This Genius Oven Was Designed To Be Used Upright Or Even Sideways…

I remember seeing a video where a toaster could be laid on its side and used as a pizza oven instead. Rather than simply toasting bread slices, you could apply a small amount of sauce, pop a pepperoni slice or two, and some cheese and slide it into the horizontally kept toaster. Working essentially as an oven now, this toaster could be used to dish out quick pizza slices, or even toast up garlic bread, bagels, etc. While that sideways toaster use is more of a lifehack, it’s the Dwo Oven and Multicooker’s very USP. Designed to be used vertically as a regular oven, or sideways as a wider pizza oven, the Dwo goes to show that even something as basic as your average kitchen appliance has the potential to be reinvented.

Designer: Dogma Design

Designed for compact kitchens that can’t accommodate too many appliances, the Dwo lends itself to multiple use cases thanks to an adaptable design that works standing up as well as lying on its belly. The oven comes with a slim profile, sporting clear windows on the front and back, along with a control panel on top that lets you set the temperature and timer. The clear windows also function as doors, with both of them opening depending on how your oven is oriented. When standing up, the front-facing door opens to give you a narrow yet vertically spacious oven, while when sleeping down, the rear door (which is now positioned on top) opens to let you lower wide items into the oven. The concept is sort of like a wood-fired oven versus a tandoor – one has a frontal opening while the other is accessible from the top.

A roller on the bottom of the Dwo helps it easily transition between its two orientations, allowing you to easily and swiftly change between vertical and horizontal use. Vertically, the Dwo is perfect for multi-level cooking, like baking loaves, tea cakes, or a row of cookies. Lay it flat, however, and you can now lower a wider pan into it, making it ideal for pizzas, wider cakes, focaccias, pies, etc. Of course, orienting your oven vertically or horizontally means the heat coils face in different directions based on the orientation. While horizontal, your pizzas don’t necessarily cook fast from the top or the bottom, given that the heat coils are located on the sides. However, with some clever thermodynamic engineering, the Dwo could be turned into a heat-guiding furnace, so your pizza cooks evenly with browning on the bottom and a melted layer of cheese on the top!

Designed by Colombia-based Dogma Design, the Dwo is a Best of the Best winner of the Red Dot Award: Design Concept for the year 2024. It gives you an adaptable oven that doesn’t occupy much space, and can be used for something as basic as reheating an entire pizza to something more complex like making biscuits or cupcakes. The oven’s unique flat-ish internal space might be limiting had it not been for its ability to literally lean over and shift between standing and sleeping formats. No more trying to tilt the toaster on its side to lifehack your way through college!

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This Genius Oven Was Designed To Be Used Upright Or Even Sideways…

I remember seeing a video where a toaster could be laid on its side and used as a pizza oven instead. Rather than simply toasting bread slices, you could apply a small amount of sauce, pop a pepperoni slice or two, and some cheese and slide it into the horizontally kept toaster. Working essentially as an oven now, this toaster could be used to dish out quick pizza slices, or even toast up garlic bread, bagels, etc. While that sideways toaster use is more of a lifehack, it’s the Dwo Oven and Multicooker’s very USP. Designed to be used vertically as a regular oven, or sideways as a wider pizza oven, the Dwo goes to show that even something as basic as your average kitchen appliance has the potential to be reinvented.

Designer: Dogma Design

Designed for compact kitchens that can’t accommodate too many appliances, the Dwo lends itself to multiple use cases thanks to an adaptable design that works standing up as well as lying on its belly. The oven comes with a slim profile, sporting clear windows on the front and back, along with a control panel on top that lets you set the temperature and timer. The clear windows also function as doors, with both of them opening depending on how your oven is oriented. When standing up, the front-facing door opens to give you a narrow yet vertically spacious oven, while when sleeping down, the rear door (which is now positioned on top) opens to let you lower wide items into the oven. The concept is sort of like a wood-fired oven versus a tandoor – one has a frontal opening while the other is accessible from the top.

A roller on the bottom of the Dwo helps it easily transition between its two orientations, allowing you to easily and swiftly change between vertical and horizontal use. Vertically, the Dwo is perfect for multi-level cooking, like baking loaves, tea cakes, or a row of cookies. Lay it flat, however, and you can now lower a wider pan into it, making it ideal for pizzas, wider cakes, focaccias, pies, etc. Of course, orienting your oven vertically or horizontally means the heat coils face in different directions based on the orientation. While horizontal, your pizzas don’t necessarily cook fast from the top or the bottom, given that the heat coils are located on the sides. However, with some clever thermodynamic engineering, the Dwo could be turned into a heat-guiding furnace, so your pizza cooks evenly with browning on the bottom and a melted layer of cheese on the top!

Designed by Colombia-based Dogma Design, the Dwo is a Best of the Best winner of the Red Dot Award: Design Concept for the year 2024. It gives you an adaptable oven that doesn’t occupy much space, and can be used for something as basic as reheating an entire pizza to something more complex like making biscuits or cupcakes. The oven’s unique flat-ish internal space might be limiting had it not been for its ability to literally lean over and shift between standing and sleeping formats. No more trying to tilt the toaster on its side to lifehack your way through college!

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AEG Kitchen Range at IFA 2024 Elevates the Culinary Experience with Innovation For All

Being stuck at home for months not only gave birth to the indoor gardening trend, it also helped people rediscover the joys of home cooking. The rise of the domestic chef who’s excited to try out new recipes for themselves or for their families has also given rise to the need for more sophisticated kitchen appliances. At the same time, however, aesthetics has never been more important than it is today, with kitchens finally getting the recognition they deserve as sanctuaries that serve not only food but peace of mind as well. With so many requirements on many levels, it’s no surprise that some brands falter in meeting those needs or choose to focus on just one or two aspects. At IFA 2024 in Berlin, AEG is proudly rising up to the challenge, delivering a new range of kitchen products that deliver not only AI-assisted cooking but also elegant designs that take the cooking experience to the next level.

Designer: AEG

Cook Smarter, Not Harder

AI is everywhere these days, but it doesn’t have to be a complicated feature that requires an entire manual to use. With AEG’s Assisted Cooking, you have smart technologies right under your fingertips, literally, ready to help you with new recipe ideas, the best settings to use for that dish, and even the safest way to preserve the food so you can enjoy it a lot longer. From preparation to cooking to storage even to cleanup, AEG’s new full kitchen line has got you covered with innovation that’s made easy, convenient, and beautiful.

The new AEG 9000 ProAssist with SteamPro Oven, for example, features the AI Taste Assist function that helps you make efficient use of the oven. Simply throw it a recipe and, based on key facets like timing, temperature, and protein type, it will automatically select the most optimal cooking settings. It can even suggest new tasty and nutritious dishes you may have never tried before through the AEG app.

The CookSmart Touch, which is now available on hobs like the new AEG 9000 ProSense Hob, puts all the functions you need under your fingertips. With a simple touch, you can access the new Assisted Cooking function that guides you through each step to complete a dish and even suggests the accessories you’ll need to use. CookSmart Touch also lets you assign pan-frying or boiling to the hob, select different cooking modes, and generally enjoy the cooking process without breaking a sweat.

This intuitive interface is an immense help to novices just discovering the joys of cooking as well pros who want to glide through the process with as little friction as possible. And for the first time, the CookSmart Touch technology provides a seamless experience that spans AEG’s kitchen range, from ovens to hobs to built-in coffee machines. It removes much of the anxiety and uncertainty associated with cooking, adding joy and peace of mind to every meal prep.

Killer Kitchen Style

Even with all the innovative technologies, AEG hasn’t forgotten the most important aspect of its kitchen range: the human element. Designed to look dashing in any kitchen setting, AEG’s kitchen products deliver not only an effortless cooking experience but also a style that suits people’s tastes. The AEG SaphirMatt Induction Hub, for example, brings not only a handsome surface to your kitchen but also durability you can rely on when the cooking does get a bit intense.

This year’s lineup is available in Glossy Black and MattBlack, both standing out with their sleek and luxurious dark hues. Signature metal handles provide not only usability but also visual identity, making AEG designs easily recognizable in any kitchen. It’s not just the appliances either but your food that gets the beauty treatment as well. The AEG 9000 AutoSense Hood’s illumination can really make your dishes pop, adding to their already appetizing aromas. The new AEG Kitchen Range not only makes you feel in total control, it also makes you feel like a culinary master in their natural environment.

Healthy Living, Healthy Planet

Cooking your own food is one of the best ways to ensure you’re getting tasty and nutritious meals, but your health doesn’t have to come at the expense of the planet’s. Appliances naturally leave a carbon footprint, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make it significantly smaller. The new AEG Kitchen Range is not only filled with smart features, it’s also designed to be sustainable and energy efficient without you having to worry about pushing a button to activate some “Eco Mode,” helping you reduce your carbon footprint by as much as 30%.

The AEG 9000 ComfortLift Dishwasher, for example, can save up to 40% energy with some guidance from the QuickSelect with Ecometer function. The AEG 9000 MultiChill 0°C Fridge Freezer not only has better energy efficiency but also has an inner lining that’s made of 70% recycled plastic. The AEG 9000 ProAssist with SteamPro Oven can help save energy with its PreHeat and Residual Heat functions, reducing the amount of electricity needed to keep the food warm.

Selected models in this new Kitchen Range are part of the AEG EcoLine and boast high energy ratings, some of which are even higher than “A” in the EU energy efficiency class. More than just innovative performance and striking design, the new AEG Kitchen Range represents the brand’s no-compromise approach to energy efficiency, environmental responsibility, and commitment to a greener tomorrow for all.

Innovation for the Entire Home

The kitchen isn’t the only part of the modern home that AEG is upgrading with its innovative designs. The AEG 9000X AbsoluteCare Pro tumble dryer brings the same care and energy efficiency from the kitchen to the laundry. With the AbsoluteCare feature that uses a heat pump system to dry delicate material like wool and SmartDry that lets you select lower energy settings, this leading-edge machine has earned The Woolmark Company’s Wool Care Green recognition. It also features 3DScan Technology that determines the humidity in down jackets and duvets for the best drying settings that will keep their fluffiness intact.

AEG is also debuting two new cordless cleaners to keep your home not only clean but also safe from harmful materials and organisms invisible to the naked eye. The AEG 6000 Cordless offers not only strong dust pick-up but also hands-free self-cleaning, emptying its 0.5-liter dust bin with just a touch of a button. The AEG 8000 is the brand’s most powerful and most versatile cordless cleaner, with the UltimatePower multi-surface nuzzle and a brushless DC motor that can capture 99% of dust on hard floors. And with the new Automatic Emptying Station, you can get the AEG 8000 ready for another round of cleaning without having to get your own hands dirty.

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Custom Lexus GX bakes oven fresh pizzas in the boot, comes with luxe appliances and exclusive Monogram interiors

2024 Lexus GX as a 7-seater off-road SUV has hit the right notes with the most critical reviewers after the official launch. The car carries forward the Japanese automaker’s promise of luxury with performance. To bring something unique to the world of a kitchen on wheels, Lexus has teamed up with GE’s Monogram (luxury appliance division) to fit a Smart Flush Heart Oven in the rear of the bossy car.

The luxury culinary experience on board this off-road SUV seems like an odd combination when we talk of practicality since the vehicle will tread inhospitable dirt tracks bouncing around. That though fades away quickly as soon as one lays eyes on the exquisite vehicle, inside out. The interiors are embellished with a stainless-steel, black, and brass color scheme, with gold badges, gold accents. That’s a good start for the adventure-oriented GX, but there’s a lot more, so read on.

Designer: Lexus and GE Monogam

The idea here is to convert the capable off-roader into a bespoke culinary experience on wheels” right from the moment you enter the vehicle, drive it and then take a break to eat some delicacies. Monogram doesn’t just stop at the rear, the whole interiors are done in the matching theme with dual-tone camel leather seats and door panel trims, complemented by the brass and titanium metal along with the Dekton slate stone accents. The interior has numerous luxury appliances and accessories to elevate the whole experience. According to Lexus, the one-off GX comes fitted with a rare heated ice press (between the rear seats) that makes spherical ice cubes.

What makes it a lip-smacking proposition is the boot having a Smart Flush Hearth Oven with a 30-inch display. The electric oven is custom-made to mimic the performance of a wood-fired brick oven to bake pizzas and other eatables. Of course, you’ll need something to drink along, so there are pressured fitted cutouts on the side panels to store wine, bourbon, glasses and bottle openers. To complement this, Monogram has fitted a bar complete with a bar kit, glassware, bitters and a folding cutting board. Other essentials like cutlery and trash bin are houses inside the truck for quick retrieval. Everything is finely trimmed with quilted leather and carpeting, with the addition of a Dekton slate stone countertop-like plating station.

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Microwave’s Get a Fresh New Upgrade With A Sliding Design to Promote Intuitive Cooking

In a world where form and functionality go hand in hand, the NEVO Microwave Oven stands out as a masterpiece of design and innovation. Resembling an upgraded IKEA or ACE toolbox at first glance, this unique microwave is perfect for modern homes designed with an industrial aesthetic. However, don’t be fooled by its appearance; it’s not just any ordinary toolbox, but a cutting-edge microwave that redefines cooking convenience and simplicity.

Designer: Jignesh Pradhan

The NEVO Microwave Oven is a result of a creative vision aimed at streamlining traditional cooking methods and simplifying the user experience. The microwave boasts an intuitive user interface that makes operation and control easier than ever before. Navigating through a plethora of complicated options can be daunting for many microwave users. The NEVO Microwave Oven eliminates this confusion with its thoughtfully designed touch user interface. By offering a limited yet essential set of options, the microwave ensures that you can effortlessly control its functions. With just a few touches, you can quickly set the desired cooking time and power level, allowing you to focus on other aspects of your meal preparation.

When it comes to baking, many of us prefer to have a clear view of the meal’s top to understand if it’s done to perfection. The NEVO Microwave Oven comes with a see-through top, providing the freedom to observe and gauge the condition of the meal inside. This feature is aided with a built-in camera on top which is particularly useful when the microwave is placed at a height, as it allows you to view the cooking process from the screen in the front.

We’ve all experienced the frustration of using a microwave to heat beverages like tea or coffee, only to have them overflow from the cup, creating a mess inside the microwave. The NEVO Microwave Oven addresses this common issue with its top view feature to prevent any messy accidents, ensuring a hassle-free cooking experience.

One of the standout features of the NEVO Microwave Oven is its side-opening mechanism. Unlike conventional microwaves that allow access from just one side, this microwave is accessible from the top and front and back sides when opened, providing unparalleled accessibility. This feature is a game-changer, especially for those with limited mobility or tight kitchen spaces. However, it’s worth considering the counter space it occupies, which might not be ideal for users with minimal kitchen real estate.

Have you ever wished your microwave could make your food look more appetizing? The NEVO Microwave Oven makes that wish a reality with its strip LED light feature. The LED light uniformly illuminates the entire interior of the microwave, enhancing the visual appeal of your dishes. Whether you’re heating leftovers or preparing a gourmet meal, the LED illumination elevates the culinary experience to new heights.

The NEVO Microwave Oven is a remarkable blend of industrial aesthetics and intuitive cooking features. With its top-down cooking view, innovative side-opening design, LED illumination, and user-friendly interface, it brings a new level of convenience and elegance to the kitchen. Whether you’re a culinary enthusiast or someone who simply enjoys a quick meal, the NEVO Microwave Oven is sure to delight you with its sleek design and practical functionality. Embrace the future of cooking with NEVO!

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The ‘Tesla of Ovens’ uses light to cook your food better, easier, and faster than ever

God created light. Brava perfected the art of cooking with it. Meet Brava, an oven that harnesses the power of pure light to cook food to perfection. Unlike radiant heat, which heats the entire oven chamber, light can be precisely delivered to specific zones within the oven chamber, allowing you to cook with precise control and no energy wastage. The Brava Smart Oven takes that a step further. With three dedicated zones on the cooking tray, and lights above and below it to match, Brava can cook three-part meals at three different temperatures at the same time, on the same tray, and in minutes as opposed to hours on a grill or oven. Heating coils on an oven need time to heat up (the pre-heating phase)… but the Brava Smart Oven has no such disadvantage. Its powerful infrared bulbs heat up in seconds, cooking faster, more efficiently, and more intelligently.

Designer: Brava Design

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Pure Light Technology – Brava’s unique lamps are capable of delivering 900˚ of searing power in seconds, and can turn off just as fast with minimal residual heat.

The title of the World’s Most Futuristic Oven isn’t something to be taken ‘light’ly (no pun intended), but it seems Brava may have figured out a faster, more versatile, and more efficient method of cooking foods than using radiant heat or conduction, and a “healthier” (in the public opinion) method than using microwave energy. Its technique, to use an array of six lamps that deliver over 900°F of searing power in seconds by shining hot light onto your food from the top as well as the bottom. Using light as a delivery mechanism for heat is absolutely genius because you can pretty much point the light exactly where you want, instead of heating up an entire oven to a certain temperature – something that famously takes a good 10-20 minutes depending on how powerful your oven is. With the Brava’s light system, that gets reduced down to mere seconds, which has a massive impact on the overall cooking time. The three light zones also help focus the heat into three distinct categories, letting you cook meats and veggies on one tray, but at different temperatures. A one-hour meal with three components gets ready in under 20 minutes… and the best part? You get to monitor the entire process.

True Multi-zone Cooking – Each of Brava’s 3 zones cooks independently, delivering the convenience of a sheet pan meal without compromising on the quality.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and what makes the Brava so fascinating to use is that your food doesn’t cook in a mysterious hidden void, like your microwave. The smart oven keeps tabs on your food for you, letting you know when it’s ready to take out… but more importantly, it lets you watch your food be cooked too. A camera built into the smart oven gives you a literal window into the oven’s interiors, letting you see your lasagna bake and your meat sear in real time. See something burning? You can catch it before your meal’s a charred mess. See your meat still looking pink? Crank up the temperature for the last couple of minutes to get that amazing seared crust.

The coordinated symphony of light from the top and bottom is an absolutely new kind of cooking method, but where it really outshines (again, no pun intended) other cooking appliances is in its ability to be versatile. The way the lights shine can help mimic different types of cooking styles, from grilling to searing, toasting, slow-cooking, dehydrating, air-frying, rice-cooking, and even reheating or keeping food warm. A small touchscreen display above the oven door helps you navigate all the options that the Brava offers, selecting zones, temperatures, and time periods intuitively without any knobs and buttons. A mobile app gives you access to controls too, along with the camera feed inside the oven, and an entire roster of over 8000 recipes from breakfasts to main courses and desserts, specially curated for the Brava oven.

While the microwave promised speedy cooking, the sous-vide machine promised consistent cooking, and the air fryer promised healthy oil-free cooking, they all had their own caveats. Microwaves don’t cook the way an open flame does, sous-vides are expensive and time-consuming, and the air-fryer just does one thing. The Brava, remarkably, ticks a lot of boxes by being able to fulfill the roles of multiple appliances, while offering faster cooking and even faster clean-up because you’ve got just one tray to wash at the end of your meal. The Brava Smart Oven wears a lot of hats, but the one hat that really makes a difference is the chef’s hat, because, unlike other cooking techniques that constantly require human intervention and monitoring, the Brava Smart Oven does it all for you to the point of perfection, in just a few minutes.

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Samsung Bespoke smart refrigerators helps you truly own your kitchen

Most people would probably claim their rooms or the living room as their headquarters inside a house, but those who love cooking or preparing meals for the family will lay claim to the kitchen as their kingdom. There is no shortage of kitchen appliances and products that are designed to help make people’s lives easier, but few among these are also designed to appeal to their personal aesthetic tastes. It’s easier to get that kind of more personalized touch when it comes to kitchen tools and utensils, not so much for large appliances that are mass-produced to cater to the general public. That’s where bespoke products come in, and Samsung’s latest line of smart refrigerators try to fill this niche with appliances that not only look smart but are also pretty smart internally as well.

Designer: Samsung

While many refrigerators already look stylish and, at times, luxurious, not everyone will have the same tastes in aesthetics. Even more varied are the kitchen designs that people try to make, designs that make many refrigerators and oven stick out like a sore thumb. Samsung’s Bespoke Home lineup has been giving homeowners more options to leave their visual imprint in their homes, and this year’s new members expand that roster with refrigerators that offer not only more flexibility but also more functionality.

It might still seem like a strange feature, but Samsung’s screen-toting Family Hub definitely has its fans. The new Bespoke 4-Door Flex with Family Hub+ supersizes that display to a large 32-inch Full HD screen, empowering experiences like a large canvas for family photos, a spacious dashboard for managing your smart home, and even a convenient screen for watching videos while you’re busy cooking.

The new Bespoke Side-by-Side and Bespoke Top-Mounted Freezer Refrigerators embrace the dominant minimalist design trend to seamlessly blend with the rest of your kitchen interior. Buyers can pick their preferred color or front panel materials, including glass and stainless steel, to truly personalize the appearance of this smart appliance. The Side-by-Side fridge features Samsung’s new Auto Open Door tech that conveniently releases the door with just a tap on the recessed handle.

The Samsung Bespoke Infinite Line Refrigerator offers a bit of modular flexibility, letting buyers choose from fridge, freezer, or wine cellar models. Whichever combination is chose, the bespoke fridge bears a timeless design that uses simple lines and hiqh-quality materials, bringing a touch of class to your kitchen. And to match is premium exterior appearance, the refrigerator’s interior is refined with Black Metal Cooling that creates a visual illusion of depth while helping keep food fresher at the same time.

Accompanying these new refrigerators is a Bespoke AI Oven whose minimalist design belies its intelligence. With an internal camera and a powerful AI, the oven can detect and alert you when food is about to be burned, though you could also just let the oven decide the cooking time and method depending on the dish inside. In addition to keeping the food inside safe, the oven also helps keep people safe with a Push to Open door that replaces the traditional handle that isn’t just safer to use but also looks more refined and more streamlined.

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The alluring NUO portable oven makes ultimate wood-fired pizzas simply not possible with your oven

No matter where you are in the world, arguably, pizza would be the best food to enjoy with friends and family! And when it comes to having a pizza, there’s no better way to prepare it with your hands, in your own oven on the countertop of your kitchen. To let you discover restaurant-quality wood-fired pizza right at home or in the garden; Noox Design offers NUO portable pizza oven that’ll transform the way you have been baking pizzas at home.

An essential appliance for a compact kitchen, NUO is designed for the world beyond large, electric ovens. This one is actually a hybrid oven that lets the baker choose between gas or wood flame. The oven works conveniently without electricity and sits comfortably on a flat surface courtesy of its metal legs. On a simple push of the knob – placed on the side of the oven – the NUO can ignite automatically and then allows one to toggle between the choice of flame and its intensity. With a chimney on top that permits exhaust control, the oven can reach temperatures of up to 500-degree Celsius within and the thermal insulation ensures the pizza cooks evenly, without heating the body of the oven from the outside.

Designer: Noox Design and Mauricio Freitas

A nice combo of impeccable design and function, NUO is made from quality materials in an extremely compact size. It weighs slightly heavy owing to its thick walls and stone floor but is still convenient to carry to the garden or the outdoor location you’re traveling to. With that sort of convenience, its difficult to imagine a multipurpose – indoor/outdoor – pizza oven like the NUO. It multiplies the entire fun of preparing a pizza! Taking of multipurpose opportunity further, NUO portable oven can be used for tasks beyond baking pizzas. It can let aficionados prepare pastas, meat, fish, veggies and more with the flavor of firewood, if that’s your taste!

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Apple Watch-inspired battery-powered microwave oven helps heat food while camping

When you’re out camping or enjoying a picnic, the convenience of preparing a meal and the ease of heating a beverage/food are two important aspects for a good time. Portable microwave ovens have to an extent made this possible for us, but the traditional options have their own demerits: Unappealing design and power consumption for instance. Stepping up with a stylish new form factor and battery-powered design, the Campo is a fine solution to our requirements in the great outdoors.

Portable microwave ovens that work without electricity have made a huge difference to how we travel and camp. They make it convenient to cook a meal briskly or defrost frozen foods and heat beverages during the outing. The market is flooded with low-wattage microwaves for camping that include all the important elements of making a camper happy. Despite their minimum power requirement, however, these ovens tend to drain your car’s battery quickly.

Designer: Siyun Bae

Before you plug your microwave into the vehicle’s battery and end up draining it down to the point where your vehicle refuses to start; spare a thought for the Campo microwave oven. This is microwave powered by a rechargeable battery to let you do the heating and cooking without requiring continuous juice up from your car. It would be a good idea to just carry your microwave like a helmet and place it on a flat surface to begin preparing the meal instantly.

The Campo, inspired by the curves of an Apple Watch and the concept of a portable EV battery, is made in nature-friendly colors. Its helmet-like design, where the visor (the lid in this case) can be rolled up with a handle. Inside you have a magnetically fastened plate, over which you can keep the item you want to cook or heat and set the timer (which is displayed on the handle you can roll back down to start the microwave). The ease of portability is ensured by a locking mechanism on the side of the unit, which locks in place when the handle is rolled up or pushed down flat.

Given its appealing shape and design, the Campo could easily fit in the center console of your vehicle, so you can even enjoy a piping hot cup of joe while driving. In addition to its application in the outdoors, a microwave of this sort can come in handy during unexpected power outages or an uncalled backyard party, which turns a normal day into a surprising camping event.

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A stove-friendly oven that lets you bake at home and outdoors easily with its portable design

Who said bakers had to stay aloof of their skill while camping? This portable oven capable of letting you bake over a stove flame is that ultimate accessory you were waiting to pack in the boot of your car when heading out to the wilderness.

Called the Ember, this conceptual portable oven features a monolithic design and has a sleek and clever build to ensure it can be used on a stove’s flame – without electricity – to create that ideal condition for baking. You can use this space-saving oven on the kitchen counter, or as I said, pack it along on your way out for camping. But as the designer puts it, the oven is more specifically a solution designed to facilitate baking in small kitchens.

Designer: Adrian Perez

Given its process of baking, Ember is able to bake healthier food in small domestic spaces faster as compared to conventional ways. The unit is more convenient to use as well – simply place it on the stove flame, fill Ember with its container for baking cupcakes, and close the glass lid. The heat channels through the corners up to the top of the oven from where it then bounces back from the lid to bake the cupcakes nicely from the top. Meanwhile, the heat is also allowed to enter the Ember from the center, which bakes the cakes evenly from the bottom.

In order to expand the possibilities, Ember comes with multiple accessories for different types of preparation. Along with the cupcakes tray, you get a multi-purpose tray, a refractory container, and a shelf. With handles on the side to move the unit on and off the flame, Ember has a thermometer display on one side, which is linked to a dedicated mobile app. The app allows you to keep tabs on your preparation and also scroll through a range of recipes you can prepare in the portable oven. For more stylish homes, Ember can be available in cherry tomato, strawberry quartz, and Salmon colors as well.

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