Here’s something sleek and chic: the Blomus UTILO Tea Stick! Make tea-time a treat not a trick. With a click, you can get your stick quick. If you don’t like my shtick, you can Blomus my… arm.

Sometimes you just want to brew a great cup of tea for one without employing the unnecessarily large tea pot to do so. But because you’re a style maven, the literal old ball and chain infuser simply won’t do. Designed by Floz, this innovative and stylish tea stick allows you to place a portion of loose tea leaves onto the plastic tray that slides out of its stainless steel sheath. By sliding that plastic tray back into the stick cavity, a plastic handle is created on the opposite end by which the stick can safely be retrieved with bare fingers from your piping hot cup.

Of course, fine mesh would probably fare better at keeping bits of tea leaves from entering the water as these holes look rather large to effectively contain the tiny particles. Also, there doesn’t seem to be much room for water to fully encompass the leaves thus extracting all their tea goodness. But I’m sure it’s relatively effective and, as always, it’s perty!

Available for $17.99 at The Flatware Store.

Zahara Hadid received a degree in Mathematics in Beirut before she moved to London to study architecture. Among many other architectural prizes to her name, she is the first and only female recipient of the coveted Pritzker Prize (2004). Not sure what eating utensils have to do with her lengthy list of achievements though. Maybe 3-dimensional buildings get old after a while and you just start to crave something flat. Enter the Zaha flatware set for WMF. Took too long to get to that punch line, didn’t I?

These ergonomically shaped utensils are designed to inspire. More so than to eat with.

It’s $250 for one such place setting of stainless steel flatware with a soup spoon reminiscent of the grim reaper, but they sure are visually stunning. Available at Arango.

As in most households, grilling is the mans’ job in ours. It is regarded as seriously and as primitively as can be expected from anything involving fire and raw meat. There is much uproar, dirt, grunting and beer involved in this tribal dance and any member of the clan will tell you, there is nothing pretty about this sacred ritual. Which is why this post will likely appeal to the more refined outdoor chef. Ladies, behold the Eva Solo Gas Grill.

Perhaps a streamlined garbage can isn’t what you picture when thinking about grills, but this puppy is designed with minimalist decor in mind while addressing some issues any grill owner will be impressed with.

The most attractive feature is the creative way in which this grill hides the gas barrel within its body successfully removing that unsightly thing from view and fooling your guests into believing you’re actually grilling with charcoal, the way you’re supposed to! In addition, there is a three burner cooking top to allow for easy temperature zone adjustment, a dome lid and a flat protective lid that also converts the grill into an additional patio table. It is also constructed exclusively of stainless steel for durability and easy maintenance.

With todays’ kitchen appliances constantly taking on incredible contemporary and innovative designs, this may just be the start of a new movement to take the design of our quintessential culinary tools outdoors! Although, at $2079.95, you may be content sticking with your trusty, rusty Webber.

Available at Celebrate Life Gifts.

These little salt and pepper shakers aren’t just adorable and modern, their main intent is to symbolize how mankind is to embrace its differences. Designers Alberto Mantilla, Anthony Baxter and Scott Henderson of Mint Inc. went to great lengths to convey this idea and put it on the market without sacrificing the quality and integrity of their prized creation.

The story goes that the three aforementioned, highly successful designers behind Mint Inc. struggled to sell this product (their first) to contemporary design companies such as Umbra without much luck. Some such companies proclaimed the shakers to be too cute for the sophisticated ultra modern line, while others wanted to manufacture the idea on their own terms with a significant reduction in product quality. Well, the three amigos were confident enough in their product not to succumb to such disappointment.

Finally, the Museum of Modern Art offered to buy the rest of their line for their exclusive MoMA store but was reluctant to accept these shakers for the same reasons the previous companies refused them. Alberto, Anthony and Scott offered an “all or nothing” deal, however, refusing to accept the terms without this quintessential item from their product line. MoMA succumbed to the demands and was proven right to have done so as the “Hug” Shakers quickly became their number one selling item!

Now isn’t that just as heart-warming as the product itself? Let me get a collective “AWW.”

Available at Follow Function for $25.00.

What can make a boring old kitchen blender cool? A tachometer of course! I wanna know the exact speed at which my smoothie is being blended and I don’t mean “low,” “medium,” and “high.” I’m talking rotations per minute!

That’s right, this blender by L’Equip will have you L’Squeeling with glee as you watch the little needle rev it up between 500 and 20,000 RPMs. There’s even a toggle switch; and if you’ve been keeping up with the posts here on WithoutStyle, you’ll know we’re big fans of toggle switches.

Don’t know if it will blend an iPod, but the solid looking brushed steel base with a the polycarbonate blending jug and tamper stick will make a great looking and functional addition to any kitchen or bar.

Available at Table Tools for $134.00

No, this is not Nasa’s latest invention or the concept for the next building in NYC. This, my friends, is a teapot. No, this is THE teapot! If ever there was a teapot to be excited about, this is it! Man I’ve never craved tea quite this much.

Designed by architect Joey Roth, who describes his inspiration as follows:

“I’ve always been entranced by small, beautiful things that are so detailed, they seem like miniature worlds, yet so ordinary they’re often left unnoticed. I designed Sorapot to emphasize one of my favorite- the unfurling of tea leaves.”

Yes Joey, so true. I too have always thought that there just wasn’t enough emphasis on tea leaf unfurling.

OK, so practical daily teapot this is not. Sure is perty though.  You can see how it works here.

Mr. Roth is only planning on making 300 of them and you can pre-order yours for $50 today! The rest of the $129 is payed upon shipment. I’ve already pre-ordered mine so there are only 299 left – hurry!

via Gizmodo

I not only love to cook, I love using the proper equipment in order to do so. Anyone who owns a stand mixer and actually uses it will know what a pain it is to get ingredients into the mixing bowl without spilling while the beaters are working. These cleverly named POURfect bowls aim to solve that problem.

Obviously this would be a great help for every purpose in the kitchen that requires transferring ingredients from one place to another, not just when using a stand mixer.

It’s genius is in it’s simplicity. There’s a contoured spout that neatly directs the flow of your contents exactly where you need them to go, an ergonomic handle to comfortably rest on your hand as you pour, a latch used to stabilize and pivot the bowl against your stand mixer, and a nonslip rubber ring at the base to provide further stability on a counter top. They are also dishwasher and microwave safe and come in various sizes.

With my extensive kitchen gadgetry collection, I can’t believe I don’t already own these. That error will be amended immediately.
Chefs Catalog offers a set of two bowls (8-cup and 6-cup capacities) as well as a 2-cup POURfect beaker for $39.99

Oh, and if you need further demonstrations of how exactly this bowl works and all the ways in which you can use it, there’s a slew of video infomercials on POURfect.com. But wait! There’s more! If you act now, you can get them faster than if you were to act later!

This isn’t just any cheese tray, it’s a cheese tray made of petrified wood that’s supposedly over 20 million years old. Wouldn’t you like to cut your cheese on that?!

There are two sizes available. The smaller one, around 7″ in diameter, runs for $78. The larger one, about 10″ in diameter, goes for $148.

$148 for a cheese tray? That’s petrifying!

Oh yes, I went there.