Whether you are dreaming of opening up your own restaurant or you just want to greatly improve your kitchen, go shopping at a restaurant supply store. This where you get the widest and the best selection of kitchen supply stuff. Restaurant cooking equipment and kitchen witchery supplies are here in all manner of shapes, sizes, and colors. You will find kitchen and cooking supplies that you may not even know exist, and you can find them at the most competitive prices.

At a restaurant supply store, you can get metal mixing bowls and ladles, stock pots and sheet pans, canisters and can openers. As far as rather unique kitchen witchery stuff that you could locate at great prices in a restaurant supply store, consider these often-not-considered tools:

• Microplane grater –grate chocolate, nutmeg, ginger, cheese blocks, and garlic with this universal but often-forgotten tool.
• Pepper mill –ever have that waitress at the restaurant come up and ask you if you want “fresh ground pepper”? Doesn’t that stuff taste much better than grocery store bought pepper? You can give and experience that same pepper freshness in your own kitchen with one of these. If you get two, you can have one for white pepper, too.
• Different colored cutting mats –now why would you need these? These help you be more sanitary in your kitchen by color-coordinating your cutting, slicing, and dicing so that you don’t mix ‘n’ match the bacteria! Little things mean a lot in a successful kitchen. These are a great organizational tool.
• Digital kitchen timer –you can get more than one of these, and some of them come with dual timers anyway. Forget your worries about burning up the roast.
• Adjustable measuring cups –great food preparation demands precision in measurements, and this all-in-one tool that you’ll find in a restaurant supply store is perfect for that.
• Custard cups –use these for your mise en place measuring, which goes hand in hand with the use of that adjustable measuring cup.
• Utility knives –can’t be without these if you want to be a kitchen witch.
• Granny fork –not as advanced as the utility knife but it’s charming as well as useful for things like egg beating or playing the role of a whisk.
• Silicon spatula spoon –another wondrous, and sanitary, multiple-use kitchen tool.
• Kitchen shears –another indispensable kitchen tool. Cut meat tendons easily, and make your herb and seasoning cutting a snip-snap.
• Commercial Mixers: Blend it like the professionals. Make a smoothie, a cocktail or a fancy desert! Or perhaps you want to make your own signature drink? Your imagination is the only limit.
• Commercial Coffee Brewers –you may or may not love your coffee, your guests or customers certainly will. And those of them who do will remember you for it whether you get the cheap with the cheap flavor or the quality coffee brewer with the flavor fit for kings!
• Commercial dishwashers: After cooking and serving, there is always the dreaded clean-up. But it doesn’t have to be so bad if you have a nice commercial dishwasher. They are fast and efficient, and you would be surprised to see that they don’t drain as much power as one would think!

As you can see, there are many things to be used in the kitchen that you may never have imagined, but which can be found with ease at your nearest restaurant supply store. You can also do kitchen supply shopping online. For those of you who are really into cooking, you’ll have a great time in one of these stores, and you’ll be thrilled at all the money you can save as opposed to going to department stores looking for all this stuff.

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Fred R runs several online auction based web sites.

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