Historically innovative, electric housewares leader National Presto boasts an impressive track record of blazing major new product categories. Throughout the years it has introduced modern marvels like the first saucepan-style pressure cooker, the first line of detachable heat control products (electric skillets, griddles and multi-cookers as you know them today), the first steam iron that used ordinary tap water, the first automatic immersible stainless steel coffee maker, the FryDaddyBaby® electric deep fryer, and the PopLite™ hot air popper, the SaladShooter® slicer/shredder, and the Pizzaz® rotating oven. Today, National Presto, or simply “Presto,” continues to provide quality appliances that make it faster and more convenient for the consumer to prepare a healthy and delicious meal or snack at home.

Presto has now partnered with Edison Nation and wants to know, “What’s next?!” Specifically, Presto would like to consider your leading-edge ideas for small kitchen appliances that improve consumers’ experience through the quality, convenience and speed of food preparation.

For your submission(s), consider the following sub-categories:

• Motorized appliances (blenders, mixers, food processors and so forth)
• Electric heating appliances (think coffee makers, toasters, rice cookers, portable ovens, slow cookers, skillets, griddles, waffle makers, deep fryers, corn poppers, tea kettles and more)
• Stove top appliances (any product that can be used on the stove top)

We recommend taking into account recent consumer trends affecting the electric housewares industry, such as:

• Increased food preparation and entertaining done at home
• Preference for products that boost speed and convenience in the kitchen
• Ease of care and maintenance – is it dishwasher-safe? Is it easily stored?
• Heightened awareness of and preference for sustainable or energy-efficient products (if the price remains competitive).

For this search, please submit your unique and innovative concepts that align with Presto’s commitment to make food preparation quick and easy. Submissions should improve the consumer experience through the quality, convenience or speed of food preparation.

While not required, we highly encourage you to submit video of yourself demonstrating a prototype and explaining the features and benefits of your submission. Please be as detailed as possible in telling us about your innovation.

Each idea costs just $25 ($20 for gold members) to submit and, as long as you maintain gold membership, your idea may be submitted to as many searches as you would like at no additional cost. "Click here for more details on Live Product Searches.

To learn more about National Presto please visit www.gopresto.com.