Easiest Ways To Be A Master Chef . . .!

Like many others I'm already missing Master Chef - even when making beans on toast for my children I feel as though I have to do it well to get through to the next round! OK... so we can't all be on Master Chef, but there are some items in the kitchen which may make you feel a bit more like a cook and certainly some tools are very useful for saving time and making real life cooking a bit easier.

However, it isn't as simple as tidying and cleaning up as usual anymore, many people now are conscious of being as green as possible, so here are a couple of tips and products that will help.
Going back to basics, start with good quality tools. I remember my grandmother using an old style vegetable brush and today such items can be hard to find. These Vegetable Cleaning Brushes not only do the job, but they look the part. With a white wooden stock & Green, Red or Yellow Bristles, they are ideal for cleaning vegetables.

They have a well-made and comfortable wooden handle brush with stiff bristles and are made in England. Granny would approve! No doubt she would also approve of using a good quality Pastry Brush... this essential kitchen item is used frequently so you want one that will last a long time, such as this 7″ Pastry Brush with Wooden Handle and Pure Bristles. The handle is excellent quality and is easy to use and clean.

For a few additions to the more modern kitchen Toast bags are brilliant invention, featured on Dragons Den. They toast sandwiches and snacks in your toaster with no mess! The Gold Reusable Toast bags can be reused up to 100 times and they are Quick, Clean & Convenient. Use them to make a wide variety of toasted sandwiches or to heat up pastries, pizza slices, chicken nuggets & more! Perfect for kids after school snacks!
However fastidious you are about cleaning your kitchen there is no way to avoid crumbs building up on the worktop and other surfaces. Everyone hates this - it looks horrible and you get crumbs on the bottom of everything you put down on that surface. You can of course get a wet cloth and wipe it clean each time, but that then means a wet surface, which has to dry.

Another Dragons Den invention, which every modern kitchen would benefit from, are Quick chips. These oven proof chip baskets will give superb tasting oven chips in super quick time. They allow air to circulate ensuring all round crisp chips every time!
Placed directly on the oven shelf the Quick chip basket allows hot air to circulate to give your oven chips, garlic bread & pastries that perfect all - round crispness.

The basket allows more even contact with the heat of the oven & therefore avoids soggy foods. Ideal for BBQ & gives you control over your cooking: no more losing kebabs, sausages or vegetarian food to the coals! Plus they are freezer & dishwasher safe.
Even Master Chefs need a bit of help!