I wasn’t looking for love, but it still found me…
…in a compact and lightweight 12-inch device Benriner mandolin.
But first, I need you to know two things about me: 1) I’m not a gear person. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that I’m anti-gear, even when it comes to supposedly life-changing gear. (I’m talking to you, slow cooker, Instant Pot, Air Fryer), and 2) I’ve owned a mandolin for most of my adult life, but, as I now know, it wasn’t the right one.
It was a culinary stylist, Lauren Radel, who introduced me to RIGHT A. We were on set filming my next cookbook, and I couldn’t help but notice how often she used it to slice vegetables – onions, potatoes, radishes, cucumbers – into delicate, uniform, cookbook photo-worthy pieces. . Most importantly, I noticed how easy it was to handle, wash, and store in its gear bag, and that it had no bells and whistles. The mandolin I’d previously owned was the opposite: it was bulky, twice the size, and came with millions of interchangeable blades, a baseball glove-sized finger guard, and a foldable stand. to hold everything together. propped up on the counter. This fantasy lived on a high shelf in my kitchen.
As soon as I bought my own equipment Benrinien, I never bothered to put it away. It lives on my counter – or in my sink drying rack – because I end up reaching for it every day, usually multiple times. I use it for everyday tasks, like I would use a very sharp knife, for slicing radishes and cucumbers. lunch salador to quickly make a sweet potato placed under fish in parchment paper dinner…
…And I use it for special occasion tasks, for shredding Brussels sprouts into feathery slices that become ethereal when mixed with walnuts, currants and Pecorino, and in gratin potatoes for a dinner. Now it seems like everything is prettier and tastier.
And you? What kitchen equipment do you swear by? It’s not sponsored, I love it!
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