![]() ![]() ![]() Stop juicing lemons and limes by hand! It’s just not efficient and you’re probably leaving some juice behind, anyway. This stainless steel device also makes julienne strips or waffle cuts (it has 21 settings!) and is as sturdy as these tools come. Using one is the only way to (quickly!) make uniformly paper-thin cuts. OXO Chef’s Steel Mandoline, $100Įven professional chefs with super sharp knife skills swear by mandolines. Get creative with it, too-it’ll dice up carrots, celery, and more. Tired of wasting time blowing your nose and blotting your eyes every time you need to dice an onion? This chopper will do the work for you and put an end to all the tears. This press, from OXO, can handle multiple cloves at a time and you don’t even have to peel the paper off before you pop them in. You’ll save so much time mincing garlic and it’ll keep your fingers from smelling of the stuff for days after. If you’re going to make just one exception for a unitasking kitchen tool, a garlic press has to be it. No need to dirty a cutting board or worry about getting too precious with your knife skills! 3. Work right over a pot and it’ll cut up evenly sliced pieces. Williams Sonoma Open Kitchen Herb Shears, $9įor other herbs without woody stems-like chives, scallions, and basil-there’s this pair of four-bladed scissors. ![]() It’s fast and it’s oddly satisfying to use! 2. Pull the stem through the appropriate hole and you’re left with the leaves that are all ready to go. It has eight holes in graduated sizes, which fit everything from large kale leaves to slender sprigs of oregano. Remove the tough stems from kale and herbs, in no time with this stripper. These are our favorite gadgets that’ll help with the most mundane parts of cooking. While there are a lot of tools out there that seem unnecessary, there are also a lot of really brilliant ones that will save you time and help you get back to the best parts of cooking. Bor-ring! That’s where kitchen tools come in. You know the jobs we’re talking about-those cloves of garlic that aren’t going to mince themselves, kale leaves that have to be ripped off their too-tough stems, and that pile of strawberries that need hulling. We’re talking about the chores that are such mundane snooze-fests, you just want them to be over so that you can move on to the fun stuff. No matter how much you love to cook, chances are, there’s a task or two that you find to be just SO BORING. ![]()
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