A kitchen tool for a chef is like a bowling ball for a bowler. It's special, and sometimes so irreplaceable, even a similar-looking, similar-functioning object of the same name will not do the trick.
What are your favorite kitchen tools?
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In the last few years, with demand for environmentally friendly, natural materials on the rise, much attention has been paid in this regard to bamboo. But while it is a beautiful, sustainable, durable and versatile substance, we need not live by bamboo alone, particularly when there’s
cork.
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Chris of Apartment Therapy: The Kitchen declares it's time to find new uses for roasters: "No matter how sexy-shiny our All-Clad roaster is, in order to justify the purchase, we need to cook with this $159.99 pan more than once a month. Down with expensive, single use kitchen tools!" One of their commenters says her mother uses her roaster to cook mussels for a group, because it's the perfect size and height and you can serve them in it; another makes caramel corn in it during the holidays. What do you do with your roaster?...
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If you've ever had trouble buying something for someone who seems to already have everything, I can all but guarantee they won't have Cuisipro's Peanut Butter and Jelly Spreader. $11 buys you a foot-long tool with color-coded silicon paddles on each end—light brown for the peanut butter and purple for the jelly—to prevent the dreaded bottle cross-contamination and horrible bread tearing that the usage of knives inflicts. Yes, it's dishwasher-safe, and yes, it comes with a 25-year warranty, although really, by the year 2032 our sandwiches should be spreading themselves....
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I can't decide whether this mushroom kitchen timer is so cute it's hideous or so hideous it's cute, so I'm just going to say that it's 3"x3.5", from Japan (if you hadn't already guessed), $12 at Fred Flare, and you should buy it if it makes you happy. [via Apartment Therapy]...
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I'm a gadget minimalist, but the following kitchen tools culled off the Well Fed Network's various sites are kind of intriguing: --The Food Loop, a kind of reusable kitchen string (for tying up joints of meat, piles of stockpot veg, etc.) --The OXO Angled Measuring Cup, so that you don't have to bend in half when you're pouring out milk or oil. This one, on the other hand, is just stupid: Spepper, a salt-and-pepper mix. But I LOVE these toasters by the Sarut group! Their Nemo whisk and graters are cute too, although they look less well designed....
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Short answer: No—buy a new one. Some good options at Apartment Therapy's The Kitchen....
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