bonnie_webBonnie: With Turkey Day around the corner, we thought it prudent to share a product that you could use for your holiday meal preparation.

I saw this gadget at two shows earlier this year (International Home + Housewares Show and Food Fête). When I first saw it, with a mechanism at the bottom to release food through a hole in the bottom of the vessel, I thought it was a high-end pancake-batter dispenser. Liz Burns, senior marketing manager, chuckled, but did test this and learned that this Cuisipro Fat Separator also works with thin pancake batter – and better yet with crepe batter. But the true purpose of this device is to separate the fat and food particles from the liquid.

Use after roasting and removing your turkey from the pan. Pour the liquid that’s left in the pan into this 4-cup fat separator. The heat-resistant strainer first catches those remnant food particles (letting you decide whether to keep or toss) then captures the liquid in the vessel. The fat floats to the top allowing you to release the liquid through the hole in the bottom by pressing the trigger in the handle that controls the silicone plug. Ingenious.

In fact, if you — like me — make your gravy right in the pan where you cooked the turkey, then release the liquid from the fat separator right into the pan set on the stove top. Whisk in your thickener, season to taste and voila – gravy!

The Cuisipro Fat Separator comes in two versions, both top-rack dishwasher safe. The newer one is BPA-free and made of heat-resistant, durable and scratch-resistant Tritan material.

For sure, our team will be using our new Cuisipro Fat Separator in the process of making our homemade gravy for our Thanksgiving feast. We wish you an early Happy Turkey Day!

bryan5cBryan: And then he said “fat be gone,” and it was. If there is one omnipotent force in the kitchen, it has to be the almighty Cuisipro. The company churns out a truly endless supply of innovative kitchen products, all instilled with the company’s almost signature simplistic, modern elegance. Most importantly, all of the gadgets, gizmos and doohickeys are of impeccable, professional quality.

Where else can you get a cupcake corer and a box grater in the same store? Cuisipro offers a Wonka-like selection of specialty tools sure to sate any adventurous home chef’s top drawer: pumps, presses and poachers, sifters, spatulas, spoons, screens and strainers, brushes and bowls, cups and cutters, graters, tongs, whisks and more! You name a need and I’ll give you a gadget!

You want the fat out, you say? Well, maybe it’s not the kitchen tool that first comes to mind, but the advantages of having a dedicated fat separator in the kitchen, especially around holiday time, are immense. There is not an easier way to make healthier gravy than with a fat separator. The Cuisipro patented system blocks fat from going up the cup’s spout. This means that once your gravy has settled, all those flavorful juices can be poured off for use while the fat stays in the cup! All that gloppy, viscous, disgusting bird fat… all left behind where it belongs. The only good bird fat is duck fat, so unless you’re making Turducken gravy, separate the stuff out of your holiday meal. C’mon!

eric...Eric: “Everything is better with butter. And without fat, there’s no flavor.” Those are words of a wise chef that have stuck in my head. Food trends always make me laugh. Gluten-free, low-carbohydrate, lactose-free, low-calorie, etc. The only thing consistent about food trends is that sooner or later they disappear back into the world of food PR and marketing think tanks.

The truth about fat is that without it, there is no true flavor. Any chef can add spice or rub on herbs, but the only reason a jaw truly drops when biting into a pan-seared piece of foie gras is the fat — no more, no less.

This is a principle you have to remember when making your holiday gravy: Fat is good (I almost want a T-shirt with that on it).

Cuisipro has designed a state-of-the-art fat separator whose purpose is to dispose of the fat. Since the fat contains the flavor, be sure to keep a little along with your pan dripping to make tasty holiday gravy.

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