What's the one piece of kitchen gear you can not function without
LOL This is my own question and i am having a tough time coming up with an answer but it has to be my chef's knife
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14 Comments:
a sharp chef's knife, some kind of functional stove, a pot and running water
angrywayne at 1:13PM on 02/26/07
Knife sharpener!
Barbara Hanson at 1:22PM on 02/26/07
my garlic twist
savvy at 2:40PM on 02/26/07
my bottle of rooster sauce!!!! well that's an ingredient. but it does get involved in nearly every meal I eat.
How about a saute pan? I saute everything, when I have time to. "stir frying" without a wok. Someday I must diversify my cooking methods.
veggiesattva at 3:04PM on 02/26/07
A knife. I can pretty much gerrymander everything else if I had to. But a very sharp and heavy knife makes my kitchen go.
Husband at 3:49PM on 02/26/07
my spring loaded tongs
ThatGirl153 at 3:56PM on 02/26/07
There are plenty of pieces that I always knew I couldn't get by without, but this weekend, I broke the handle on my heat-resistant spatula, and it was terrible. I had no idea how dependent on it I'd become.
anapestic at 6:28PM on 02/26/07
Hey Veggie is that rooster sauce you speek of that Vietnamese stuf with the green tops. If it is i know i eat that stuff on everything myslef
Foodee at 7:23PM on 02/26/07
I agree with angrywayne and Husband. I looove me some sharp chef knife!
jenki at 8:58PM on 02/26/07
it has to be a good sharp knife. i recently made dinner for a friend at her house and had the worst time prepping because she had rotten dull knives. she kept saying, "i just sharpened them!". turns out most people think that honing device actually sharpens their knives.
french tart at 7:32AM on 02/27/07
Absolutely agree about the knife. I guess it's also the one area in which I'm a kitchen bully. I was recently staying with some friends in the Netherlands and when I commented on how nice their knives were, they admitted that after the last time I was there (about three months before) they had rushed out and bought new ones because I'd been so mean about the old ones.
caley at 8:01AM on 02/27/07
As hard as it would be to get by without a good knife, it would be impossible to cook things without a pot. Ok, I guess things could be suspended over an open flame with sticks. I'm pretty sure I can cut things up fairly well with a scallop shell that I've sharpened on a rock, but I need a pot. A Le Creuset large Dutch oven, please. I can stew, steam, roast, braise, boil, fry, even bake in a well-made pot like that.
Calichef at 8:59AM on 02/27/07
Aside from knives and pots and pans, and a range top, I'd have to say the toaster oven.
jperlow at 1:10PM on 02/27/07
Just started working ad McDonald's. I'd have to say, the one thing I could absolutely NOT do without is a spatula. I can do just about anything with it.
darkfyreaol at 11:53AM on 04/18/07