Prepara Kitchen Tools and Gadgets
Chef’s Center Cookbook Holder
Protect the pages of your favourite cookbook and always keep your recipe handy with the Chef’s Center Cookbook Holder.
An adjustable book support allows for multiple book sizes, thicknesses and viewing angles, and the Lazy Susan base turns 360 degrees so you can easily read your recipe as you move about the kitchen.
A handy pull out information drawer shows measurement conversions for quick reference, and the entire unit folds flat for storage.
Even holds an iPad - then you can view all our recipes online in your kitchen!
Chef's Basting Set
Prepara’s basting set allows for easy, one-handed access without the mess. The glass reservoir holds up to 4.4 oz of oil, roast drippings, barbecue sauce or even melted butter. With a simple squeeze of the handle, the silicone basting brush is filled, allowing for a thin coat of butter or oil to be brushed onto a cooking surface, for basting a roast with flavourful juices or spreading delicious sauce onto barbecued ribs.
Check out this short video on how the Chef's Basting Set works:
Roasting Laurel
Heat resistant up to 500 F, the silicone roasting laurel keeps your roast up and out of unhealthy fats and promotes more even browning. Its bendable shape allows you to use the roasting laurel in most any dish, oval or rectangular, for pot roasts, poultry or fish, to prevent sticking or to corral vegetables.
Pop Saver Salt Cellar
Holds up to one cup of salt, sugar, your favourite snacking nuts or candy. The silicone pop top closes to cover food, and pops up for easy access through the wide mouth opening. Grab a pinch, or use the included 1/2 teaspoon measure.
The Prepara Power Plant allows you to have a mini garden, at your fingertips, all year long! You will proudly show off freshly grown Italian sweet basil or newly sprouted dwarf parsley from the comfort of your kitchen, anytime, rain or shine!
The Prepara Power Plant is a little green growing machine that will allow you to grow your own plants, right in your kitchen! Experiment with any seed! It’s easy to set up and simple to use. Just seed it, feed it and leave it!
You’ll see the simplicity of the this unique technology that allows you to be bug, worm and dirt free. It sits brightly on your sunny window sill, requires very little maintenance, grows fuller plants, quickly, and takes the guesswork out of growing!
Fresh herbs in your kitchen! Prepara Herb-Savor
Nothing makes your meals taste better than fresh ingredients. The Prepara Herb-Savor will prolong the life of your fresh herbs for up to 3 weeks, so you can enjoy flavourful meals every time you cook.
Did You Know?
Herbal seeds have been found in pre-historic cave dwellings and are said to date back as many as 500,000 years!
Egyptians have studied herbs and used them for medicinal and religious purposes since as far back as 3500 B.C.
Written records about the study of herbs in China date back to 100 B.C.
Christopher Columbus was attempting to open trade routes for rare spices and herbs when he discovered the New World.
Herbology is the study of herbal medicine.
According to the World Health Organization, over 82% of the world’s population uses some sort of herbal medicine.
A culinary herb uses the leafy part of the plant, unlike spices which can use all other parts of the plant including seeds, bark, berries or root.
A herb is a seed plant that does not produce a woody stem, but which will develop long enough to produce flowers and seeds.
Bouquet garni is a bundle of herbs used to prepare soup, stocks or stew (slow cooking).
Fines herbes, a mainstay of French cuisine, is less pungent than a bouquet garni and is used for shorter cooking applications.
Herb How To
How to make a Bouquet Garni
Tie together stalks of fresh basil, celery leaves, parsley, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf, marjoram, tarragon or any combination thereof. Alternately, place dried herbs into a piece of muslin and tie in a bundle. Drop bouquet garni into your soup, stew or sauce while cooking. Remove before serving.
How to make Fines Herbes
Mix together equal quantities of fresh parsley, chervil, chives and tarragon. Add to omelette, scrambled eggs, or potatoes. Sprinkle over cooked vegetables like carrots, green or yellow beans. Sprinkle over salads for added flavour.
Homemade Herb Vinegar
Fill a jar with a self-tightening lid with your favourite fresh, young, clean, dry herb leaves. Fill jar with a good quality malt vinegar and seal. Shake jar regularly over a three-week period to mix together. After three weeks, strain contents and transfer to a clean jar.