Scott Cutaneo's blue kitchen has an aura of tranquillity
04.02.10
Cutaneo, who is best known for his mastery of fine French cuisine, has his cooking hands in several pots. In addition to Equus, with its sophisticated global menu, Cutaneo owns the former Le Petit Chateau, which he closed last spring. He expects to reopen at 121 Claremont Road, Bernardsville later this year with his more casual Claremont Tavern taking the place of what many had regarded as one of the state’s top restaurants.
Cutaneo also prepares recipes for TV spots on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. So his home kitchen needed to be a place where he could develop and test his recipes as well as entertain and gather with family, including his wife, Jacqueline, 16-year-old twins Ryan and Christopher, and two younger sons, Joseph, 13, and Scott Shane, 3.
The Cutaneo home kitchen, with its contemporary country French styling, is one result of a phased renovation at their ranch-style home that began about four years ago.
“I had a template of what I wanted in the kitchen-dining area,” says Cutaneo, who worked with his contractor and friend Thomas Kierepka of New Castle Contracting in Fairfield. The chef has an impressive collection of beloved copper pans, all clad pans, family heirlooms, kitchen relics and other pieces that he keeps in a 250-square-foot storage room off the kitchen. “You need the right tools and a great area for storage, especially when this is your trade,” he said.
Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
New Generation of KitchenAid Induction Cooktops Combine Power and Precision
20.01.10
, Senior manager of brand experience for KitchenAid. "Just as once unfamiliar cooking technologies like microwave and convection have become kitchen mainstays, the popularity of induction technology, given all its performance benefits, is likely to keep increasing among home cooks."
Unlike conventional cooktops that create heat below a pot, induction cooking is an advanced technology that uses electromagnetic energy to generate instant heat to the cookware resulting in faster heating times with less energy use compared to a conventional cooktop. Induction technology enables cooks to instantly go from a simmer to a sear. Cookware used on induction elements need only be magnetic, such as steel or iron.
"Induction elements respond immediately to heat-level setting changes, so cooks can quickly go from a gentle simmer to a boil and back again," notes O'Connor.
The 30-inch Architect® Series II induction cooktops feature nine heat level settings and a performance boost function on all elements that increases the temperature level above the highest setting to quickly bring liquids to a boil. Heating elements on the cooktop include 10- and 9-inch 3000-Watt elements, a 7-inch 2500-Watt element and a 6-inch 1800-Watt element.
Source: PR Newswire (press release)
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