This is not your classic French mandolin, it’s from Pampered Chef, a company created by a housewife from Chicago in 1980.  They produce a  full-range of quality kitchen equipment, gadgets that work, and so many more things every homemaker will find some use for. The company calls this mandolin the Ultimate Slice & Grate. [...]

Whether you’re really a chef or just the unofficial household cook, you deserve a knife that does the job well. In the photo is my handy 14-inch chef’s knife by Farberware sitting on the sharpener that’s also made by Farberware.

Aside from my Adjust-a-Cup measuring cup, these three other gadgets have become indispensible in my kitchen.  Yes, you can live without them and I have.  But once you start using them, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without. In the photo is the round and flat meat tenderizer with a hard  ceramic handle – way [...]

  My best kitchen gadget is the Adjust-A-Cup Measuring Cup.  This thing is so amazing you’ll wonder why they didn’t come up with the idea sooner. This is the perfect gadget for accurately measuring messy ingredients like shortening, butter or peanut butter.  With ingredients like these, you are always guessing whether you have an accurate [...]