Kitchen Tools | Epi Log | Epicurious.com

I m not usually one for single-use cooking tools. It s not just that I don t have room for them (though in my tiny apartment kitchen, I definitely don t); it s that I find most of them pretty pointless. Apple corers? I ll use a small knife, thank you. Melon ballers? I ve never understood the compulsion to shape melon into balls in the first place.

Yet I m here to make an argument for one such tool: the grapefruit spoon.

by Leah Koenig

on 11/20/14 at 10:31 AM

Summer is gone. I know it hurts, but it s time to accept that fact and move on. Besides, just because you packed up the backyard barbecue for its winter hibernation period doesn t mean you have to say goodbye to all of summer s grilled food pleasures.

But a good grill pan gives the sizzling grill marks, smoky flavor, and crusty char of summer cooking --while you stay safely indoors. And all of those robust, satisfying flavors will take the sting off of the fact that you re eating dinner wearing wool socks and three sweaters and you are still cold. Winter cooking, say hello to your new favorite thing.