Lock n' Bake Pan
Inventor: Aneela Rajusth
Availability: Spring 2005, price not set
To Learn More: locknbake.com
It's a cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan — a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition — which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving.