This matt black extractor hood integrates into the benchtop + stores your cooking utensils

If you’re a passionate lover of cooking, or you’ve recently kickstarted your cooking journey, and want to accelerate it even further, then you’ve reached the right place. Having an efficient and streamlined cooking process is the key to preparing dishes that simply taste excellent! And the number one aid you need in having an effortless process is an arsenal of great kitchen appliances.  With the right kitchen tools and appliances, cooking can be an increasingly fun and simplified process. The right products can reduce your prep time in half, make the little cooking tasks much easier, and help you with tedious and complicated techniques. And one such cool kitchen appliance I recently came across is the Monolith extractor hood.

Designer: Falmec and Studio Ferriani

Designed by Italian kitchen brand Falmec and designers Studio Ferriani, the Monolith is an extractor hood that can be integrated into the benchtop, and also used as a nifty storage space for utensils. The extractor hood is a part of the Elements Collection and features a 90-centimeter-long suction element. It has also been equipped with differently sized storage units that can be placed and arranged in different custom configurations.

“The models making up our Elements Collection transcend traditional boundaries of aspiration, interpreting the suction element in an innovative way, becoming part of a modular architecture that is multifunctional and fully integrated into the kitchen,” said Falmec. Designed for a kitchen island, the innovative unique serves as a divider between the kitchen and the living space. At the same time, it also doubles up as a space to store stools such as ladles, spices, cutting boards, and knives that help to conceal the design’s more technological function.

The aesthetics of the Monolith are clean, minimal, and to the point. It features a matt black aluminum frame with a black glass front. A strip of lighting that is integrated with the base provides the entire kitchen with a warm and inviting glow. When the extractor hood is being utilized, the module opens a bit to remove fumes and provide access to the different controls. The Monolith’s aesthetics allow it to perfectly merge with any modern and contemporary kitchen.

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World’s first portable kitchen hood lets you cook anywhere without worrying about greasy fumes

The idea for a portable extractor hood came to designer Maxime Augay after his own experiments with cooking and using the standard hood right above his countertop. “It works well, but is very difficult to keep clean”, Maxime mentioned, as he tinkered with the idea of a smaller, portable hood that could easily fit in tinier kitchens… and more importantly, in kitchens without existing hoods. When you cook anything with oil or fat in it (that’s basically every food ever), you release fumes caused by burning, and small particles of grease along with it. The job of the hood is to channel those greasy fumes out of your kitchen – the challenge, however, is cleaning the hood every couple of months. Even worse, some kitchens don’t come equipped with hoods, which leads to two main problems – you’re left with spatters of grease around the walls and on the underside of cabinets, but more importantly, try grilling or searing something and you risk setting off the smoke alarm. Determined to find a solution that ticked all boxes, Maxime designed a compact countertop fan that was powerful enough to suck and filter out the fumes coming off the stovetop, while being quieter than your average exhaust fan.

Designer: Maxime Augay

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Styled almost like a Dyson Bladeless Fan, the AirHood is a portable hood that sits on your countertop, sucking in the fumes from your stove, induction cooker, or even your grill. Available in both wireless and wired formats, the AirHood works partly like a chimney, and partly like an air purifier. A switch on the top lets you choose between three fan speeds, depending on what you’re cooking, and the AirHood even comes with an optional Base Boost – a platform that elevates your hood by a comfortable two inches. Once switched on, the AirHood pulls fumes into its inlet, where the air first passes through an oil filter that traps the grease, and then an activated carbon filter that purifies the air of any toxins. Clean air then makes its way out of the outlet at the back of the device, keeping your kitchen air clean and eliminating the risk of accidentally triggering your smoke alarm. When not in use, the AirHood serves as kitchen decor, thanks to its minimalist, sculptural appeal. You can either leave it on your countertop or hang it on a wall, thanks to a hook built into the AirHood’s handle.

Aside from being portable, the AirHood is easy to clean too. Its simple surfacing and polished plastic construction allow you to clean your AirHood with just a damp cloth. Besides, the internal filters are replaceable too, giving you a hood that lasts as long as your cooking escapades do. Ultimately, Maxime’s design solution aims at tackling a challenge that’s common yet unaddressed. A vast number of kitchens don’t come equipped with chimneys/hoods – especially if you’re using an induction cooktop that can be plugged in anywhere.

The oil filter fights grease buildup.

The charcoal filter purifies the air.

While Maxime does raise the concern about toxic fumes from your food polluting indoor air, a more pressing concern is the grease, that eventually forms a thin, sticky film on your cabinets, ceiling, and other surfaces of your kitchen. The AirHood helps address that problem along with the constant fear of having your smoke alarm getting triggered every time you try to cook bacon or stir fry some veggies. Moreover (and this is highly understated), since it sits beside your stove instead of above it, it doesn’t obstruct your view and even allows you to capture overhead cooking videos Buzzfeed-style. Besides, I wouldn’t mind having the AirHood in the frame too, given how peppy it looks!

The AirHood comes in 3 colors (red, black, or white) and you can grab your own for an early bird price of $89 using the link below!

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Kitchens and homes of the future: Everything in store at Electrolux’s 2019 product showcase

As we prepare to head down to Stockholm to see what Electrolux’s plans for our future homes and kitchens are, here’s what we know. Considered one of the biggest names in home appliances, Electrolux has, for long, had an approach that is best described as design-forward. As an organizer of the Electrolux Design Lab, a competition that encouraged innovative designers to help Electrolux envision the future of home technology, the company has always had an affinity for conceptual designs that push boundaries, resulting in products that have redefined categories. We got a look at how Electrolux redefined home and kitchen appliances with their showcase at IFA 2018 (under their German sub-brand AEG), with everything from ovens you could control with your voice, induction plates that could turn off when your food’s cooked, and some of the most incredible design details one could imagine in a refrigerator.

Electrolux’s 2019 showcase in Stockholm aims at solidifying its place in every house and kitchen, with products that combine remarkable tech with remarkable usability. Their Intuit range of kitchenware aims at bridging the gap between artificial intelligence and expert cooking. This bridge allows users to rely on AI to assist in meal preparation. The all-knowing AI helps with multitasking, knowing and optimizing cooking processes for taste, and even guiding the user through the process of meal preparation and cooking. Electrolux’s Intuit Range comprises a series of smart-kitchen appliances, featuring the SteamPro oven that’s capable of cooking with steam (an essential for baking soft, delicious bread) as well as performing sous-vide operations to sheer perfection. The oven is even designed to work with Google Assistant, allowing you to simply tell the oven to preheat itself before you use it. Voice commands allow the AI to perfectly execute tasks without having the user to interact with a complex, feature-filled interface. Electrolux’s CookView oven allows you to take your confectionery skills to the next level by remotely viewing what’s happening inside your oven using the oven’s inbuilt camera that lets you keep an eye on your food on a mobile device, even while not in the kitchen.

The SensePro induction hob also forms an integral part of Electrolux’s vision for the future, with a wireless food thermometer that actively tells the induction plate when to increase/decrease the temperature, or when to switch off the stove completely. Imagine never undercooking or overcooking your meat ever again, because the stove ‘keeps an eye on itself for you’. That’s exactly how smart the SensePro aims at being.

The SensePro induction plate even pairs with Electrolux’s Hob2Hood chimney that can intuitively switch on or off depending on what the induction hob tells it. The hob comes with a feature that allows it to distinguish between boiling, steaming, roasting, frying, grilling, and other tasks, giving it the ability to know when to power the hood and clear the kitchen of smoke or smell.

Forming an integral part of Electrolux’s intuitive kitchen is its refrigerator, resplendent with rotating shelves that make sure you don’t forget about stuff kept in the back of the fridge, along with modular containers to mount on the fridge’s door, detachable trays that you can carry to your kitchen counter, and the new UltraFresh+ fridge-freezer that keeps ingredients fresh for longer by offering smart temperature and humidity adjusting capabilities to preserve perishables for longer.

We’re especially excited to see the iF 2019 Award winning ComfortLift dishwasher, that sits on the ground level, but utilizes a clever mechanism to allow the door to open upwards, lifting the trays to an optimal height so you can load and unload the dishwasher without bending down. Using their technical prowess as well as their knack for problem-solving, Electrolux’s products are functional in many ways, offering ease-of-use as well as having a keen eye for small interaction problems that we’ve lived with for years, be it something as taxing as bending down to load or unload the dishwasher, or as critical as leaving the oven on for too long and burning your food to a crisp. We’re headed to Stockholm not to just see Electrolux’s latest products, but to actually use them too. I mean, who wouldn’t want to bake bread with their voice?!

Chainmaille Octopus Hood: Eight Arms to Hold You

If Octopi had been on land during medieval times, this is what they would have looked like. That’s a scary thought. King Arthur would have been replaced by King Octo and the Knights of the Drowned Table. Plus, Octo would have needed eight Excaliburs, one for each tentacle. But enough about what could have been. Let’s talk about something that does exist, and that is this chainmaille octopus hood.

This amazing thing is the work of Chicago-based artist, jewelry, and fashion designer Vanessa Walilko. It’s an aluminum chainmail octopus hood for humans to wear on their head. It even has shiny metal tentacles to drape around your body.  Holy Cthulhu Batman! That is one creepy, but awesome piece of chainmaille.


Sadly, you can’t buy it, but you can learn how to make it yourself because Walilko wrote a book that’ll teach you how to make your own chainmaille wearables. It is called Chain Mail + Color. Can someone make me one of these, please?

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Star-Lord Hooded T-Shirt and LED Mask

First I have to say, as cool as the idea of a Star-Lord Hooded T-Shirt and Mask is, this just looks kinda creepy. It’s like Star-Lord’s evil twin has shown up from some hell-dimension. Any kids who looked up to Star-Lord are going to be terrified this Halloween.

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The hood is actually the “helmet” which features light-up LED eyes, and you can turn the mask’s lights on and off with a toggle switch. This shirt/hoodie combo is made of 60% cotton and 40% polyester, and is 200% zombie Peter Quill. Though he’s looking pretty scary and a little sad.

If you don’t mind scaring a bunch of people and making them feel awkward, you can get it for only $34.99(USD) from ThinkGeek.