Cookistry's Kitchen Gadget and Food Reviews

Do you like my hippie-dippy background? I was amused. I saw this pouring chute at the International Housewares Show a couple years ago, ...

Many years ago, I acquired a piece of cookware called the Turbo Cooker. Or something like that. This is NOT that. At all. This cookware -...

I usually refuse offers to review tea, mostly because I have an insane amount of tea on hand. And I tend to drink tea in binges. I'll go...

When I got a set of burger knives from WÜSTHOF , I posted a photo on Facebook, and one of the first comments was something about how people ...

I get a lot of offers to review things. But I don't accept them all. I always think about whether the item will be worth writing about...

Oy. I love food samples. I love trying new things that might not be on my radar. The downside to food samples is that sometimes it takes m...

I've fallen in love with cold brew coffee. It's smoother, not as bitter, and seems to be less harsh on my tummy. It makes cheap groc...

A few years ago, I bought a gel floor mat for use in my kitchen. It was great at first, then the edges starting curling up, and the whole ...

I've owned quite a number of pressure cookers, including both stove top and electric, so when Housmile contacted me and asked if I wante...

Most garlic crushers operate by squeezing the garlic through little holes, so I was really curious about the Gourmia garlic crusher that ha...

I wrote about Raw Spice Bar some time ago. It's a neat idea - it's a subscription service where you get different spice blends on a...

Lemme get this out here. The nice folks at Land O'Lakes have been sending me samples of stuff lately. I mean, it's butter. How can I...

Another month, another box of treats and savories from Degustabox. They send me one of these boxes every month so I can tell you all about...

I've owned quite a few mandolines over the years. Some I bought; some were sent to me for review. This mandoline finally does the one ...

This review took quite a while to get written, because I wanted to be as thorough as possible. I didn't want to cook one or two recipes ...

As much as I love testing new gadgets and small appliances, the food samples I get are a whole lot of fun, too. The things I get to sample a...