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Love it or hate it, cooking is an instrumental part of daily life around the home and in an apartment. Whether making dinner for yourself or preparing lunch for a get-together, your kitchen utensils can make or break your cooking abilities and your dining options.
A lot of us keep our kitchen utensils to a bare minimum: pots and pans, some glasses and plates, a decent set of silverware, and some butcher knives. Sometimes, though, just having the bare minimum number of utensils and gadgets can limit your cooking options. So, if you're looking to update your kitchen's gadgets and tools, this blog post is for you! Keep reading to check out renters.apartments.com's article about the best gadgets and tools to have in your kitchen:
Zesters/Graters
A good zester and grater is essential for anyone who wants to make their favorite from scratch recipes, or top things off with some freshly grated cheese. Recipes that call for lemon or lime zest usually ask for a few teaspoons or tablespoons at the most, and finding “zest” in a grocery store can be difficult and overpriced. Shredded cheese is easy enough to find, but you might not want all your cheese shredded or you may want a bit of freshly grated parmesan on top of your favorite Italian dish or salad. Graters can also grate chocolate that makes a perfect topper from your homemade pie, specialty drink, or even an ice cream sundae.
Garlic Press
Fresh garlic shows up in almost as many recipes as regular salt. It’s delicious and good for you, but it can be hard to handle. If you have a garlic press, it’s much easier. Trying to mice garlic with a knife can be cumbersome, and you can wind up with larger chunks of garlic in your recipes. With a garlic press you tuck your garlic clove inside and press. Out comes minced garlic you can scoop into your recipe and the rinse the garlic press clean.
Salad Spinner
With a busy life, having a good salad with your meal can seem like a chore. This leads many people to buy prebagged salads and pay about twice as much or more than putting their ingredients in a salad spinner in order to get the same or better salads.
Manual Chopper
You might have a larger electric food processor, but when you just want to chop a few nuts or even crush crackers taking out a big appliance can be cumbersome. Using a knife and cutting board often won’t give you the finely chopped texture you may want. With a manual chopper your food is contained in a small bowl while you chop.
Apple Corer
Apples are one of the most celebrated health foods, but it can be messy to eat them with the core in tact. You can also wind up missing some of your delicious apple. If you have kids, you have to worry about seeds and the choking hazard they bring. Cutting up an apple with a knife can lead to waste. An apple corer makes things simpler. Simply press the corer over the middle of the apple an get those perfect slices everyone loves.
Can Opener
More and more canned food have pop tops, but they are not yet universal. It’s a good thing there are a wide variety of can openers. The latest designs are easy to grip and some are designed to lift the whole can top off, rather than cutting into the can and leaving sharp edges. Many people are particular about their can opener, so be sure to hold a few different kinds in your hand and see which feels right to you.
A lot of us keep our kitchen utensils to a bare minimum: pots and pans, some glasses and plates, a decent set of silverware, and some butcher knives. Sometimes, though, just having the bare minimum number of utensils and gadgets can limit your cooking options. So, if you're looking to update your kitchen's gadgets and tools, this blog post is for you! Keep reading to check out renters.apartments.com's article about the best gadgets and tools to have in your kitchen:
Zesters/Graters
A good zester and grater is essential for anyone who wants to make their favorite from scratch recipes, or top things off with some freshly grated cheese. Recipes that call for lemon or lime zest usually ask for a few teaspoons or tablespoons at the most, and finding “zest” in a grocery store can be difficult and overpriced. Shredded cheese is easy enough to find, but you might not want all your cheese shredded or you may want a bit of freshly grated parmesan on top of your favorite Italian dish or salad. Graters can also grate chocolate that makes a perfect topper from your homemade pie, specialty drink, or even an ice cream sundae.
Garlic Press
Fresh garlic shows up in almost as many recipes as regular salt. It’s delicious and good for you, but it can be hard to handle. If you have a garlic press, it’s much easier. Trying to mice garlic with a knife can be cumbersome, and you can wind up with larger chunks of garlic in your recipes. With a garlic press you tuck your garlic clove inside and press. Out comes minced garlic you can scoop into your recipe and the rinse the garlic press clean.
Salad Spinner
With a busy life, having a good salad with your meal can seem like a chore. This leads many people to buy prebagged salads and pay about twice as much or more than putting their ingredients in a salad spinner in order to get the same or better salads.
Manual Chopper
You might have a larger electric food processor, but when you just want to chop a few nuts or even crush crackers taking out a big appliance can be cumbersome. Using a knife and cutting board often won’t give you the finely chopped texture you may want. With a manual chopper your food is contained in a small bowl while you chop.
Apple Corer
Apples are one of the most celebrated health foods, but it can be messy to eat them with the core in tact. You can also wind up missing some of your delicious apple. If you have kids, you have to worry about seeds and the choking hazard they bring. Cutting up an apple with a knife can lead to waste. An apple corer makes things simpler. Simply press the corer over the middle of the apple an get those perfect slices everyone loves.
Can Opener
More and more canned food have pop tops, but they are not yet universal. It’s a good thing there are a wide variety of can openers. The latest designs are easy to grip and some are designed to lift the whole can top off, rather than cutting into the can and leaving sharp edges. Many people are particular about their can opener, so be sure to hold a few different kinds in your hand and see which feels right to you.
Potato Masher
A potato masher may not seem fancy enough to be included among the best kitchen gadgets, but it is a very handy tool. To many people “mashed” potatoes are really whipped potatoes and once you give up the potato texture something is lost. With a potato masher, you get a mostly smooth texture while getting the occasional little piece of potatoes for the homemade feel. Potato mashers can also efficiently mash other soft foods, such as ripe bananas for banana bread, hard boiled eggs for egg salad, or avocados for fresh guacamole.
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