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The Tool Bar: Free Tools! A Launch & A Deal

$25 Off A Space Invaders Cutting Board

Well, that was quick.

The promotion not only crashed the servers, but the $25 coupons blew out of here in less than six hours.

To make it up to you, I’ll be offering other similar promotions throughout the month of December.

I promise, you’ll be the first to know.

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Suffice it to say, sometimes I get distracted. I’m juggling so many knives in the air — and pans — that I sometimes lose track of things.

But today’s as good a chance as any to announce a deal I’ve made with with a new company known as The Open Sky Project. Readers often ask where they can buy a particular tool or what kind of knife or whisk I recommend…or where they can buy their very own ManPan, undisturbed by fireworks or tire tracks. And even before the first post went up at BehindTheKnife.com, I thought about the best way to offer tools I like to readers who I knew would value my word.

The answer is here at my BehindTheKnife store at The OpenSky Project: behindtheknife.theopenskyproject.com. I only include products that I personally recommend or that one of my chefs can vouch for.

It just launched, and there are many more tools on the way, but to celebrate the grand opening and thank you for checking it out, we’ve launched a Cyber Monday special not only in my store but across the entire Open Sky site. The response has been so great that it’s already crashed the servers once so far today.

The Deal

• Go to my store: behindtheknife.theopenskyproject.com
• Check out the Space Invaders Cutting Board, or the Kuhn Rikon Silicone Rainbow Whisk in case you weren’t the lucky winner a couple weeks back, and wander around a few other shops, including Michael Ruhlman’s, Cory Gallant, a/k/a The Zesty Cook, and others. The OpenSky Project isn’t just about food, so if you want personal recommendations on everything from birdfeeders to fishing gear and everything else under the sun, try it out.

Wander around, put a few things in your shopping cart, and then when the site asks for a coupon code, use this: lisar2509.

But do it now! OpenSky is only offering a few thousand $25-off coupons across all the stores — only one per customer, please — and when they’re gone, they’re gone. Which may be as soon as tonight.

FAQ:

• The $25 off coupon is good for any OpenSky item
• There’s no minimum purchase (yay!)
• Free shipping (which continues past the promotion)
• Starts: Monday, November 30, 2009
• Expires: ???
• This promotion is only good in the U.S. and Canada.
• If you run into a problem other than a slow-loading webpage, contact OpenSky at customerservice@theopenskyproject.com or (877) 734-OPEN (6736), Monday to Friday, between 8 AM and 5 PM Eastern time.

Free tools! You can’t beat that!