Comments on: Oven Rack Push/Pulls in Bird’s Eye Maple

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:25:38 +0000

ami, if you get the push part, the curved indentations in the wood further in are used to grab the rack and pull it out without touching it…

By: Mimi

Mimi — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:22:35 +0000

I just use disposable chopsticks to push and pull pans out of the oven and catch them with a mitt. My sister sent me left and right oven mitts, but I just use one hand with a mitt and the other with a dishcloth.

Another dual purpose kitchen gadget is a tea pot with cylinder strainer. Aside from infusing tea, I make calamansi juice in it. I mano-mano squeeze the calamansi into the cylinder strainer to make seedless calamansi juice.

By: ami

ami — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:33:26 +0000

I get the push part of the tool, but I can’t imagine how the pull part works. :( Hope you can also post pictures of the tools in action for readers like me who seem to lack imagination.

By: Mariz

Mariz — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:59:46 +0000

Maybe this is late – I am from Camiguin and Dodi listed almost everything you can get from that tiny island.
He forgot to mention tableya and La Salud Turones.

By: grace

grace — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:00:33 +0000

I want one of these!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:56:15 +0000

We went to CDO and Camiguin but didn’t have the same sense as titabuds to ask for advice from MM readers. Darn! You really do have to ask other die-hard food lovers where to go so you don’t miss out.

By: FestiveRebel

FestiveRebel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:58:54 +0000

I have one but re-purposed, the dry air here leaves me with an itch at my back that begs for some mouth-agape scratching. Of course it is always impossible to reach by hand so imagine my joy to discover a single-use implement for this in Chinatown… bamboo back scratchers! Well that was decades ago and I had gone through a couple of these, it seems that they always have a weak tine that breaks off after incessant use. Anyhow I alternately took off the remaining tines in one of these gadgets and voila, I have an oven rack push-pull gadget!

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:03:07 +0000

Nice! Forget what Alton Brown says about single-use gadgets; when they’re cool, they’re cool. :-)

By: titabuds

titabuds — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:06:05 +0000

@ihid & @MP, thanks! The hams & fried siopao are now on my list, too. And yes, we’re making a sidetrip to Bukidnon. Steaks, you say? I’m there. :)

By: Mary Lee

Mary Lee — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:38:14 +0000

Forget about the smashed cookies…I have permanent burns on the inside of my lower arm from reaching in and consistently grazing the edge of the rack. Friends know to ask what I’ve been baking whenever the telltale burns appear…usually around the holidays.