22 NOVEMBER 2020
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Meet Your Shiny New Sous
Ten kitchen upgrades (big
and small) you’ll be grateful
for this holiday season
By Joe Harper
Balmuda The Toaster ($329, balmuda
.com) uses steam technology that keeps
moisture inside bread while it gently
toasts the exterior. Its five modes—artisan
bread, sandwich bread, pizza, pastry, and
oven—will also cook side dishes while
your oven is busy doing turkey stuff. The
pizza mode, which heats mostly from the
top, helps buttery garlic melt into gar-
lic bread; oven mode can bake a gratin
to a delightful crisp. It can even revive
your stale bread. For grilling, Cuisinart’s
Contact Griddler now has a smoke-
less feature (pictured on p. 24; $120,
cuisinart.com), which means you can
grill vegetables or make leftover-turkey
panini without smoking your guests out
of the kitchen. The contact grill also has
DuoControl, which lets you adjust the
temperature of each grill plate separately.
QUICK UPGRADES TO THE KITCHEN FOR
THE HELPFUL SOUS CHEF
TURN IT UP A NOTCH