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I'm sorry, but they couldn't pick a better name than iPad? I don't even like saying it. Then again, maybe this sketch from THREE YEARS AGO has something to do with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eF0y0IfpPU

They didn't have one intern to Google their own product name idea before they decided to call it that?

As for functionality in the kitchen, it can't do anything that my laptop can't do, and, knowing Apple, on top of that $500 for the product, you'll have to spend another $40 on a stand, $30 on a cover, etc. etc.

I don't get why people like them so much...I agree with previous commenters. Wait until Android puts out their product. It'll be cheaper, more durable, and won't be named after something meant for female robots.

My mom used to bar tend and this is one of the few drinks she still makes regularly. She simplifies the process, however, and just shakes the cold whipping cream in the unopened carton for a few minutes--the only dirty dishes are the brewing device, the glasses, and a spoon!

Aww...I have a special place in my heart for spoon rests. They're so quaint. Right now, though, my "spoon rest" that always sits between burners is actually a small fish-shaped dish.

On the topic of fresh food, I have a small plug to make. A couple of years ago I volunteered for a cacao cooperative in Ecuador for Kallari chocolate. Most chocolate sits as roasted beans in storage facilities for years before it's ground with (if it is good chocolate) vanilla, sugar, and cacao butter, or (if it is bad chocolate), with fillers, fillers, and more fillers. That's true of chocolate that is generally considered pretty good. Kallari processes their chocolate, from harvest, fermentation, drying, roasting, grinding, to packaging, within a few months, if not quicker.

It can now be bought at many Whole Foods locations--not sure about in the midwest, but definitely on the coasts. It's kind of expensive, I think $5/bar, but you get what you pay for.

Oh, and, ALL the money goes back into the coop which is run by the Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon.