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"Now I can’t stop cleaning my laptop. In fact, I’m even tempted to come clean yours."

Cooking with a tablet has become standard practice for many of us. After all, how else can we cook from all the recipes we’ve pinned or Evernoted or saved to Paprika? Tablet stand makers are wise to this fact and have designed stands specially suited to the messy business of cooking. In fact, here are eight of them! TOP ROW Prepara iPad Tablet Stand and Stylus, $21.90 from Amazon: Prepara’s tablet stand is a solid choice for a great price.

As much as I’d like to believe otherwise, I’m practically glued to my iPhone. I use it to schedule workouts, book restaurant reservations, and to check into my flights, so why not utilize it for meal planning as well? I don’t use a central method for organizing my recipes, so I had been skeptical of meal planning apps and thought I would need an organizational overhaul before signing up. However, I took the plunge on three apps I found to be easy to jump right into.

Those Mickey Mouse pancakes with chocolate chips for eyes? So analog. We live in a digital world now, with self-driving cars and virtual coins. Can’t we digitize our pancakes? In a word, yes. We can rebuild Mickey Mouse, better than before. We have the technology. In fact, it’s called the PancakeBot, and it’ll only set you back $300. You can even add one to your cart the next time you’re shopping for oven mitts at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Yes, it’s that mainstream.

A spoon is a spoon, no? At first glance, Umbra’s newest spoon looks ordinary: a basic wooden spoon with a black handle. But it actually has another purpose altogether. Care to take a guess?Frustrated with cooking in the kitchen with his iPad and ending up with a messy screen afterward, designer Jordan Murphy created the iSpoon — part spoon, part silicone stylus for your tablet!

Just imagine: You’re out for happy hour drinks with work friends and you realize that you’re going to be home two hours later than you anticipated, and your Crock-Pot is bubbling merrily along on HIGH. Is anyone else home yet? Should you rush home, even though the whole point of the slow cooker is that you shouldn’t have to do that? Nope. Just use your iPhone.

You can’t trust your feelings during the first couple weeks with a new app. It can be intense — you’re spending all your time with it, you’re telling all your friends about it, and you’re maybe even thinking this app, it completes me. But that hot-and-heavy time always comes to an end, and more often than not, all you’re left with is a neglected, vaguely embarrassing reminder of how you fall for any slick new app that comes along.

If you’re anything like us, your kitchen is also your karaoke practice room and your dance stage. Playing music (or, if you’re feeling less dance-y, a podcast) while you cook makes a fun activity even more fun. And it makes washing dishes not so terrible. That’s why we’re so excited to see the Echo Dot on sale today for just $30 (it’s usually $50), plus it qualifies for Prime shipping. It’s oh-so-handy in the kitchen.

Even if you’re not sure that a picture is worth 1000 words, an emoji always saves you at least a little typing — that’s why billions of emojis crisscross the ether every day. The most delicious ones — pizza, coffee, cherries, hamburger — are also the most popular. But with the addition of six (really seven, more on that in a minute) new food emoji among 158 new emojis total, including the controversial bagel, all our messages just got a little bit tastier.

I believe in innovation. Let’s face it — no one wishes we were still gathering wood and stoking our stoves with it or keeping food fresh in a box cooled by ice. And as much as the microwave oven is maligned, most of us have them in our kitchens and use them every day, even if it is primarily to warm up leftovers.

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Some people dream of the latest newfangled appliances, and Silicon Valley is happy to oblige. There’s the fridge that knows your shopping habits, and the stove that knows when you walk in the door. But not me. Can smart appliances really replace the rhythms and instincts of a cook? I’m not so sure.

If you’re a fan of cooking from online recipes (ahem, maybe some from this very site?), you’ve probably gotten your fair share of schmutz on your tablet as you pick it up to refer back to the recipe, mid-prep, without clean hands. Sure, you could stop to wash your hands each time you need to check in on your next move, but that takes up precious time — and when the garlic is starting to burn, that’s just not in the cards. A good solution? This Prepare iPrep Tablet Stand.