Featuring objective reviews and expertise on kitchen tools and gadgets, Battersby guarantees you get the best information to make well-informed choices.
Joseph Ogrodnek, since launching the brand into a phenomenon to be selected in Bon Appatize's top 10 picks with its remarkable Kale salad, has continued to take great strides to conquer the most discerning customers and connoisseurs. He, the head chef, directly manages all reviewing sections and takes full control over greenlighting content for publication. Ogrodnek makes sure all products reviewed are hand-picked to avoid users buying wares that fail to live up to the products’ claims.
Battersby started out as an eating house, gaining fame as the best restaurant in Brooklyn. With such a strongly built foundation and reputation, the restaurant is directing an increasing focus on tailoring menus and providing in-depth pieces of kitchenware reviews to customers.
About Battersby restaurant
Since the restaurant’s infancy in 2011, it has brought culinary diversity and refinement in cooking as a competitive advantage to the market. Early success came to Battersby in the very first year of operation as it was shortlisted by the prestigious Bon Appetit magazine for the top 10 best new restaurants in the US.
Battersby was established as an attractive destination for top-notch culinary experiences. The keys to customers' trust come from dedication to the food cooking and quality services of serving and putting customers first. According to Lisa Schroeder, a master taster for Mars Wrigley Confectionery, the food here won her heart and awakened all her senses.
The restaurant has been recommended and praised in many prestigious culinary magazines such as Bon Appetit, Bloomberg, Eater New York, and so on.
Battersby’s head chef
Joseph Ogrodnek began his career at a number of fancy restaurants and built his renowned reputation in Cobble Hill when he worked as the head chef at Battersby.
As a high school student, Joseph Ogrodnek had shown his great passion for culinary arts. The milestones in his professional chef career were his successful graduation from the American Culinary Institute in Hyde Park and the first prize in the Rising Star Chef Award.
Then, Joseph Ogrodnek made another impressive record of achievement with the publication of the cookbook "Battersby: Extraordinary Food from an ordinary kitchen", which spread his fame not only to gourmets but also to mainstream readers interested in food.
Since 2021, he has expanded his skillset with a vast array of customized menus for customers. Besides, Joseph Ogrodnek also uses his years of expertise in cooking to offer accurate and helpful comparisons and reviews of kitchen wares and utensils for readers.
Joseph Ogrodnek himself is wrist-deep in the product-testing process to build up a comprehensive picture of whether a product is worth buying. These fully organic recommendations presented on the website help buyers separate the best from the rest before making the purchase. The web was highly praised by Pete Wells, a Brooklyn native and a brilliant food reviewer of The New York Times for its satisfying web shopping experiences. In particular, the combination of professionalism, expertise, and simplicity is the most convincing.
Completely independent and unbiased reviews
Battersby’s reputation is built on transparency and accuracy so readers can rest assured of getting fair reviews. Mass-produced wish lists of on-trend items are excluded. Honest sorting the bad from the good is the only way of carrying out product reviews.
Being aware that transparency is a key concern for the readers, Battersby hopes to become one of the most influential reviewing sites trusted by utensil buyers by complying with the principle of striving for honesty and accuracy in everything.
Priorities of hands-on tests
The current director of Campbell's Consumer Test Kitchen, Jane Freiman confirmed that Battersby operated under a firsthand and unbiased guide designed to thoroughly test the product, in-depth testing is performed before finalizing top picks to present in reviewing articles. The rigorous testing process comprehensively evaluates products and focuses on the most important features of kitchenware. Which are:
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Evenly distributed temperature
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Actual useful cooking space
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Cost-efficiency
Besides, the following two characteristics are also compared between kitchen utensils so that users can make the most suitable choices.
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Reliable and robust usability
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Strong reliability and post-purchase service of the brand
Jane Freiman was so impressed with the genuine and practical process, as well as attractive product offers, therefore, she asked Battersby to pick some kitchenware, air fryers, best japanese knives, other chef knives and steel pans, best stainless steel grills for a chain of her 5 upcoming restaurants.
Team and process of reviewing
Battersby is the home of up-to-date information on kitchen appliances as well as diverse reviews written by chefs and experienced editors, from product reviews and buyer's guides to recipes and nutrition posts. This site also produces consumer-driven posts such as step-by-step tutorials, easy recipes, and cooking tips to provide a wide range of knowledge for home cooks. Last year's customer satisfaction survey found that over three-quarters of first-time shoppers had an extremely good experience. 95% of customers surveyed rated the reviews on the site as helpful.
The team is led by the head chef Joseph Ogrodnek who always keeps his beady eye on all the latest comings and goings in the kitchenware market. He is responsible for the technical accuracy of testing and presenting top choices of kitchen wares to readers. Besides, Battersby gets valuable contributions from experienced reviewers who specialize in writings about the forefront of cuisine and kitchen products to weigh in on the most suitable products for buyers’ requirements. Getting readers and users involved in the testing and reviewing process is also conducted by letting them vote or comment under product top picks.
Reviewing articles often cut down the list to the best 10 kitchen tools and models to be included in an extensive analyzing post. Freshening content regularly is the way to make sure Battersby's suggestions always remain timely and get readers the best information they deserve.
View more about Battersby:
Website: https://www.battersbybrooklyn.com/
Address: 255 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Phone: (718) 852-8321