Flavour Shaker

I recently picked up one of these bad boys from Jamie Oliver’s cookware range.

Basically it’s a bit like a pestle and mortar but instead of beating the living daylights out of whatever you’re making, you shake the ingredients inside the shaker and a ceramic ball smashes it all up for you.

It seems to mix herbs, peppercorns, chillis, etc. together really well and is fabulous for making dressings. Unfortunately it doesn’t bash up cloves of garlic or other largish bits and bobs very well, so I won’t be getting rid of the old pestle and mortar for a while.