Daily Granny Gram: Boil Buoy for Boomer Cooks

Ever gotten so involved in a social network on the internet that you forgot about the pot of water you put on to make some pasta? Worried about your aging mom doing that and maybe burning herself when she go to rescue the burnt out pot? Well, the beauty of being part of the huge Boomer generation is that we drive the gadget market (items developed for our convenience and enhanced and/or 'assisted' living)-- we are the patrons, the muses, perhaps. And very happily, there are amazing inventions pouring out into the marketplace daily that meet our needs for security, comfort, health and wellbeing, and even relationship satisfaction.

One of the newest spiffy little gadgets is the Boil Buoy, a little food-grade stainless steel, bobbing apparatus that you drop into a pot of water and when it boils the buoy chimes to let you know that you need to attend to the pot NOW. The principle is related to the urgent scream of the whistling kettle or the car alarm. No more burned out pots. No more toxic fumes from burned out pots.

Boil Buoy is so cutting edge that it is available only through its developer company, Quirky. Go here to commit to being among the pioneer purchasers of the Boil Buoy.