Category — Kitchen Tool of the Month

A set of kitchen scales are a must in any kitchen where recipes are followed. Electronic scales provide a much greater degree of accuracy than traditional-style scales.

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Although silicone has been around since the 1940’s, it is a fairly recent addition to the domestic kitchen. Traditionally, metals such as tin and aluminium were the materials of choice for bakeware, but home cooks are now discovering the benefits of silicone.

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When following a recipe, a cup refers specifically to 250ml, not a coffee cup pulled out of the cupboard, and a tablespoon is 20ml, not a serving spoon! Although cooking is essentially an art, when following a recipe it pays to have a degree of accuracy, especially for beginner cooks and in particular when baking. [Read more →]

This is a new monthly column to Entertaining Made Easy, which I decided to add after receiving numerous questions from my cooking class students and blog readers about how best to equip their kitchen, what kitchenware to buy, where is the best place to buy it, how much should you pay and which gadgets to avoid. 

Each month I will feature a kitchen tool that I consider is a useful addition to the kitchen. This month’s featured kitchen tool is the digital thermometer.

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