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Category Archives: Kitchen equipment
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Not quite spirals
Eat more vegetables. I know I’m preaching to the choir here. But even for real vegetable lovers, eating the same vegetables over and over can get monotonous. Fortunately there are tools on the market that can help put fun vegetables on your plate. One of these tools is the spiralizer. Spriralized (is that a word?) […] -
Keeping Bread Fresh
I bet everyone, at one-time-or-another, thrown a loaf of bread or an extra bag of hot dog buns directly into the freezer in the store wrapper. Then a few weeks later wondered what happened and why it was crumbly, dry, tasted like the inside of the freezer and was basically inedible. Easy answer: freezer burn. […] -
New Presentation Tips
I’m so excited because I’ve finally gotten the tools I need to share an amazing new resource with you… A Sauce Painting Kit! This kit features the 3 tools that you need to arrange beautiful plates at your next cooking demonstration or presentation. It includes… Stainless steel sauce spoon – This special spoon makes it […] -
Glove Story
I like to teach with stories. I think people learn best when they can visualize or relate to a situation. Here’s a story I tell my restaurant manager food safety classes about glove use… I was at a grocery store with my aunt after church one Sunday morning. This store had ready-to-eat foods and several small […] -
Food Safety and the Slow Cooker
The food safety nerd in me just had another (as my husband would say) “food safety fit”. This was the result of a post on Facebook, shared by a friend who thought it looked like a good idea: 31 slow cooker freezer meals. Actually I like the idea. The post looked promising — planning meals […]
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Cooking Demo Kitchen Startup Plan
We just received a question from a reader about how to start a cooking demonstration program. Which cooking equipment do you recommend for doing cooking demos? Our best advice? KISS – Keep it short and simple. For 2 reasons: 1) You need to use what consumers are using in their own kitchens so they walk […] -
Nutrition Math Quiz
Recently I was asked for STEM nutrition and health materials. Do you ever address STEM topics with your clients? STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math, and these subjects are a priority among many of the educators I know. To add one more resource to your arsenal of STEM topics, I am proud to present […] -
Keep Your Family Healthy in the New Year
Everywhere you look this time of year, someone is suggesting a resolution (or two or three) that you should keep. I’m going to chime in on this, too, with four really simple things that you can do to help keep your family healthy. Invest in a good tip-sensitive digital-read food thermometer and use it! Cooking food […] -
The Trials We Face as Educators
It’s time for a little venting session. My family thinks that I’m obsessive when it comes to food safety. They get upset when I get up from a dinner table and start to put food into the refrigerator and I always hear them say things like, “it’s OK to leave those beans out,” or “this […] -
You Want to do What with that Turkey?
Nutrition, food safety, and cooking educators are always singing the same song before Thanksgiving. We talk about how to keep that large bird safe, standing on our soap boxes with research-based information about how people can get a foodborne illness from some common practices. But does anyone listen? Common responses include “this is how I’ve always done […]