A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Josie
If you're like me, you want the bare minimum in the kitchen. I hate clutter, and I hate managing stuff. So, I am either the best or the worst person reviewing Cool Tools in the Kitchen. From my point of view, any tool that takes up a lot of space and only does one function is out! I don't want to sort through ten gadgets to get to the one thing that, say, slices apples into the same size sections or pierces a coconut. As someone who prefers home cooking to store bought prepared foods, I cook a lot. I'm also very busy, so I looked for things that could make my job go faster and could possibly improve upon taste. Even with my persnickety criteria, my wish list grew to $462. For anyone who loves to cook, this is a fun book to thumb through. But it's more like a coffee table book or an elaborate marketing piece than literature. With pictures of all the items along with Buy links (in the ePub version) it's set up to drain your wallet.
Feb 10, 2012 | 978-1-4493-0904-6
5 - Rare Top Pick | 4.5 - Top Pick | 4 - I Liked It | 3.5 - Enjoyable | 3 - OK | 2.5 - It just didn't click
Book Blurb for Cool Tools in the Kitchen
Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any tried-and-true book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website. The reviews in this book were written by those of us who have actually used the tool and others like it. We only review things--old or new--that we like and ignore the rest. This is a curated collection of the best cool tools for the Kitchen. It is not intended as a shopping list or checklist. Consider this a jumping-off point for thinking and re-thinking about what’s possible in your kitchen. Some kitchens can certainly operate with fewer and/or different tools; some might require more. But everything we’ve included here is well worth knowing about. O'Reilly Media
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