Salad Essentials for Oz Shoppers

Trying to be healthier and eat more salad? Then you will need to prepare your ingredients faster! This is a collection of essential tools that makes salad making sooo much easier.

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blenders & processor

A good blender is crucial for many salad tasks such as crushing nuts and making delicious and healthy homemade dressings and mayos.
A food processor is a versatile kitchen appliance that makes slicing and dicing veggies a breeze and helps speed up your salad prep time.

BAMIX SWISSLINE SUPERBOX — BAMIX DELUXE WHITE

MANDOLINE - V-SLICERS

A handy tool suitable for a variety of slicing and julienning tasks. It will make cutting and preparing your vegetables faster and easier.

BORNER V3 TREND LINE FULL — BORNER V3 TREND LINE

MICROPLANE SLICER — BORNER V3 TREND LINE

KNIVES

To get the most out of your ingredients it is essential that you have a good set of knives. The type of metal will affect price and performance. Essential kitchen knives are:

Paring Knife or Vegetable Knife

Used for precise maneuvering and detailed work like, coring a tomato, or stringing beans.

VICTORINOX PARING KNIFE — BUDGET - VICTORINOX

ROBERT WELCH SIGNATURE VEGETABLE KNIFE 8CM $40 — BUDGET - VICTORINOX

Cook’s or Chef’s Knife

An all-purpose kitchen knife that takes on almost all cutting jobs. You must invest in one that you are comfortable using, the handle should fit easily in your hand and the knife should feel balanced.

FÜRI PRO CHEF’S KNIFE 23CM $58 — BUDGET - FÜRI PRO CHEF’S

ROBERT WELCH SIGNATURE COOKS KNIFE 18CM $80 — BUDGET - FÜRI PRO CHEF’S

Flexible Serrated Knife or Tomato Knife:

The serrated edge of this knife grips as it slices which makes it ideal for peeling citrus fruits, slicing thin tomatoes and general vegetable preparation. It also requires no sharpening.

VICTORINIOX SERRATED — BUDGET - VICTORINOX

FÜRI PRO SERRATED UTILITY KNIFE 15CM $29 — BUDGET - VICTORINOX

Japanese Cleaver or Santuko

Unlike the pointed chef’s knife, the Japanese cleaver has a squared-off rectangular blade that can be used to transfer vegetables from your chopping board. A useful knife as it makes for clean, smooth and precise cuts and is great at cutting vegetables thinly.

FÜRI PRO EAST:WEST SANTOKU KNIFE 17CM $48 — BUDGET - FÜRIPRO SANTOKU

ROBERT WELCH SIGNATURE SANTOKU KNIFE 17CM $75 — BUDGET - FÜRIPRO SANTOKU

Chopping Boards

A good chopping board is just as essential as a quality knife in your kitchen. It will protect your countertops and make food preparation safer as it provides a stable surface that will allow you to work with ease and control.

NEOFLAM SMALL WHITE BOARD WITH ORANGE — NEOFLAM WHITE BOARD

PEER SORENSEN ACACIA + RUBBERWOOD 2 PIECE UTILITY BOARD — NEOFLAM WHITE BOARD

KITCHEN SCISSORS, SNIPS & SHEARS

Most kitchen nowadays will have a pair of scissors as they can be extremely useful for a variety of tasks from opening food packaging to snipping herbs and cutting small vegetables and meat.

OXO GOOD GRIPS KITCHEN AND HERB SCISSORS — CUISENA HERB SCISSORS

Salad spinners

For extra dry salad leaves and tastier salads, we like to use salad spinners as they get rid of the excess water content and allow the dressing to adhere to the leaves.
OXO Salad Spinner Review

OXO GOOD GRIPS SALAD SPINNER — OXO GOOD GRIPS

ZYLISS SWIFT DRY LARGE SALAD SPINNER — OXO GOOD GRIPS

SPIRALIZERS

A handy gadget for beautiful spirals and stunning salad creation.

MICROPLANE SPIRAL CUTTER — MICROPLANE SPIRAL

PROGRESSIVE PL8 PROFESSIONAL SPIRALIZER — MICROPLANE SPIRAL

PEELERS

Every kitchen needs a vegetable peeler and there are 3 types available swivel peelers horizontal/y-peelers and julienne peelers with the swivel being the most popular.