Holiday Helpers
These are to Cool Tools that will help make your holidays Merry and Bright!
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Progressive Nut Chopper - P16Why It's Cool: Easily chops even the toughest nut to produce evenly chopped nuts for great cooking and presentation.Nuts add such great flavor to recipes. And with all the health interest in nuts these days, they belong in almost every diet. (See our Cool Tip: Nuts for Nuts!) So we know the...
OXO Garlic (and stuff) Slicer - O32Why It's Cool: Slices paper thin with an effective food hopper to protect your fingers!Two of the greatest flavor additions to almost any savory dish are garlic and ginger - fresh of course! We love these ingredients, and have found some wonderful Cool Tools over...
Gefu Adjustable Handheld V-Blade Mandoline Slicer - G13Why It's Cool: Compact size, wonderful slicing capabilityAs you may know, one of the key criteria when selecting a Cool Tool is that it is a home cook's substitute for a sous chef (chefs have sous chefs; home cooks have Cool Tools!). In...
Tovolo Flex-Core Spatulas - T35Why It's Cool: Flexible, yet strong, mixing and scraping ability with a comfortable stainless steel handle for easy clean-upEvery kitchen needs multiple spatulas … it’s an unavoidable fact of cooking! Wherever anything is, you need a spatula - of one size or another - to scrape or fold one...
Escali SAVU Space Saving Scale - E20Why It's Cool: Small, sleek, and incredibly talented!Precision in cooking may not be as important as it is in baking, but when no two potatoes or carrots or apples are the same size, weighing your ingredients can really help make...
RSVP Endurance Stainless Steel Scrubbie (Package of 2) - R41Why It's Cool: Cleans like a champ and doesn't rustOK, so clean-up is definitely not the most exciting part of cooking. But, alas, it is always a necessary set of tasks. So when you find something clever, effective, and reasonably...
OXO Chef's Precision Oven ThermometerWhy It's Cool: Easy to read, accurate, and stays out of the way with a 2-prong hangerThere is a liar in your kitchen--it’s your oven. It may say that the temperature is 350°F, but what is it really? The only way to know is to get an oven thermometer. You’ll...
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...
KnappMade Fine Chainmail Dishcloth™ (for Wine Decantors and Pots and Pans)Why It's Cool: Fine stainless steel mesh is an elegant, effective and safe way to clean your decanters and your finest pots and pansChain mail isn’t just for battles anymore (at least not the kind on horseback)! Clean-up is the dirty little downside of cooking; and some clean-up jobs are worse than...
