Brabantia has announced the launch of a wide-ranging tabletop collection of contemporary porcelain, textiles, cutlery and accessories for casual dining.

Sharing a meal together is a central part of family life, and eating with friends is a great way to further expand friendships. Not only the quality of the food and drink you provide, but also the ambience you create around the table is important for success.

By creating ‘Get Together’ - one of the most comprehensive collections of porcelain, textiles, cutlery and accessories - Brabantia has made it easy for you to convey your individuality.

Featuring three contemporary colourways - white, grey and purple, as well as a range of materials - porcelain, stainless steel, wood, textiles and tactile silicon.

Porcelain
From dinner plates to breakfast bowls, cappuccino cups to tea mugs and even oven dishes to serving platters, there are 56 items to select from, and in a choice of sizes and colourways. Priced from £2.50 for a white Dip Server.

Textiles The Get Together collection also offers a wide selection of fine quality textiles including table linen and towels. Tablecloths, runners, napkins, kitchen and tea towels, are all available in co-ordinating colours. Prices start from £5.95 for a napkin.

Cutlery A modern set of cutlery (24-piece) in brushed steel is offered, as are a selection of serving spoons, salad servers and a cake server. Flatware prices range from £11.50 for a cake server to £69.95 for a 24-piece set.

Accessories Brabantia has assembled a collection of 24 stylish accessories. Stainless steel salt or pepper mills and crushers, napkin rings, candle holders and serving bowls and more……..
Prices start from £6.50 for a small candle holder.

Beautifully designed, elegant and highly flexible, Get Together can equally well be put to everyday use, as it can for a special anniversary.

Products shown in our picture include: purple and grey placemats, cake plates, porcelain serving bowls, espresso cups, party plate dip servers, napkins & cutlery.

Brabantia products are available from all leading retailers.

To view the complete collection of Brabantia’s Get Together ranges, please visit the website.
For stockist details Tel: (0845) 602 4877

For many of us, cooking a lavish Christmas lunch can be an extremely daunting task, especially when you are inviting multiple guests around for the occasion.

The secret to delivering the perfect festive meal is simple - plan ahead and be prepared! With Christmas fast approaching, it’s about time to start planning to get you and your kitchen ready for the big day.

The new Jme collection from Jamie at Home, offers an array of cookware and gadgets to help take the stress out of cooking this Christmas and ensure your day runs smoothly from start to finish.

To help you create the perfect roast with the minimum of fuss, these are Jamie at Home’s Top 5 kitchen must-haves this Christmas:

NEW Big Bird Baster, £10
This simple little invention lets you give your bird or joint a regular splash of flavoursome juices as it cooks. Just open your oven every 20 minutes or so, take out your turkey and give it a good basting, and it will come out perfectly-cooked and lovely and tender, with a nice crispy skin and lovely moist meat.

NEW Meat Thermometer, £10
When you’re cooking a turkey, you want your meat juicy, tender and perfectly cooked. It’s important to get it right, because undercooked meat, especially poultry, can give you food poisoning.
This easy-to-read, stainless steel thermometer takes the guesswork out of roasting. The pointer gives you an accurate reading of the meat’s inner temperature while telling you how ‘done’ it is.

Carving Set, £50
A good carving set is an essential part of Christmas lunch. To ensure that your turkey is carved to perfection; the Jme carving set includes a knife, which is forged from the best quality Japanese steel, to a professional standard, a fork, which slides easily into the meat to anchor it for carving, and a steel to keep your knife sharp.

Tin, £14
For roasting your turkey, potatoes and even your veg, a good, robust tin is key. The Jme Essentials roasting tin is generous in size and is guaranteed not to twist and buckle when exposed to high temperatures.

Speed Peeler, £5
This must have gadget is an absolute kitchen staple and will be your saviour when preparing Christmas veg. Designed to peel all shapes and sizes, the Speed Peeler is suitable for left and right hand users.

So make sure your Christmas roast is the talk of the town this year with a little help from Jamie at Home!

For more information on the Jme homeware collection, please log onto the website.

*All Jme homeware products are available through Jamie at Home parties.
Tel: (0844) 871 2010

Knife, plane or wire – how do you like to slice your cheese?

Three new cheese slicers from the Kitchen Devils Sidekicks’ range are now available for British Cheese Week.

With over 700 cheeses produced in the UK it is safe to say we are a nation of cheese-lovers.

During British Cheese Week (26th September - 4th October) we’ll be encouraged to try something new and will be spoilt for choice with a wonderful selection of hard, soft, crumbly and blue varieties on offer.

Sidekicks, Kitchen Devils’ new fun and functional kitchen accessories range, have a trio of cheese slicers to help you prepare cheese quickly and easily. You just need to decide if you prefer to plane, glide or slice:

• 1. Cheese Knife, £4.99 featured here - the non-stick blade glides through both hard and soft cheese, with a handy pointed end for serving. These are also great for children to use with no chance of any nasty cuts.
• 2. Cheese Plane, £5.49 - great for evenly cut slices of cheese and so easy to use.
• 3. Cheese String, £5.99 – perfect for thick or wafer-thin slices. When you have to make multiple sandwiches or a mountain of party food, this is a great time saver.

Kitchen Devils Sidekicks’ kitchen tools are fun, yet hygienic, strong and dish-washer safe, have light-weight, ergonomic handles with a textured soft-grip that make them comfortable to use and come with a 2-year guarantee.

The Kitchen Devils’ Sidekicks range is available from leading independent and hardware stores.

To view the new cheese tools visit the Kitchen Devils website.

In an extension to its product collection, Brabantia has introduced an all-new Knife block, to complement its line-up of kitchen knives.

The Knife block has been specially designed to store Brabantia’s five-piece knife set, including the sharpening steel, in a compact and secure way, and to suit either a classic or modern-look kitchen.

Whereas most traditional knife blocks are static and follow the same basic design, this new product from Brabantia is made from sustainably sourced Ash, and boasts a more contemporary design with beautifully engineered vertical side slots, each dedicated to a specific item.

The space efficient shape is made even more useful by being mounted on a smart, stainless steel base, so the block rotates smoothly to ensure the right knife falls readily to hand, and is easy to remove.

For added safety in the kitchen, a rim around the edge prevents knives from sliding out accidentally, and the 18/8 stainless steel base sits on non-slip silicon feet for stability, while also preventing damage to the work top.

Made from ice hardened high carbon Molybdenum Vanadium steel, the blades stay sharp for longer, are scratchproof and offer a better corrosion resistance.
The seamless grip is made of matt brushed steel and solid black plastic, so the knives are also easy to clean and hygienic to use.

Prices for the new five-item set start at around £12.70 for a fruit/utility knife; all knives are packaged and sold separately and come with a 10-year guarantee.

The Knife block costs from around £37, and comes with a 5-year guarantee.

Visit the Brabantia website for more information.

Tel: (0844) 873 5848

Having graced our dining table for years, Rosendahl’s Grand Cru range is now moving into the kitchen, with the launch of a sharp and elegant range of kitchen knives.

Grand Cru Kitchen Knives - The Grand Cru range has now expanded to include a beautiful range of Kitchen knives – with cutting-edge blades and cutting-edge design.

The design of the knives pays homage to Nordic tradition, where the distinctiveness of the design, plays a discreet part in the function of the item; thus, the familiar grooves of the range serve as a design feature, but they also help to ensure a good grip of the shaft of the knife.

The range includes the Kitchen knife, Bread knife, Chopping knife, Universal knife and Paring knife, as well as a simple, stylish Knife Magnet, which provides attractive and practical storage for the knives.

• Prices are as follows:
  Chef’s knife £64.00.
  Breadknife £64.00.
  Chopper knife £64.00.
  All purpose knife £49.95.
  Paring Knife £30.95.
  Magnetic Knife Holder £65.00.

Web: http://www.rosendahl.com
Tel: (01252) 377 900

Furi are renowned for their professional top-of-the-range knives and the Furi Grip Range, which incorporates innovative technology in the knife handles for ultimate comfort and grip.

The unique reverse-wedge Furi handle shape, features synthetic rubber for excellent grip fit and comfort and also includes Furi Guard, a proven effective antimicrobial agent that does not wash off or wear away and helps to prevent the development of bacteria.

Furi Grip Range includes:

• Cook’s Knife - The classic strong cook’s blade will handle the toughest cutting and chopping tasks, while the tip is fine enough for easy slicing of meats and vegetables. Priced at £49.95.
• East/West Knife - is a cross between a cook’s knife and a vegetable chopper; light and perfectly balanced. Priced from £39.95.
• Utility Knife - An excellent all-round slicing knife for a multitude of tasks; the thin serrated blade of this 15cm knife makes slicing easy and the length and lightweight is often preferred by those who find the Cook’s knives too large.  Priced at £29.95.
• Paring Knife - is ideal for all small cutting tasks; peeling, coring and decorating are all more comfortable with the handle of the Furi Grip 9cm knife. Priced at £24.95.

The perfect set is the trio knife group featured here, which includes the Furi Grip 9cm Paring Knife, Furi Grip 15 cm Non-Serrated Utility Knife and Furi Grip 13cm East/West knife that come in a practical storage case. Priced at £69.95.

Web:   http://www.silvernutmeg.com

Tel: (01254) 820 478

Oysters are one of the great pleasures for true epicureans, but they are one of the most complex foods to get at – and all too often minor or worse accidents happen.

The task is almost easy and much safer with these novel tools from Pott:

The Oyster Chucker, Marisco, is a knife specifically designed for opening oysters and the stainless steel glove will keep you safe doing so; the glove is in meshed stainless steel with a fixture on the wrist to prevent it sliding down. The glove is reversible and fits on either the left or right hand.

How to Chuck an oyster:

• Hold the Marisco knife in your strongest hand and put the glove on the other; pick up an oyster in the gloved hand, with the curved side down and the narrow end towards you.
• Insert the oyster knife in the hinge at the narrow end and wiggle it about from left to right; press quite hard and eventually the hinge will give way, allowing you to lift the flat top shell by twisting the knife upward.
• Slide the knife along the underside of the flat shell to cut the ligament that connects to the oyster and remove top shell.
• Keeping the bottom shell level so as not to spill the juice, remove any bits of shell, then cut underneath the oyster to release it, so the flesh will slide off easily when the shell is tilted.
• Arrange the oysters in their half shells in the stainless steel Oyster bowl over crushed ice.

The Oyster Glove comes in two sizes and retails at £152.20.
Marisco Oyster knife retails at £111.10; Stainless Steel Oyster bowl for 12 oysters including stand, retails at £119.30.
Tabletop bowls for 6 oysters retail at £42.80 and for 3 oysters at £34.60. Oyster spoon retails at £26.40.

Web: http://www.tabletopdesign.co.uk/

Tel: (0118) 934 9424

Rosendahl has launched a beautiful, practical and highly functional magnetic knife holder to compliment their knife range, designed by Komin Yamada.
 
When you have invested in a high-quality set of kitchen knives it is essential that you look after them correctly; if they are just left in a drawer, they can become scratched, dull and damaged and no longer cut as they should – worse still, they can slip and cut you instead!
 
The new Magnetic Knife Holder from Rosendahl is easily attached to the wall and since it is 45cm long it can hold lots of knives.

The design on the knife holder of the characteristic five grains of rice, also adorns the knives and it really looks stunning in the kitchen!
 
The magnetic knife holder retails at £51.95.
 
Web: http://www.rosendahl.com
Tel:  (01252) 377 900

The John Lewis Christmas Cooking range for 2006 includes everything you could possibly need to make your Christmas cooking hassle free and tasty, so that you too can spend more time enjoying Christmas.

The perfect Christmas roast can be easily achieved with the latest carving accessories from John Lewis, which includes everything from a meat thermometer to a knife sharpener.

Here are a few tips from the John Lewis team of cookware experts to make your preparation even easier:

1. Use the Jamie Oliver Roaster (£70) from John Lewis, which features a non-stick surface and measures 28 x 34cm.
2. Check that your meat is fully cooked with the Weber Meat Thermometer (£10).
3. Allow your roast to rest for 15 to 20 minutes after removal from the oven, which will ensure that the meat is firm enough for successful carving.
4. Lifting Forks (£7.50 per pair) make light work of removing the meat from your roaster and the John Lewis’ carving board comes as part of a set with a tray (£59).
5. The Knife Sharpener (£12) will ensure that your Meyer Anolon Chefs Knife (£30) is always sharp and effective.
6. When cut, place your meat onto a hot tray (part of the carving board set) to keep it warm while plating up.
7. For the final touch, pour the juice in your roasting tin into a gravy fat separator, adding delicious flavour and texture to the gravy. The John Lewis Gravy Fat Separator retails at £12.

Web: www.johnlewis.com
Tel: (08456) 049 049

Japanese designer Komin Yamada - creator of the famous Global Knives has now designed a new range of kitchen knives for Rosendahl.

The Rosendahl kitchen knives are made from high quality stainless steel, and whetted so the blades are razor sharp.

The kitchen knives are forged, with the intersection point between the blade and handle strengthened to make sure the knives are long lasting.

There are 14 kitchen knives in the Rosendahl range including chefs knives, bread knives, boning knives, vegetable knives, general knives and herb knives.

Prices range from £29 to £69.

web: http://www.rosendahl.com
tel: (0113) 201 8888