Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary

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Published on October 14, 2014 • Last updated November 24, 2014 by

Core Home KitchenCore Kitchen is an American kitchenware company dedicated to bringing high quality, affordable time-saving tools, gadgets, knives, cutting boards, and accessories to your kitchen, along with a lively splash of colour. Their products are made from a wide variety of materials: organic bamboo, glass, nylon, silicone, stainless steel, polypropylene and cast iron.

Their colourful and fun tools including bowls, measuring cups, knives, chopping boards and mats, trivets, utensils and much more have been a huge hit in many kitchens in the US and they are currently expanding their business in the UK. Their products are currently available in Bloomingdales, TK Maxx and on Ventee Privee here in the UK.

Core Kitchen recently sent me a box of goodies to play with. I’ve been using them for a few weeks now and I’d like to tell you all about them!

Core Home Santoku Knife LimeFirstly, their Santoku Knife, in lime. This knife was designed for precise food preparation. Made from high carbon stainless steel the grooves on the sides of the 7 inch blade and the non-stick coating prevent finely sliced food from sticking, meaning you can chop, quickly and finely, without having to stop to push the food off the knife.

Although I do prefer my knives to have a bit more weight to them, this knife definitely does what it says on the tin, and it looks swish too with its bold colours. It has an ergonomic non-slip grip and a handy sheath for safe storage. It retails for $18 USD.

Core Home Utility Knife TealThe Utility Knife, in teal. This knife (often called a sandwich knife) is ideal, with its semi-serrated blade, for chopping large fruits and vegetables and for slicing cheese and meats – perfect for preparing sandwiches. Made from the same materials as the Santoku knife the 4.5 inch blade will stay sharp and it also has a plastic sheath. It retails for $12 USD.

Core Home Paring Knife Lime

 

The Paring Knife, in lime, completes the first set. The 3.5 inch blade is designed for peeling, coring, mincing, dicing and cutting small items. Made from the same materials as the previous two knives it also comes with a sheath. It retails for $11 USD.

These three knives can be purchased individually or as a set and it comes in other colours too, including azure/mandarin and banana/mandarin.

Core Home Veggie Utility Knives

Core Kitchen also do a whimsical range of veggie utility knives with patterns including radishes, peppers, carrots, corn, cucumbers, broccoli and aubergine/eggplants printed onto the stainless steel semi-serrated blades themselves. These retail at $12 USD each and come with a sheath for storage.

I do think they are rather adorable, don’t you? When it comes to cleaning the whole range of knives, due to the non-stick coating and colours, they recommend you hand wash only.

To test out the knives, Core Kitchen also sent me one of their large dual grip cutting boards in snow/teal. Made from polypropylene plastic this board is stain and odour resistant, dishwasher safe and reversible, giving you double the work space. A juice channel on one side collects excess liquid, keeping your counter tops clean while their signature dual grip edges keep the cutting board in place. Measuring  15 x 11.5 inches it’s as fairly good sized board and comes in a range of colours, a handy feature if you use colour coding to prevent cross contamination in the kitchen.

Core Kitchen Ingredients

You can find Core Kitchen on Facebook and Twitter and browse their wide range of kitchen products in their online shop.

Core Kitchen Giveaway

Core Kitchen have very kindly offered one of my readers the chance to win the entire set they sent me for review! This includes the Santoku knife, the utility knife, the paring knife, a set of three veggie utility knives and a dual grip chopping board – worth over $100 USD!

HOW TO ENTER

For your chance to a Core Kitchen Knife & Chopping Board Bundle worth over $100 USD enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back and tweet about the giveaway every day for more chances to win!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

This giveaway is open to UK and USA entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winner will need to respond within 7 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.

The prize is offered and provided by Core Kitchen in New York, USA. The prize is a  Core Kitchen Santoku knife, a utility knife, a paring knife, a set of three veggie utility knives and a dual grip chopping board. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.

If you need some help using Rafflecopter, here’s a quick clip to show you how. Rafflecopter will pick the winner at random from all the entries received. I will be verifying entries and any automated entries or those who have claimed they have made the mandatory blog post comment and really haven’t will be disqualified. It’s mandatory! Any potential USA winner may be required to complete and return an email confirmation of prize acceptance and possibly a Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and a Publicity Release (“Affidavit/Release”) within 7 days of notification, or an alternate winner will be selected.

Closing date is midnight on Monday 24 November 2014 (GMT)  and the winner will be announced that day.

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Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary was sent a selection of knives and chopping boards to review by Core Kitchen in New York. All opinions expressed are our own and this is not a paid post.

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About Elizabeth Atia

Daydream adventurer. Expat Canadian. Foodie. Calls Shetland home.

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  17. Susan Freeman

    I chop loads of veg for Sunday dinner – usually at least 8/9 different ones including potatoes – anything left over after eating goes into my large stockpot for soup for Monday

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  21. Lyndsey Beckford

    My chicken and sweet potato cajun hash. It involves chopping chicken, sweet potatoes, spring onions and different coloured peppers. Takes me ages but it’s so worth it! 🙂

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  40. Annette

    Tuscan Vegetable Soup is my favorite recipe that requires lots of chopping, especially since I always make a double batch.

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  43. Emma Harris

    A Mexican family feast night including the freshest ingredients – Home made salsa and guacamole, hard tacos, nachos, enchiladas and fajitas. Lot’s and lot’s of chopping involved in that one, plus a big smile on my families face which always mekae me happy 🙂

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  45. Karen R

    I love the salad that I make for my packed lunch each day – I love the fresh lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, avocado, meat and cheese and anything else I can find

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  47. Nichola Armstrong

    I love making a stew on a cold winters day – lots of chopping from the meat to all the veg I add 🙂 topped with dumplings perfect

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  82. Pam Lawrence

    I do a Cajun Rice recipe which has 9-10 different kinds f veggies in it, which involves a bit of a choking marathon before I start cooking, but it ISNA fave in our house!

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  88. Rachael Barratt

    I love making stir drys with things chopped into bite-sized portions so that we can eat them easily with chopsticks!

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  91. Tracy Alder-Ashwin

    Vegetable soup – I use lots of different veg and make big batches so these knives would be perfect to use for this.

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  103. Vicky

    Mush. It’s a sort of homemade soup I make, where I chop carrots, celery, onions and garlic and simmer them with a tin or 2 of chopped tomatoes and a vegetable stock cube, then blend them to a mushy texture. It’s a fab healthy meal and it’s great for freezing and reheating.

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  127. Alison Walker

    Chilli Con Carne would be my chosen dish. I agree with earlier comments – anything that makes chopping onions is a winner by me!

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  146. Maria A.

    We love homemade pizza and after the kneading the dough is the big chopping of different vegetables, meats, cheese and herbs…

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  157. Lin Young

    my homemade vegetarian curry anynhing goes – love my homegrown onion marrows carrots swedes

    always needs a good knife

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  160. Alexandra

    I make a lot of vegan recipes and they all require a lot of chopping up veggies and fruit to put in them: from cookies to salads and desserts alike!

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  185. Liz Weston aka @TheLizWeston

    I like to cook anything that involves lots of finely chopped onions – I put them in gravy, curry, and even use them for full english breakfasts! I love the taste of onions and when they are finely chopped and lush and buttery – mmmmm, there’s nothing like a meal that has lots of onions in it. I’ll stop writing now, because otherwise you will think me a bit strange 😉 x

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  204. MICHELLE

    I like to make a zuchinni casserole which requires fine chopping of zuchinni, onion, and garlic and quite a bit of it at that! I love it but my old knives make it quite a chore to make.

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  205. Laura Beetham

    I love making steak stir fry. Need a good knife to slice the steak bits and all the onions and mushrooms. Yum! My dog catches the dropped veg on the floor.

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  217. Charlotte rawlins

    Homemade soups! Butternut squash and red rep per takes a lot of chopping, it usually has carrot and onion as well so lots to chop up!

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  238. Kristy Brown

    I don’t know the name of the recipe but it’s one my friend taught me that I adapted as it was from her Jamaican father. It has 3 types of pepper, chopped onions, garlic, tomato, bacon, herbs and passata and pasta and is eventually baked with a cheese topping

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  239. Julia Plant

    Home made veggie curries – they tend to take me quite a while to chop up the veg, and prepare the chillis. Worth it though 🙂

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  256. Laura Baker

    There’s a soup I love making at the moment – courgette, pea and pesto – so yummy but involves chopping 500g of courgettes! Bit of a faff but totally worth it 🙂

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  263. Sally Kershaw

    I love making spinnach and mushroom canelloni – it takes ages to chop the button mushrooms as they are so fiddly – but the end result is defintely worth it! 🙂

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  264. Sheila Reeves

    Spicy Turkey & Vegetable stir Fry – lots of chopping with this recipe, so some good knives would really help with that

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  306. Tom Barnes

    My favourite recipe involving lots of chopping is bolognese. The most important thing is to slice the garlic as finely as possible so it melts in the oil. And also always drink wine whilst cooking, it steadys the hand.

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  311. Heather Haigh

    Stir fry. I love quietly chopping up loads of vegetables at a serene pace and then the cooking part is so quick – a very satisfying job.

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  319. Sophie

    My favourite recipe for using lots of chopping has got to be Chicken Fajita’s, with Peppers, Garlic, Chilli, and onions, YUM.

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  332. Michael Griffin

    lamb curry. Chopping onions, garlic, red chilli, green chilli, ginger, cardamom pods and not forgetting the lamb itself

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  346. lucy fletcher

    sausage casserole – chopping carrots, onion, potatoes,butternut squash, leek, courgette and sausages. we also occasionally have to cut beef cubes or lamb to go in as well and swede and potatoes for a carrot and swede mash to top it with if no dumplings 🙂

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  357. lauren tourle

    fajitas, the onions, peppers, carrots, sweet potatoes, chicken, garlic and chilli. takes forever, plus I use knives to peel so does take a while 🙂

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  367. Sandra Lane

    My slow cooker chicken casserole involves lots of chopping and it’s really tough as the parsnips, swede and carrots are quite hard to cut into pieces.

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  370. tracy sinclair

    An Omelette, with onions, mushrooms, peppers, chilli’s, spinach and chicken, chopped into small pieces, lots of chopping x

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  373. Amanda A

    Vegetable soup involves lots of chopping – onion, carrots, garlic, swede, tomatoes, celery this bundle would be fantastic!

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  374. Helen

    I have recently told my husband that we needed a new knife set! Ours is on its way out!
    I love to make roast dinner! Chopping the potatoes and veg and then carving the meat!

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  375. Jane Beer

    The favourite that involves a lot of chopping in our household is our Thai Green Curry, it’s a family affair as a big pot of veg is expected so it’ll last a few days and various visitors (not kidding have one friend who constantly checks if there’s any on the go. You need a good knife to get the chicken cut into tiny strips, through the tougher roots as well as the softer stuff like mushrooms and chillies. Getting hungry now…

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  385. clifford allen

    My favourite recipe that involves lots of chopping is a tradition home made home grow straight from the winter garden vegtable soup.

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  388. Grace @ Eats Amazing

    The whole range looks absolutely gorgeous – I’m a sucker for anything in bright rainbow colours, I’ll definitely check these out! My favourite recipe involving lots of chopping is my fajita recipe – I always chop up lots of colourful veggies to go in the wraps with the chicken.

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  397. Philippa

    I’m vegetarian so end up chopping lots of vegetables. The knives in my flat are all old and blunt though so some nice new knives would be amazing! Plus the colours would really brighten up the old kitchen.

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  413. Georgina Jacobs

    Gorgeous home made hearty beef & vegetable casserole – Just a simple, traditional & tasty dish. Thank you.

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  419. kellie@foodtoglow

    I have seen these products in TK MAxx but never bought them. Like you I like a weightier knife, but those colours are so poppy and bright and would give a lift in most kitchens. And I can always use more cutting boards. Can’t we all!?

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  425. Foodie Quine

    I’m saying Chutney as all I’ve done in the last couple of days is chop tomatoes, onions and apples to make it!

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  427. Chris Elston

    My take on shepherds pie. Onion, garlic, chilli, courgettes, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, leeks, tomatoes, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

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  440. Rosie Dunningham

    My favourite recipe that involves lots of chopping is my world famous guacamole! Chop as finely as you can red onion, tomatoes (de-skinned and de-seeded), chilli and coriander. Smush the avocado with a fork (technical term!), mix ingredients together with a squeeze of lime and salt and pepper. Goes amazingly in fish tacos, chilli con carne and chicken fajitas.

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