Food & Recipes

Kitchen Tools and Utensils: Foodies’ Night In

Kitchen doors, kitchen cupboards, kitchen cabinets…  What’s hiding behind the walls in your kitchen?  What are your favorite culinary tools?  What are the must-haves that get you through the prep of every meal?  What sucked you in with pretty packaging and dazzling promises, but proves to do nothing more than disappoint?  This Monday’s Foodies’ Night In (#fni) is all the about the tools that take you from meal to meal.  Meet us in Cooking with Caitlin’s virtual kitchen, open just two hours every Monday, to compare notes on all sorts of kitchen supplies with chefs, kitchen experts, and other home cooks just like yourself.  Bring your Ginsu knives, your Foreman grill, your Jack LaLanne juicer.  Bring your best tips, your secret tricks.  Bring your gadget-happy self to the conversation.

Weigh in or just watch the chatter guided by us, and a table-full of food-focused Twitter friends.  Created by Molly, Kelly, and Caitlin of cookingwithcaitlin.com, #fni is just one more way of bringing the hungry people of the world to the same table.  Everyone is busy; we designed this virtual event to keep us connected in a very simple way each week.  Do not miss Foodies’ Night In.

POST EVENT: THIS WEEK WE DISCUSSED:

- What are your three must-have kitchen tools? What tool could you use/do you have multiples of?
- What tool do you love – perhaps your secret weapon – that not everyone has in their kitchen?
- Have you assigned new uses to any tools in the kitchen, like using baby bottle tops as cookie cutters?
- What gadget lives up to the hype? What isn’t worth three payments of $9.99?  Any good anecdotes?
- What are your favorite kitchen cleaning tools and products?
- From 1-10 how happy are you with your kitchen?  Why?
- What have you done to your kitchen to make it the most efficient? Special way of organizing? Secret drawers?
- What are your tricks for keeping an organized kitchen? Are your veggies in the veggie drawer? Cereals on top of the fridge?
- If you could build your dream kitchen, what would you make sure to include – double ovens, dishwasher drawers, etc.?
- Where do you find the best kitchen equipment? The best kitchen deals? The best kitchen websites?
- What is the kitchen equipment of the future – a fridge that keeps inventory, a stove w/ arms that massage while you cook?
- In three words or less, what is your current state of mind with regards to food?

Details

What: Cooking with Caitlin’s Foodies’ Night In (#fni) Twitter party
When: Monday, March 1st, 4-6 EST
Where: On Twitter (or through our custom tweetgrid) with hashtag #fni
Topic: Kitchen Tools and Cooking Supplies
Who: @cookingwcaitlin, @cozifamily, @girlfriendology, @ArgeeCorp, @winemedineme @FSWarehouse and YOU!!  (If you’d like to host #fni—it’s free!—tweet us and we’ll add you to the list.)
RSVP: As far as online event registration goes, let’s be honest, we really don’t need you to RSVP, but we would sure love to hear from you.  Send us a tweet or an email to let us know you are joining the conversation.

Here’s how it works: Late Monday afternoons (4-6pm eastern to be exact) we meet through Twitter.  Using the hashtag #FNI and that of the weekly sponsor, we greet each other at the virtual door, and get cozy to talk about whatever food-related topic we are featuring that day.  Typically the topic will be determined by the weekly sponsor of #fni.  The sponsor compiles at least ten questions that serve as the framework of the conversation over the two hours of #fni.  Then, the hosts throw out each question at pre-determined times throughout #fni.  Of course, the questions and hosts are in place to guide the worldwide chat, but all candid questions, comments, and concerns are invited and encouraged.