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With Robin Alway
The Nutri Juicer
Sage By Heston Blumenthal
RRP: £149.99, best price £ 99.95
It’s not just about juicing your fruit anymore. It’s how you juice. Too slowly and with too
much heat and, while you might fill your glass with lovely liquid fruit, all the nutrients
could be left behind with the unappetising pulp. Heston’s Nutri Juicer instead works
quickly to extract 70% of the healthy stuff you cram down its extra wide feed chute
to meet the titanium reinforced cutting blades below. There’s less heat and air in the
process to damage the nutrients. And given the taste of some juices we’ve been passed by
clean eating friends, it would be reassuring to know that for some drinking pain there
was nutrient gain. (Feel free to put that quote on the box, Heston).
We Love Pasta Heart
Ravioli Stamp
Best price £ 5.95
60
Tefal ActiFry
RRP: £199.99, best price £ 99.99
Le Creuset Cast Iron
Heart Casserole
Or the healthier chip machine. Because we
can’t imagine cooking anything else in this
new age fryer that takes out the deep fat and
replaces it with a single spoonful of oil. We
all know chips are at their very best when
they’re at their most unhealthy – straight
from the chip shop fryer. Home versions are
always slightly coated in disappointment.
Use the ActiFry though and they won’t be
coated in oil. What little fat there is instead
gets blasted around the sleek interior of the
machine which jiggles your chips around to
ensure even cooking. The results are great –
crispy on the outside and fluffy within. Not
chip shop great, but certainly better than
frozen oven chips. Also remember, chips are
officially vegan.
Like most food lovers, we could
fall head over heels for someone
who cooked us homemade pasta
on a regular basis. This stamp
doesn’t just say I love you, but
also I love the deliciously
moreish filling you’ve encased
in your homemade ravioli. One
slip with this stamp, mind, and
you could be doing to your pasta
what your lost love did to
your heart…
Nordic Ware Tiered Heart
Bundt Pan
RRP: £ 39.99, best price £ 35.99
Best price £116.00
Back in the year 2010 BBO
(Before Bake Off ) we couldn’t
have told you if a Bundt pan
was for baking or a medical
accessory. But now the whole
country has been introduced to
the joys of this fluted tin and
the delicious cakes that you
can ease out of them. Time to
show your love’s not just for
the cakes, then, with this heart
shaped example. It’s got three
tiers, a 12 cup capacity and a
lifetime warranty. So do
make sure you grab it in any
divorce proceedings.
Buying your better half a casserole
dish used to be a sure-fire way of
getting a rolling pin in return.
Potentially wrapped around your
head rather than in tissue
paper. But make it out of cast iron in
a heart shape and this could win any
romantic present battle. Le Creuset
is as desirable as ever, you see. The
way the colour darkens as your
casserole cooks never gets old and
this is sturdy enough to outlast even
the steadiest relationship.
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