Tiny Ways to Make Your Kitchen More Eco-Friendly

Plus, our favorite wooden kitchen tools. [America's Test Kitchen]( [The Well-Equipped Cook. A weekly newsletter from your favorite unbiased tasters and testers.]( [The Well-Equipped Cook. A weekly newsletter from your favorite unbiased tasters and testers.]( [recipes]( [product reviews]( [Equipment guides]( [gear heads]( The Latest from the ATK Reviews Team [Composting produce]( 20 Tiny Ways to Make Your Kitchen More Eco-Friendly It’s easier than you think to [make your cooking a little more sustainable. ›]( [Electric kettles]( Why the ATK Reviews Team Never Accepts Free Samples Our refusal to accept free products sets us apart from competitors. Here’s [why we always buy the things we test. ›]( This Week’s Equipment Guide [Our Favorite Wooden Kitchen Tools]( Our Favorite Wooden Kitchen Tools [SEE EQUIPMENT GUIDE]( [Sawyer Phillips, Assistant Editor, ATK Reviews] My mom has been using the same wooden rolling pin for as long as I can remember. Over the years we’ve used it to make gingerbread, pie crusts, and more. That rolling pin is still in use, demonstrating the durability of high-quality wooden kitchen tools. Our team has reviewed an array of wooden tools over the years, and we have named several winners. Recently, my colleague Carolyn Grillo reviewed [rolling pins.]( After rolling out dozens of [pie doughs]( pizza doughs, and [cookie doughs]( she named two winners: [a dowel-style]( and [a tapered-style.]( Both are crafted by JK Adams from North American hardwood and easily roll out various doughs. Although plastic cutting boards are useful, few kitchen tools match the beauty and versatility of a well-maintained wooden cutting board. [Our favorite heavy-duty cutting board]( is richly colored, smooth, and has a spacious surface. We also love [the smaller version]( which has all the features of our winner but is better for those with less counter space. They’re enjoyable to chop on and make striking charcuterie boards. Wooden kitchen tools can last a long time if you care for them correctly (see my Mom’s 20-year-old rolling pin). Here’s [a detailed guide]( about how to season, wash, and maintain your wooden or bamboo cutting board. [A Wooden Spoon]( Must-Have of the week A Wooden Spoon Wooden spoons are useful for a variety of tasks, such as mixing stiff cookie dough, browning roux, scraping up fond for stews and sauces, sautéing onions, stirring soups, or breaking up ground beef or sausage as it cooks. We like several of the spoons we tested, but our testers raved about the classically designed FAAY 13.5" Teak Cooking Spoon. Light, long, and maneuverable, it kept our hands far from the heat, and its rounded, tapered handle was comfortable and easy to grip in a variety of ways as we worked. 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