Following Rosle tradition, the German company launches award winners wrought frying pans. Rosle’s Iron Pans are made for quick searing and react swiftly to changes in temperature such as heat reduction. This also ensures economic use of energy. Another plus point iron pans are durable and made to last. In addition they require little attention or time consuming maintenance and with regular use a protective coating automatically builds u over the pan surface. It’s a basic piece of cookware that should not be missed in any kitchen. Rosle Iron fry pans have been redesigned and now comes with a higher rim. Manufactured in Germany.
The newest cookware from Rosle: Cast Iron Pans & Tri-Ply Cookware
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The Aeroccino & The Milk Café: two excellent frothers
There is certainly a large assortment of milk frothers on the More »
All-Clad Tri-Ply Stainless Steel: A Wise Buy
All-Clad has evolved its stainless steel line to tri-ply stainless steel; the value More »
Getting ready for the grilling season with the KETTLE by Rosle
The newest Rosle barbecue collection looks amazing; this collections More »
The Latest Zwilling J.A. Henckels Line: Bob Kramer
When you are looking for knives, you could easily get lost; there More »
The World Of Raclettes: The Swiss Grill & Griddle
I have been asked many times what’s a raclette?; Raclette is More »
Immersion / Hand Blenders: Bamix – Breville – KitchenAid – Cuisinart
Immersion Blenders or Hand Blenders are useful machines; More »
The Aeroccino & The Milk Café: two excellent frothers
There is certainly a large assortment of milk frothers on the market today with famous brands having one such as Capresso, Krups, Breville and Nespresso among others; but this has been a new trend; if we go back five years back, we’d only see the Nespresso Aeroccino, the first version used to froth and that was about it.
All-Clad Tri-Ply Stainless Steel: A Wise Buy
All-Clad has evolved its stainless steel line to tri-ply stainless steel; the value for money that you’ll get on a tri-ply by All-Clad is by far the best one on the market; certainly the D5 is nice; however the tri-ply is a wise buy; a few points below will explain why:
Getting ready for the grilling season with the KETTLE by Rosle
The newest Rosle barbecue collection looks amazing; this collections was one of the sensations on the latest “Ambiente”; the largest trade show for the house-hold industry. Build to last, designed to perform, was the selling point; well Rosle did everything right; unlike previous efforts, their product cataloge is now covering all activities on the grilling experience. Starting with high-end state-of-the-art grill named KETTLE, in two sizes, 20-inches and 40-inches grilling capacities; followed by all grilling accessories, such as grilling covers, grilling kabob skewers, baskets, lighters, fish turners, barbeque turners, racks, chicken roasters, grill racks for meat as well as fish, basting mop, locking tongs, leather gloves, digital and analog thermometers, grill hooks, charcoal starter, grill grate, charcoal baskets, poultry shears, marinade injector and a barbeque cleaning brush. As you can see Rosle developed everything you can imagine for your grilling and barbeque experience. Perhaps the most important piece is the grill itself.
The Latest Zwilling J.A. Henckels Line: Bob Kramer
When you are looking for knives, you could easily get lost; there are so many options out there; I’ll be posting a few articles for major manufacturers such as Global, Shun, Wusthof and Zwilling J.A.Henckels.
The latest innovation from Zwilling J.A.Henckels is the launching of their new line called Bob Kramer for Zwilling. Bob Kramer the only American Master Bladesmith prefers carbon steel knives and he has partnered with Zwilling and Sur La Table to develop Zwilling Bob Kramer.
The World Of Raclettes: The Swiss Grill & Griddle
I have been asked many times what’s a raclette?; Raclette is a delectable Swiss cheese dish (and cheese) that has been popular for centuries. Its origin dates back hundreds of years to when shepherds tended their herds in the mountains of Switzerland. Supplies were limited and meals consisted of cheese melted by the fire, then drizzled onto potatoes and pickles. From these humble origins the tradition of Raclette was born.
Immersion / Hand Blenders: Bamix – Breville – KitchenAid – Cuisinart
Immersion Blenders or Hand Blenders are useful machines; depending on the brand you can get incredible results, you usually work directly into the pan; so the versatility of these tools is amazing. Well-known in Europe, they are starting to show up in the States with more options. KitchenAid and Cuisinart started launching some units a few years ago, but they were surpassed by Viking; at some point the Viking Immersion blender was indeed their best seller for countertop appliances.
Now days our market is showing more options. Breville just launched a new beautiful and reliable immersion blender. It’s the BSB510XL; its retail is usually $99.95. Simple soups can often be hard to make, as stick mixers are notoriously clunky to hold and suffer from excessive suction, drawing the mixer to the base of the bowl or pot. To start it’s a great unit
Mauviel Product Line In Depth
Most definitely one of my favorites brands of cookware; Mauviel is about cooking with passion.
Mauviel USA launched new product lines in the US to try to cover all needs; sometimes it gets confusing to understand differences among all of them; so i’ll try to summarize and keep it simple
Mauviel M250
Mauviel M'250 Cookware
Mauviel M250 was the original line, the first one, the one chef’s in France are using since 1830; this is where Cuprinox started, that fine combination between stainless steel and copper. The benefit of Cuprinox is clear the conductivity if copper for fine cook timing along with the versatility of stainless steel. Thickness of these pots is 2.5mm; the heaviest on Mauviel.
Mauviel M150
Mauviel M150
Mauviel M150 refers to 1.5mm of thickness; the material is the same Cuprinox; however pans are not as heavy and not as expensive; the sacrifice is on the amount of copper. Here you’ll be able to find the same pots with cast iron handles (M150C), cast stainless steel handles (M150S) and bronze handles (M150B)
Certain specialty stores such as Williams-Sonoma carry a line with bronze handles and thickness ranging between 1.2 and 2.5mm depending on the piece.
Mauviel M’Cook
Mauviel M'Cook
Mauviel M’Cook is a fantastic 5-ply stainless steel cookware developed with Mauviel standards; 3 layers of aluminum and magnetic stainless steel interior are found on these pieces that can work on induction cooktops. The line offers you stainless steel handles and cast iron handles.
Mauviel M'Passion
Mauviel M’Passion
M’Passion refers to confectionary, mainly specialty pieces such as jam pans, zabagliones, egg bowls, sugar pans and so on. Most of these pieces are 100% copper.
Mauviel M'30 Barware
Mauviel M’30.
M’30 is a line dedicated to barware, basically you’ll find ice buckets, wine buckets and champagne buckets. Either aluminum or copper; all pieces are as usual state of art.
My Mauviel post ends here; but I’d like to finish this post with a Video that caught my attention; it is from Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed preparing for Bocuse d’Or – the “world championship of cooks” – in Lyon, France, January 25th-26th 2011. Rasmus has already won the bronze and silver statuettes in 2005 and 2007 and is the only chef in the world to ever win more than once and participate more than twice!
Enjoy it!
The Right Juicer For You
It might be challenging shopping for a household juicer; there are so many options out there. I’ll try to summarize alternatives in the market; I’ll start by describing juicers by type.
Breville Citrus Press Model#800CPXL
Citrus Juicers. This one might be the easiest, pretty self explanatory is meant for fruits that can be easily pressed, such as oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, and tangerines; some manufacturers sell a citrus press attachment for centrifugal juicers. May be the most popular juicers on this category are OrangeX and Breville; both are sturdy machines with nice yields.
Omega Juicer Model#9000
Centrifugal Juicers – Induction Juicers. These juicers use a shredding disc and a strainer basket with straight sides to hold the pulp; there is a variation called Pulp Ejectors; they work the same way, however they have a separate container where the pulp is ejected; you could say that the basket will go through a self-cleaning process.
Here you can find a wide range of quality brands such as Breville, L’Equip, Omega, Titan Gold only to name a few. Advantages on these juicers are that they can juice everything and will get high yield on soft fruits
Single Gear Juicers. These juicers rotate extremely slow thus nutrients in fruits are more conserved than those on a centrifugal juicer. Here you have a few choices: Samson and Omega, they defined the market. They do work with wheatgrass, with a small yield. Both launched a basic unit a few years ago and now they have launched the Advanced Series – GB-9004, GB-9005, GB-9006 – (in the case of Samson, difference on codes are different colors) and the 8004 and 8006, they feature a GE auger, stronger and more durable.
Vertical Single Auger. These juicers are a combination between a single gear juicer and a centrifugal one. Innovative and countertop saving unit; yield is high; on this category you’ll find Hurom, Omega and Breville juicers.
Twin Gear Juicers. These juicers are ideal for wheatgrass, they have the highest yield and save nutrients as well; one gear shreds and then press the juice out of the produce; screws run at low rps. Main brands here are Green Star, Green Power and Kempo among others. Differences on pricing will always be related to the number of attachments. The motor will be the same among same brands
I hope this info helps!
Are capsule espresso machines good? illy & Nespresso
This is a question we usually received. The answer is simple, yes they are!!! absolutely. I have been on trainings in Los Angeles and Barcelona, Spain; the capsules are not only convenient but also easy to operate. You don’t need to guess or practice with the right grinder, the perfect roast or the machine itself.
There are two main leaders on this technology, the well known Nespresso system and the relatively new iperespresso system from illy. Both systems are fool proof; where quality is not an issue.
Nespresso espresso machines offer you a wide variety of espresso, they have on their assortment flavored coffees, lungos -large coffee, more water- decaf and many kind of roastings ranging from truly light to dark; illy on the other hand only works with medium roast, dark roast, lungo and decaf. In my view, illy is the closest to what you can get with a commercial machine; the espresso is amazing.
Cappuccino From a X1
Now, what about cappuccinos and lattes; Nespresso have a device called Aeroccino, it produces decent foam, however it won’t ever be close to micro-foam, it gives you the opportunity to have foam and hot milk along with your espresso. illy machines with time will produce a foam closer to micro-foam, it won’t be the same result as the one you’ll get with one-tip or three-tip wand, but it’ll be close enough. The pic on the left belongs to a cappuccino made with a Francis Francis X1 iperespresso machine
Buying Capsules
Nespresso capsules can only be found at Nespresso stores or on-line in the Club-Nespresso; whereas illy coffee can be found on many web-sites and in some coffee stores.
My X1 below … responsible of much of this writing
Francis Francis X1
I hope this helps!
