Get your pots & pans ready
I’ve been in the kitchen quite a lot this weekend, doing everything from baking to cake decorating with Mini Gourmet Girl and making a massaman chicken curry from scratch. Which saw me digging around the kitchen and marvelling at how many things just don’t seem to get used that often, that it’s the same bits of kit I get out, regardless of what’s on the menu.
If I had just ten things, then these would be the ones I think I would be taking everywhere with me:
1. Plastic mixing bowls – love the look of Mason Cash but just too darn heavy!
2. Good knives – I know this is cheating, but I could live with three: bread, small sharp and larger sharp knife.
3. Chopping boards – plural again, but one wooden and one plastic
4. Food processor – not got anything fancy, it’s rather old and beaten up but still does a multitude of jobs
5. Le Creuset casserole – I’ve had this about 20 years and it’s still going strong
6. Spatula – for getting the last bit out of those bowls when baking
7. Silicone bakeware – at a minimum, then the round ones for Victoria sponge, a loaf shaped one and one for cupcakes
8. Scales – although could do to upgrade as measuring on current ones a bit hit and miss
9. Pestle & mortar – still the best thing for bashing up spices
10. Breadmaker – surprisingly, a gadget that gets used pretty much every other day
I’m taking things like wooden spoons as a given in this! But it does make me wonder about all the other stuff! What’s indispensable in your kitchen? And what do you wonder why on earth you bought it? Yes, Flavour Shaker and mango cutter, I’m looking at you!
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I can’t live without my Juicer – carrot, apple, celery and ginger is my favourite – it’s a great way to use up ‘about to turn’ fruit too!
Personally I am scared of plastic mixing bowls – I managed to melt two while trying to improvise a double boiler! I’d add in a knife sharpener and lots of tupperware for storing leftovers, I use both of these almost daily.
Jenny, it was so hard to stick to 10! Yes, knife sharpener would have to be included as part of the knives category as a given, and plastic containers are indispensable. As long as you use up what you’ve put in them!
Ah, we never got on with ours, it would rank as one of my useless tools. I love the idea, but loathed all the cleaning out!