Every kitchen has to have a good quality rubber spatula. If you don’t have one or yours is a ragged edged, scrapped up, falling apart affair consider replacing it.
Dec 072007
As mentioned in previous posts, for the freshest, best tasting coffee buy whole bean and grind what you need right at the time when you’re brewing your coffee. I really don’t find this to be a chore..just load the beans into the coffee grinder, replace the cover and press the on button.
Every kitchen needs a good set of measuring spoons for baking and general cooking. Now what most people have are these short handled things tied together by a metal ring…time to get rid of that mess.
Folks, if your tea kettle is all banged up, sad looking and has God knows what growing inside of it….maybe consider springing a few bucks to get a new one.
Dec 032007
Every kitchen needs a mixer with some serious power behind it. Back in the day it use to be the Sunbeam Mixer (and my Dad still uses his from the 1950′s). But if you’re thinking of one today I can say that the KitchenAid Mixer has been very good for me. The thing is heavy enough to want to stay put and
Nov 212007
A Potato Ricer is used to produce very smooth mashed potatoes. It works simply by forcing the rough cooked potatoes through small holes in the bottom plate (about the size of a grain of rice). In the process of being forced through these small openings the chunkiness in the rough cooked potatoes is broken down. This results in a very smooth and flawless texture. The other tools for producing mashed potatoes are a wire masher and a hand mixer. Using these will result in courser texture. And with mashed potatoes this makes a difference.
Nov 212007
A wire strainer is used to separate solids from the base liquid. Usually, the liquid is thin enough to allow simple pouring through the strainer. However, for some thick sauces, the liquid needs a bit of a push using the back end of a wooden spoon.
We recently posted an article on ice cream (”Cookies & Cream Ice Cream“) and thought it would be a good thing to do a review of an ice cream maker for those who do not currently own one. We’ll be looking at the Cuisinart ICE-20 “Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker”. This can be purchased at all major stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Linens & Things. We bought ours at Linen’s. It sold for $49.99 and we used the 20% off coupon they regularly publish leaving us with a net price of about [...click to contimue reading...]
