Tools for Cooks - Hardcover

McFadden, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903221854 ISBN 13: 9781903221853

Publisher: Jacqui Small, 2008

Synopsis

Overwhelmed by the vast selection of kitchen tools, pans and knives to choose from? This expert, independent guide helps you to make informed choices on the correct cookware, utensils and tools for every important cooking task, whether it be roasting a chicken, baking bread or making fresh pasta.

Featuring recipes from the author, a raft of gifted and famous guest chefs, as well as tips for a complete kitchen, Tools for Cooks is the essential culinary manual for today’s cook.

With a burgeoning selection of tools and kitchen gadgets now available, it is necessary to go back to basics and learn how to choose the best tool for the job -which in turn produces better cooking skills. There is no substitute for a well-crafted tool and this book provides the essential information for evaluating and choosing new tools and cookware – whether it is the humble potato peeler or an expensive food processor.

Whether you’re seeking guidance on essential fundamentals like storing and caring for tools; ever-important safety guidelines; or advice on both traditional tools and the latest designs and technological innovations, Christine McFadden’s Tools for Cooks has it all.

Guest chefs include:
Jamie Oliver, Raymond Blanc, Alice Waters, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, Peter Gordon, Claudia Roden, James Martin, Heston Blumenthal and Nigella Lawson.

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Review

It's high time some enterprising writer came up with the idea of producing a guide for cooks to the great variety of implements and equipment now generally available. Christine McFadden has had the idea; and Tools for Cooks, a lavishly illustrated handbook, is the result. There are two areas in which help may be needed: knowing which tools are actually going to be the most useful; and, once that's been established, deciding on which make to buy. It's worth saying at the outset that as far as the latter category is concerned Tools for Cooks tends to opt for the top end of the market; not least because by and large, a few exceptions such as bamboo steamers aside, expensive, heavy stainless steel pans and utensils tend to take sexier photographs. And of course in most cases they really are the best (unfortunately for our wallets). Cheapskate grousing aside, this book represents a valuable idea, well-nigh flawlessly carried out. Tools are divided into functional categories, such as "Cutting, Peeling, Piercing", "Grinding, Grating and Crushing", "Frying and Grilling" and so on. Within each, the best-of-breed are illustrated and discussed, pros and cons impartially totted up. This is a book to be trusted. With the arguable exception of the tortilla press, there are no gadgets likely to elicit cries of "What on earth did you buy that for?" --Robin Davidson

Review

‘This superbly illustrated book will help you choose the right equipment for successful cooking...Quite a turn-on’

(The Home Show)

‘A handy source of information, with clear photography and sensible text.’

(The Times)

A thorough reference book on what does what to what...Worth investing in to find out just what few things you might really need’

(You (Daily Mail))

‘I would thoroughly recommend this book – it would make a great wedding present’

(Fiona Draper Waitrose Food Illlustrated)

‘Tools for Cooks is a sublime glossary of kitchen implements...[that] I could happily pore over for hours’

(Helen Stone Inspirations)

‘Covers all the utensils even the keenest cook will need’

(Homes and Gardens)

About this edition

• Publisher: Jacqui Small
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1903221854
• ISBN 13: 9781903221853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336