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IHHS 2010 Find: Zoku Quick Pop Maker

The first item we want to tell you about from the International Home and Housewares Show is a great update of a classic idea.  Many of you may remember, as I do, making popsicles with your mom when you were a kid.  We had a basic plastic Tupperware set, and would fill it with fruit juice and stick it in the freezer.  Hours later, you had a tasty cheap treat.

Well technology has come a long way since then, and you can now enjoy the popsicle experience in just 7 minutes.  Zoku has created a system that has a base that you store in the freezer (kind of like an ice cream maker) which you then fill with sticks and your juice of choice, and it freezes solid on your countertop in 7 minutes.  Pretty cool, huh?  And since it freezes so fast, you can easily make different layers of flavor, or even freeze the outside, suck out the still liquid interior, then add a different flavor for the core (creamsicle anyone?). And it can make up to 9 pops before it needs refreezing.

We think it’s pretty cool.  You can make a billion fun flavors for yourself, and control the ingredients in popsicles for your kids.  The Zoku Quick Pop Maker is being carried exclusively by Williams-Sonoma until the end of the year, and you can find it there for $49.95.

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