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| There seems to be a tool or gadget for everything nowadays with the kitchen seeming to have more than its fair share, that’s why we have been testing a range of these culinary tools to find the ones that really work! Whether you are looking for a salad spinner to fling the water of your fresh salad leaves, indispensible scrubbing gloves to clean your freshly collected vegetables or the perfect egg timer, our collection of kitchen must-have gadgets are sure to help. |
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OXO Good Grips® Lemon Zester |
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£5.75
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OXO Good Grips® Lemon Zester is two tools in one! The sharp holes in its stainless steel head remove the zest from the pith of lemons and other citrus fruits easily, and a channel knife feature makes it easy to decorate for garnish. Its soft handle nestles comfortably in your palm and is designed to prevent it from spinning in your hand. |
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OXO Good Grips® Can Opener |
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£12.25
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OXO Good Grips® Can Opener is designed to make opening a can easy on your hands. Big, cushioned handles give you extra strength to pierce a can, and the oversized knob turns easily. The sharp cutting wheel is made of sturdy stainless steel and the soft, comfortable handles absorb pressure. The soft handled can opener leaves the edges of cans smooth and also features a built-in bottle top opener. |
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OXO Good Grips® Y Peeler |
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£5.75
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Named for its shape, the OXO Good Grips Y Peeler features a sharp stainless steel blade that glides through even the toughest fruit and vegetable skins with ease. The soft, comfortable handle cushions your hand as you peel, and is non-slip, even when your hands are wet. |
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OXO Good Grips® Salad Spinner |
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from £18.45
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For fun and easy salad preparation, try the OXO Good Grips® Salad Spinners. Simply press the soft, non-slip knob to start the basket spinning. Easy, one-handed operation makes this Spinner a pleasure to use, and a built-in brake stops the Salad Spinner so you can unload it. A non-slip ring keeps the bowl steady on the countertop, and the basket and bowl can be used separately. |
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Masterclass Stainless Steel Potato Chipper |
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£34.95
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The Masterclass Stainless Steel Potato Chipper sounds ideal at first glance but when you consider it can turn your home grown potatoes into french fries as well as traditional chips, then it becomes arguably the most valuable item of kitchenware you'll ever own!
The top of the range potato chipper features interchangeable 36 and 64 hole blades to create the chip size of your choice and a push or two down on the easy-action lever will turn a spud into pomme frites in next to no time! Dishwasher proof and carrying a 10 year guarantee indicative of the build quality, this stainless steel potato chipper features a rubber suction pad to securely grip work surfaces, is easy and quick to clean and can also be used to create strips of vegetables for dips - but we'll stick to chips! |
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Kilner Jam Serving Spoon |
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£1.95
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The Kilner Jam Serving Spoon features a unique s-shaped handle so the spoon can be placed over the top of the jar or hung inside, meaning no more mess and wastage - all the drips go back in the jar! Made from stainless steel, the spoon cleans easily and is also ideal to use with pickles and chutneys. |
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Deluxe Salad Spinner |
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from £15.95
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Soggy sandwich bread and damp salad leaves will be a thing of the past once the Deluxe Salad Spinner gets to work; this innovative, three-in-one, must-have kitchen ally will fling water off your carefully home-grown produce in no time!
Available in a small dark green version or a larger light green coloured model, the Deluxe Salad Spinner has a spec to rival a high performance sports car; a geared action allows easy spinning, the quick-stop brake quickly brings the spinner to a halt and non-skid feet keep it right on track. Throw in the fact you can use the removable drier basket as a colander and the transparent spinning bowl can be used to serve fresh - and dry - salads, your lettuce, raw spinach, broad leaved herbs and greens have never had it so good! Small salad spinner measures 20cm L x 18cm H x 21.5cm D and the large is 30cm L x 23cm H x 27cm D - both carry a 10 year guarantee. |
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Vegetable Scrubbing Gloves |
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from £4.95
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With 50% of vitamins located in the peel, our Vegetable Scrubbing Gloves will clean your home grown vegetables without removing all the quality and taste which traditional peeling does. The Vegetable Scrubbing Gloves also spell the end for countless hours at the sink and are much kinder on your hands too - and with the three colour co-ordinated styles we've got available you can look good too.
One size of Vegetable Scrubbing Glove fits all, they're ideal for getting kids to help out in the kitchen and are practical and hygenic to use. Choose from brown potato gloves (also use for beetroot); the orange carrot style (suitable for cleaning parsnip, parsley root and more) and take care of any other veg cleaning with the lime green veggie version. Each pair of Vegetable Scrubbing Gloves have their name (potato, carrot and 'veggie') embossed on the back for a final stylish touch. |
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Egg Perfect Egg Timer |
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£4.95
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The egg-asperating days of runny yolks and hard centres in the kitchen could be over - simply add the egg-shaped Egg Perfect Egg Timer to your pan and remove the eggs as and when this invaluable colour changing timer tells you!
The easy-to-read graduated scale on the Egg Perfect Egg Timer ranges from soft to hard and will go a long way to producing perfectly cooked eggs every time, and the ingenious little timer will also account for number of eggs and amount of water - even the altitude you're cooking at! To get the most from your new kitchen best friend, use room temperature tap water and bring both eggs and timer to a medium boil. Egg Perfect Egg Timer? It's egg-cellent! |
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Multi-Bladed Herb Scissors |
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£6.95
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Take the work out of cutting and preparing home grown herbs with these Multi-Bladed Herb Scissors; the five blades all work together to finely chop all types of herb in record time. It's not just the business end of the Multi-Bladed Herb Scissors which deliver great results - the large plastic handles have a soft, non-slip lining for a really comfortable grip. Multi-blades measure 19cm in length and cut your kitchen time as well as herbs - more time for the garden! |
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OXO Good Grips® Strawberry Huller |
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£6.25
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The OXO Good Grips® Strawberry Huller is a precision instrument when it comes to cleanly plucking the stalk and stem from a juicy strawberry - just the job if fruit salads, tarts or even a few delicious strawberries with cream are on the menu!
A single motion sees the strawberry cleanly pierced and the leaves and hull removed, and a press of the button on the strawberry stem remover handle ejects the unwanted stem. Measuring a 'handy' 7cm in length by 5cm in width, the strawberry huller boasts a removable plunger for easy cleaning, a soft comfortable grip and is perfectly safe to pop into the dishwasher. |
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OXO Good Grips® Melon Baller |
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£7.75
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The OXO Good Grips® Melon Baller has two stainless steel heads for making delicious melon balls for fruit salads and garnishes in two different sizes.
The soft, slim handle of the melon scooper is comfortable to grip and makes it easy to turn the fruit baller around and use both size heads. The 23cm long Melon Baller is dishwasher safe and is also ideal for creating small, colorful scoops of sorbet for a festive dessert. |
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Pineapple Easy Slicer and Wedger |
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£6.95
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The ingenious Pineapple Easy Slicer and Wedger will peel, core and slice a fresh pineapple in just 30 seconds - that's quicker (and tastier) than opening up a can!
The slicer works like a corkscrew, removing the flesh in perfectly formed rings leaving the core in the shell - one turn, one slice, or the whole pineapple in one go! With the separate pineapple wedger, you can cut the pineapple flesh in equal parts in one simple movement; this feature can be used on both sides and the convenient grip pads on the sides provide a controlled cutting movement through the pineapple rings. The grip provides a firm hold and can be released with a single press on the button, leaving the valuable pineapple shell intact and ready to be used serving a desert or fruit salad. The Pineapple Easy Slicer and Wedger measures 23cm in height and is 12cm wide. |
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Stainless Steel Spice Ball |
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£2.75
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The Stainless Steel Spice Ball lets you gently infuse your favourite herbs and spices into your homemade soups, sauces and casseroles - simply fill the stainless steel spice ball with the required amount of herbs and spices and clip to the side of the pan with the integral clip and chain. |
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Garlic Press |
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£12.45
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Simple to use, stunning to look at and almost self-cleaning, there really is no better way to crush your home-grown garlic cloves - this is one Garlic Press that even a vampire would love! The elegant single cast design and mirror polish finish give this Garlic Press the looks, but it backs up its appearance with heavy duty performance, and the spent clove can be ingeniously removed by inverting the press. Measuring 17cm L x 4.5cm H x 6cm D, the Garlic Press carries a 10 year guarantee and is safe to clean in the dishwasher. |
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Nutcracker |
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£14.95
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No sledgehammer required here as this attractive Nutcracker really looks the part positioned by a roaring log fire in the depths of winter, effortlessly cracking all sizes of delicious home grown edible nuts or those gathered on a countryside forage, by way of the traditional screw thread press.
The 1.5 kg steel cast iron-effect body of the Nutcracker is a good indication of the performance you can expect and the 5cm wide cracking bowl is large enough to hold most edible nuts. A few turns with the 11.5cm wide handle will render your nuts fit for consumption and this traditional cracker will look good at rest as well. Measures13cm in diameter, stands 18.5cm in height with the thread fully exposed, giving 3cm of clearance onto the cracking plate. |
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Poach Perfect Silicone Egg Poachers |
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£3.95
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There's nothing like dipping into a perfectly poached egg - it's one of life's little pleasures - and there's also nothing like the Poach Perfect Silicone Egg Poachers for producing this culinary treat!
The attractive twin set of silicone, cracked-egg style poachers are sold in sets of two - one yellow, one white - and as well as poaching your eggs to perfection, they'll happily sit in the dishwasher, brave the microwave and chill out in the freezer. Heat resistant to 250°C+ (482°F), the Poach Perfect Silicone Egg Poachers are supplied with instructions on how to prepare your poached eggs. But why should eggs have all the fun? Your Poach Perfect Silicone Egg Poachers are more than capable of playing host to jellies, ice creams and desserts! |
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Rubber Jar and Bottle Opener |
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£1.25
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Get a grip - the days of struggling to wrest stubborn lids off jars and bottles could be over thanks to the simple but highly effective Rubber Jar and Bottle Opener, a real friend to have on hand in the kitchen.
The attactive 15cm diameter rubber petal shaped opener provides a secure grip for opening airtight jar and bottle lids of all shapes and sizes and is simply washed clean after use. Make room in your kitchen drawer for one of these Rubber Jar and Bottle Openers today! |
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Tea Infuser |
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£8.95
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This two part Tea Infuser is as much of a delight to hold and use as it is to look at and almost guarantees a great cup of tea every time!
The angled base catches drips after tea is infused and you can add your own ingredients - herbal tea, anyone? - to the stainless steel chamber to create your own unique cuppa! The combination of durable polycarbonate and stainless steel is both scratch resistant and dishwasher safe and the tea infuser measures 4cm in diameter by 18cm long. |
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Grapefruit Knife |
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£2.95
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This specialist Grapefruit Knife boasts a dual sided, contoured, serrated stainless steel blade and neatly segments grapefruits and other fruits with ease.
The traditional rosewood handle makes slicing and segmenting your favourite fruit a comfortable task too as handling this 182mm x 15mm knife certainly isn't difficult. The Grapefruit Knife weighs a mere 27g. |
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Deluxe Large Stainless Steel Meat Thermometer |
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£4.95
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The Deluxe Large Stainless Steel Meat Thermometer comes with a stylish mirror polished stainless steel casing and durable 13cm long probe for inserting directly into meat and poultry joints to accurately measure the internal temperature.
The easy to read large dial of the stainless steel meat thermometer measures temperatures from 54° to 88° Celsius and 130° to 180° Fahrenheit, and even includes colour coded ideal temperature zones for numerous types of meat, making it extremely easy to recognise if the meat is cooked properly or not. |
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