Food & Wine USA - (11)November 2020

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