Property News · April 16, 2024

Eight unsung kitchen tools every home cook should own: ‘You’ll wonder how you lived without them’


Elizabeth Quinn raids her cutlery drawer for the indispensable – but underrated – utensils that make cooking a breezeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMost of us have our go-to kitchen gadgets: the occasionally battered tools with the familiar feel that give us the confidence we might otherwise lack. My choux pastry never quite reached the same glossy consistency without the ancient enamel saucepan and “special” wooden spoon combination I had used over 20 years of making croquembouches.The kitchen utensils we automatically reach for are as idiosyncratic as our thumbprints. A friend once gave me a replacement for my beloved old choux pastry spoon: an “indispensable” alternative stirring implement known as a spurtle. I kept my old spoon and used the spurtle to prop open the door. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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