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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Anna Berrill

‘Hands down my favourite bit of kit’: 13 kitchen gadgets top chefs can’t live without

A man is grinding spices with a mortar and pestle. Kitchenware and other spices (oregano, paprika, red pepper, black pepper, cinnamon sticks, cardamon, cloves) are placed at the table. Taken on 7.29.2016 in the US, Portland, OR.
Daily grind: these tools make chefs’ lives that little bit easier. Photograph: litota/Getty Images/iStockphoto

We all have that gadget we reach for in the kitchen; the everyday item that changes the way we cook, making chopping, zesting citrus fruit, flipping fish and grinding spices that little bit easier (plus, saving fingertips). A kitchen gamechanger doesn’t have to be fancy, though – Feast’s Georgina Hayden finds a tomato knife picked up on holiday indispensable.

So which gadgets and tools will make your kitchen life complete (and perhaps more enjoyable)? We asked some of the UK’s top chefs about the things they couldn’t live without.

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