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Holiday Cooking Gadgets
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Ways to expand your cooking capacity if you don't have a double oven or enough burners on your stove.
Waring Pro Extra Burner
- Portable extra burner
- Plugs into a regular outlet
- Big enough for larger pots
- Great for boiling potatoes, making pasta, boiling water for tea
Waring Countertop Convection Oven
- Like adding another oven to your kitchen
- Sits on the counter, stores in your basement when you're not using it
- Bake your sweet potato casserole or your pumpkin pie in here
- Has a rotisserie — so if you serve a second meat in addition to turkey, here's where you can make your beef tenderloin or ham or leg of lamb
Gadgets to help you cook ahead
iSi Dessert and Cream Whipper
- Makes fresh whipped cream in minutes stays fresh for 2 weeks
- Better than canned whipped cream
- Easier than hauling out your full size and only having it last for 6 hours
- No oxygen in the container so it doesn't spoil or lose its texture
- Heavy cream, vanilla, powdered sugar and a propellant cartridge
Zojirushi Breadmaker
- The Lexus of bread machines
- Nothing better than homemade bread on a holiday
- Bakes a large rectangular-shaped 2 lb loaf of bread so you look like a pro
- Instead of vertical loaf like most bread machines
- Two paddles with twice the kneading power
All-Clad Slow Cooker
- Actually fits into the first category too frees up oven and stove space
- Great for getting some of your dishes out of the way early in the day
- Sweet potato casserole, squash soup, chestnut soup, carrot soup
- Or put your mashed potatoes in here after they're cooked to stay warm
- Serve in the cooker on your buffet
- Or take the porcelain insert out and put it on your holiday table
Help for making the perfect turkey
Rosle Gourmet Thermometer
- Very accurate, battery-operated
- Illuminated digital temperature display
- Put the probe in, get temperature almost instantly
- Not just for your turkey roasts, candies, deep-frying
All-Clad Solid Cast Stainless Steel Rotisserie Set
- Fabulous for making your holiday turkey, ham, standing rib roast
- Stainless steel roastig pan comes with non-stick rack and turkey lifters
- Holds up to a 26-pound bird
- Dishwasher-safe
- Can also use it to make a 7-layer lasagna or baked mostaccioli for a large family gathering deeper than your everyday pyrex pan
Help for CARVING the perfect turkey
John Boos Professional Cutting Board
- Made in Effingham in central Illinois
- There really was a John Boos — founder's son
- White House uses John Boos cutting boards
- Highest quality Vermont hard maple
- Good for knives, lasts a lifetime
- Available in different sizes, with grooves and without
Shun Carving Set
- Razor-sharp carving knife and carving fork
- Made in Japan, samurai craftsmanship
- Makes perfect slicing easy, and makes you look like an artist
Mixing and cleaning time-savers
Rosle Dual Speed Milk & Sauce Frother
- Battery-operated and pencil-thin
- Fast speed for milk, slow speed for sauces and vinaigrette
- Save your wrist - whip up a salad dressings in seconds before dinner
- After dinner, make cappuccinos by frothing a cup of warm milk for 45 seconds and adding to a strong cup of coffee
Kitchen-Aid Immersion Blender
- Mash potatoes, puree soup no need to pull out, use and clean your Cuisinart
- All pieces are dishwasher-safe except lower component with motor
- Great for smoothies the day after Thanksgiving when you start your diet
On the table
Peugeot Elis Electric Salt & Pepper Mills
- Freshly ground sea salt and ground pepper
- 3 grinds for salt, 6 grinds for pepper
- Acrylic section for easy viewing of contents
- Illuminated on the bottom so you can see how much is going on the food
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