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Chapter 1 Crazy Kitchen Gadgets and Useful Utensils

Discover what it takes to come up with the next must-have cooking gadget or wacky food machine, and find out how to invent your own!

c01f001.tif — **Figure 1-1:** A 3D food printer made out of LEGOs? Why not?

The flood of kitchen gadgets you see advertised every day on TV infomercials and in trendy housewares catalogs is nothing new. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of factories around 1800 started a boom in “labor saving” devices. Some of these newfangled devices, such as apple corers, egg beaters, ...

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