Thank you Metrokane and Taylor
for providing me with products to review, free of charge.
These are my own honest opinions.

I love to cook and bake. Over the years, I’ve learned that some products are very important, even essential, in order to get good results. To share some of these products with you, I decided to start a series called ‘Kitchen Essentials’. It’s not about showcasing expensive products designed for chefs. It’s about featuring products that all of us non-cooks can find useful in the kitchen and that I personally enjoy using.

Some will have an innovative techy vibe because I like that, others will be classics with a timeless flair. Some will be products that I use every day, others will be for more technical culinary endeavors that I attempt only once in a while. I hope you will discover through these reviews products that will make cooking and baking more interesting and enjoyable and maybe a little easier too.

I begin this series with 2 great products: the Rabbit Electra by Metrokane and a Compact Digital Kitchen Scale by Taylor.

The Rabbit Electra is a kitchen gadget I love! It’s an electric corkscrew that can pull about 30 corks with a single charge. It can open bottles with all types of corks, including plastic. Being a clumsy person, opening a bottle of wine the old fashioned way often results in split or outright destroyed corks. Nodoby likes little pieces of cork floating in their wine so until I had the Rabbit Electra, I usually delegated this task to someone else. This has all changed. Now I am happy to show off my newfound (or the Rabbit’s) wine opening skills! It’s really foolproof: all I have to do is place it on top of the bottle, hold the bottle with one hand, and hold the Rabbit down as I push the button.

In a matter of seconds, the cork is out and I can savor my wine. The Rabbit Electra comes with a charger as well as a foil cutter so you’re ready to open all the wine bottles you want!

As I said earlier, I love to bake. A lot of the recipes for bread and desserts have really precise recipes that require exact quantities of each ingredient. This means that often times, ingredients are measured by weight instead of volume. That’s when a scale becomes essential.

I used to have a regular scale but it was difficult to operate because the slightest movement would throw it off and the needle didn’t seem to move accurately. I also found that the scale was sometimes difficult to read. A digital scale such as Taylor’s compact digital scale takes away all the guesswork. Measurements are accurate and reading the weight on the large LCD screen is as easy as can be.

This means I can rely on it to create delicious breads and decadent desserts! It has an 11-lb capacity (or 5000 g.) so even if you bake a huge cake, the compact scale will deliver. This useful kitchen scale also comes in yellow and white and can easily be stored in the tiniest of kitchen thanks to its very small size.

Find Out More: Head over to Metrokane to see for yourself the great selection of wine tools and accessories they offer. Head over to Taylor to see for yourself the selection of scales and other measuring instruments they offer.

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Rachel