If you feel frustrated with the poor construction of dish drying racks sold in home goods stores, read carefully what’s going to follow… Many people living into an apartment with a top-mounted sink (the edges of the sink sit on top of the counter) might have realized that common dish drainer racks are not designed for top-mounted sinks. The water would end
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the best utensils every home bartender should have
What are the essential tools every bar needs? Both new and experienced cooks can benefit from going back to the basics. First up: essential Bar tools and utensils. 1. Corkscrew/wine opener: A corkscrew is a kitchen tool for drawing corks from wine bottles. Generally, a corkscrew consists of a pointed metallic helix attached to a handle. The user grips the handle and screws the metal point into the cork, until
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Do you want to plate food like a pro? Gastronomy’s visual aspect is as important as the taste, that’s why food presentation techniques are refined everyday by professional chefs. There’s no mystery: creativity is not enough, so you need some good food plating tools to get properly started! A melon baller — also known as a Parisienne — to make pretty balls of fruit (apple, melon, etc..) Choose it
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Did you ever try to cook without the adequate equipment? Believe me I did… I thought like a lot of beginner cooks that a knife was simply a knife and was just aimed to cut food… just like another knife would do it… So whatever the function or quality, I always bought the cheapest products to cook almost anything… After
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Have you ever tried to dry a salad without a salad spinner? Well, from experience, it is not very convenient! Shaking salad leaves one by one, hoping that all the water is gone and leaving to dry on a plate… So why complicating things as much when there are salad spinners for cheap? How does as salad spinner work? A centrifuge salad spinner
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Essential for any cook to beat or whip a preparation (such as an omelette) and especially to incorporate air. Kitchen whisks have their own characteristics. Classic Whisk: thanks to the thin handle end and wide spaces between the wires, the mixtures which are more or less liquid are easy to mix without much effort. I use it for: pancake, creams,
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When you start cooking, utensils do not seem that much important usually. The good rational thinking like “Well, a stove is a stove, it’s all in how you use it.” is seducing but it’s not that simple. Kitchen utensils are very important, almost like quality ingredients, as they allow you to make the recipe in perfect conditions just as the
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The peeler: small, with a blade slit in the center, it can peel the skin of vegetables very finely. French call it “econome”. Very suitable for small round vegetables it is also useful for cutting chocolate or parmesan chips. If you intend to buy: Get one with a stainless steel blade and a plastic handle. The Y shaped peelers are more suitable for big vegetables like
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A palette knife is useful for moving small items without breaking them, or lifting up pastry without making a hole in it. This piece of utensil is often overlooked but is a great help when you need to handle very delicate preparations or to plate a dish like a great chef. Palette knives are also very useful for cake decorating
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A basting brush is designed for brushing glazes onto baked or grilled goods… it is used for coating or glazing with a liquid, water or beaten egg-yolk for example, or for gently removing excess flour or sugar. If you intend to buy a basting brush: get a set of two: a small and a larger one with plastic handles, and food-quality bristles, which
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