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SMALL ELECTRICS www.kitchenwarenews.com n JUNE 2016 n KITCHENWARE NEWS & HOUSEWARES REVIEW 1 7 Small Electrics Hamilton Beach Professional Sous Vide Slow Cooker Once only found in high-end restaurants, sous vide cooking is now an accessible option for the home kitchen. With the Hamilton Beach® Professional Sous Vide Slow Cooker, consumers can have a multi-functional countertop appliance with the ability to be used as a sous vide water oven or slow cooker. Using precisely controlled water temperatures, the sous vide method cooks foods evenly from edge to edge to the desired doneness. Food is placed in a sous vide-ready plastic bag and added to the water. Foods will not overcook, because the temperature does not change during the cooking process. The water can be set f rom 104 degrees Fahrenheit to 210 degrees Fahrenheit and can be programmed to cook between one and 72 hours. Having hot, homemade meals ready made with walkaway convenience is the reason slow-cookers are so popular. This has a 6- quart capacity, and the insert is nonstick for easy cleanup. The slow cooking mode is programmable with two temperature settings; it will cook up to 8 hours on HI or 16 hours on LO. For additional information, go to www.hamiltonbeach.com. KN Novis Vita Juicer Announces Recipe Contest For Soup Made with a Juicer To celebrate souping as a new food trend, Novis Vita Juicer announces a soup recipe contest. The one requirement is that the soup recipe needs to utilize a juicer. The Novis Vita Juicer recipe contest runs from April 20 through May 20. Details can be found on the NovisUSA Facebook page. Any kind of juicer can be used to develop the recipe. The winner of the contest will receive a $500 Novis Vita Juicer. The Novis Vita Juicer fully extracts all of the vitamin-rich juice from fruits and vegetables including leafy greens such as kale and spinach giving people more nutrient-bang from the dollars spent at the grocery store. The compact, quiet juicer features four functions including pureeing so consumers can use the appliance for cooking, baking, souping, processing foods such as tomatoes and, of course, for juicing. The Novis Vita Juicer is available in seven colors: black, red, yellow, orange, white, green and silver. The Novis Vita Juicer retails for $500 at www.novisusa.com. KN De'Longhi Launches Kitchen Appliance Collection De'Longhi has announced the launch of its new Livenza Collection of countertop appliances. The collection includes the Livenza Oven, Livenza 5-in1 Grill and Livenza Deep Fr yer. Each of the new products features a brushed and polished stainless steel finish for simple cleaning. "The new Livenza Collection is a great example of blending the distinctive design, premium quality and simplicity that De'Longhi products represent globally," said Mike Prager, De'Longhi North America's President and CEO. " We've taken local consumer insights and trends to create a beautiful line developed specifically for the North American market." The De'Longhi Livenza Oven offers four different cooking levels and the ability to cook on two levels at once using the rack assist guide. The 24 liter capacity allows users to make multiple recipes without having to turn on the traditional oven. Settings allow for baking, convection baking, broiling and def rosting, as well as settings for a fresh or frozen cookie baking and thin, normal and deep dish pizza. Additional features include a scratch ECOlunchboxes: the Convenience of Plastic Without the Plastic with napkins that she designed and sewed f rom fair trade block- printed fabric that she sourced in India. She started out selling the containers and lunch bag at a local holiday fair. The products sold well there, so she went to a few other events in the San Francisco Bay area. "Within a few months, Whole Foods Northern California wanted to bring in the product line," she says. "From there, we've gone on to sell over 285,000 ECOlunchboxes worldwide and have averted the disposal of millions of pieces of trash, mostly plastic." Today, Harris regards herself as a social entrepreneur who's driving positive change for health and the environment through selling things. "The more we sell, the more change we make," she says. Last year she was invited to participate in an event on Capitol Hill, where she shared the impact of the lunch boxes and talked about how the capitalist engine can be part of the solution to pollution. She was recently named the Small Business of the Month for April 2016 f rom California State Assembly District 16 by Assemblywoman Catharine Baker (R-Dublin), and she has also received other local awards for green business. Her newest product line, the Blue Water bento line, was launched with a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 and introduced to the housewares industr y at this year's International Home + Housewares Show. " We're a small business that turned to the community for support, and we got an enthusiastic response f rom more than 700 Kickstarter backers," Harris says. " We got the funding to bring the line to market." The Blue Water bento line is nontoxic, plastic f ree containers that fit together as a set. They're made with stainless steel bottoms and blue leakproof silicone lids patterned with a marine theme. The Splash Box is a rectangular bento box that tucks into a lunch bag along with two small Pods that fit right on top of the Splash Box. At the end of the day, the empty Pods nest inside the Splash Box, and it comes home collapsed together. "It offers the convenience of plastic without any plastic or any of the downside," Harris says. The Seal Cup Trio is another similar lunch set, except that the containers are round rather than rectangular. They're also made of stainless steel with silicone lids, and the set of three containers will hold a total of five cups of food. "We find that most people like to bring an entree and two snacks or two sides," Harris says. "Three is just a real popular number when it comes to how people sort their food for lunchtime." ECOlunchbox products are currently sold at Bed Bath & Beyond and The Container Store as well as independent grocers and children's boutiques nationwide as well as in Europe, Canada and Asia. KN (cont. from Page 16) resistant, nonstick interior and an auto shutoff setting. The De'Longhi Livenza Oven will be available September 2016 for a suggested retail price of $299.95. The Livenza 5-in-1 Grill is made for home cooks looking to maximize counter space while flexing their culinary muscles. The grill, which features interchangeable grill and griddle plates, has five different functions, for use as a contact grill, panini press, full grill, full griddle and half grill/half griddle. The De'Longhi Livenza 5-in-1 Grill will be available in September 2016 for a suggested retail price of $279.00 The final product in the new kitchen collection, the Livenza Deep Fr yer, features the EasyClean system, which allows users to drain oil directly f rom the f ryer without ever having to touch it. The f ryer offers an increased oil capacity of one gallon and an adjustable thermometer for even cooking of foods. The De'Longhi Livenza Deep Fr yer with EasyClean System will be available in September 2016 for a suggested retail price of $149.00. For additional information, go to www.delonghi.com. KN