FOOD + DRINK
GET CLEVER in the kitchen cont.
Products you’ ll want
Amco’ s Rub-A-Way Bar
A stainless steel block shaped like a bar of soap, the Rub-A-Way Bar claims to simply rub away the strong and lingering smell of onions, garlic and fish from your hands during cooking preparation. The molecules in the steel bind with the sulphur molecules on your hands apparently, transferring the foul smell off your hands and onto the metal.
£ 6.40, www. amcohouseworks. com
Sistema KLIP IT™ Cracker Accents
Food Huggers
A range of stretchy silicone storage covers, these marvellous discs prolong the life of fruits and veg by covering and forming a seal around the cut end. Colourful, washable and incredibly effective, they’ ll keep lemons gin and tonic-fresh for a good two weeks and save your onions from that awkward floppy stage too. There’ s even one for avocados.
One of those products that’ s almost too obvious to own, but that you’ ll now own forevermore, the Sistema Cracker Accent is a cracker-shaped airtight container and the answer to your soggy cracker prayers. Stackable, washable and available in whole, half, or quarter pack sizes, grab one of these and your crackers will remain crisp and cheese ready.
From £ 4, www. amazon. co. uk
£ 11.15( set of 5), www. foodhuggers. com
Thermapen
The Thermapen takes the guess work out of calculating when your food’ s ready to come out of the oven providing an accurate temperature reading in just three seconds. Particularly good at indicating when poultry is sufficiently cooked( which is handy considering chicken is the food linked to an estimated 244,000 cases of food poisoning per year), it has a patented 360 ° self-rotating display that can be used in any position, and in either hand.
£ 60, www. thermapen. co. uk
Clip-on pouring spout
A clever invention that easily attaches to mixing bowls, pots, pans and skillets, this clip-on spout welcomes mess-free pouring and straining into your kitchen. Made from high-temperature withstanding Japanese silicone, it’ s dishwasher safe and hardy, and it doubles as a spoon rest too.
£ 8, www. silpoura. com
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