Kitchenware, gadgets, gear – what should be in your kitchen drawers?

The best in kitchenware, equipment, and gadgets, reviews and recommendations.

The Wooden Chopping Board Co.

The Wooden Chopping Board Co.

The most important things that any half serious cook owns are a couple of good knives. Not a block of sixteen assorted flimsy efforts from IKEA, but two decent knives – one big cook’s knife and a smaller version – either German or Japanese, their edges honed to a razor-sharp finish on a steel or [...]

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Magnet’s 2014 kitchen range

Magnet 2014 kitchen range and product innovations

http://www8.glam.com/js/widgets/glam_author_logo.act?afid=1649056237;postadid=5000158993 I think that if you really want to know about a person, you should look at the place where they cook. It’s simple, really. In any house, the kitchen is likely to be the most expensive thing that a person invests in, and it’s also likely to be the single room that gets the most [...]

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The Waring WT400 toaster

The Waring WT400 toaster

Toasters. I’ve bought loads of them, normally the £15 bargain basement type that last about a year before blowing up and taking the rest of the electrics in the house with them. It’s a false economy, because many cheap toasters equals one really quite good one that’ll last for years. Here’s a good example of [...]

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Toasted coconut ice cream, and a brand-new scoop

Toasted coconut ice cream

The quest for ever weirder ice cream flavours continues … After the olive oil ice cream from the other week, we’ve now got coconut, and it’s actually quite good – coconut intensified through a little gentle roasting to bring out its essential nuttiness, then used as an infusion in a standard ice cream base. Couldn’t [...]

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