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Tips On Choosing Kitchen Cutlery

Neece Campione

Tips On Choosing Kitchen Cutlery

Purposeful Design

Most quality kitchen cutlery comes in sets because no one knife can do it all. You're not going to use the same blade to slice bread as you are to slice prime rib, even though they're both designed for slicing.

And you don't need a cleaver to be as flexible as a filet knife, because they don't do the same job.

Most kitchen cutlery is named after the job they are designed to perform, which will make things easier for you to choose. Make sure the knife fits your hand well and has great balance. The top brands have exceptional balance, which will minimize fatigue and turn a chore into a treat.

Food Related Inventors and Inventions

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Here are some interesting food related inventors and inventions including the can and can opener, carbonated water, chocolate chips, Coca-Cola, cotton candy, hotdogs, marshmallows, mayonnaise, microwave oven, potato chips, the sandwich and the tea bag.

Bread Slicer: The Automatic commercial bread slicer was invented in 1937 by Otto Fredrick Rohwedder from Iowa, USA. Rohwedder had worked on his machine since 1912. His machine both sliced and wrapped a loaf of bread. In 1938, the bread slicer was improved by Gustav Papendick, a baker from St, Louis, Missouri USA.

Chinese Cooking - The Flexibility of the Wok

Liz Canham

Chinese Cooking - The Flexibility of the Wok

Chinese food can be cooked using any pan at all but if you want a really versatile implement in which you can stir fry, braise and deep fry, you must have a wok.

This simply designed yet incredibly useful tool has been used in Chinese cooking (and indeed the cooking of other Far Eastern countries) for centuries but even today is in-dispensible to professional chefs and home cooks alike.