Cool Tools

Making ‘cocktails’ - from the simplest to the most complex - requires a range of tools, for measuring, mixing, and serving the mixed beverage of your choice, whether or not it...

We enjoy salads, almost daily: flavorful and healthful, it’s a great way to combine a wide range of ingredients and dressings to complement almost any meal. Here’s our recipe...

We really like to julienne vegetables ...either as a primary ingredient in dishes like Zucchetti alla Colbrook, as components in a salad, or simply as garnish, a julienned...

We’ve been on the hunt...for the perfect non-disposable straw. We all know that it’s better for the environment to have something we can reuse (with minimal effort), rather...

How could a set of mixing bowls be a Cool Tool? We all use mixing bowls … of various shapes and sizes and materials … and sometimes we have even more than one set, to cover...

Among the pantheon of “holy grails” in the housewares industry (can there be more than one “holy grail”?) is the search for something that can keep guacamole looking fresh...

Tongs are an extension of your fingers: it’s the way to pick up or move pieces of food that would be too hot to touch (or these days, unsanitary to touch) with your fingers....

Cleaning up is probably the least fun part of cooking, but unfortunately, it’s a necessity. So are there Cool Tools that make this easier or less unpleasant? We’ve tested...

As we stated in our Cool Tip: There is a Difference, you really do measure wet and dry ingredients differently.  Wet ingredients will find their own level in a measuring cup,...

The original Cheese Knife was a great surprise for us … a very Cool Tool: beautiful mid-20th Century American industrial design, with a clean functional purpose, that performs...