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By JEFF HOUCK

The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 15, 2008

Updated: 04/15/2008 05:55 pm

HELLO, GRILL DADDY

You live in Florida. You grill all year long. Even the most anal-retentive barbecue aficionado has a grill dripping with grease and debris. It's time to give it a makeover before Memorial Day comes and you have to explain why your ribs taste like the salmon you made before Christmas.

Grill Daddy and Grill Daddy Pro (pictured) use steam to liquefy grease. Steam is good. Steam cleans. Steam is your friend, especially with caked-on stuff that has been there since the Fourth of July. For lefties, the Pro model has ergonomic handles that make it easier to use.

Cost: $19.95 for the Grill Daddy; $24.99 for Grill Daddy Pro. Available at GrillDaddy.com.

IT'S CRANTASTIC

Most energy drinks make us feel as if we're drinking medicine. The flavor of Ocean Spray's Cranergy juice drink (we tried the raspberry-cranberry and the cranberry "lift") still tastes like a juice drink.

The "lift" comes from green tea extract and five B vitamins. There's also a ton of vitamin C in it. The name kind of bugged us, though. Cranergy?Too cutesy. Almost to the point of giving us a cranergy crisis. Cost: $3.99 for a 12-ounce bottle.

HEY, BEERTENDER

Beer freaks, rejoice! After years of waiting as rumors of this device swirled on the Internet, you can finally enjoy draught beer in miniature form at home with the BeerTender appliance by Krups.

It chills and taps a five-liter Heineken DraughtKeg, has an adjustable temperature control, a 30-day freshness countdown calendar and an indicator that tells you how much is left in the Mini-me keg. Cost: $299. But hey, it's for beer.

SUVIR GEAR

New York chef, cookbook author and Indian food authority Suvir Saran is a frequent visitor to the Tampa Bay area, teaching Indian food cooking classes at local Apron's cooking schools. He now has a line of kitchen products that bear his American Masala brand.

Wade Ceramics is producing mortar and pestle sets that feature a pestle with a wider-than-usual base that makes it easier to use and harder to spill. In May, the company also will offer a line of four knives made from ceramic zirconia, including a santoku blade.

Cost: $50 for the mortar and pestle; $65 to $110 for various size knives. Available at www.jkadams

.com.

Jeff Houck

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