Top Kitchen Tips and Tools to Make Life a Little Easier

Inventors and product manufacturers are always coming up with ways to make our lives a little bit simpler, especially when it comes to cooking and baking. Here’s our rundown of some handy kitchen tools and tips you may not have come across before. These are the things the busy 1940’s housewife wishes she’d had to hand!

Cream chargers and whippers

There is no doubt that a good dollop of cream can help make a dessert, a fruit salad or even be the pièce de résistance for the perfect mug of hot chocolate. Cream chargers mean you can create thick, delicious cream in an instant. Similarly, cream whippers remove the need for frantic beating in order to achieve perfect whipped cream. If you’re using cream regularly you can avoid reliance on a whisk, spoon or fork- a cream whipper does the hard work for you. Cream chargers and whippers can be found on websites like www.creamchargersdirect.co.uk where despatching and shipping is done on the same day that an order is placed. So if you’vegot a dinner party or special meal rapidly approaching, there should still be time to get hold of one.

Separating egg whites

A great tip to make life easier in the kitchen is to use an ordinary plastic bottle to separate egg whites and yolks. This is great if you have quite a few eggs to process and are in a hurry – perhaps if you’re on a high-protein, health kick diet.

Take a clean, empty plastic water bottle. Crack your egg into a shallow bowl. Put the mouth of your bottle near the egg yolk and gently squeeze. When you release the squeeze, you’ll find that the egg yolk will be sucked out whole, ready to be placed in another bowl.

Micro zester

Micro zesters or graters are handy for use with citrus fruits, hard cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, onion, garlic, and ginger. Including zest (the grated outer rind of citrus fruit) in a recipe can add flavour to sweet or savoury dishes thanks to the release of aromatic essential oils. Zest can also be used as decoration or garnish to brighten up the appearance of a meal. Mains like steamed sea bass in hot beer and ginger lime sauce, desserts likea citrus tart or key lime pie, and drinks like a lime and blueberry iced smoothie all contain zest.

Micro zesters and graters come in a range of shapes and sizes so you can select one that is right for you. Some prefer one that has a plastic grip handle at the top and is shaped like a rather thick pen. Others prefer a flat sheet micro grater that has a wider area for grating on but is less easy to grip.

Avocados all in one

Avocado is a creamy superfood packed full of nutrients and healthy fats including oleic acid, lutein, folate, vitamin E, monounsaturated fats and glutathione. All these nutrients and minerals help fight heart disease and the National Health Service (NHS)  recommends eating avocados to prevent high cholesterol.

If you’re preparing avocados, avoid any mess and hassle with this all-in-one utensil highly rated by Lakeland Plastics who call it a ‘wonder tool’. The device lets you easily split the avocado open and has a clamp to grip and twist the stone to remove it without effort. There is also a slicer to scoop out the tasty avocado flesh.

This article was written by Amanda Walters, an experienced freelance writer and regular contributor to Huffington Post. Follow her here: @Amanda_W84