Cooking appliances

Bye-bye, burners.

Magnetic induction cooking can cut your kitchen’s carbon footprint

Energy

Shifting from fossil fuels to electricity is climate-friendly, but serious cooks don’t think much of electric stoves. Will induction cooking finally catch on as an alternative?

In wake of this week’s attacks, pressure cookers will need an image makeover

Inventor works to save lives in the developing world

Norwegian inventor’s cardboard oven combats climate change

Smoke And Fire Around The World

Arts, Culture & Media

Rehabilitating the Pressure Cooker after the Boston Bombing

Arts, Culture & Media

The humble pressure cooker is central to the lives of millions of people across the world, and even played a part in the United States war effort at home in the 1940s.

Clean cookstoves protect women and the environment

Conflict & Justice

Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Uganda on the introduction of more efficient stoves that also help protect women from sexual violence.

Life-Changing Inventions

Since 1993 the Lemelson-MIT award has recognized and supported inventors whose designs improve lives. This year’s winner helped bring light, cook food and purify water for millions in poor countries.

Slideshow: The Toaster Project

Anchor Marco Werman talks to Thomas Thwaites about his book “The Toaster Project.”

Sun Oven

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen…and cook outside with a solar oven.