Awesome Kitchen

Blödes Orchester (Stupid Orchestra) was composed for this 200 piece vintage home appliance orchestra by Michael Petermann; he gathered the motley ensemble through eBay purchases.

We never thought we’d ever say it’s ever okay to stick your hand into a shark’s mouth, but we see an exception has been found here in these funny neoprene oven mitts from Fred Flare.

Whether you’re a professional chef or still creating burnt abominations, Gama-Go’s oven mitt will surely get you pumped up for cooking time. We’re not exactly sure if it’s practical though.

Your colleagues will know how you’re feeling every morning with Thabto’s lighthearted Mood Mugs; the double wall insulated porcelain pieces feature simple facial expressions to reflect the mood.

Stop using napkins or those wimpy plastic things you call a coaster. This is a man’s coaster. Tough, durable and can bear even the heaviest mugs. Actually we’re not sure about that last bit.

Campers and traveling caffeine connoisseurs alike will appreciate Blackbird’s 10 ounce combination French press/travel tumbler; it’s vacuum sealed to keep drinks hot. All we need now is the coffee.

Anchor Hocking takes the familiar form of the lowly disposable plastic cup and turns it into a glass tumbler. The Sigma tumbler can carry 18-ounces of fluid. Please don’t crush cup after use.

We like this ceramic Death Star cookie jar simply as sculpture in the kitchen – but we’d be stoked if it was filled with something delicious inside (like sugary, bite-sized Stormtroopers). (Thanks Jon!)

Don’t wait for a sidewalk vendor in Hong Kong to make this – you can now create puffy egg-shaped waffles with crispy-golden outsides and tender-creamy centers at home with this NordicWare pan.

We know we’d be making much more of an effort to complete our KP duty if we had this gorgeous knife in our kitchen utensil repertoire; it’s lovingly hand forged from a single piece of steel.

Heat your food the way the pros do it with Bon Home’s heat lamp. It uses infrared heat to keep food warm without drying it out. Adjustable to accommodate food of all shapes and sizes.

Ok, it isn’t new, and at best it’s still a prototype, but still we must give a tip of the hat to Chris Dimino and the way he repurposed a Corona typewriter into a jumbo waffle maker. Because it rules.

Christoph Thetard’s concept kitchen removes all need for electricity, powering kitchen appliances with a pedal-powered flywheel. It can blend, chop, grind coffee, and beat eggs at up to 10,000 RPM.

True oenophiles may know the exact date that last bottle of wine was opened, but for the rest of us who aren’t paying attention this bottle stopper with adjustable month and day display should help.

Grinding never looked so good in the kitchen until now, thanks to these strikingly and sturdy salt and pepper mills from Vipp, made of a combination of aluminum, stainless steel, and matte rubber.

Hu-tah! We’re totally digging on this set of 3 stealthy shinobi warrior cookie cutters. Adding swords, nunchaku, or shuriken stars with icing and toothpicks equals a sell out at the next bake sale.

The smoking gun tool infuses foods and drinks with flavors like applewood, cardamom or earl grey. The heat is contained in the aluminum smoking chamber and releases cool smoke as a result.

Espresso Solo is a concrete-encased Lavazza espresso maker from Israeli design student Schmuel Linski. Coffee beans are poured into the top part; water is poured into the drawer in back.

Designed for compact urban dwellings, Kirstin Laas + Norman Ebelt’s “Small Type” kitchen manages to cram storage, work surfaces, a sink, refrigerator, cooktop and oven all into a tiny, flexible island.

Want to chew on an icy kiwi-strawberry popsicle but too lazy to leave your air conditioned house? The Zoku Quick Pop Maker makes up to 9 delicious frozen treats in about 7 minutes, without electricity.

Tires of the same old boring waffle shapes? The Lolly Waffle maker makes 4 golden, delicious freshly baked waffles on a stick in about a minute. Only costs a grand. You’re welcome. (Thanks Gus!)

Italian design company Acquacalda has an unusual kitchen gadget collection called Applied Physics, including a glass with measuring reservoir, bowl for weighing food in water and 4 glass wine dispenser.

Available 3/24/10: Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet’s Artisan Fire Pizza Oven not only blasts your pie at temperatures as high as 800 degrees, but can cook it as quickly as 2 minutes.