Handy Kitchen Gadgets
Monday, June 4th, 2007 by The Cooking Guy Subscribe To Our Feed
Here are some handy gadgets that can help you keep track of all your measuring or kitchen needs. Before you dash out to get them, be sure that these gadgets meet your needs or else you might just end up having a kitchen full of useless gadgets.
Kitchen Calculator
It might look like just another ordinary calculator, but it’s really a measurement conversion calculator in disguise. This is top of my list because if you don’t want to keep going through my list of measurements, all you’ll need is this calculato
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Measuring Spoons
These are a must, especially if you’re going to be heavily into cooking. You can find measuring spoons ranging from the inexpensive plastic variety to the more stylish, and slightly more expensive, stainless steel variety. They’re both the same and they both do the same job. It just depends on your sense of style or flair. I went and bought myself a set of the stainless steel variety, having finally become bored with the plastic ones which have been with me since time immemorial.
Measuring Cups
These are also an indispensable part of your cooking program, but you can also get away with having just one measuring jug. Although I was tempted by the set of measuring cups that I saw the other day, I restrained myself, because all I really need is my good old Pyrex measuring jug.
Anything else is unnecessary for me, although if you don’t want to spend time finding out if you have exactly 1 cup of whatever, or if you’ve poured out something that looks like a cup and half, then these are good for you. They work along the same lines as the measuring spoons do, in that you have separate cups for the different measurement values.
Scale
You don’t really need this one unless you’re going to be doing a lot of baking. In which case, this becomes an indispensable tool in your kitchen.
Pepper Grinder
You have a choice here. You can either go with ready-ground pepper, in which case you won’t need any type of gadget. Or you could go with an electric hand held grinder or even a pepper mill. With the grinder you have the least work, and you just need to turn it on. The pepper mill requires a little more work on your part, but is just as good as the grinder.
The advantage I found with both of these over the ready-ground variety of pepper is that for one thing you can control the coarseness of your pepper, and for another, you’ll be getting freshly ground pepper every time.
Can opener
This is a must for those cans that don’t come with a “lift here” tab. Here as well you have a choice. You can go for the manual can opener or the electric variety. It all depends on how many cans you’re going to be opening. If you regularly use cans in your cooking then I would suggest you go for the electric can opener.
Garlic Press
This is ideal if you don’t want the hassle of peeling and chopping your garlic.
Oil Drizzler
I just love all these odd shaped jars and bottles that allow you to drizzle the oil in the quantity that you wish without having half of the bottle tip over into your pan. Needless to say I have a variety of those as well, and I put them all to good use.
I use them for my olive oils, my normal cooking oils, vinegar, and I’ve even kept a special one aside with a tightly sealing lid, for my honey.
Chopping Board
This is a must and something that I should have placed at the beginning! Without this you might as well be
chopping foods and stuff on your counters or table tops. As usual you have a choice. You can go with a wooden chopping board, a plastic chopping board or a coated-glass chopping board.
I don’t like the glass one since it makes a loud noise when I’m chopping, and I don’t use the plastic ones any more because they get a used and dirty look very fast, especially if you’re cooking on a daily basis.
The Wooden Cutting Board is the one I prefer, and although it might also become stained, it still retains its aesthetic sense of appeal for me.
Sieve
Again, this is a must if you’re doing any baking as the flour needs to be sifted first before use.
There you have it- some of my favorite kitchen gadgets. I will probably post another article on gadget since there is simply too many to be listed here.
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