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You may have the freshest ingredients and a killer recipe, but your tools make all the difference in how great your dinner turns out. To take your culinary skills to the next level, start by building a collection of gadgets that'll aid in countless tasks from start to finish. We’ve compiled a list of ten items from our online kitchen and home shop, Provisions, to help you out. Designed for powerful flavor and extreme function, these pieces of hardware are must-haves to up your cooking game.
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Benriner Mandoline
The Benriner mandoline is the gold standard of it's kind. It's four interchangeable blades let you slice, shred, julienne, or thread-cut any vegetable. Get the tool on Food52.
Culinary Thermo Whip With 24 Cream Chargers
This speciality tool is incredibly versatile in the kitchen. It can do anything from whip cream, create foams and mousses, and prepare sauces to quickly infuse meats and fish with marinades. Bonus: it can keep ingredients hot or cold for hours. Get the tool on Food52.
Mortar and Pestle
The hard marble makes this mortar and pestle durable enough to grind spices, mash garlic, whip up guacamole, pesto, or even nut butter by hand. It'll last for generations, and it's a useful tool that also encourages a hands-on kitchen technique. Get the tool on Food52.
Citrus Press
What is better than a glass of freshly pressed orange juice? A glass of freshly pressed juice with minimal clean up! The commercial grade press makes juicing citrus easy and fast, and extracts much more juice than you can by hand. Get the tool on Food52.
Victorio Hand Crank Grain Mill
You can grind your own flours and meals, which means you can make exactly the amount you need, instead of investing in expensive bags of speciality flours. You can adjust the stainless steel grinding burrs for as fine or coarse of a grind as you like—so it works just as well for small spices, or coarse cracked cereals. Get the tool on Food52.
Double Sided Copper Grater
This extremely functional tool grates ingredients like ginger in a way that a microplane or box grater can't. The shredding surface makes a finer grate, thus releasing more intrinsic flavor. It's double-sided, with a coarser and a finer side. Get the tool on Food52.
Enamel Colander
A colander that hooks over your sink for hands-free draining could easily be called functional. Add white enamel and pretty floral-shaped holes, and rinsing berries becomes an art form. Get the tool on Food52.
VitaMix Professional Series 750 Blender
The VitaMix is incredibly powerful, and can tackle almost any kitchen prep. Our favorite features include a sleek design, self-cleaning option, and five pre-programmed settings -- so you can tailor the speed to whatever you're making, from smoothies to soup. Get the tool on Food52.
Apple & Pear Slicer and Olive & Cherry Pitter Bundle
Make tricky kitchen tasks simple with these two tools. The fruit slicer cuts fruit into 10 even segments and extracts the core with one motion. The lightweight, handheld olive and cherry pitter is made of cast aluminum finished with a food-safe, non-stick coating -- it ejects pits with one motion and works for cherries or olives up to 1 inch. Get the tool on Food52.
Meat Tenderizer
There's not much this tool can't do -- pound out chicken into paillards, tenderize meat, smash garlic, and more. One more thing to love about it -- tenderizing your meat with this tool makes marinades and sauces penetrate more deeply for especially flavorful finished dishes. Get the tool on Food52.
