The festive cooking season is just around the corner, and it’s a time for family, celebrations and feasting, of course! And at any celebration, whether big or small, there is always food to be prepared and shared.

If you love cooking and entertaining, you need to ensure that you have the right tools at hand for preparing your feasts. AMC Cookware has an extensive range of cookware, including smaller pots and pans for everyday cooking, large casseroles with a wide base for braising and pot roasting, and deep stock pots for preserves and cooking big. And with the AMC Speedcooker II, you can prepare your festive gammon or corned meats in a third of their usual cooking time.

The AMC Cookware Range is fitted with stainless-steel handles for easy movement between the stove and oven, as well as ensuring versatility and less washing up. And with a range of colourful lid knobs to choose from, you’ll be sure to find a set that matches your kitchen.

What’s more, they also have a lifestyle range with high-quality tableware including cutlery, as well as a kitchenware range that includes their popular Edge Knife Set and a Flux Induction Stove. They even have a Braai Range which includes a stunning stainless-steel braai server to keep your meat warm until you’re ready to serve as well as a portable AMC Braai for all your summer entertaining, among other goodies. Their Servingware Range is also perfect to elegantly serve guests at the dinner table.

When it comes to affordability, AMC offers a range of payment options to suit all their customers. Whether you want to purchase cash, on interest-free credit, PriceSaver or even with your stokvel, it’s all possible. AMC consultants are available throughout South Africa to assist and guide you.

With AMC Cookware, you can cook your future family meals and sumptuous feasts alike in cookware manufactured to the highest quality, that’s easy to clean. And that is guaranteed for life!

For more information on AMC Cookware, click here.

To get your very own life-long AMC products, visit their website or follow them on Facebook.

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While spending time creating and experimenting in the kitchen can be one of the best things ever, the chore of clean-up can be a real dampener, especially when you are strapped for time. Plush Supreme All Purpose Pine Gel is available in Fresh Pine and Lavender to have your space feeling and smelling oh-so clean in no time at all.

This simple one-step cleaning solution comes in both 500 ml and 1 L tubs and can be used on any surface, including walls, floors and tiles; not only in your kitchen but the bathroom and all washable surfaces in your home as well. In addition to thoroughly cleaning, it also deodorises and leaves your home filled with a fresh fragrance.

Pine Gel is one of the most versatile cleaning products around and is a must-have for every home. It contains a high concentration of surfactants (a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of the liquid in which it is dissolved) as well as 100% pure all-natural pine oil, which is concentrated for a tougher clean. It will clean all tough dirt and stains while neutralising any odours, leaving a long-lasting fresh pine fragrance. Sounds like the perfect kitchen cleaning solution to us!

Also available in this range are the Plush Supreme Pine Oil Spray Spot/Stain Remover (500 ml trigger) and the Pine Oil Foam Spot/Stain Remover (275 ml aerosol can). They provide a great new and convenient way to use the Pine Gel you love and trust, pine oil cleaning properties included. The powerful formula in these products will restore your stained items by effectively removing spots and stains from most fabric garments spotless with leaving a pleasant aroma. Even old or stubborn stains (hello dish towels and cloths!) don’t stand a chance with these amazing stain-removal products.

You can trust Plush Supreme to expertly clean your floors, tiles and everything in between. The Plush Supreme Home Care range is available at all leading retailers and offers a selection of value-for-money products that will help you bring out the best in your home, furniture and upholstery.

For more information, visit plush.co.za, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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One thing we’ve all learnt during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the sustained lockdown that accompanied it here in SA, is that South Africans can cook! We love to eat, and with our access to prepared food more limited than before, more and more of us have turned to our own kitchens for not only sustenance but comfort and entertainment as well.

The kitchen has truly become the heart of the home again, and with a little more time on our hands working from home and spending less time on social interactions, cooking has turned into an experiment for many of us to explore new flavours and techniques. In saying that, it may have also raised your frustrations in the kitchen. Maybe your frying pan wobbles, your stockpot is never big enough and your heavy-bottomed pot sticks.

If you’ve experienced these, or similar, frustrations, now is the time to invest in your kitchen and in cookware you’ll never need to replace again! Manufactured from surgical-grade stainless steel, AMC cookware means you purchase for life. With a focus on quality, service and customer care, their range of cookware covers all your needs.

From a small 1 L saucepan, all the way up to a 28 L stockpot, with features and benefits including waterless and fat-free cooking, savings on electricity and stove-to-oven use, all covered by a lifetime guarantee. Whether you’re taking your time to cook an elaborate meal for a family celebration, or a rushed 10-minute dinner, cook with cookware that serves its purpose, making cooking a pleasure and clean-up a breeze.

For more information, contact the AMC Support Centre on 086 1111 262, click here to head over to their website, or visit their Facebook page.

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Have you ever stood in front of your oven, stove, braai or skottel, wondering what combination of herbs to use to take your dish to the next level? This can be especially difficult if your spice rack is packed with so many different options. Funky Ouma offers well-balanced and practical spice blends that will not only help you minimise the number of spice bottles in your cupboard, but will turn your meal into a delectable feast.

The Funky Ouma spice blends can be used during cooking, and you can put them out on the table so your guests can season their food if needed. Their trendy packaging also makes Funky Ouma a great gift option for the upcoming festive season and are a pretty, tasty way to treat a loved one (or yourself!)

This fresh new brand is the result of a very funky ouma of 10 grandchildren who has been playing around with food and spices all her life. At the age of 67, she started the Funky Ouma brand together with her youngest daughter Johannita.

Funky Ouma offers a wide variety of herbed salts and spices for everyday cooking, with origanum, rosemary and lemon zest at their foundation. They grow their fresh ingredients themselves and their products are natural and contain no MSG, preservatives or colourants. They are made with non-iodized salt and non-irradiated herbs and are low sodium, gluten-free, sugar-free and vegan-friendly. Everything is also packed by hand in South Africa.

Order online at funky-ouma.co.za or visit their website to find your nearest stockist.

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America’s number-one cooker brand Instant Pot – which has gained somewhat of a cult following among culinary connoisseurs abroad – has reached local shores and is set to transform the way South Africans cook this winter. 

Instant Pot is an all-in-one functional kitchen appliance and has been the fastest growing cooking brand in The United States for the past two years. It has been featured in the New York Times and rated the top-selling kitchen appliance on Amazon.com in 2018. If you live a fast-paced lifestyle, then Instant Pot is designed just for you. And the reasons to consider treating yourself to one are more than plenty:

EASY

The reason Instant Pot is so popular is because of the way it has made cooking the meals we love easier than ever before. It will also fit conveniently into any kitchen; You get a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté pan, warmer and yoghurt maker all in one neat package, allowing for a super organised and neat kitchen counter.

Instant Pot is also very easy to handle. The brushed stainless-steel exterior is fingerprint resistant with a lid holder for left- and right-handed users.

SMART

Instant Pot features smart programmes for soup, meat, stew, beans, chilli, poultry, rice, multigrain and porridge dishes, as well as settings for sautéing, simmering, steaming, slow cooking, warming, yoghurt making and manual pressure cooking.

You can prepare your favourite dishes with the press of a button. It even remembers and customises itself to the way you cook!

FAST

Cook up to three times faster! Prepare a scrumptious gourmet dish at the press of a button with 14 microprocessor-controlled programmes to take the guesswork out of cooking. Achieve perfect results every time.

VERSATILE

You can use it to make almost anything! Think stews, soup and oxtail potjies, to cheesecake, home-made yoghurt or ricotta and even sponge puddings!

HEALTHY

Cooking with Instant Pot also ensures healthier cooking. All components of the Instant Pot that come into contact with your food are food-grade 304 (18/8) stainless steel, including the lid and the inner pot (which comes with a three-ply bottom), and the steam rack with handles.

There are no unhealthy non-stick chemical coatings and each component is easy to clean and dishwasher-safe too.

SAFE

Instant Pot is UL certified with 10 proven safety mechanisms to give you peace of mind. Highly energy efficient, this kitchen-friendly cooker releases no steam while cooking, contains all smells and automates cooking.

Owning an Instant Pot gives you access to one of the fastest-growing online recipe-sharing communities as well. and support and inspiration is also accessible here, on the Instant Pot South Africa Facebook page.

Priced at R2 199 and available at all @home stores.

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These outdoor cooking must-haves are what you need to serve up an outdoor feast this Heritage Month. Find these in the MyKitchen magazine shop at home.co.za. Readers get an exclusive 10% discount when buying online – use the voucher code: ‘mykitchen’.

DENIM OVEN GLOVES

4 L GLASS DRINKS DISPENSER

BAMBOO PLATTER WITH 3 SNACK BOWLS

AMBER GLASSES

NAVY PIN-STRIPED APRON

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