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Posts tagged “plastic”

Favorite Kitchen Tool: My Little Green Colander

One of the things I reach for most in my kitchen, besides my electric kettle and chef's knife, is a plastic colander. I picked it up about a year ago mostly because its small size and bright green co...

PlatyPreserve: On The Go Wine Storage

It's nice to bring a bottle of wine when you head out on your summer picnics and parties, but we don't always want to bring along the bottle. For starters, it can weigh your basket down and it also ...

Plastic Bowl Scrapers: Good For More Than Scraping Bowls!

A plastic bowl scraper is one of those innocuous tools that seems like it would just collect dust in the back of a drawer. And yet, we find ours useful for a whole slew of kitchen tasks far beyond s...

What's the Best Kind of Cutting Board? Plastic, Wood, or Bamboo

While shopping for a new cutting board recently, we heard all kinds of conflicting advice on which was the most green, the most sanitary and the least damaging to our knives. So we're setting the reco...