Gourmet Gift Ideas

Gourmet Gift Ideas

Cooking with a drizzle of oil

cruet set drizzlersHow to add a drizzle of oil and vinegar to your culinary creation, without the mess of a sticky, oily cruet. Fine Chefs and passionate cooks world wide know the natural health benefits of using olive oil and vinegar in the kitchen. Why not join them? Just use the new oil drizzlers. It’s simple to “drizzle” only the amount desired into prepared dishes, salads or pastas. You won’t have the sticky drips that are typical with everyday oil and vinegar cruets. Imagine – you get all the pleasures of preparing a great tasting gourmet meal – and you don’t have to deal with continually wiping up oily, sticky drips!

Recently, the use of olive oils and balsamic vinegars has increased, and scientific studies have shown that these oils and vinegars benefit our health, if included in a sensible diet. Those of us, who enjoy the flavor these condiments add to a meal, are all too happy to hear reports qualifying them as antioxidant high, good for our hearts and free of cholesterol, trans fats, and partially hydrogenated oils.

It’s exciting to see the cornucopia of mouth-watering epicurean oils available to cooks today. Drizzle cruets are optimum decanters for the following:• Black truffle oil
• White truffle oil
• Grapeseed oil
• Garlic oil
• Avocado oil
• Walnut oil
• Sesame oil
And there’s more – all of which can be easily drizzled over or in your favorite foods.

Historically, balsamic vinegars have been utilized for adding taste and zest to foods. When choosing your balsamic vinegar look for flavor, bouquet, color and what types of foods they are known to season best. Feel free to mix and match – use your culinary imagination! Oil drizzlers are fast becoming popular kitchen tools for most culinary professionals, as their design allows for a most efficient method of dispensing of oil and vinegar.

Drizzle cruets work well with a large assortment of gourmet oils and specialty vinegars, such as raspberry, wine, sherry, white balsamic and superb Italian balsamic vinegars. Oil drizzlers make it easy to add just the right portion of oil and vinegar while cooking. As the perfect kitchen gift, consider purchasing oil drizzlers for those on your gift list as well.

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