Cooks Talk!: Gadget of the week!

Food is the great universal topic. Go anywhere and talk with just about anyone and know that after pleasantries are exchanged, the conversation will almost always get around to food..eating it, buying it, preparing it. We love to talk about the parties we've attended, bar-b-ques we've hosted, dinners we've made, the desserts we've savored and the recipes we've mastered. I think we are lucky in that our conversations always come back to food in some capacity or another. It's always best when food is shared, both across the table and with our words. Come..let's share the bounty! Cooks talk!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Gadget of the week!

I think it's safe to say we all love buttered corn. Some like it out of the can, others like it from the frozen food section. But when you get a cob right off the stalk, fresh out of a pot of boiling water, served up with oodles of butter and salt, well, I think that's about as sublimb a summer experience as you can get.

Sometimes it's handy to have tools around that make messy work a little easier. This week's one piece stainless steel tool looks to be a little safer to have around that corn cob than a chef's knife, and looks to be a lot more fun to use than a boily bag when you need fresh kernals for cornbread or chowder. Have a need to own it? It's called the Corn Zipper, and it's available through Crate and Barrel.

Cooks Talk!

Crate and Barrel's site and pricing information for the Corn Zipper:
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=746&f=27451

Someone else thinks kindly of this tool, too:
http://happymundane.blogspot.com/2007/06/corn-zipper.html