Being an Irish lass myself, I just love my potatoes (or as we call them, spuds!). I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a good old helping of mashed potatoes with dinner, apart from my 5 year old son of course! The problem with mashed potato though, one that really puts me off, is when you get lumpy mash – yuck. Nothing better for ruining your Sunday lunch.
So for the best quality mash you could make in the comfort of your own kitchen, why not try out OXO’s stylish stainless steel Potato Ricer. This is my new best friend in the kitchen! I love it, and can’t actually believe I have lasted so long without one. It literally transforms lumpy potatoes into creamy, delicious mash with one simple little press.
This Kitchen Potato Utensil is so easy to use. Simply hold over a bowl, fill with cooked potatoes and squeeze through. The non-slip handles helps absorb the pressure as you squeeze, which in turn will save you time and the strain of mashing (not to mention the dead arm syndrome after).
Don’t think that you can use this just for potatoes; why not mash your turnips or carrots this way. Or better still, purée your little ones food with it. You really will find a lot of uses for it.
OXO state:-
“If the thought of all that mashing deters you, try a ricer instead to save you time and energy in the kitchen. There’s no doubt that some mashers could do the job admirably, but for a professional result that makes you look more like Heston than Delia, the ricer wins hands down. Just one quick squeeze and you have a bowl of steaming, delicious mash for everyone to enjoy.”
The OXO Ricer costs a well spent £24, and the whole range is widely available through a selection of national retailers, or visit http://www.oxo.com.
For stockist details, please call 0114 290 1455.
Homedics, the market leader in home massage therapy has released some really innovative and useful new massagers.
First up is the HoMedics Hot & Cold Mini Vibration Massager (£19.99)
This homedics compact massager would sit well in any sports bag, ready for use immediately after a hard, punishing session. Incorporating a stylish design, this massager is designed for use with shoulders, legs or back.
Other features include -
• 3 massage settings including: massage, massage with heat and cold massage
• 3 massage heads: acunode, cold (refrigeration required) and heat
• Battery operated
• Available in purple, orange and green
• Available at Boots.com and MenKind
This heat massager is highly recommended.
The HoMedics Shiatsu Neck Massager £49.99
This is where Homedics excel. This neck massager performs at the highest level, offering immediate relief. A State-of-the-art moving massage mechanism is used that feels like the hands of a massage therapist, a very good one!
The Shiatsu massage and soothing heat gently kneads away neck tension and daily stress. The heat also really helps to ease muscle stiffness.
A very impressive addition to the range, Available at Argos, Amazon, Next.
This Homedics Shiatsu massager is as good as the real thing!
Radiopaq is a UK based company striving to deliver the very best in portable audio, superior acoustic devices and state of the art multimedia products. With their DOTS. Earphones, they have done just that.
Let’s get down to basics, These earphones cost just £15.
The design of these would suggest they cost more. The performance of these equals headphones with a much higher price bracket. When I review earphones, I like to check price vs performance.
I took these around the Iconic Gifts office and asked everyone to price the DOTS based on appearance and sound quality. My lowest price was £40.
So, Dots represent a huge bargain. The world’s smallest earpiece delivering great sound quality, noise isolation and comfort. They are absolutely tiny. But absolutely pumping!
Colour choices of red, pink, purple, green, blue, black and white keep these trendy and very desirable
Sporting a unique ultra-tiny sound driver (50% smaller than most standard earphones) and based upon nano acoustic technology, The DOTS come with a selection of three sizes of silicone ear-cushions to provide a customised earpiece.
Because of this bespoke snug fit on the headphones noise reduction is very much apparent.
When you look at these Radiopaq earphones Gym use springs to mind, due to their bespoke snug fit. Also, these would make the perfect jogging earphones.
Even the lead has been thoughtfully designed – with a tangle-resistant cable to save you from messy pocket knots.
Radiopaq earphones DOTS are set to be huge from something so tiny.
They are available from a wide range of high street retailers and online shops.
This is a fantastically innovative product for your PC! Freecom’s Mobile Drive CLS - a compact external hard drive that users can label to match the content on the drive.
Freecom external hard drives now include the CLS concept - which stands for ‘Collect, Label & Store’ is so useful in today’s world of IT. The Mobile Drive CLS makes it easy for users to organise their computer files by enabling them to store it on multiple drives, each of which can be categorised with an assortment of eight coloured, customisable labels.
One of my friends stores everything on their pc. Music, photos and even their home videos. You may do the same…I guess we all do. Hopefully, you are not like my friend whose pc was attacked by a virus.
The pc had to be restored to factory settings, everything was lost. I mean absolutely everything.
Video’s of their sons first moments in this world (the only copies), Images of similar as well as their wedding…all lost.
You can imagine the devastation. Now, I ask you – Do you back up? You do not want to join my friend and lose all those precious images and memories. Please back up your files. Computer external hard drives are so important.
The CLS makes this process so easy, so organised, so portable and so practical. The CLS, for all it’s selling points, has to be external hard drives best buy.
You could fill one drive with your favourite movies, one with a collection of photos and another with music. Each drive is small enough to be slipped easily into a bag or even a pocket, making them ideal for people who want to carry their information on the move and share it with family and friends.
This is a new product to market, only being unveiled in July 2010. Many people rely on hard drives to store all kinds of multimedia content, but with the increasing amount of information being used on a daily basis it can be difficult for users to keep track of everything and find individual files easily.
The Mobile Drive CLS gives users the option to reliably store different types of data on separate drives, allowing them to sort their files into a system that best reflects their lifestyle and usage habits.
Now, here’s a choice for you to make;
a) Do nothing, like my friend….and lose something you cannot place a value on.
b) Get yourself the best hard drive storage system I have seen. At £95.00, this is an easy and obvious choice.
For those looking for a little desktop action at work (décor that is), check out Lighting Direct who offer some fun solar powered boys toys which could suit many professionals. This desktop toy is definitely something you should look at, if like me, you have a hard to buy for man. Lighting Direct will have something for all those who just adore big boy’s toys, and with the added bonus of keeping him occupied for hours playing with his new toy, we couldn’t be happier (could we!).
With many products to choose from, your man will not be disappointed with what he gets. He could possess his very own Solar Powered Wind Turbine! This is more or less a Desk Fan Kit which is a small detailed replica of a full scale wind turbine. The rotors really do work as well! Using the sunshine or even your desk light, the integrated solar panel powers the rotor blades helping keeping you that little bit cooler in the office.
Lighting Direct say:- “Made from laser cut Perspex for easy assembly the Solar Powered Perspex Desk Fan Kit is a great demonstration of how efficiently modern solar cells work even when the only available light is from a desk light.”
You can assemble this Solar Powered Wind Turbine in less than a minute (well, if I can, anyone else can!). Just simply snap together the base, pillar and rotor units and you will have instant action. It really is as simple as that.
So, if you want to impress your colleagues with this desktop toy, and let them know that you are all about everything ‘Eco’, then this is on gift you may have to buy. The Solar Powered Wind Turbine is priced at £23.99.
Please do check out the site for the other solar powered toys available. Maybe your man will want the whole series! Others available are the Wooden Windmill (£18.99), the Watermill (£18.99), or another favourite of mine; the Solar Powered Helicopter which comes ready made (£23.99).
