DotandArmy.com Cloth Bowl Covers Bonus! In conjunction with our Bread Toast Crumbscookbook giveaway, the creative team at DotandArmy.comis gifting the first place cookbook winner with two of their very special cloth bowl covers. These are favorites of Alexandra Stafford, the author of the...

Bubbles Your Way, Again Design meets function. SodaStream has partnered with Yves Behar, world-renowned designer, to create the new SodaStream Play™ home carbonation system. Behar's minimalistic sleek design re-shapes the interface and shape of the SodaStream system, and makes it ultra-simple to...

KosherEye Picks For over 30 years, The Pampered Chef® and its sales force of Independent Consultants have been selling select kitchen products to help families create quick, delicious meals that are as much fun to prepare as they are to eat. The business was launched in 1980 by company founder,...

Simple Summer Sipping Flash Chill Lemonade Maker What could be better than refreshing lemonade on a hot day? The Takeya Flash Chill Lemonade Maker is easy to use and can serve a crowd healthful, tart, sweet fresh lemonade… like having a lemonade stand right in your kitchen. Here’s how you do it:...

Oxo challenged bloggers to “slice it up” and create original recipes. What fun; we think that OXO is a cut above, and loved using wonderful chef friendly tools to chop, slice, cut and grate! Our Toolbox: Oxo Mandoline Slicer This versatile V-Blade slicer makes cutting vegetables a cinch. It takes...

Like Standing on Marshmallows The company, WellnessMats was founded in 1996 by Daniel Bouzide and has become the mat–of–choice for the Department of Homeland Security and TSA. They are popular in the healthcare field, beauty salons, hotels, professional kitchens, and in numerous retail locations...

by SILPAT®, the Original Non-Stick Baking Mat Not only do the ingredients we use in baking affect the results of the finished product, but so do the tools and techniques. The color of the pan − dark or light; regular or non−stick; to grease or not to grease; to line with parchment paper; too much...

When Temperature Counts! Many kosher cooks spend even more time in the kitchen preparing meals than the typical homemaker. Therefore, it follows that we are always searching for innovative and unique kitchen accessories to make the cooking experience more efficient, more pleasurable, more accurate...

Chilled From Inside the Bottle There are gadgets and then there are gadgets! Some of them lose their appeal rather quickly and are relegated to the deep, dark confines of the "gadget draw" − never to be seen again! We are happy to tell you, the Corkcicle is not such a creature. Keeping wine at the...

Two Messy Thumbs Up! When cooking, we use it all – our heirloom recipe index cards, cookbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings and now our newest hi–tech kitchen resource, our iPad. However, using the iPad has been tricky. We had to keep it far enough away from cooking areas to protect it from...

Cutting boards are a standard item in most kitchens and are available in several materials, with the most popular being plastic and wood. We own and use assorted cutting boards in several materials. Wooden cutting boards appear to be the material of choice for the TV celebrity chefs. We have all...

Yogurt Your Way! Models YM100 & YMX650 Yogurt is a staple in our refrigerator, and a very healthy and important part of our diet. Its benefits are so numerous, that it would require another article just to write about them. The dairy section of most grocery and specialty food stores devote large...

Clean, Dust, Wash, Smile How we love to cook and entertain. We have a passion for creating recipes and serving them to family and friends. But as you might expect, during preparation, there is always quite a mess to clean. And then, of course, there is more cleaning after the meals are served....

From Cuisipro Kitchen Tools Experiment with different ways to decorate and/or fill your cupcakes using the Cuisipro Cupcake Corer and Decorating Set . Clown: Core a vanilla cupcake and save core. Fill hole with jellies. Place a ball of buttercream on cupcake and use candies to finish clown face....

Decorate, Scoop, Sift, and Roll We love kitchen gadgets and tools and Cuisipro products are, in our opinion, innovative, functional and durable. A division of Browne & Company, located in Markham, Ontario, Cuisipro has more than 250 products and offers a 25–year warranty. With these Cuisipro “Why...

Squeeze, Juice & Zest With Summer comes citrus – in dressings, pies, salads, pastas, and more. So light and refreshing! What tools do we use when cooking with oranges, lemons and limes? Just a squeeze to remove the seeds:We use the Amco Enameled Aluminum Orange Squeezer! Just cut the lemon, lime...

Buy New Kitchen Gadgets at Passover We present 10 must-have cooking and prep gadgets for the kosher kitchen, just in time to buy for Passover. Most are new, but some are classic. We think that these are all winners both for Passover and everyday! Salad Sac Soggy Salad! After checking, washing,...

from Emile Henry The mortar and pestle date back thousands of years and have many uses – both in medical and in food preparation. With an RX on the mortar (bowl) and the pestle nested inside the mortar, it is one of the most easily recognizable symbols of pharmacology. Pharmacists used it to crush...

Whisk, Rise, Shape The bakeware and tools used for baking bread are just as important as the recipes – they can be the difference between success and failure. We are fans of the King Arthur Flour Company – their flour, baking accessories and the Baking Hotline (more about the Hotline later). We...

Easy Chop, Toss, Slice Leave it to a stay–at–home mother to invent a gadget that would appear on two of Oprah's O Magazine's lists — the O List and Why Didn't I Think of That!. The stay–at–home mother is Wendy Silver and the gadget is the Toss & Chop™ Salad Chopper. Her desire to recreate a...