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Category Archives: Tools
Great Kitchen Tools: Scale
Among the most hopeful signs in cookbook publishing is Artisan's agreeing to lead all recipes in the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook, due out next fall, with metric weights (they will include volume measurements second). It's a baking book after all, and no other culinary craft is more dependent on accuracy of measurement than baking. Another hopeful sign was seeing something similar in The New York Times not too long ago, a recipe for chocolate ganache bars that also lead with grams, not cups or ounces. Scribner published my book Ratio, which which really only works if you have a scale.
So when I was hanging out with Todd and Diane talking about great kitchen tools and stupid kitchen tools, I of course had to address the scale. I have four of them at home, two basic kinds, a scale of measuring ...
Also posted in Video Tagged Kitchen Tools, scale, something to say, video, white on rice couple 84 Comments
Something To Say: Stupid Kitchen Tools
Nothing more to say (on this subject, anyway...). Thanks Todd and Diane for your amazing work and of course Amy Scattergood for her reason. If you liked this post on Stupid Kitchen Tools, check out these other links:
- Todd and Diane's first Had Something To Say video.
- Preview my collection of kitchen tools that include the spanker, bad ass egg spoon, all strain clothes, and more.
- To find other interesting products click over to OpenSky.
- It is an older post, but look at these off the wall kitchen gadgets.
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Cooking On the Road (Tools I Traveled With)
An array of tools I didn't want to be without when I arrived in an unfamiliar kitchen.
The Importance of Sharp Knives
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman
Also posted in Kitchen Tools, Technique, Video Tagged How to Sharpen a Knife, How to Steel a Knife, knives, Opensky, sharpening stone, technique, video Comments closed
Favorite Tools Giveaway
As some readers know, I and my buddy Mac have begun to manufacture new cooking tools that we love, and we're already getting great feedback. We love The Spanker, above (photo by Donna, thanks hon!)—the big paddle for stirring big pots. There's simply nothing out there like it that we could find. I'll be using it to stir a double batch of Hoppin' John for a New Year's Day fete. But my mom said it was too big for her—she never cooked in batches that would require this bad boy. Another reader said the same, but added that she loved the paddles she'd received so much that she'd have been happy to pay the same amount for two small paddles.
This is exactly the kind of feedback we need, and because we've produced our tools in ...
Also posted in Giveaway, ruhlman products, Shopping, Sponsored Tagged all-strain kitchen cloths, easy clean knife grabber, Kitchen Tools, Michael Ruhlman kitchen tool line, Michael Ruhlman product line, Opensky, ruhlman product giveaway, wood paddles Comments closed
