Wood Butcher

Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 4:34 am

Wood Butcher

Useful Gadgets in Your Kitchen by Janey

Kitchen is a place where so many gadgets are needed to help you make a perfect dish. Just like a good housewife can’t cook without rice, you can’t cook a great dish with bare hands.

Every cook takes a slightly different path to a desired result. What tools any one person needs to stock a kitchen all depends on what and how you cook, how often you bake, how good your knife skills are, how patient you are, and even what you like about cooking. A lot of people love the process of preparing food and find slicing a tomato or crushing cloves upon cloves of garlic to be peaceful and meditative. Others see those tasks as chores and, when crunched for time, prefer to make prep work as quick and painless as possible.

For me, I list the followings as my must-have kitchen items.

1. GARLIC PRESS
Didn't have one until recently. Boy was I missing out! With a flick of the wrist presto your garlic is pressed and ready to be added to meals! It can also squeeze juice out of an onion or ginger. Push cookie dough through this to make hair for your gingerbread men. Well...just a suggestion. But one piece of advice, playdough doesn't come out of the little holes!

2.MELON BALLER
Good ole melon baller can work as a ice cream scoop, a cookie dropper and core pears and apples.

3 KITCHEN SHEARS
My Mom has the nicest pair of these. I'll have to ask her where she got them. You MUST have a good pair of kitchen scissors for snipping herbs, can cut up whole tomatoes,can chop cooked noodles, pizza cuts in a snap, and trim fats from your meats with these. Too bad they couldn't trim fat from my thighs!

4. Bottle Opener
My family is just so much in love with red grape wine and beer in the summer time that we use this gadgets near everyday, so it’s not going to miss in my items.

5. A "Y" SHAPER PEELER
Believe me, I've gone through my share of those long skinny peelers that dont seem to go quick enough on the potatoes. I have found the Y shaped peeler is quicker and cleaner. It also makes carrot ribbons and zuchinni for your breads, You can make chocolate curls for your cakes, and even grate cheese with this gadget!

6. WOOD BUTCHER BLOCK CUTTING BOARD
If you like to keep your counter top fairly decent, invest in a woodblock cutting board. Very handy to have in the kitchen. The Butcher block ones have a finsh that you can roll out your dough and it won't stick. Easy clean up with a cutting board since it's movable. Move it to the garbage can and scrape it clean. I like the fact that I can move what I am doing with me. I even use my cutting board for doing my scrapbooks and one time I read or did a crossword puzzle on it in bed : )

Just a few really useful items to have around the kitchen! All of these items combined in a nice gift basket make an excellent wedding or shower gift!

Enjoy the leisure time in the kitchen with your casual flip flop and make your own food creation in the kitchen. A great dish can’t be made without a great mood and your love for the process of preparing food.

I like Prepare food in the kitchen in my flip flop; Wine’s best friend is bottle opener.

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