First Kitchen
If you're just starting out (or want to help some who is), here are the basics to help get started.
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OXO Poultry Shears - O36Why It's Cool: Micro-serrated blades cut equally well through skin and bones, and the blades come apart for easy cleaning.Poultry shears have two basic functions: be strong enough to cut through joints and bones, and be sharp enough to cut through slippery chicken skin. It is surprising how few...
OXO Silicone Roasting Rack - Set of 2 - O35Why It's Cool: Flexible and convenient solution to elevate your food.A roasting rack is an essential component to good cooking of so many delicious dishes … usually these racks ‘come with’ your roasting pan, but often those that ‘come...
Colbrook Kitchen QuickMix Mixing Jar (Egg, corn starch, ... everything mixer!) - C22Why It's Cool: Great for beating one or two eggs or mixing cornstarch and water--it truly is a quick mix!So how can an inexpensive piece of plastic be a Cool Tool? I have to tell you...I love this thing. It’s called a QuickMix, and that’s exactly what is does. I use it at...
Cuisipro Silicone Spoon - C56Why It's Cool: Great spoon for all your non-stick cookware, with a beveled edge, ergonomic handle and good capacityColbrook Kitchen’s corporate name is Kochlöeffel LLC. In German, that means “cooking spoon”, but in Yiddish, it means so much more. A “kochlöeffel” is someone who...
Cuisipro Silicone Wok Turner - C58Why It's Cool: An old world tool reimagined in modern materials with great functionality!We love using a wok turner: the broad-blade with slightly raised sides allows you to handle more ingredients faster, which is important in the high-heat environment in which...
fusionbrands Mushroom (and other vegetables) ClothWhy It's Cool: Bacteria resistant Silicone cleans tender mushrooms and tougher vegetables and citrus like a champ!So we’ve always been cautioned about not putting mushrooms under running water...they soak it up like crazy and then don’t really brown nicely because they’re water logged....
fusionbrands ButterEasyWhy It's Cool: Easiest, cleanest way to spread butter on almost anything.There are so many dishes that call for melting butter in a pan, or rubbing butter in a baking dish or simply buttering some warm bread, waffles, pancakes, corn or... And our...
Progressive Cut Resistant Glove - P22Why It's Cool: Protects your hands when using a mandoline or slicerIn a couple of the other write-ups, we talk about the fact that mandolines are sharp: really sharp. That’s a good thing and a bad thing (well, not really bad, just, you...
Tovolo Olive Wood Tools - T31Why It's Cool: Beautiful natural wood tools that won't scratch your pots and pans in useful shapes with comfotable handlesThe natural beauty of olive wood tools just make you feel good using them in the kitchen--it’s a back-to-nature kind of thing. And they’re also good for your pots and pans and...
Tovolo Mini Scoop & SpreadWhy It's Cool: Gets the last drop out of your jar, and then spreads it on your...toast, bagel, etcEver since we were on the Fast Metabolism Diet, and we realized that Sprouted grain bread has significant health benefits over even whole grain bread, and Making your...
