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Tag Archives: Kitchen 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 ...
Gift Week: Affordable, Useful Gifts
When it comes to small great gifts, kitchen tools can’t be beat. Items like the above Benriner mandoline, a tool you’ll find in just about every professional cook’s knife kit, is perfect.
But there are many many ridiculous small brightly colored kitchen items out there tempting those who don’t cook with promises of ease and convenience . Last year my mom got me these pink silicone trussing bands —I do not recommend! This is the kind of stupid product that makes me crazy.
But a great pepper mill, that’s something truly valuable—there are good ones and bad ones. Pugeot’s are excellent. This one from opensky is top of the line with an adjustable grind.
The side towels I offer at opensky ...
Posted in Holiday, Kitchen Tools Also tagged handblender, holiday, mandoline, microplane, mortar and pestle, scales, shopping, side towels Comments closed
Gift Week: The Big Guns
This week’s posts will be devoted my personal kitchen tool gift guide, starting with the big guns.
I got my first KitchenAid stand mixer 20 years ago as a Christmas gift from my mom’s boyfriend, Hap, and it was one of the best gifts I ever got. It’s the most used appliance in my kitchen. I’ve beaten the hell out of it, even flipped it off the countertop while trying to grind something particularly difficult. And it still runs.
When Donna and I began doing photography for Twenty, we wanted something a little better to look at and so now use the above “Artisan” 5-quart model (linked to above). If you’re looking for that over-the-top gift for the one in your family who loves to cook, this can’t be beat. It’s what we tested all the ...
Posted in Holiday, Kitchen Tools Also tagged holiday shopping, large items, wish list 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 ...
Posted in Giveaway, ruhlman products, Shopping, Sponsored, Tools Also tagged all-strain kitchen cloths, easy clean knife grabber, Michael Ruhlman kitchen tool line, Michael Ruhlman product line, Opensky, ruhlman product giveaway, wood paddles Comments closed
Introducing Ruhlman.com Kitchen Tools!
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
Posted in Kitchen Tools, Tools Also tagged acacia wood paddles, all-strain kitchen cloths, cheese cloth, easy clean knife grabber, Mac Dalton, magnet knife holder, Michael Ruhlman kitchen tool line, Michael Ruhlman product line, Opensky, spanker, spanky Comments closed
