Cook Like A Pro

Cooking With The Best

Ever wondered what it would be like to be one of the top chefs in the world? Well now you can actually find out with the help of Jamie Oliver.


Recently I was browsing round a kitchen appliances website when I came across a range of professional cooking appliances from the famous chef. I seen a great deal on a set of pots and pans, not only do they look great but you could also get them for £160 saving a tidy £75. You can't go wrong with stainless steel in my eyes it looks great and from my experience easy to wash.


Let me know if any of you out there have ever purchased some of the "pukka" mans appliances and wither you have found them to be as useful as I did.

Make Your Own Smoothy With The Help Of A Blender

5 Star Blender

A blender is a fantastic kitchen appliance to have because you can put pretty much anything in it (food related) and it will blend it down. I myself usually like to make some freshly made fruit smoothies or the likes of homemade soup can be blended down if you don’t like your vegetables as thick.

I recently bought a new Dualit Blender for just under £100 and I must admit the value for money is brilliant. I still haven’t found a fault with it yet and I don’t think I’m going to its probably the strongest/best one I’ve had yet I strongly recommend it.

Winning The Fight Against Wine Bottles

Cool Gadget For Opening Your Favourite Wine Bottle

Have you ever had that problem of trying to remove the corkscrew from your favourite wine bottle after a hard day’s work? Invariably, it ends up either in the bottle or ripped to shreds.

Anyway, i have tries to seek out a solution to this problem, and whilst searching around the internet, I came across this gadget - the rather unusually named Screw Pull Barware made by Le Creuset. Apparently it’s been recommended by wine experts around the world and looks pretty funky compared to your average bottle opener - all you need to do is push the foil cutter onto the bottle and twist, simple as that!

At just under £10 you can’t really go wrong with this if you don’t like it it’s not much money lost but if you do like it and it helps causing stress free nights over fighting with a bottle of wine then this is the gadget for you.

Collectable Kitchenware

I have been exploring the internet recently for anything new about kitchen products, when I saw a little bit in an article about a exhibit to be shown later this year in the Museum of Guernsey.

The exhibition is about the lives of the Channel Islanders under occupation during WWII, but the part that interested me most was about the lives of those interned, or deported, by the German occupiers, and how they had to make to with anything they could, even when it came to kitchenware.

This cup was made out of a recycled Red Cross box, and shows not only ingenuity, but impudence in that they had engraved a large "V for Victory" on the front. Because the conditions, this cup is the only one of its kind, so very collectible, and I dare say it for actual use in the kitchen. It just goes to show that it's not always about the newest thing, sometimes old things can fascinate too.