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Biolite’s Smokeless FirePit Burns Wood and Charcoal
Between their consistent innovation and their dedication to positive social impact, you can’t not love Biolite. Their camping stoves, like the excellent CampStove 2, are best known for their magic trick of harnessing the energy from your fire to charge your devices, and perfectly suited for their intended occasions. Their FirePit is a far more universal product, fuel agnostic and ready for your campsite, backyard, truck bed, or balcony. The BioLite FirePit weighs just under 20 pounds. The side-mounted 10,400 mAh battery pack aids in combustion and reduces smoke to almost zero with strategic oxygen circulation, and can go for a full 24 hours on the lowest setting. While the…
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4 Perfect, Analog Bodum Products that Aren’t French Presses
French presses will not make the best coffee, but Bodum does make the best French presses. Once upon a time they also made what many, including myself, argued was the best automatic coffee maker, and while they’ve been left behind in categories like that one, electric kettles, and coffee grinders, their glassware continues to shine. Double Wall Cups Bodum’s heat-retaining drinking vessels should be a staple in your beverage consumption, and have been in mine for more than five years. Available in a myriad of shapes, capacities, and with or without handles, there’s a Bodum for every bev. Pour Over Coffee Maker with Permanent Filter Here’s one of those better…
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5 Ideas for Home & Small Spaces Decor by Small Desk Chairs
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The Best Toaster Oven is also an Air Fryer and Dehydrator
It was no surprise that once Breville entered the toaster oven game, nothing else was even worth considering. Not content to rest on that definitive win, Breville’s Smart Oven Air took things to the next level with air frying, dehydrating, and the capacity to accommodate a 14-pound turkey. I’ve been using Breville Smart Ovens for more than five years, and upgraded to the flagship Air model back in early 2017. I found it to be a pretty perfect appliance, but I couldn’t have known at the time that it was going to save my cooking life. Long story short, New York City’s infrastructure is a joke: I haven’t had cooking…
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Best 6 Ideas for Home & Outdoor Heating DIY by Fire Rings
Make this next summer the best you’ve ever had! If you’re looking for the best in outdoor fire rings and fire pit grills for the perfect summer evening for you and your friends and family, you’ve come to the best place! An outdoor fire ring is perfect for cooking, grilling, or simply enjoying the warmth of a fire on a cold night! Our fire pit grills and metal fire pit rings are perfect years round just throw a couple of logs on the fire, and you’ve got a centerpiece to a great gathering of friends and family. Here is the list of top ten fire rings you can buy today to make…
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One-Touch Electric Tea Kettle
Almost 10 years after its introduction, the Breville One Touch Electric Tea Kettle is still an awe-inspiring appliance. As its name implies, the One Touch makes perfect tea every time with the press of a button. Whether you’re working with loose leaf tea or bags (you should be using loose leaf), the One Touch utilizes a magnetic rail (!) to lower and raise its basket at the ideal intervals and temperatures, so that there’s literally no margin for error. While the One Touch includes presets for all tea types, you can also customize time and temperature to your liking. I’ve extensively used almost every product Breville has released in the…
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Best 9 Ideas for Home & Entry Mudroom Furniture Designer by Black Console Tables
A black console table, interchangeably referred to as a sofa table as well, can have a dramatic impact on the look of your living room, office, hallway, or entryway by adding a complementary furniture piece that has both stylish and functional utility. Set in a room with large furniture pieces like a living room or office, a black sofa table serves to break up the larger fixtures that surround it and the table’s small size gives you the flexibility to set it up and orient it almost anywhere you’d like. With a neutral base color that works with just about any other color or style, it’s easy to complement a…
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Turn Your Utensil Drawer Upside Down and Refill It with Dreamfarm
With a reddot design award-winning tool for every task, Dreamfarm is the cure for the common spatula. Need a heat-resistant, dishwasher safe spoon that sits up on its own, turns into a ladle, can also be used as a scraper, and has built-in measurement lines? A measuring scoop that self-levels? Or maybe you just want to cut your pizza with scissors, or find a garlic press that actually works. Dreamfarm loves to tackle the little problems that come with the stagnant designs of ubiquitous tools, and until you try their products, you won’t realize how much you hated your old tongs. https://www.wayfair.com/brand/bnd/dreamfarm-b8167.html?rtype=12&redir=dreamfarm
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The Best Air Purifier is also a Fan
Dyson has reigned over the vacuum cleaner and room fan spaces for years, so making the best air purifier was a natural extension. The Dyson Pure Cool DP04 combines the best smart air purifier with an excellent room fan to not only clean your air, but circulate the newly cleaned air around the room, while keeping you cool in the process. (Most) air purifiers are stationary, which results in obvious limits on their effectiveness unless some other device like a ceiling fan is regularly moving air around the room, but the Pure cool is self-sufficient. As you’d expect, the Pure Cool includes HEPA technology, with a filter that seems to…
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9 Ideas for Home & Outdoor Patio Furniture DIY by Patio Side Tables
The addition of a patio table or a picnic bench can elevate your backyard to a warm and inviting area perfect for hosting all your outdoor gatherings. With an outdoor dining table, you can have a place to eat and enjoy the warm weather during the summer or create the perfect setting for friends to gather for a spring barbecue. At Furniture DIY, you can find a wide variety of patio furniture, so you can Save Money. Live Better. When considering which table to buy, it’s important to keep in mind how your furniture will be used. If you’re going to be using your bistro table in a sunny area,…
