Cool idea

The kitchen is like an obstacle course sometimes -- you carefully lift the delicate cookies off the sheet only to watch in despair as they slide through the wires on the cooling rack and crash to the counter below. No more. This simple but ingenious “cooling grid” from Nordic Ware is light, rust-proof and spacious, but its beats-all feature is the pattern that prevents even petite cookies from untimely slides.

Nordic Ware 16-by-20-inch cooling rack, $13.50 at Sur La Table stores and nordicware.com; $9.50 at amazon.com.

-- Susan LaTempa