We already use modified bunzenburners for cremè brülee
Other possible equipment with suited uses:
* Reflux condenser
For boiling fish or carrots. The aromatic part of the food is often what gives it the taste (half the taste is what we smell while eating). The aromatic compounds is often also cooked away to the surroundings (smells very nice, but the food becomes not so tasty). A reflux condenser will give tastier food, since it will reflux it all back into the food. Remember to use the water you cooked it in, in the sauce.
* Rotavapor or
* water aspirator vacuum:
Sometime you make to much food, why not take away the water, and store it in the fridge? Also great for removing air for storing food in vacuum-bags or if you are using
* Buchner-funnel and filterpaper:
Impress your visitors with fresh lemonade or orange juice with no fruit-meat or stones!
Also great if you are making wine or beer.
* Liquid nitrogen:
Not lab-equipment, but you could dry-freeze bananas or make ice-cream
If you have a vacuum-line installed in your kitchen, you probably use liquid nitrogen already.
*Cooking plate with
* magnetic-stirrer / mechanical stirrer
* pH meter, why not make a science out of making coffee or tea? The exact pH should tell you how much beans or leaves to add.
So tell us, what else equipment could we adopt to our kitchen back home? And do you see the potential in it?