Tools for Raw-Food Preparation

Tools for Raw-Food Preparation

It’s a myth that you need a kitchen stocked with appliances to start eating raw! In the beginning, you’ll probably find that a good chef’s knife and some ingenuity is all it takes. As you move along, though, certain appliances will allow you to enjoy the lifestyle with ease.

1) Basic vegetable tools - Cutting Board: A qualty wood cutting board is preferable. Bamboo is quite nice

2) Food Processor -I consider a good food processor a kitchen necessity

for any chef, raw or cooked. Important for making cookies, crusts, pâtés, and salsas. My food processor of choice is the Cuisinart DLC-10S White

7-Cup Pro Classic Food Processor

3) A spiralizer - Spiral Vegetable

Slicer This slicer is great for slicing your favorite vegetables and fruits. Beautifully shreds, slices and chops most vegetables and fruits. This slicer quickly creates continuous spiral strands, ribbons or thin slices from vegetables. Turns almost any firm vegetable into fine spaghetti-like strands or incredibly thin, long ribbons. It has 3 interchangeable blades (large noodle, small noodle and slicing blade) to make:

Curly fries
Spiral Strands
Curled Julienne Strips
As well as slices and ribbon cuts

4) A Blender - A Vita-Mix blender is my recommendation here

5) A Mandolin

6) A Juicer

7) A Dehydrator-A dehydrator can catapult your raw un-cooking to a new level of

aesthetic perfection, but it’s not essential. The dehydrator I use is-9-Tray Large-Excalibur with 26 hour Timer #3926T