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Kitchen Gadgets

by admin on 22/01/10 at 1:34 pm

The days are getting warmer and lighter and we turn our thoughts to spring. To introduce some bold Spring colours into your kitchen we have some great ideas for the tabletop and worktop that look good, are versatile and work well. Whether you are a serious cook or a lifestyle cook, there are some amazing kitchen gadgets from Guzzini, Joseph Joseph and Nigella Lawson which you will use time and time again.

Guzzini Salad Spinners

The Centrifugal Salad Spinner from Guzzini is a versatile kitchen tool. The outer curved bowl makes a great salad bowl, the ‘whizzy’ spinner top is attached to the bowl when you need to remove excess water from your salad. The inner basket also doubles up as an extra colander for draining your vegetables and pasta.

There are bright bold colours to choose from, red, lime green and white to co-ordinate with your kitchen utensils.

The Guzzini Salad Spinner with bowl is priced at £33.95 and the inner basket is sold separately for £5.50.

Joseph Joseph

Joseph Josep contemporary kitchenware has inspiring funky coloured kitchen gadgets for preparing your salad ingredients and dressings.

The Fold Flat Grater from Joseph Joseph is ideal for grating carrots, cabbages and onions. Best of all, when not in use, the grater folds completely flat for easy storage.

It is easy to use, simply unclip at the top and the grater pops open to create a traditional box grater. To protect your fingers there is a side grip handle that makes grating over food easy.

The lime green coloured Fold Flat Grater space saving kitchen gadget measures 18 x 18.5 x 1.2cms when flat and 18 x 10 x10cms when open. It can be easily stored with your kitchen utensils and is dishwasher safe.

Price: £14.95

Preparing salad dressings from scratch is time consuming in particular when it comes to removing bits from the lemon and lime juice. Joseph Joseph’s Catcher Citrus Reamer solves this problem with their unique design that eliminates unwanted pips and bits of fruit falling into your food.

The soft rubber cup under the reamer head catches the bits as they appear. This useful kitchen gadget is priced at £7.99 and is also dishwasher safe.

To measure half and whole teaspoons and tablespoons why not try Joseph Joseph’s Magnetic Measuring Spoon. This essential little magnetic kitchen gadget available in funky green can also double as a memo holder on your fridge when not in use.

Just £2.95

Nigella Lawson’s serving hands

Team the salad spinner from Guzzini with Nigella Lawson’s Serving Hands available in wood, cream, black and red. The hands are great for serving salad, vegetables and pasta.

The set of serving hands from Nigella Lawson’s Living Kitchen Range is designed in association with Sebastian Conran. The cream, black and red serving hands are made of high quality melamine, whilst the wood version is made from Beech.

Nigella Lawson’s nest of four mixing bowls

Your salad, vegetables and pasta will look great served in Nigella Lawson’s Nest of Four Mixing Bowls. Available from Nigella Lawson’s living kitchen range, the bowls are designed in association with Sebastian Conran.

The beautiful curved shaped mixing bowls are made of high quality melamine and available in cream, black or new Nigella red. The set of four bowls are priced at £29.95 and the largest bowl measures 26cm in width x 32cm in length.

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Joseph Joseph Spaghetti Measure

The Joseph Joseph the Spaghetti Measure is a great little tool to have around the kicthen. Available in signature funky colours, the ‘original’ and innovative compact spaghetti measurer provides an adjustable portion guide for one to four servings.

Joseph Joseph Square Colander

Your old colander looking a bit tired? Want to brighten up your kitchen with something a little bit different?

The Joseph Joseph Square Colander is light weight and ergonomically designed to be easy to hold and use. The handle also adds stability when it is sitting in the sink or on the draining board.

Available in:-

• Funky Lime Green Joseph Joseph Square Colander,
• Red Joseph Joseph Square Colander,
• Black Joseph Joseph Square Colander and
• White Joseph Joseph Square Colander .

Joseph Joseph Adjustable Roling Pin

Take theguess work out of making pastry with the Joesph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin.  The rolling pin has three sets of removable discs which raise the rolling pin to the required thickness of 2mm, 6mm and 10mm off the work surface.

Clever eh!

The device will ensure that the pastry or dough is rolled to an even thickness throughout. Also etched into the wood is a pastry width measurement guide.

You may want to keep these kitchen gadget ideas to yourself but they also make fantastic unique gifts and are easy to order online from On The Table.