Cooking, Kitchen and Dining Links
Refrigerator Links You can go to any regular appliance store and find a lot of the usual stuff. On the Refrigerator Links I've assembled some unusual ones primarily based on the most efficient ones I can find. Very interesting too, some don't have fans and operate SILENTLY! Also they use, in some cases, just a little more energy than a light bulb! These are worth your look because they can do the same job a regular fridge can do but pay for themselves over and over in the energy savings.
Hand Mixers: Can't Live Without Them. Do you have one arm lots bigger and stronger than the other? If you do it's a sure sign that you're working too hard mixing things by hand in the kitchen. Recently my wife made the point that most of the things she mixes in the kitchen don't need a full sized beater to mix. Naturally that meant that I needed to do some research on the subject. On this link I'll provide you with the same information that I found and you will probably come to a decision to buy the Braun instead of the Cuisinart or the KitchenAid like I did. Get the Braun 4-1 hand mixer! I've had ours now about a week and it surpasses any other hand mixer I've ever owned! The beaters whipped a single egg-white into foam that the KitchenAid hand mixer couldn't touch. And the chopper is much easier and faster to use than my big Cuisinart! The plunge blender is terrific! But please, since I already put the page together take a look at it too.....
Bread Mixers: Do You Love Fresh Bread? Ok folks, I'm gonna walk you into the one area of the website that will profoundly please your tastebuds while it expands your equator! I've made bread by hand kneading for years. I finally sprung for the 14 cup Cuisinart food processor that has the "Dough" button. I've made a lot of bread with it but last week....SPROING! the dough blade broke a tiny lock washer inside the blade's middle and it just jumped right out of the flour I was mixing prior to adding the other ingredients. The rest of the machine is fine but let's be real about it, it's not a real bread making machine. So I'm going to find out everything I can, within reason of course, about REAL bread machines and you can find out all about it here.
Apple Corers So you want to peel apples? Core them too? So did I so naturally I decided to list a bunch for you to enjoy reading about. But really, do you need to know this much about apple corers? If you do you've come to the right place.
Interesting Articles Related to Cooking Here and there I run across articles that are interesting and worth archiving. Learn & enjoy!
LARD...Ever Think About It? Some information on this ALL IMPORTANT SUBJECT!!!
chocolate! Chocolate!! CHOCOLATE!!! Everybody's gotta have a chocolate page. Here's mine...
Are You on a Diet? Here are some links.
Calorie Control Council This is a superb website with several calculators for exercise, food item calories, and articles on many aspects of dieting.
Calorie Counter This is the British equivalent of the above site.
Mike's Calorie And Fat Gram Chart For 1000 Foods This guy put a lot of effort into this useful site.
Global Health & Fitness An excellent resource where you can join the organization and have your progress in diet and exercise followed by over 20 experts who will answer your questions. Check out their before and after pics.
FATFREE A low fat vegetarian recipe archive with thousands of recipes.
Cook's Thesaurus Thousands of cooking ingredients explained including substitutes for things like honey and much more.
Bread-Bakers.com "The bread-bakers digest and daily-bread mailing lists are for the free exchange of recipes and information related to any and all aspects of bread baking, by hand or by machine."
Links to Culinary Websites
The Sushi World Guide Find sushi resaurants worldwide.
Zagat.com Reviews of restaurants.
World Guide to Vegetarianism Worldwide vegetarian restaurants.
Kosher Restaurant Database Find Kosher restaurants.
Wine Spectator Online
The Internet Chef An online magazine.
Epicurious A taste of the web.
Perfect Venison With Perfect Ease
Professional Cutlery Direct Terrific source of knives for special needs.
A Cook's Wares
Induction Systems, Inc. Induction cooking, maker of the Fasar range.
China Fair, Inc.Terrific deals on all the best kitchen wares.
They have good discounts on the new Cybernox© non-stick cookware by Sitram. This is the best non-stick frypan surface ever made. It is baked on to the 18/10 stainless pan at 20,000° (!) in a process used by the aerospace industry. The country of France holds the patent. It never wears out, period. It can stand temperatures of 1,800° without damage. The surface is so tough that you can use Brillo pads to clean it if you ever wanted to. A comment I found on website is that what may eventually appear as scratches when analyzed turn out to be deposits of softer metals used in cooking the foods! This was from using metal forks and so forth when stirring the foods. These are probably the finest frypans in the world currently and are commensurately expensive. They are guaranteed for life, period. They can be used in the oven, under a broiler, and are dishwasher safe.
Dvorson's Food Service Equipment, Inc. in San Francisco also carries the Sitram Cybernox locally.
Steve's Knife Bookmarks
Links for the Kitchen
Sterling Caviar Domestic caviar produced from farm raised Sturgeon. An excellent website for a rare product.
Fire Science, Inc. Like to have your very own outdoor firepit or cooking grill but you want it just the right size and shape? These folks will build a custom grill to your specs!
AllRecipes A terrific recipe site. It has rating/reviews of the recipes with from 1 star to 5. Then it gives clear measurements and directions for the recipe along with nutritional information. Then if you wish you can have the recipes complete analysis of vitamins, minerals, proteins, etc. The people who tried the recipes have a whole page of their comments on every one too with lots of excellent suggestions for modifying them. Overall an A+ job!
StarChefs If you are a professional or wish to get education in the culinary arts this is a place to start. Also if you are already in the trade there are job links here for you too.
Joan's Cool Culinary and Miscelaneous Links A huge list of culinary links.
The Gadget Source Lots of useful goodies for your kitchen.
Chef Gadget Specializing in high-end culinary tools imported from around the world.
Cooking.com One of the biggest and best sites on the internet for cooking equipment.
Food Design Net A central source for professionals to interact in forum format.
Culinary and Hospitality Industry Publications Services C.H.I.P.S. Another professional's site for publications of all kinds for the hospitality industry.
Fante's Kitchen Wares Shops One of Philadelphia's oldest purveyors of kitchenwares. Their price on the Kenwood M800 was $10 less than anyone else too.
Bed&Breakfast Inns Online This site has way over 100 recipes made at America's B&B's. Lots of neat bread recipes!
Health for You, PO Box 180327, Utica, MI 48318-0327 (810) 343-5388, Toll-Free: 1-877-MOM-BAKE (666-2253), Fax: (443) 583-0391 sales@healthforyouministry.com A remarkable lady runs this business. It specializes in kitchen and home equipement. It is the only site I've found where you can literally contact the owner, knowledgable in her products, and do live e-mail chat about the product you are interested in. She also is the largest Bosch products dealer in the USA.
Penzey's Spices Outstanding source for exotic peppers and more.
CookingWithPam.com A neat personal/professional website on cooking.
Manufacturer Links A huge amount of companies that deal with the kitchen on one page.
HungryMonster.com All you need to know about dining out....and then some!
David Rosengarten.com This is a remarkable young man whose website is an excellent source for the best in fine eating!
Food Reference Website Catchy name? No. But it does have lots of interesting information. Huge site.
Waitrose Food Illustrated This is an interesting website that I came across researching Hungarian Paprikas.
HappyCow.net A global guide to vegetarian restaurants and health food sites.And now for some fun cooking/kitchen links:
Weird and Different Recipes
Best of Taste A very nice site for a popular TV cooking host.
The Inn Chef A site that takes you into the kitchen of popular inns of America.
The Kitchen Conservatory This is the premier cooking school for St. Louis, Missouri. Lots of good stuff here. Among others they recommend the Kenwood Stand Mixers which are completely superior to Kitchen Aid.
PineNut.com "Goods from the woods!" Love Pinenuts? These folks know all about them.
Popcorn Popper.com For the finest in popcorn, check out this link.
Ethnic Grocer.com Shop for hard to find ethnic foods.
Splendid Palate.com Primarily French foods from all over the country.
Gourmet Store.com Excellent source for hard to find foods.
IGourmet.com A specialty site for cheeses.
Farm2Market.com A revolutionary way to purchase seafood!
Esperya.com An Italian source for specialty items in several languages, shipped in 24 hours anywhere.
Tienda.com Direct foods from Spain.
Earthy Delights.com Lots of interesting botique items that home chefs might enjoy.
Zingerman's.com A kicky fun site with chatty information. Check out their Olive Oil selection.
Gourmet Honey Store.com Dozens of honey "varietals" from all over the world! Downloadable recipe files too.
Gastronome "The Gossip of a Gaggle of Gourmands". More or less a chat room for cooks.
The Port Wine A brief but interesting website on one of my favorites.