The Top 8 Recommended
Appliances for Your Healthy Kitchen
Do you want to outfit your kitchen with tools and appliances that make preparing
delicious and healthy recipes like those in the Body Ecology diet easy?
Do you want to give your friends and family top-rated gifts for their kitchen
that they will appreciate for many years to come?
Great appliances make Body Ecology cooking fun and easy!
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We polled our team members - a variety of individuals who have long been
dedicated to preparing foods at home, including Body Ecology founder Donna
Gates, Certified Body Ecologists and others -- to come up with these top picks
in several key categories.
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Top-Recommended Food Dehydrator
We love food dehydrators at Body Ecology because they allow us to make a
variety of versatile snacks. Here are some things we love about dehydrators:
- Drying almonds and seeds after soaking them - even adding seasonings for
a new taste!
- Creating raw food snacks that retain the live enzymes that cooking at
high temperatures can destroy.
- Inventing new ways to serve Body Ecology friendly foods, like cookies
(sweetened with Stevia or xylitol), flax crackers and other great on-the-go
foods.
Our staff favorite is the Excalibur food dehydrator because it dries evenly,
cleans up quickly AND is incredibly easy to use.
The 9-tray
Excalibur
is the model of choice for people who want to make larger quantities of food.
The 4-tray
Excalibur
is great for apartments or small spaces because it is much smaller.
Top-Recommended Food Processors
Food processors are the workhorses of the kitchen and can perform all kinds
of functions these 
days.
Here's why our staff thinks food processors are indispensable:
- We love cultured vegetables! Food processors make the cutting and chopping
effortless.
- We use them to make Body Ecology pates with vegetables and/or nuts and
seeds.
- They are great for pureeing Body Ecology soups.
For the at-home cook who loves professional quality appliances - or if you
do run a professional or semi-professional food preparation service -- the
Robot
Coupe
is a top recommendation. For those who make high volume cultured vegetables
or cook for a large family, the Robot Coupe is well worth the investment.
The Robot Coupe can process huge amounts of vegetables in a short period of
time, handle the most delicate pureeing and everything in between!
An
excellent and considerably less expensive alternative is the Cuisinart food
processor. Both the Classic
7 cup processor and the stainless
steel 14 cup model take care of most food prep needs, and for a reasonable
price.
Top-Recommended Mixer
For mixers, we absolutely love the Vita-Mix
,
and no other mixer gets nearly as high a recommendation from us as this one.
Some of the staff's praise for the Vita-Mix:
- "Great for Body Ecology smoothies!"
- "A delicious, high-fiber alternative to juicing" - We've found
that the Vita-Mix can be even better than a standard juicer because it can
turn your favorite vegetables into beverages that still have all their
healthy fiber!
TIP: For a boost to your inner ecosystem, how about these high-fiber vegetables
into Cultured veggie juices?
Top Recommended Cookware and Utensils
Le
Creuset
cookware is very highly recommended for cooking all types of foods. While
with virtually every other type of cookware you have to be concerned with
the food reacting with the surface resulting in an unhealthy situation for
you, with Le Creuset you never have to worry about food reacting to its porcelain
enamel surface.
These cast iron and enamel pots heat evenly, last forever, and look attractive
in your kitchen. Le Creuset's enameled cast iron has also been recognized
as one of "the best materials available for cookware because it retains
heat and promotes gentle, even cooking at low heat ensuring that the best
flavor is brought out from the ingredients." An excellent gift!
Ball
Jars
(we like the quart-sized wide mouth) are indispensable for cultured vegetables
and kefir.
This extra-sturdy and ergonomically designed fine wire mesh strainer is
a top recommendation.
Fine
wire mesh strainers
are a must for rinsing grains, nuts and seeds after soaking.
A
stainless steel wide-mouth funnel
is a must for putting cultured veggies into jars.
The right tools like these above will make cooking easier, more precise and
more fun … therefore they make a great gift to friends and loved ones
(or yourself!)
Here are some great FREE
Body Ecology recipes to get you started with your new kitchen appliances
and tools. Happy Cooking!
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