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What are your favourite and/or most used kitchen items? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by queer_plant@beehaw.org to c/food@beehaw.org
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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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[–] Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] queer_plant@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I love my chef's knife too. I recently received a hand blender secondhand but I am yet to use it!

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I second the hand blender. It's just so versatile. I'll add soups and mayo to your list too.

[–] darknyght00@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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!)