The Wired Kitchen

Technology can make cooking a lot easier--we're not just talking dishwashers and Cuisinarts, but iPhones. "The iPhone has completely revolutionized my food life," writes Farm To Table, which is doing a series on iPhone apps for foodies. The Kitchn has the best iPhone apps for cooks, including one that just might be a Thanksgiving lifesaver. And Baby Health Advice tells you how your iPhone can help you manage food allergies.

Don't have an iPhone? At Gizmodo, Alton Brown offers up some of his best kitchen hacks: "I use heating pads to raise dough on, or to incubate yogurt with...I have used a hair dryer to the bottom of my charcoal grill to turbo charge the Weber." Boing Boing teaches you to poach salmon in your dishwasher. You can also use your garbage disposal as a margarita maker and, if you're seriously strapped for kitchen gadgets, make chicken pesto in the coffee maker.

For the seriously tech-savvy, Ostatic offers open source recipe management apps, and SlashGear teaches you to make your own touchscreen kitchen PC and integrate it into your cupboard. Okay, that's probably beyond most home cooks--but anybody can chill a bottle of wine in under 10 minutes by using salt (via DIY Life) or use a Brita to turn terrible vodka into...less-bad vodka ("The filter didn't make the $6 bottle of Taaka into a $20 bottle of vodka, more like a $10 bottle," says Analog Medium).

ResearchBuzz has a custom edition of Google search called Cookin' with Google that "allows you to provide a list of ingredients (what's in the fridge?) and get back a list of recipes that Google finds for you." Gizmos for Cooks offers a list of websites to help with meal planning, and Cheap Healthy Good has good tips for simplifying online recipe searches ("remember--majority rules. If Megdoodle from Monkeybutt, Kentucky likes quadruple the amount of red pepper in her chili, but 200 other commentors say the spice is just right, side with the 200").

Finally, Casual Kitchen teaches you how to tell if a recipe is worth making in 5 easy steps (you don't even need a computer). And if you prefer literal help from your handheld device, you can use your Palm Pre as a cheese slicer.