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Good Quote: On Sharp Knives and Vegans

"You know who's really hard on their knives? Vegans."...

Kitchen Organization: Where Do You Keep Your Silverware?

Lately we've been eying our kitchen and thinking about reorganization. (Cure Takers, we know you're with us on this one!) We've always been a bit bothered by where to keep our silverware - there just ...

Favorite Kitchen Tool: Offset Spatula

The bakers among us will recognize this tool immediately. They know that an offset spatula is an essential tool for spreading icing neatly and evenly over an entire cake. But in the years that it's oc...

Essential Tools: Do You Really Need Kitchen Shears?

Kitchen shears can be a very handy tool to have around the kitchen. We can use them for everything from separating a chicken to snipping pita triangles. But is it really necessary to go out and buy a ...

The Classic Wave Knife from Wüsthof
Product Reviews

A few weeks ago we admitted to a crush on this new knife from Wüsthof. Well, since then they gave us a chance to try it out, and now we have to say we're fully in love. ...

5 Ways to Use a Serrated Knife...Other Than Cutting Bread!

We all have at least one of these long, wicked-looking, and many-toothed knives laying around in a drawer. Unless you make or buy whole loaves of bread, chances are that knife isn't seeing too much ac...

Green On the Go: Top Ten Reusable Utensil Sets

After years of thinking it would be a good idea, we finally got our act together and purchased some lightweight, easily packable utensil sets. We're carrying them around everywhere to use at lunches...

Colorful Knives! Pure Komachi 2 Knife Set

Look at these colorful knives! Would you like knives this colorful in your kitchen? ...

Current Knife Crush: The Wüsthof Wave Knife

We get a lot of questions about knives. What knife should I buy? Help me find an affordable chef's knife! Should I buy this knife set? Etcetera. We invariably recommend one good chef's knife and a par...

Hot or Not? Slicing Guide

This slicing guide is a product that we instinctively feel like we should ridicule. What a unitasker! And yet we are so uncoordinated that our tomato slices often come out either wispy or chunky &mdas...

Multi-Use Tools: The Do It All Knife

We're really fascinated by this concept for a set of multi-use knives. It made the blog rounds a little while ago, and we have been looking back at it and thinking about what makes a good multi-use to...

Leaving Town? Drop Off Your Knives to be Sharpened

Yesterday Sara Kate posted a great how-to on sharpening your knives at home. If you have the tools, it's easy to do. But just like there are people who prefer to buy pizza dough rather than make it fr...

How To Sharpen a Knife

Taking part in the Kitchen Cure? This would be a great week to learn how to sharpen your knives, especially given all the cooking you'll be doing in the final three weeks. Even if you're not one of th...

Kitchen Cure Survey: Do You Need Any New Gear?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

OK everyone, this is it! The big push to get your kitchen clean, organized, and well-equipped before we turn and start in on the cooking part of the Kitchen Cure next week. We're going to give you lot...

Good Question: Help Us Find a Really Good Cheap Knife

This is a good question for today, given all our recent talk about knife storage. Reader Jesse writes: My boyfriend and I are moving in together this month to our first darling little apartment. One o...

Reader Gallery: Knife Storage Solutions

Yesterday we asked you for your best knife storage solutions. Where do you store your knives? Do you hang them on the wall? Throw them in a drawer? Well, several of you responded, and here's a look at...

Survey: How Do You Store Your Knives?

We want to see how you store your knives! As you are cleaning up extra tools and decluttering cupboards, are you making changes in how you store and organize those most essential of kitchen tools: the...

Gallery: Helpful Pairs of Salad "Hands"

The first time we saw a stocky pair of salad hands sticking out of a friend's salad bowl, we were not impressed. They look like bear claws, frankly. But over the years, we've noticed we tend to toss s...

Stainless Steel Knife Racks from Edlund

I am still looking for a better storage solution for my knives; they are currently knocking about in a drawer. The drawer is an awkward size and I am not yet sure if it will hold an in-drawer knife ra...

Kitchen Relic: The Electric Carving Knife

Perhaps relic is too strong a word; after all, the one above is currently for sale at Williams-Sonoma. But we think of electric knives as a convenience gadget from the 80s that has slowly been replace...

Product Review: Emeril Pro Cutlery Knives

Next in line with celebrity-branded culinary tools is Chef Emeril Lagasse's new cutlery line for Wüsthof. I had a chance to give these knives a turn. Set to dislike them for their celebrity-backi...

Silly, Amazing, & Strange: Design Concepts for The Kitchen

We mostly focus on the practical, here at The Kitchn. We like good ideas for everyday cooking and recipes that anyone can make. But we also like to keep an eye on the fanciful and the creative! There ...

Salad Wrenches by Atypyk

These wrenches give a whole meaning to "Fix a salad!" ...

Adieu to Joseph Ades, The Gentleman Peeler of Union Square

We learned the news yesterday when the NY Times called asking for permission to use our photo of Jim Ades, the famous carrot peeler of Union Square (and occasionally other parts of the city.) He was ...

Product Review: Chef'n SleekSlice Mandoline

You know I love mandolines. They are probably the one seemingly-extraneous kitchen gadget that I absolutely recommend to have if you cook regularly. I sent Faith my favorite, the Benriner, and she gav...

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