TIP OF THE DAY: Saucepan Vs. Saucier

A saucier has rounded edges, eliminating corners where food can burn. This saucier is available at Amazon.com. Here’s advice from the book, 101 Things I Learned In Culinary School, by Louis Eguaras, a former White House staff chef now a professor at the California School of Culinary Arts: A griddle is not a grill, a…
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PRODUCT: Kitchen Tongs = Salad Tongs

Our Orka kitchen tongs go from counter to table. (Color availability will vary.) Many people use salad servers—a long fork-and-spoon set—to serve salad. They’re not the simplest utensils to use neatly. Over time, the fork and spoon have been joined together by some manufacturers to create salad tongs. (Food tongs comprise two arms that are…
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PRODUCT: Make Infused Water

If you enjoy fruit-flavored water, you can make it at home, saving money and the environment (those plastic bottles pile up in landfill forever). Several companies make products that make it easy to create infused water. Bodum’s Ceylon Tea Pitcher is an acrylic pitcher with a filter that was originally designed to brew tea. We…
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