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Wichita is where White Castle burgers were invented, so where better to test another kind of "mini-burger?" Can the Big City Slider Station really make five of those little hamburgers that are so popular---and will they taste good? Lots of questions to ask of Helen Maples, the Annex Lounge's burger-lady. She fixes dozens of the restaurant's popular hamburgers and cheeseburgers every day.   So what's five or ten more? The Slider Station is a pan that fixes five little hamburgers at a time on your stove top.  The lid presses the  burgers down to flatten them out and cook without flipping them.

Advertisers spent more than $200 million last year promoting bottled water, and now many new "enhanced" waters promise to have everything from herbs to vitamins, even protein added in. Metromint Chocolate Mint Water for example,  says it's "turned water into chocolate. " Aquamantra says it is infused with mantras: I am lucky, I am healthy, and I am loved. "Water now plays host to calcium, electrolytes, herbs and even weight-loss ingredients," says Consumer Reports Jamie Hirsh.