Improve our life in the kitchen, save time and facilitate self-production, as well as the preparation of breakfast, lunch or dinner. Here are some useful tools - even if not essential - to facilitate those who follow a diet based on fresh and genuine products as much as possible, avoiding packaged and overly refined foods. Do not forget the possibility of buying second-hand appliances and tools, or making collective purchases for sharing for what you would rarely use or only at certain times of the year.
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Improve our life in kitchen, save us time and facilitate theself, as well as the preparation of breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Here are some useful tools - even if not essential - to facilitate those who follow a diet based on fresh and genuine products as much as possible, avoiding packaged and overly refined foods. Don't forget the possibility to buy second-hand appliances and tools to spend less, or to make collective purchases for sharing for what you would rarely use or only at certain times of the year.
Index
Extractor
The extractor allows you to produce fresh juices starting with fruits and vegetables. The leftovers that remain can be used to prepare cakes, fruit salads and many other recipes. Thanks to the extractor you will no longer have to buy packaged fruit drinks, which most of the time contain added sugars. The cheaper alternative toestrattorand, for those who want to prepare fresh juices at home, it is there centrifuge, although the yield may not be identical.
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Vegetable milk machine
There are several appliances that facilitate the preparation of vegetable milk, starting with soy milk, up to almond or rice milk. Even the simple hand blender can be useful in many cases. Among the machines suitable for preparing vegetable milk starting from legumes, cereals and seeds, we talked about Soyabella and ChufaMix.
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Dryer
The dryer is a very useful tool for both those who have a need to keep fruits, vegetables for a long time and aromatic herbs thanks to the dryer, both for those who want to experiment with some typical recipes of raw food cuisine, which requires not exposing food to temperatures above 40 ° C. The alternative to buying is to experiment with building a do-it-yourself dryer.
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Sprouter
The sprouter allows you to prepare fresh sprouts in large quantities. On the market there are both plastic and terracotta sprouts, to be chosen according to your needs. For those who prepare the sprouts only from time to time, it is enough to have a glass jar, an elastic band and some tulle recovered from a favor.
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Vegetable slicer
There are numerous vegetable slicing tools for sale, both manual and electronic. They can be useful for preparing lunch and dinner faster, especially when there are guests. Among the tools not to be missed we find the vegetable slicer e vegetable slicers that allow us to prepare the vegetable spaghetti, for example starting with carrots and zucchini.
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Tofu kit
Who routinely prepares the tofu you will find it very convenient to have not only a machine to prepare vegetable soy milk, but also a real kit, consisting of a special mold and a napkin. You will also need a heavy object on hand to press the tofu. Otherwise, you may be looking for a tofu press.
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Electric mill
The electric mill, or a very resistant and powerful food processor, are the only tools that allow us to prepare the flour yourself starting from cereal grains, such as rice, corn and wheat, or from dried legumes, such as chickpeas, peas and lentils. These are quite expensive tools. A collective purchase could be useful to then share the tool, for example by associations and solidarity buying groups.
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Fioccatrice
La flaker is the tool that allows theself-production of cereal flakes. In this way, cereal flakes will be available without sugar, preservatives, dyes and added fats. The self-produced cereal flakes they keep for a long time and are suitable for use almost everywhere, for example in milk, homemade biscuits, soups and soups.
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Steam cooking baskets
La steaming it is one of the healthiest and cheapest ways to cook vegetables. Stacking several baskets on a single pot allows you to prepare different side dishes for your dishes. Find for sale baskets in stainless steel or bamboo at a low price, at the supermarket or in home improvement stores.
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Ice cream maker
The ice cream maker is very useful for preparing at home not just ice cream, but also granitas and sorbets (depending on the model). Having an ice cream maker available - even if the ice cream can also be prepared without, with a little more effort - it is useful for both vegansthose who struggle to find their favorite ice cream flavors on the market, both for those who prefer artisan ice cream, made with truly fresh and genuine ingredients.
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Marta Albè
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