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5 ultimate kitchen gadget stocking fillers
The GHI Cookery School team recommend five kitchen gadgets every home cook should own.
Head Tutor at the GHI Cookery School, Cher Loh, recommends five kitchen gadgets, great as stocking fillers for the ultimate home-cook. All handy items that don’t take up precious drawer space and cross a range of budgets.
If your loved one has all gear already, why not treat them to a cookery course with Cher himself at the Cookery School? Gift Vouchers also available.
Wooden Scraping spoon
BUY NOW £1.99, Amazon
While this may not sound revolutionary, the right wooden spoon is priceless to any cook. The flat, slanted top of this handy basic, allows you to get into the corners of pans where bits often catch. Great for risottos, rice pudding or anything that sticks!
Pastry spacers
BUY NOW £3.15, Amazon
If you find rolling pastry a challenge, take the guesswork out by using spacers. They can help you achieve even thickness when rolling out pastry for your mince pies, or even marzipan and sugar paste for your Christmas or celebration cakes.
A Mexican Elbow Juicer
BUY NOW £8.50, John Lewis
These handy juicers come in various sizes for lemons, limes and oranges. They extract juice with efficiency and minimum effort and waste. Perfect for baking!
Microplane Fine Zester
BUY NOW £17.95, John Lewis
A fantastic multi-tasker, this is great for zesting citrus fruits, hard cheeses, garlic, chocolate, nutmeg… you name it! Ultra-sharp blades mean less effort needed, what everyone wants to hear.
A good quality Salt & Pepper mill
BUY NOW £59.95, Amazon
Good quality salt and pepper mills are a must have for every Chef’s kit. Look out for Peugeot mills. Whilst they do have a high price tag, they have their own patented system of precise adjustments to create different fine-ness in the grind.
Food and wine enthusiast Alex joined the Good Housekeeping Institute in 2015 following seven years in the wine trade. In addition to her passion for oenology and Diploma in Wine & Spirits, she is a dedicated home cook and baker with skills learnt whilst working alongside the likes of Michel Roux Jr and Antonio Carluccio.
