Cost: $50.30 Attention! This ain’t no toy. It’s a lean, mean, flame-throwing machine. Of course, while not a toy, we still have a lot of fun with ours. All that glorious butane makes us feel powerful. And, the many ways we use our kitchen torch make us feel like the culinary avant-garde. Once upon a time, we’d see a kitchen torch on a wedding registry and scoff. “How many times can one couple make crème brulee?” we’d ask. It seemed like a novelty: one of those things that people got, then immediately lost forever in a drawer. How wrong we were. First, we discounted the awesomeness of homemade crème brulee. It’s legit. Second, and more importantly, we underestimated the kitchen torch’s utility, especially when it comes to modernist cooking. Last year, we got a Sous Vide Supreme. Sous vide, a...