Prep
These are the tools that are your workhorses, and the ones that most take the place of a sous-chef. These Cool Tools help you prepare your ingredients to be cooked. In finding Cool Tools for food prep, functionality, time saving and ease of use are the most important things we look for. Each and every one of these does its job particularly well and takes your food prep from drudgery to fun (well, almost!) When we finally carry knives, they will fit in this section.
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Joseph Joseph Garlic Rocker - J20Why It's Cool: Makes large enough pieces of garlic to crisp up in pan and add a great hit of flavorKennedy swears that the Garlic Rocker is the product that set the initial bar on what would be a certifiable Cool Tool: one of the tools that got us started in this business. We...
Nuance Mortar & Pestle - N30Why It's Cool: Beautiful, comfortable, effectiveEvery kitchen needs a mortar & pestle, to grind those dried herbs and spices, crush garlic and basil and other firm or semi-dry ingredients for pesto and other sauce bases, or...
Cuisipro 4-sided Box Grater - C61Why It's Cool: Glide technology makes grating smoother and easierSo, you ask, how can a Box Grater be a ‘Cool Tool’? Is anything more mundane? or basic? And the answer is ‘it’s a Cool Tool when it’s based on new, patent pending...
Cuisipro Apple Corer - C50Why It's Cool: Opens to release the coreOK, so what could be so different about an apple corer? They have a round tube with teeth to cut through the apple, and if you’re pretty accurate, you get rid of the core and...
RSVP Stainless Steel Citrus Juicer - R33Why It's Cool: Squeezes the maximum amount of juice out of the citrusEvery kitchen needs a hand juicer: to extract as much juice as possible from each half of a piece of citrus, to carefully add that last drop of juicy flavor to any dish, and above...
Norpro Aerator WhiskWhy It's Cool: Center vortex makes this very effective at whisking ingredientsI never thought much about differences in whisks...at least not until we started this business. We had a handful, and we’d reach for one that was about the right...
Cuisipro Silicone Whisk - C59Why It's Cool: Silicone coating make this the perfect tool to mix sauces on the stove, especially in non-stick cookwareNow that we’re all trying to lose that pandemic weight, we find ourselves cooking in non-stick pand and skillets to minimize the amount of oil we use, and our sauces are often a...
Cuisipro Olive / Cherry Pitter - C54Why It's Cool: Holds the olive or cherry for an easier operationIn spring, you can't help but think that cherry season is right around the corner... And it's always olive season. And olives add so much to a savory dish (see our recipe for...
RSVP CookMarkWhy It's Cool: Keeps your place in a cookbook—particularly when you're cooking 2 recipes out of the same cookbookEver wanted to cook two (or more) recipes out of the same cookbook? Happens to us all the time. Then you’re constantly turning the pages back and forth, losing your place,...
RSVP Onion Goggles - R40Why It's Cool: Really works to prevent onion tearsAbout a year ago a dear friend called and said she had a present for me. I love presents!! The next time I saw her she gave me a pair of Onion Goggles. They looked like a...
