Category Archives: Tools

Something To Say: Stupid Kitchen Tools

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 22, 2012

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:

© 2011 Michael Ruhlman. Photo © 2011 Donna Turner-Ruhlman. All rights reserved

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Cooking On the Road (Tools I Traveled With)

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 27, 2012

An array of tools I didn't want to be without when I arrived in an unfamiliar kitchen.

If you're on the road and will be cooking in unfamiliar kitchens, what are the essentials you cannot afford to be without? Thomas Keller once told me he always brought three things, kosher salt, string, and his pepper mill.  Everything else, a restaurant kitchen was likely to have. But what about when you're traveling to a rental house, as I did last week. A rental house you count on providing you with one crappy non-stick pan, a small plastic cutting board, a cheap pot just big enough to cook a box of spaghetti in, and an array of dull and serrated knives. Donna photographed the tools I brought with me to Key West to cook 9 consecutive dinners for 16 people.  A ...

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The Importance of Sharp Knives

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 22, 2011

knife sharpening

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

OpenSky's knife sharpener offer to people who follow me there forced me to think about sharp knives (I had to write the copy). Normally, I only think about sharp knives when they aren't. Here's the fact: the biggest problem in home kitchens is dull knives. There is no greater hindrance to the person in the house who does the cooking than dull knives. Almost without fail, every friend's kitchen I go to, there is not a sharp knife to be found. The only kitchens I've been in where there are sharp knives, are the big fancy ones where no one cooks. And my mom's. Because she only uses those crappy ceramic knives, so her nice Wusthofs, used on my once- or twice-a-year visits remain pristine. (OpenSky has ...

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Favorite Tools Giveaway

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 28, 2010

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 ...

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Introducing Ruhlman.com Kitchen Tools!

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 15, 2010

All-Strain Kitchen Cloths Who would have thought I'd have a future with the man showing off his new Scooby Doo underwear in my kitchen at a New Year's Day celebration?  Yet here we are!  Mac Dalton and I have conspired to create a small number of cooking tools that were either hard to find, non-existent or that we simply love.

The man with the Scooby Doo boxers

This is a big experiment for us. With little capital, we're starting slow to gauge interest and are thus producing in limited numbers. We'll be introducing more new tools as they become available. It's important to say that these are not products some company has asked me to endorse or put my name on. We've created these tools based ...

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