The Chef’s Duster is designed
for the wire bar to sweep across
the bottom of the mesh bowl to
center the ingredient for more
controlled dusting. Do not force
the wire bar to reach the rim.
If the mesh bowl gets mis-shapen
and the wire bar does not swing
back and forth smoothly, use
your thumb to gently reshape the
mesh bowl until the bar sweeps
smoothly again.
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DUST confectioners’ sugar over cakes, cookies,
brownies, pancakes, waffles, French toast or desserts,
and cinnamon or cocoa over hot beverages.
Place a lacy paper doily over baked goods.
Generously dust confectioners’ sugar over doily.
Carefully lift doily for a sweet design.
Top cappuccino, coffee, hot chocolate, and
other hot beverages with a dollop of whipped
cream or marshmallow. Lightly dust with
cinnamon or cocoa. Stir with a cinnamon stick
for a festive touch.
SIFT flour or cornmeal over surface before
kneading or rolling dough, or sift lumps from cocoa,
confectioners’ sugar and spices.
Before adding cinnamon to a liquid, mix
it with an equal amount of sugar to keep
it from clumping.
To prepare cake pans for baking, evenly coat
entire inside of pans with butter or shortening.
Sift a light, even coating of flour over the butter,
turn pans upside down and tap out excess flour
to leave a thin, uniform film. For chocolate
cakes, sift cocoa instead of flour.
BLEND cinnamon and sugar to sprinkle over
cinnamon toast, cookies and donuts, or to fill
cinnamon rolls. Combine spices to rub over
meat and poultry.
Use the Chef’s Duster to strain seeds from fresh
or frozen crushedberries and to extract small
amounts of berry purée.
Recycle scraped vanilla bean pods by storing
them (rinsed and dried) in a sugar bowl or
canister for delicately flavored vanilla-sugar to
sprinkle over fruits, berries or into beverages.