The most important things that any half serious cook owns are a couple of good knives. Not a block of sixteen assorted flimsy efforts from IKEA, but two decent knives – one big cook’s knife a...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/09/the-wooden-chopping-board-co/
I’ve always taken gambles when it comes to testing the ‘doneness’ of things, and this sense of lottery normally reaches a tension-filled crescendo just before lunch on Christmas day, when I...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2015/09/gear-review-superfast-thermapen-4-cooks-thermometer/
I think that if you really want to know about a person, you should look at the place where they cook. It’s simple, really. In any house, the kitchen is likely to be the most expensive thing th...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2014/01/magnets-2014-kitchen-range/
Toasters. I’ve bought loads of them, normally the £15 bargain basement type that last about a year before blowing up and taking the rest of the electrics in the house with them. It’s a false...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2013/12/the-waring-wt400-toaster/
The quest for ever weirder ice cream flavours continues … After the olive oil ice cream from the other week, we’ve now got coconut, and it’s actually quite good – coconut intensified thro...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2013/08/toasted-coconut-ice-cream-and-a-brand-new-scoop/
This has ‘gimmick’ written all over it, but unlike most things that look gimmicky, this actually does something useful. The SinkStation bills itself as a ‘flat colander’, and the general ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2013/06/the-sinkstation-flat-colander/
What is it? It’s a salad spinner. Salad spinners are a waste of time. Why bother? I used to think that, too, and I’ve long been a fan of collecting wet salad leaves up in a tea towel and spin...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2013/05/oxos-good-grips-salad-spinner/
Here’s a fantastic opportunity to win a Harvey Nichols Noel! Noel! Christmas hamper, worth £100, which will most definitely get you well set up for the festive season. What’s in the hamper? ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2012/12/win-a-harvey-nichols-christmas-hamper/
Eating the right type of fish is becoming increasingly important, with some species on the brink of collapse because of over fishing and the frankly shameful practise of fishermen not being allow...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2011/05/app-guide-selfridges-project-ocean-fish-guide/
Make My Day Products is an Australian company who specialise in well designed, attractive and functional kitchen and household products. Their strapline is “simple, practical, designed to make ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2011/02/make-my-days-glass-drying-mat/