cooking up a st orm

Meet the kitchen tech that turned me from a dolt to a Delia

1 magimix le blender

Whether you want to make smoothies, sauces, baby food or cocktails, Magimix’s retro-styled blender has you covered. It’s powerful at 1,200 watts, yet quiet as a library – and its four presets make using it a piece of cake (or should that be a curried courgette soup?).

£130, magimix.uk.com

2 tefal cuisine companion

With automated settings for Sauce, Soup, Slow Cook, Steam, Pastry and Dessert, and five attachments for managing different tasks, Tefal’s spaceage gadget is the sous chef you’ve always wanted. An included cookbook makes it easy to pick your dinner menu.

£699.95, tefal.co.uk

3

codlo

Simple but effective, this sous-vide system uses a pipe to regulate the temperature of your water, which is fed back to the stylish interface for easy monitoring. Meat, fish, eggs or delicious desserts – this thing could revolutionise how you cook your food.

£119, codlo.com

4 tefal optigrill

Say goodbye to spitting fat and burnt meat – the Optigrill is a clean, healthy and accurate way of cooking food. Simply place steak, chicken, etc, on the griddle and wait for the light to change colour – yellow for rare, orange for medium, red for well done…

£89.99, tefal.co.uk

5

coravin 1000

Fancy a drop of wine but don’t want the whole bottle? This clever gadget features a needle that punctures the cork with the stealth of a ninja. Once you’ve finished pouring, the cork reforms an airtight seal, meaning you can save the rest of the bottle for another day.

£269, coravin.co.uk

6 the barist a express

With its gleaming stainless-steel contours, Heston Blumenthal’s bean-to-cup coffee machine is a cool customer. And it’s as nifty as it is natty, going from bean to espresso in under a minute. The ideal gadget for serving up perfect after-dinner coffee.

£494, sageappliances.co.uk