealed stainless steel cutter, simply Fusionbrands (Cont'd. from p. 1) put the bag between the cutter, then press while sliding across the bag. When done, fold the bag over and slip the clip side over the fold to keep contents contained. ClipCut will become your go-to kitchen item, and is great for on-the-go snacking when scissors are not easily accessible – picnics, barbecues, sport events, at the beach, the pool and especially on road trips! Fusionbrands' fourth new product, the LeafTwisters, are ecofriendly reusable twist ties to help keep items closed and organized. LeafTwisters are made of silicone with a metal wire inside to bend and shape. The wide flexible leaf design is easy to grip and twist for all ages. LeafTwisters are ideal for bags of chips, cereal, bread and more and can be used in the refrigerator and freezer. Keep a few in your purse or bag for when you visit the grocery store and need to tie vegetable or fruit bags. LeafTwisters are also great for organizing cords and prop- ping up devices when traveling. For more information, stop by Discover Design booth #N8307 to see new 2019 products, as well as all of its current offerings. After the show, go to www.fusionbrands.com or call 877.279.2002. household. With our modern way of life (humid- ity, insulation, heating) and increased everyday comforts, we've forgotten some of the advice our grandmothers used to give us. As a result, we've seen the proliferation of certain germs and allergens. Those most at risk are new- borns, young children and people with compromised immune systems. Dry Microfine Steam (DMS), exclu- sive to Laurastar, is the perfectly adapted prevention technique for clothes and fab- rics that are in direct contact with the skin of children and babies, as well as for all delicate items that cannot be washed in temperatures higher than 40 degrees and other items that are not washed frequent- ly. The simple act of ironing naturally eliminates 99.999 percent of bacteria and 100 percent of dust mites. It's a natural solution to effectively eliminate patho- Laurastar (Cont'd. from p. 1) genic organisms while taking care of your clothing at the same time. One superheated drop of water is transformed into dry microfine steam, expanding in volume by a factor of 1,600. It is diffused 15 times faster than the steam of a standard iron. The increased efficiency of Laurastar steam as it leaves the iron allows it to easily and uniformly penetrate fabrics with exceptional energy. Furthermore, it does not contain any water molecules in a liquid state as it leaves the iron. It thus leaves fabrics per- fectly dry, preventing microorganisms from breeding. The result? A unique plumping effect, and your clothes are left perfectly ironed and thoroughly cleaned. Laurastar products encompass all the standards of quality, precision and aes- thetics that make Swiss skill a world standard. For more information, stop by booth #L11311 or go to www.laurastarus.com. library as well as catch a live class from one of the many offered daily. How does Reflect work? Simply download the Reflect app for personalized control in the palm of your hand. Once on the app, select which area you would like to train, from the variety of workout types available, such as strength training, core, yoga, pilates, meditation or live one-on- one training. Once your workout is select- ed, view your reflection on screen as a per- sonalized trainer appears next to your image to guide you step by step, ensuring your form and technique are accurate for the best results possible. Each workout is saved with precise statistics that enable you to challenge your previous results for the best you that you can be. Echelon (Cont'd. from p. 1) You may be working out from the convenience of your own living room, but that does not mean you are alone! Reflect allows you to compete with your friends based on your output or challenge users across the globe for more intense competition by utilizing an advanced leaderboard, letting you compete with others by the second, using the Echelon "heart-track" heart rate tracking system. Whether it's 5am, 5pm or midnight, you can get a personalized routine on your own time. No crowd, no noisy machines – just you and a chance to reflect. Grab your yoga mat and connect with the Reflect app to keep track of your output for the ulti- mate individualized experience. For more information, go to www .echelonreflect.com. safe to use while sleeping or out of the house, unlike stovetop or oven cooking. VitaClay is classified as a "multi- cooker." It is a (fast) slow cooker, a rice maker, a yogurt maker and has lots of other functions, like cooking bone broths, roasts, steaming, re-heating and lots more! It is not a pressure cooker, because pressure does not build up inside. Pressure cookers take 15-20 minutes to build pressure, then the cooking time starts there. After cook- ing, pressure cookers have to "de-pressur- ize," taking another 15-20 minutes for most dishes. It might say a dish takes five or 10 minutes, but when you add in the time it takes to pressure up and pressure down, you're talking 35-45 minute cook- ing times at a minimum. VitaClay cooks many dishes in under 30 minutes, start to finish. Pastas take 20 minutes total, and rice takes between 20-45 minutes, depend- ing how much rice you are cooking (one cup takes a lot less time than a full pot, and white rice is a bit quicker than brown). When you add in the pressurizing and depressurizing factor, the same dish will often have a comparable cook time (or even faster) than with a pressure cooker. VitaClay allows you to add veggies in the end of cooking to retain the best texture and colors. Your total meal prep time is only five to 10 minutes without babysitting your cooker. It is truly "set it and forget it." VitaClay applies traditional heating method to cook foods like on a stove top but it is in clay. It brings to a boil quickly, then slow simmering to preserve better VitaClay (Cont'd. from p. 4) texture and nutrients with far superior results. VitaClay uses natural heat reten- tion of the clay, which contributes to even cooking with much faster cooking time. In fact, a general rule of thumb for any slow cooker recipe is: if the recipe calls for a certain cooking time on the "hi" setting, cut the time in half and cook it on the "stew" setting in VitaClay. If it calls for a cooking time on the "lo" set- ting, cut the cooking time by one quarter and cook it on the "soup" setting. So real- ly, there is no reason to cook almost any dish longer than two hours. A whole chicken or a beef stew might go two hours, but most are much less. VitaCaly is convinced that real, tra- ditional nutrition never gets old. So while VitaClay is continuously working on new products, its pride always remains in its focus: pure, natural, organic zisha clay. With a material as time-tested as pure organic clay, VitaClay doesn't think there is any benefit to updating that. It has always been the purest, best material to cook with, so why mess with that now? That being said, VitaClay is looking to the future and has an exciting line-up of new products that will be released soon; one of them is something people have been asking for for years! VitaClay wants to make cooking with clay the easiest, best experience people have, so it is constantly looking for innovative ways to provide clay cooking to as many people as possible. To learn more about VitaClay, visit Essenergy, Inc at booth #L11145, Lakeside Hall, call 408.621.6187 or go to www.vitaclaychef.com. ence on a shelf or counter top, and the Familia Wiss screw-top jar is an equally fun and useful take on the classic French canning jar. This year we will be bringing in a new line of 100 percent cotton kitchen textiles from aprons, oven mitts and hot pads to dish towels, flour sack towels, napkins and other items, adding to our ever-growing Down To Earth Basics line of high-quality natural home and garden products. With the popularity of both indoor plants and outdoor gardens, Down To Earth Distributors is well suited to pro- vide a wide variety of products to meet demand, from terrariums and floral accessories and more to complete the garden-to-table lifestyle. Stainless-steel bakeware, kitchen- Down to Earth (Cont'd. from p. 4) ware and tools, including a new coffee press, coffee filters and compost pail. We love stainless steel's classic look in any kitchen, but the metal really shines by being versatile and easy to clean. Zeph Van Allen, President of Down To Earth Distributors, explains, "You build your position in this industry by meeting customers' expectations year after year, so you have to know your mar- ket, and you have to pay attention to where the industry is heading and antici- pate its needs. We sell products that we use and believe in." For more information about products, services and corporate culture, visit Star Ches at booth #S2280. After the show, visit www.downtoearthdistributors.com, call 800.234.5932 or email sales@down toearthdistributors.com.