For me, it would probably have to be my Bialetti moka pot and Dualit toaster. I make a pot of coffee and toast almost every morning. I also hope to replace my old pans with a cast iron one soon, and I look forward to using that a lot.
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My 10" cast iron Lodge skillet. It’s great! And don’t believe all the people who claim that you have to devote most of your life to taking care of your cast iron. They’re cast iron for God’s sake! Pioneers took them all the way across America in their Conestoga wagons. Just don’t leave them wet or stick them in a dishwashing machine, and you’re fine!
Iron lodge is great. I have a 12" stargazer that weighs almost 7 lbs. I developed crazy forearms just handling that beast.
I can’t imagine how a smaller person could cook with one of those things. It’s all I can do to lift it to dump out whatever I’ve been cooking.
I saw a much bigger Lodge skillet in a department store; maybe it was 15 in, maybe more. Anyway, I couldn’t even shift it with one hand. It took two hands just to move it, and it wasn’t easy!
Yes! I use mine almost daily. Love that I can go straight from the stove top to the oven without using another dish
Agreed. Cast iron is very easy to take care of. I replaced all nonstick with cast iron years ago and haven’t looked back.
I got a really simple one, but it’s been incredibly helpful. Get the biggest damn bowl you can find, like unreasonably large, that is your new mixing bowl. I always find myself half way through a recipe with no bowl space left, therefore more dishes. My bowl looks like it could be an outside dogs water bowl it’s so big. Now with big bowl, I grab it every time and never have to switch, the only downside is finding somewhere to hide it.
Oh yes! I love my giant bowls for washing voluminous leafy greens and fermenting fruit vinegars.
Yes, I love me a big ol’ bowl! For the same reasons you mentioned.
It’s also helpful for when you’re sick and pukey and don’t want to be stuck by the toilet or just don’t want to stick your head in the toilet at all, lol.
Anyone here that hasn’t said silicone spatula better get online shopping right freaking now. SILICONE SPATULA SUPREMACY 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Good call! Most grocery stores carry them too, that’s where I got mine. I picked up two, one with a scoopy end and another with a regular spatula end. They’re so nice!
Wasn’t my first thought but I’m with you on that! I’m personally a huge fan of dioro
Ceramic knives, fish spatula, and the immersion blender.
A ramekin full of salt on the counter.
Vitamix, instant pot, and air fryer. All almost equally. The versatility of just these appliances is insane and can’t imagine a kitchen without them.
We have two stoneware baking sheets that I use almost exclusively for putting things in the oven. They’re great for reheating stuff in there and kind of like cast iron, they get more and more non stick as you use them.
My cast iron pan. I use it for everything that doesn’t need to be done in a pot. Even things I probably shouldn’t do in a cast iron like stir fry I do anyways because it’s just already there and convenient.
And they are so much easier to take care of than all the cast-iron fori/subs/articles yammer on about. I “neglect” my ancient cast iron terribly, and it’s doing just fine.
I just scrub it, rinse it out then cook the empty pan to get rid of any moisture. it’s easier than cleaning anything else I own and will probably be around long after I’m dead.
Microplaner.
I love throwing garlic in my food. Grab two pieces, put them through the planer, and bam, you got fresh garlic paste.
Plus hard cheese, citrus zest, all the good stuff. Cleaning is also a breeze.
My carbon steel pans are used almost every day. I’ve got a 32 cm wok for stir frying, deep frying and blanching big portions. And i got a 28 cm debuyer mineral b for searing meat and fish.
Kitchen Aid mixer. Versatile as hell, we use it for so many things. Making pulled meat is a LOT easier to toss into the bowl and flip a switch than it is to do by hand.
It never crossed my mind that you could use a stand mixer to pull meat… I’m going to try that next time! Thanks for the tip.
Huh - I made a pork roast last night and shredded by hand. It never occurred to me to put it in the mixer.
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5 mini silicone spatulas. It was cheaper to buy 5 than 1 on Amazon and at first I was like I don’t need this many mini spatulas, but they’re super helpful and great at scraping and I don’t have to worry about washing them between jobs since I have several I can swap between. I find them more versatile than having one big spatula.
Probably just my chef knife. But that’s an obvious and boring answer.
My choice would be my hand blender. I use it for making any dips, many sauces (it is made out of metal) and it also got a blender attachment for shredding vegetables. One of the best investments I made for my kitchen.
Chef’s knife is definitely not boring and may not be as obvious as you think. I come from a family that has only ever used cheap paring knives for everything that have never even been in the same room as a sharpener. Meanwhile, I haven’t made a single dish without my Henckels since I bought it 5 years ago. My GIR silicone turner is a close second
Maybe obvious to some of us, but I see so many people that just won’t use a chef’s knife or something similar because they never learned how. Or, in the case of my own parents, for some reason they just… didn’t have one?
It really makes a lot of prep work so much easier. Definitely one of the first rolls I’d recommend for any new kitchen (Along with a sharpening stone and training lol!)
Yeah, I love my chef’s knife too. I recently received a hand blender secondhand but I am yet to use it!
I second the hand blender. It’s just so versatile. I’ll add soups and mayo to your list too.
Chefs knife. It’s virtually the only knife I use outside of a bread knife.
