The Chef Basket is a very handy item to have around the kitchen or even your outdoor kitchen. If you love to cook, the Chef Basket is indispensable. It is a combination strainer, colander and deep frying frying basket. The Chef Basket is really cool how it folds down flat so it takes up much less cupboard space. I recently sprained my wrist and found it extremely hard to pour the water out of a large pot of boiled noodles. That’s when my husband bought me the Chef Basket which I am now able to use with just 1 hand it’s so easy! I just lift the handle and take my pasta right out of the pot and on to my serving dish. I usually just dangle it over the sink for a minute to drain first, of course. You can use the Chef Basket to boil, deep fry, steam, poach, blanch and even par-boil. I mostly use it for pasta because I try to eat a little more healthy, but I do splurge once in a while, especially if it has anything to do with deep fried shrimp! The Chef Basket is pretty much a must have item for anyone who cooks, and is especially handy if the chef is disabled in any way.
As I said before, I mostly use the Chef Basket for making pasta of all types, from spaghetti to lasagna. I simply boil a pot of water, pour my pasta into the Chef Basket and and then drop basket down into the pot of boiling water. Then when my timer goes off I just pull the Chef Basket out of the pot, dangle it over the sink for a couple of seconds and rinse it out under the faucet, then shake out the excess water then just dump it into whatever serving dish I happen to be using. If you have ever tried to dump a huge pot of boiling water out into a strainer sitting in the sink then you know what a task this can be, but with the Chef Basket, its simple and safe, even when you have a sprained wrist! The stay-cool handle built into the Chef Basket makes it real easy to handle!
I don’t do a lot of deep frying due to the negative health issues, but I do fry up some fish n chips once in awhile because there is just something heavenly about fish and chips covered in malt vinegar, yum! My husband also loves his deep fried foods, so even he loves to use the Chef Basket too! What I love about him using it is, he doesn’t destroy my kitchen like he used too, making cleanup much less of a hassle. I really don’t understand how a man can create such a mess anyway, but all I know is when he uses the Chef Basket, it’s much less messy in the kitchen when he’s done!
The Chef Basket comes with a nice little recipe booklet if you need some good recipes, but honestly it’s not necessary because it works with just about anything. You can use it to deep fry, or boil just about anything imaginable. It folds down flat making it easy to store and takes up a lot less space than a strainer, and it has a lot more uses too. My husband bought it from the official chef basket website I’ve listed below. It’s dirt cheap for all that it does.
