Essential Tools for Every Cook | Serious Eats

The music is waaaaaaaaay too loud. Didn't anyone review before uploading?

I’m sorry but I don’t trust a director of commerce to tell me what is ESSENTIAL.

Would you like some speaking voice to go with your "background" music?

cute

Nice. I have each of these, sometimes the very ones you recommend. Important to me is ease of cleaning of the small items, the whisk for example. Can crud sneak up into the openings where the wires enter the handle? That's also the easiest fail point in my experience. I've found that for my use the OXO devices can be a bit over-engineered. The cutting board for example. I like having four or five lightweight plastic boards that are pop-in-the-dishwasher easy to clean where I can grab one quickly if I've gotten another dirty and keep on working. I have three in the dishwasher as I'm writing.

I like Le Creuset for several reasons: ease of use, quality standards, and prettiness. All Clad on the other hand requires far too much work to maintain in my experience. It's not necessary, of course, but a friend uses a toothpick to get in the nooks and crannies of hers.

This is as fine a video as I've seen about kitchen gear. You've covered all the basics. My only disagreements reflect personal preferences, not objective truth.

One thing I like All Clad for is nonstick pots and pans. They're heavier than most I've found and cook better. They are more expensive and run counter to your suggestions about expendability, but to me they're worth it.

Nice info. Please turn down the background music. Argh!

Those scales are good but they don't weigh liquids so I'm out on those.

Still waiting for the essential kitchenaid video, someone tell me it’s essential please!

Pressing like bcos of the sous chef 😄

This isn't the move in with nothing and need to get a basic kit to feed yourself list. Not by a long shot.

Budget shoppers can find great deals in second-hand stores if they're patient. I found a 3 ply 5 quart soup pot with a lid for $6. It was probably some grandma's daily workhorse, and it's still working great

The only thing is that I would recommend only carbon steel knives, because they don't need sharpening. For one, I can never, ever sharpen a stainless steel knife, no matter how much I try. I suppose a person can buy the electric grinders to do it, but I'm more of a minimalist and would want the handy sharpening steel, affixed to my magnetic knife rack, to work for me, but, it just doesn't. So, I think it's easier to just get carbon steel, which is also important for can openers and scissors. Super affordable carbon steel knives can be found at the grocery store, which not everyone knows. I love the Pippin!! So sweet!! :)

#1 should be a fire extinguisher 🧯

FYI: Clad pans and cast iron pots have their uses but they will take forever for boiling water. Add a couple disk-bottomed pieces, a smaller saucepan (2 qt ish) and a larger stockpot (6 - 8 qt). They will be cheap, useful, and efficient.

A Le Creuset Casserole I can kind of understand even in a beginners list. Yes you don’t need to spend anywhere near that much but, if you look after it, it’s going to outlast you so if it’s going to be the only ever need to buy you may as well get a good one. But a Le Creuset wooden spatula is just insane, it’s a spatula for crying out loud if you even spend £1 on a wooden spatula you’ve spent too much.

1stly you need non millenial real glass..

Great info

you have binged watched all americas test kitchen equipment reviews

hey wut sup

This is a bang for your buck list. Good for that time when youre done with old beginner stuff.

Pippin's the most important bit of equipment. I have a different model named Genie. 😍🤩

is this sponsored by OXO? or is it a coincidence that lots of their recommendations are OXO products?

She's kinda of cute

I'll listen

Culinary people will not like this tip, but I have used "Miracle Blade" as seen on TV knives as my go-to serrated knife for years, and they are amazing. The offset handle, the super thin blade that really can't be sharpened and doesn't need it, the little fork on the tip, it's a great set of features, even if you don't grab that knife very often. I DON'T recommend it to replace a Chef's knife/Santoku/Gyuto/Nakiri/Chinese cleaver (Whatever your favorite go-to knife is.) but it's a great, cheap serrated knife that beats a lot of more traditional heavy serrated knives.

If your on a Budget . Charity Shops are the way to Go.
You will find 99% of this and better if you keep your eye out..
IMO

Why is there so much emphasize on the boobs and not the tools?

great ideas

She is a pro! Excellent video. Please make more!!

Always have a garlic press handy!

Everything on this list is "a little bit expensive"... lol
You really don't need all that stuff if you're JUST a beginner

Shes great

Hello sa mga dinala dito ng TLE

Like for the pup

Anyone else catch the tattoo of "Shayna" on her wrist? It's Hebrew for "beautiful."

I think I have everything on this list except the salad spinner. But I’m also 50 years old and it took awhile to accumulate. Lol!

Hints and Tool Help.

I cannot endorse strongly enough the need for an oven thermometer, and not only for an old oven. I moved into a newly constructed apartment 4 years ago, and couldn't understand why everything I put into the oven burned - until I bought a thermometer and discovered that the brand new oven was between 50 and 80 degrees HOTTER than the dial. I'm told that it is not possible to calibrate the oven temperature for greater accuracy.

Surprised you didn’t recommend a grater

One thing I'd recommend before a cast iron skillet is a huge stainless saute pan. It allows you to still cook steaks while also having the versatility of building pan sauces and one-pan meals that could ruin the seasoning of your cast iron

What the hell is quart?

What's a director of commerce?? How is that a job title at a company that does business off clicks?

Do you have a list posted somewhere?

I'm in my 30's and although I haven't cooked a ton, I can identify all of these items. However, a lot of them I've never ever needed to use to feed my family.

You can sharpen the teeth of a blade with a file, kinda like sharpening a hand saw

I would suggest one more essential kitchen tool that I hope none of you ever have to use: A fire extinguisher, specifically one rated for grease and electrical fires.