Category: Tools

The Reamer, the Pitter, the Egg-Separator

This past weekend I found myself puttering around the kitchen again.  I had purchased 2lbs. of Bing Cherries the previous weekend and I needed to do something with them before they went bad.  So, I decided to make a cherry pie. But this isn’t really about the pie.  It’s about the tools I used to

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June 23, 2011 1 Comment Short URL, , In the Kitchen, Tools

“An Electric Mixer Fitted With the Paddle Attachment”

Are you ready for the saddest mixer story ever?  I mean ever.  It’s about a young woman, her dreams of baking dominance and the kitchen appliance that crushed them.  Yes?  Then let’s begin….. I’ve got a love/hate relationship with my kitchen appliances.  On one hand, there’s no way I could do some of the things

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April 14, 2011 3 Comments Short URL, , In the Kitchen, Tools

Martha Wrap (yes, you heard me correctly – Martha Wrap)

Dear Martha Stewart Living People, Last week Madison (that’s my lovely niece) and I whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and I decided to conduct a very un-scientific study in my own kitchen.  Just before Christmas, I found a new and very peculiar paper product in the aisle at my local grocery store

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January 25, 2011 3 Comments Short URL, , , , In the Kitchen, Tools

No More Bloody Knuckles

Six years ago I was working for a national housewares-store-that-shall-not-be-named.  I was the kitchenware department manager for about six months and one of the best things about working there was learning about new gadgets, machines, containers, cookware, cutlery and ingredients.  It was there that I discovered one of my favorite gadgets EVER. Up until the

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November 19, 2010 1 Comment Short URL, , In the Kitchen, Tools