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Skip single-use gadgets: Learn creative uses for everyday kitchen tools instead

The sale of kitchen tools is a multi-million industry. Perhaps the most famous advocate against single-use kitchen tools is the celebrity chef Alton Brown, who has used has platform to urge consumers to think before they add uni-taskers to their shopping carts. All I know is that I can make a great pie crust — but I will never instinctively be able to eyeball the size of one — that I forget whether my cake pans are 8 or 9 inches, and that if I have to put more than one thing on a baking sheet, I will need an assist in spacing them apart. I eventually bought a bread pan, but I actually prefer my cake pan because it takes less time to bake — and it turns out more moist, in my opinion. Ilana Lidagoster, Assistant Art Editor When preparing food for Shabbat, my family uses a rolling pin in a slightly more... brutal manner than one would normally associate with this kitchen tool.

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