10 Game-Changing Kitchen Tools to Simplify Baby-Led Weaning

Katie Ferraro (0s):

My sister And I both like to cook. She has six kids, I have seven. But the primary difference between us is Kelly enjoys like scouring the internet for recipes and figuring out exactly what to make for dinner. And she actually likes going to the grocery store to buy the stuff. I, on the other hand, just wish that someone would tell me exactly every night what we are having for dinner. And also I hate going to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for said dinner.

Hungry Root (23s):

Hungry Root has totally brought the joy back to weeknight cooking for me. So Hungry Root is more than just a meal kit. It is a personalized grocery service that actually does the thinking for you. It picks out what to cook and what groceries to buy based on your preferences, and then it delivers everything straight to your door. No more scrolling for recipes or wandering the grocery store aisles. Hungry Root does it all. I told them what kind of foods I like in the quiz. At the onboarding, they sent me a mix of fresh ingredients and easy meal kits that actually make sense for our busy life. I've got high protein meals, kid friendly snacks, even some fun treats, all made with high quality ingredients and none of the junk. And the best part, everything is super quick to make. I'm talking like 15 minutes or less and there's a normal amount of ingredients 'cause I don't have time to open up like 15 tiny little packages. I don't have time to cook dinner from scratch. But Hungry Root does it for me. Just yesterday, last night we had baseball games and the boys games always go so late. Like they always start that last inning right when I'm like, oh my gosh, it's dinner time right now. I wanna go home. We got home late. But I was able to put together this amazing rigatoni olive vodka with chicken sausage dinner from Hungry Root, which to be honest, I would've never thought of looking up that recipe And I would not have gone to the store to buy the ingredients, But there they were in my Hungry Root box. Problem solved. If you would like to streamline your family meal prep, I think you're gonna love Hungry Root as much as I do. And right now you can get 40% off your first box plus a free item in every box for life. Just go to hungryroot.com/weaning and use the code weaning at checkout. That's hungryroot.com/weaning code weaning for 40% off your first box and a free item for life. Check it out. It's really amazing.

Katie Ferraro (2m 1s):

And after I heard Dr. James Rogers talking about like all of the plastic chemicals that are hidden in your baby's food, I'm not buying baby food, but he really got under my skin talking about plastic food containers. And because when you're prepping foods for your baby, you're of course gonna be making a few extra portions. You do want storage containers that you can both see into, But that also don't have microplastics and other chemicals in there that are harmful to your baby. So that's why this particular item made the list. Hey there, I'm Katie Ferraro, registered dietician, college nutrition professor and mom of seven specializing in Baby-Led Weaning. Here on the Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro podcast. I help you strip out all of the noise and nonsense about feeding, giving you the confidence and knowledge you need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods using Baby-Led Weaning.

Katie Ferraro (2m 56s):

I consider myself to be a very frugal person and one thing I am adamant about when I teach about starting solid foods and Baby-Led Weaning is that you do not need to buy a bunch of fancy gadgets or special gear in order to start solid foods the safe way. So you do not need to spend a ton of money to make safe foods for your baby. But I will be honest, there are a few simple, affordable tools that can make your life so much easier. These are not gimmicks, okay? These are things that are gonna help you confidently, prep foods faster, shape them safely for your baby's current age and stage. And it's gonna help you take the guesswork out of offering new textures. Okay, so today I'm gonna be covering 10 game Changing Kitchen Tools to Simplify Baby-Led Weaning.

Katie Ferraro (3m 42s):

And I will admit one of these tools is something I totally poo-pooed when I first heard about it. I swore I would never buy something like this. It seems so unnecessary until I actually tried it and now I cannot imagine prepping one of my favorite baby foods without it. So in this episode, we're going through 10 game changing kitchen tools that are gonna simplify Baby-Led Weaning plus hang tight. 'Cause I'm gonna throw in five popular feeding products that are either dangerous, silly, or are just a waste of your money. So stick around. I think you're gonna be surprised what made that list. If you're new to the podcast. Hello, welcome. Thank you for listening. Be sure to click follow or subscribe wherever you're listening or watching this. I put out two new episodes every week. On Monday I do a mini Baby-Led Weaningtraining, kind of solo teaching episode that short and sweet and to the point.

Katie Ferraro (4m 26s):

And on Thursday I do another longer interview style episode with a different feeding expert from all sorts of topics that I hope are of interest to you. If you also have any mom friends starting solid foods who are busy and don't have time to hunt and peck all over the internet to figure stuff out on their own, please tell them about the podcast. And thank You guys so much for listening. Now let's get started. I like to start each of these mini training episodes with a Baby-Led Weaning tip of the day. Today's tip is that I kind of already teased it, but you don't have to buy a bunch of gear to get a safe start to Baby-Led Weaning. Sometimes when you try to learn something new you're like, Ooh, what's all the stuff that I need to buy? Your baby's gonna enter a new phase and be like, oh, I gotta get rid of all that old stuff and get this new stuff. No you don't. Not with Baby-Led Weaning.

Katie Ferraro (5m 6s):

Some of these tools that I'm including today, I guarantee you you already have in your kitchen. I wanna tell you a quick story about a mom from Instagram who I was DMing with the other day. Her name is Allison. And I asked her like, tell me what your absolute favorite kitchen tool is because she's been working through my 100 First Foods Daily Meal Plan with her baby. I think they're like on food 45 or 46 now. Like what have you found to be useful in the kitchen? And she said, oh my gosh, I'm in love with kitchen shears. I have been using my kitchen shears for everything. She said, I never did so more until I had a baby. So basically whatever she's making for the rest of her family and she has older kids that she did not do Baby-Led Weaning with. She's like, I'm using the kitchen shears to shape and make safer versions and smaller portions of that for the baby, which I love.

Katie Ferraro (5m 47s):

I I'm not a huge kitchen shears person. My husband recently got totally taken by the neighbor kid who sold him Cutco knives. Like he bought like more Cutco knives than anyone could ever use in one lifetime. And the thing I was most excited about were the kitchen shears. 'Cause I don't know for those of you that know Cutco, but part of the demo, the in-home demo is the salesperson cuts a penny in half with the kitchen shears. I remember my neighbor when I was growing up demonstrating to my mom how the Cutco shears cut a penny in half and my mom bought 'em. And then I was just watching my husband like fall victim to this the other day. My kids were like enthralled, like, get the scissors that cut the penny in half. I know I don't need to say it, but your baby should not be eating penny halves. But however, I do now have new Cutco kitchen shears in my house.

Katie Ferraro (6m 29s):

I just don't use them as much. They're not on my list of 10 foods. But I told my sister Kelly, she has six kids and she helps me with some of my recipes for our program. And she's like, I know you're not gonna use kitchen shears in the episode that you're doing. I'm like, no, I don't love kitchen shears. They don't make the top 10 list for me. But Kelly, my sister wants you to know that as a mom of six kids, she cannot get through life without kitchen shears. She, she literally uses kitchen shears to cut everything up in her household. So hopefully something on this list will speak to you. Kitchen shears are not on my list, but that's like maybe a bonus number 11. Alright, let's dive in. What are the top 10 game changing kitchen tools that I use on a daily basis to simplify Baby-Led Weaning? Okay, the first one I'm gonna start. I said it's not gonna be gimmicky. At first I thought this was gimmicky, a grape cutter. I was like, who in the world needs a grape cutter?

Katie Ferraro (7m 11s):

Remember when we were starting Baby-Led Weaning with our quadruplets, like the Oxo grape cutter had kind of just come onto the market, which by the way, this is not sponsored by Oxo. I don't work with them. I just freaking love their grape cutter. It's a little device that you cut grapes into quarters. And here's the deal with grapes. Grapes are not ideal for early eaters. Okay? I do have a phase one program where we make this really cool grape slushy recipe for babies if you wanna do grapes in the first eight weeks of Baby-Led Weaning. But I prefer to hold off on grapes until your baby has been eating foods at least for eight weeks or longer. So when they move into phase two of the program and they have their pencil or grasp, okay, because cutting grapes into quarters is safest for babies under one, even after age one, I still cut them in half, but your baby doesn't have their pencil or grasp early on.

Katie Ferraro (7m 52s):

So when your baby gets to a point and they do develop their pencil or grasp and then you are comfortable with them eating smaller pieces of food. 'Cause we start out with longer pieces of food shaped about the size of your adult pinky finger. That's what we do for the whole first eight weeks after that, when your baby's got a lot of confidence and experience with different textures, then we can move into doing the smaller pieces like the quartered grapes. And when that happens, I remember being like, who can't cut grapes in quarters? But I have notoriously terrible knife skills. Fun fact, one time I went to the Healthy Kitchens Healthy Live seminar, my friend runs it in Napa and she got me into the like knife skills class beforehand and the chef came up to me at the end and he's like, you, you literally like failed this class. You have. He was joking with me 'cause he was friends with her and she said I could take it, but I think I failed the knife skills class at the ccia A because I'm just not good at cutting things.

Katie Ferraro (8m 39s):

And if you're not a great cutter, you're gonna love the grape cutter because it very easily, it's like this little cylinder and you pop the grape into it, you push it down with your thumb. It's super fun for toddlers. Like if you can get your toddler on board, cutting the grapes and quarters for your older baby works out great. The al grape cutter, I love it. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break, but I'll be right back.

Momcozy (9m 2s):

If you have ever struggled with traditional breast pumps, you know the big bulky ones with all the tubes and the wires, then listen up because there is something new that is about to make your pumping life so much easier. Momcozy a brand trusted by over 3 million moms worldwide just launched their air one ultra slim breast pump. I'm so excited about this. My pumping days are behind me, but I do distinctly remember getting pulled over by a cop while driving and pumping with a nursing cover. I was all hooked up to my car charger. The air one would've totally saved my life back in the day. Here's the deal on the air one, this is a pump designed for busy moms on the go. It's ultra slim discreet. It's finally a pump that will not slow you down. I love that it's super compact and lightweight so you don't have to mess with any more bulky, uncomfortable pumps. The air one fits seamlessly inside your bra for total convenience. It has a transparent top for easy nipple alignment because let's be real adjusting. A pump should not be a guessing game. It has a wireless charging case. You just pop it in, charge it up and you're ready to go. No tangled cords, no stress. It's also whisper quiet. So it operates at under 45 decibels so you can pump confidently anywhere without worrying about noise. Plus the soft silicone flange makes it so comfortable to use air. One is available now at target.com or at your nearest target store. That's the Momcozy Air one ultra slim breast pump. Available now at target.com or at your nearest target store. You can learn more at Momcozy dot com.

Katie Ferraro (10m 43s):

Number two, an apple core. Sometimes parents will say, wait, I can't believe apples are on your a 100 First Foods list. Apples are such a choking hazard. Yes, if you look at the emergency department admission data for non-fatal choking incidents in infants and children, apples are high up on the list along with things like you know that you shouldn't feed your baby like popcorn and hard candies. And remember, parents aren't like feeding these foods to the baby. You're not like giving your baby a jolly rancher. It's usually the baby picks it up off the floor or another kid puts it on the tray when you're not watching. But with apples, a lot of the data and the choking data does show that even in groups who are educated about Baby-Led Weaning, they're oftentimes offering apples in a form that could increase the risk of choking. So apples are kind of a double-edged sword.

Katie Ferraro (11m 25s):

Yes, if you gave your baby a raw, crunchy crispy quarter of an apple with a peel on, heck yeah they're gonna choke on it. But if you peel the apple and you slice the apple and then you core the apple and then you poach the apple until it's fork tender, it's perfectly safe for your baby to eat. Okay, that's a lovely finger food that your baby can pick up and feed to themselves. So just saying, oh, apples are a choking hazard. That doesn't make any sense because in the right context apples are totally safe for babies to eat. And in the wrong context, they're very unsafe. I love an apple cutter because I do not have time. Again, I stink at cutting things too, but I also don't have time to cut apples by hand. The apple core, you can buy it in an eight slicer or a 16 slicer. I use both of them depending upon the size of the apple.

Katie Ferraro (12m 6s):

I've had plastic ones in the past that don't hold up. I would highly suggest it's like two or three bucks more to get a metal apple core, A link to all the Amazon product links of all this stuff in the episode description. If you wanna check 'em out, they'll also be on the show notes. If you're on your computer phone, if you go to blw podcast.com/two six, all of the links will be there. Third game changing kitchen tool. I don't know if you call this a tool, but I started a check myself on how much parchment paper I was using because it's expensive and it's non-renewable and I'm just throwing it out and I'm just using parchment paper. 'Cause usually I'm too lazy to like wanna clean the baking sheet of whatever it is that I'm roasting. But in our 100 First Foods program, you roast a lot of vegetables, okay?

Katie Ferraro (12m 47s):

And different foods, you roast whole grains. We're roasting some of the proteins. So if you're using your oven, a reusable silicone baking mat to me is helping save money. 'Cause I don't have to use as much parchment paper. It saves the pan so I don't have to spend as much time doing the dishes. Plus it's reusable so I don't feel so bad about throwing something out every time I cook. I like the ones that are just like the Amazon basics ones. Some people that are like really fancy chefs, like those ones stink, they work perfectly fine for me. So I love the Amazon basics. Reusable silicone baking mats. All right, the fourth item on the list, A crinkle cutter. This one I gotta give props to my friend Miss Dawn, SLP Don Winkleman. She is a speech language pathologist.

Katie Ferraro (13m 28s):

She's a leading SLP expert in Baby-Led Weaning. And Dawn turned me on to the crinkle cutter for tofu. Now tofu is one of my favorite ways to introduce babies to the potentially allergenic food soy. It's a super high iron food. It's nice and soft. It's so easy to cut in finger foods about the size of your adult pinky finger. But using a crinkle cutter is just kind of like jazzing it up a tiny bit. It makes it look cooler, but also the crinkle cut gives it a little bit more traction for your baby to be able to pick it up and feed it to themselves. Number five on the list. Hard boiled egg slicer. Okay, I love eggs for babies. That's another one of the top nine allergenic foods. Okay, we have a part of our program. We'd show you seven different ways to make eggs safe for Baby-Led Weaning, even for phase one. And it is important that your baby gets that egg white.

Katie Ferraro (14m 9s):

That's where the protein part is. That's the potentially allergenic part. We want your baby to eat early and often to help lower the risk of egg allergy down the road. But the egg yolk, that's where the fat is, that's where the iron is. And the important B vitamins are. So we want your baby to have both the white and the yolk and you wanna offer eggs in a variety of different textures. Fried egg strips will work great. I don't do scrambled eggs for early eaters, but I do love hard boiled egg slices for early eaters. 'Cause think about it. Where else are you gonna get like the rubbery texture of a hard boiled egg white and then the mealy texture of a hard boiled egg yolk. That's such a cool texture experience for your baby. But cutting those eggs is kind of a pain, a hard boiled egg slicer.

Katie Ferraro (14m 49s):

They're like less than $5. I love them. I have had ones where the wires break really easily, but I think that's because my kids use them like very aggressively. I feel like as an adult, when I was using it, it never broke. But every time I let my kids use it, I'm like, it's like the strings on a guitar, they kind of pop off and then it's completely ineffective and you have to get a new one. So maybe you know, don't let the kids in your house if they're aggressive use it. But I do love the hard boiled egg slicer and they really do love to slice their own eggs. But every now and then we have to replace it. Number six. Okay, this is a funny one to me because I remember the first time I fed my twins pineapple and our we'd had a new au pair or first au pair. Julia had just moved to live with us. Like right after my twins were born, I had seven kids, three and under. And I told my husband, like Alyssa, who travels a lot for work, like this is physically impossible.

Katie Ferraro (15m 32s):

I need someone to help me. So we started getting au pairs when the twins were newborns and our first au pair, Julia, she is from Germany, she's fabulous. We still stay in touch with her. She came back to visit this last summer and she was laughing at me 'cause she's like, oh dude, you still have the pineapple core. I got you. When she saw me cutting pineapple again, I, I'm not beautiful in the kitchen with a knife. She's like, why don't you have a pineapple core? And I was like, I don't need a tool to cut up pineapple. And she's like, yes you do. So she ordered it from me on Amazon with her like measly au pair stipend. It was so nice. I was like, please let me pay you back. She's like, no, I just don't wanna watch you cut pineapple with a knife. The pineapple core is the most genius tool. I know some people poo single use tools, but like I got a lot of kids and precut pineapple is really expensive and precut pineapple by the way is gonna be cut into tidbits, which is the size that's too small for your early eater.

Katie Ferraro (16m 19s):

So like you're probably gonna have to cut pineapple by yourself. And cutting a pineapple is really a pain in the neck unless you have a pineapple core. Here's the way it works. You lop off the top, you lop off the bottom, you cut up, then you just put the pineapple core in the middle of it, twist it, pull it out. It pulls out perfect concentric circles, which I love because you cut those concentric circles in half and they become these perfect half moon finger foods that your baby who doesn't have their pinch or grasp yet can pick it up with their whole hand or their palmer grass and feed it to themselves. Then what's genius is that in the middle of the pineapple core is the pineapple core. You can take that pineapple core and throw it into your blender and make a smoothie. So there's a recipe in my Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program that's pineapple core banana nice cream.

Katie Ferraro (17m 1s):

And the whole nice cream trend is kind of like, you might be too young to remember it, but it was like a big like kind of part of the fat free craze of the, you know, nineties early aughts and like when vitamixes were getting really big, basically you use the core of the pineapple and in frozen bananas it makes this amazing smooth ice cream that your baby can eat off of a preloaded spoon with no added sugar. So I like the pineapple core because I would probably otherwise just throw the pineapple core away, but you actually can utilize it. So check out the pineapple core. You'll thank me for it. I have had plastic ones. They stink. You definitely need to get a metal one. Number seven, glass storage containers. Okay, this is new to my list And I gotta thank Dr. James Rogers who is the chief scientist at Consumer Reports.

Katie Ferraro (17m 42s):

He comes on the podcast fairly often, anytime there's like a Consumer Reports article that talks about anything related to baby food, like they have the coolest PR people, like you gotta have this person on and come on and talk about it. And Dr. James Rogers came on to talk about the plastic chemicals hiding in your baby's food. That's episode 448. And he was so emphatic about getting rid of your plastic bottles and anything plastic in your kitchen that he inspired me to go through my whole kitchen and get rid of all my crappy plastic containers. So this is not a fear mongering episode, it's completely science based and this is like from the mouth of the guy Consumer reports who did the testing check out episode 448, The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Baby Foods. That's Dr. James Rogers. He talked me into getting glass storage containers.

Katie Ferraro (18m 23s):

I like the ones from the brand Pyrex because I feel like they had the biggest selection and variety. My husband kind of complains, he doesn't think they're big enough, but I'm always like then the kids eat so much food, we don't have tons of leftovers left anymore. I like those. I'll link 'em in the description. But I did get rid of all my plastic stuff and you're gonna be making extra foods, right? If you're making five new foods for your baby a week, sure as heck you're making extra so you don't have to be cooking every day, right? A lot of families make all five foods on the weekend, store them in the glass containers in the fridge and they're ready to go. Plus you can see what's in there, which is nice if you also freeze them. Alright, number eight. Oh my love affair with the mini loaf pan is well documented. I even did an entire YouTube video about how much I love the mini loaf pan.

Katie Ferraro (19m 4s):

And here's the reason why. I got a lot of no added sugar, no salt baked products in my program. Whether that's baking different whole grains when it, whether it's different fruits and vegetables, especially when we get into the multi textured combination foods. Yeah, you could make 'em in a muffin tin, but those are really small and the circular size doesn't work great. 'Cause when you cut the pieces into pieces that are about the size of your adult pinky finger, if you're working from a circular muffin, then there's a lot of like scraps that get thrown out. I'm like, this is wasteful. I can't handle this. If you use a mini loaf pan, it's this perfect little rectangle that when it cooks up, you cut it into strips about the size of your adult pinky finger. I remember late night, a few years ago making recipes.

Katie Ferraro (19m 45s):

I was speaking at the National WIC Association, so it was like this big national conference. It was in my hometown and we were doing an entire presentation on how to use pureed foods, which the WIC program gives a lot of and work them into finger foods so that families who are having trouble using all the purees or didn't wanna force feed by spoon could actually make finger foods. And I used the pureed meat to make this kidney bean pie, which is like one of my favorite recipes. It's also inside of my Baby-Led Weaning program. And I realized like this recipe only works in a mini loaf pan. And that's when I was like, I love the mini loaf pan. I get This one from Amazon every time I order. It's like you've ordered this four times this year. It's 'cause I order it for everyone else too. I'll link the one that I like. There's a little one that's like eight mini loaf pans for normal sized families. I have one that I think is like 16 or 20 because because they make a lot of like bake ahead breakfast breads for my family or for babies that I'm working with.

Katie Ferraro (20m 30s):

Check out the mini loaf pan. All the recipes in my program have the measurements for the mini loaf pan as well as muffin tins and other cooking sizes if you don't have the mini loaf pan, but if you don't have it, check it out. I think it's a good purchase. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break, but I'll be right back.

KiwiCo (20m 51s):

I grew up playing a lot of sports and six of my seven kids are really into sports. And then my youngest is not so much. She beg gradually will play soccer, but really art is her thing And I wanna be able to share that experience. But I am the least artistic person on the planet And I don't really feel like I have the skillset to be an art mom, which is why I am so grateful for Kiwi Co. Kiwi co clubs is the perfect gift for curious minds. Kiwi co develops hands-on projects and activities for kids of all ages. They have five clubs to choose from with unique topics like science, technology, engineering, art and math. And for my youngest, the artist, we get the Kiwi Co studio. It's for ages six and up for art and design. And the last box had this motorized spin art project, which was so cool. We set it up together and then she went to town. My refrigerator is literally now a spin art gallery, but one thing I love about Kiwi Co is that the projects can be played with over and over again so they won't just be sitting on a shelf. Your child can build skills while discovering cool science and art concepts through fun hands-on projects delivered to your door. Every month. Kiwi co crates encourages kids to be creative, bold, curious, and persistent through hands-on play and projects. And there are no commitment. So you can pause or cancel any time. If you're ready to tinker, create and innovate. You should check out some of the awesome gifts from Kiwi Co. Get up to 50% off your first crate at kiwico.com with the promo code weaning. That's up to 50% off your first crate at KIW ico.com. Promo code weaning, and I'll spell that one. It's weaning.

Katie Ferraro (22m 31s):

Number nine. This is a little bit more on the pricey side and you don't need this, but I use mine every day and that's a food processor. So I have a 14 cup Cuisinart food processor. I don't want to cut onions, I don't wanna cut bell peppers. You guys like anything that we're dicing, I'm doing it in the food processor, but I also use the food processor or a blender. If you have both, fantastic. I use them for different things. I have a Vitamix blender and a Cuisinart food processor, but if you only are gonna get one, I actually recommend a blender because especially a high speed blender can kind of do what a food processor can do plus a little bit more. One of the primary ways that I use the food processor is to mix up the ingredients for fritters. So I make a lot of fritters in my program.

Katie Ferraro (23m 12s):

A lot of the little tiny whole grains, like if we're talking about TAF or sorghum or quinoa, you are not just making those little tiny grains and offer 'em to your baby. Heck no. They're gonna, they can't pick 'em up and feed it to themselves and they're gonna end up all over the floor. So we make a lot of fritters And I just think the fastest way to get the fritter batter together is in the food processor. Number 10, and this might be basic to some of you, but I love the Instant Pot. I was a very late adopter to the Instant Pot. I think I got one from my wedding and it like sat in my in the box in a cabinet for years until I realized like, wait a minute, I can make all this Baby-Led Weaning food in this Instant Pot. If you have a baby and you have an Instant Pot, those two things were made for each other. There are, especially for the proteins.

Katie Ferraro (23m 51s):

I mean, what are the most popular? We can see all the recipes and how frequently they're made in our program and the Instant Pothole Chicken is probably one of the most frequently made recipes. It's literally so easy. You put the trivet in the Instant Pot, you put the chicken on the trivet, you put a cup of water in it, and you pressure cook it on high for 20 minutes. It's like so genius. Well, you can put no salt broth in there instead of water if you prefer. But I find myself using my Instant Pot when I'm like, oh shoot, there's a baby coming over. I didn't slow cook this for eight to 10 hours. I'm just gonna blast it in. The pressure cooker using the Instant Pot saves me so much time. I also like that you can saute in it so you're not making a whole bunch of different dishes around your kitchen. For all of the recipes, especially the protein recipes and the whole grains inside of my program, there are instant pot versions.

Katie Ferraro (24m 33s):

It shows you how to make it in the Instant Pot. If you don't have one, I always explain how to do it on the stove top or how to do it in the oven or how to do it in a crockpot or multi cooker. But basically I want you to be able to make all of these a hundred foods for your baby regardless of what kitchen tools you have. So the top 10 list, running it to down one more time. Grape cutter, apple Core, the reusable silicone baking mats. I love a crinkle cutter, hardboiled egg slicer, pineapple core glass storage containers, mini loaf, pan Food Processor, and Instant Pot. A link. All of those in the show notes for this episode, which you can find at blwpodcast.com/26. If you want to get started making all those foods on that 100 First Foods list for your baby, all the recipes with the Instant Pot instructions and all the other things, it's inside of my program, Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro.

Katie Ferraro (25m 25s):

That's at babyledweaning.co/program. A special thank you to our partners at AirWave Media. If You guys like podcasts that feature food and science and using your brain, check out some of the podcasts from AirWave. We're online at blwpodcast.com. Thank you so much for listening, and I'll see you next time.

America's Test Kitchen (25m 48s):

Hey everyone, it's Dan Souza from America's Test Kitchen. I'm super excited to let you all know that we're launching a new video podcast that takes you behind the scenes to the messy, imperfect, but riveting day-to-day life right here in our test kitchen. Not only do I get to talk to my colleagues about the latest taste test they attended, I just came from a tasting of salted caramel pie bars and then roasted garlic, so I apologize. Or about a recipe they're developing. The Thing about this recipe is it's a secret. The restaurateur refuses to tell people what her secret ingredients are. We also chat with amazing guests from the culinary world and beyond the lamest joke I've ever said, no, it's, And I said to Marie Berg, that's a great, it's the, it's definitely The joke. Thanks. Thanks, Sam. Make sure to subscribe to In the Test Kitchen so you don't miss an episode. You can watch in the test kitchen on YouTube and Spotify and listen to it wherever you get your podcast. Can't wait to see you in the test kitchen.