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Kitchen Tools: where chefs and food writers agree

Only the kitchen tools that chefs and food writers have independently backed. A product one group praises and the other has never mentioned does not appear here.

chefs is an occupation; food writers is an occupation.

9 people on record as chefs and food writers make 364 quoted claims about kitchen tools across 13 sources. Membership is recorded with its own evidence — for a person by the trait they are on record holding, for a community by the source it was said in — and authority is scoped to kitchen tools rather than to fame.

Which kitchen tools do both chefs and food writers recommend?

Endorsements and objections about kitchen tools from chefs and food writers, together, strongest evidence first.

Vitamix blender

2 voices 10 claims 2 objections

4:01 supports Joshua Weissman Chef
next up is going to be a vitamix blender now i know these things are expensive but this is an industry standard for a reason you can blend and make anything so velvety smooth from nut butters to sauces to purees

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17:39 supports Dr. Doug Graham Food Writer
I've bought a lot of the other very expensive blenders and have found for various reasons that I didn't like them as well as just the I think I think the Vitamix is the standard by which all other blenders are measured for me the Vitamix is great

best in class owns and uses it daily Dr. Graham's 5 Favorite Raw Food Kitchen Tools - Culinary Skills Retreat

16:09 supports Dr. Doug Graham Food Writer earns commission on this
I'm a fan of the Vitamix blender I highly recommend the Vitamix blender if you have to choose which blender you're going to buy next I recommend the Vitamix blender and if you ever want to say that I sent you to buy your Vitamix blender you get a special price that's cool too

recommendation owns and uses it daily Dr. Graham's 5 Favorite Raw Food Kitchen Tools - Culinary Skills Retreat

Dr. Doug Graham earns commission on this. Stated in the source: “if you ever want to say that I sent you to buy your Vitamix blender you get a special price that's cool too” Kept and labelled rather than dropped: a paid endorsement is still evidence, and you should be the one to decide what it is worth.

28:46 objects Dr. Doug Graham Food Writer
it's well worth trying the immersion blender because it will do it will do quantities that are essentially too small for a powerful blender like of Vitamix to even bother with I mean you put in small quantities and it ends up below the blades you can't even do it in a Vitamix and yet in an immersion blender you…

use-case fit owns and uses it daily Dr. Graham's 5 Favorite Raw Food Kitchen Tools - Culinary Skills Retreat

Cites size and capacity (against)

18:40 objects Dr. Doug Graham Food Writer
I take the Vitamix and sometimes the food piles up on itself it gets wedged it gets lodged and yes there's a pushing tool that you can use use to help but sometimes I have to just take the Vitamix off of its stand off its base and tap it tap the bottom of it onto the tabletop bang bang bang put it back on everything's…

performance owns and uses it daily Dr. Graham's 5 Favorite Raw Food Kitchen Tools - Culinary Skills Retreat

Cites aeration (against), nutrient retention (against)

although it's incredibly efficient at blending the Vitamix blender definitely pulls air into your food and and it aerates it which means that some of the oxygen sensitive nutrients are affected now if you eat the food right away we're really not talking about any issue at all because even chewing has that same effect…
if you take a glass of each Vitamix blend bananas and water immersion blend bananas and water same quantities of both pour them both into a cup and then or a clear glass and check them again in 30 minutes and check them again in an hour the immersion blender drink will be basically the same color as it was when you…
17:39 supports Dr. Doug Graham Food Writer
I like to put things in the vitam mix in order to start with Frozen things and make something close to the texture of ice cream I mean it is very creamy if you start with bananas but if you start with mangoes or peaches you're going to come up with something that is more of a sorbet it's an icier texture

performance owns and uses it daily Dr. Graham's 5 Favorite Raw Food Kitchen Tools - Culinary Skills Retreat

Cites ease of cleaning, heat control, speed and efficiency, power and output

I enjoy putting vegetables in the blender and leaving the blender on high for a whole minute until it warms up close to body temperature at which point I can have a warm soup and enjoy that very much
for almost everything 801010 all you really ever need is just water now if water doesn't clean the Vitamix really well what I'll do is I'll fill the Vitamix half full with water and then put the top on put it on the base and turn it on with just water and mixing that water at high speed it just it just cleans it like…
if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix
it just cleans it like crazy now you know if you put water in a blender or certainly in a Vitamix blender if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix

Cuisinart food processor

2 voices 2 claims no objections from chefs and food writers

What do chefs and food writers say about kitchen tools in general?

Not a recommendation for a specific product: technique, materials and what to look for in kitchen tools. Citable on its own terms. There are 352 of them; the 40 with the strongest evidence are below.

0:31 supports Adam Byatt Buy It For Life Enthusiasts
I would say it has to be my chopping board and my knives. Once I've got a great chopping board, great knives, sharp knives, the rest is easy.

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  • recommendation uses it professionally, daily cites edge retention
  • recommendation uses it professionally, daily

35 Years of cooking equipment - What I use everyday

4:31 supports Adam Byatt Buy It For Life Enthusiasts
That's the one I prefer. Just a really big guard on the front because I've lost lots and lots and lots of parts of my fingers going into the oyster. So, actually, a guard for me is good.

recommendation uses it professionally, daily 35 Years of cooking equipment - What I use everyday

Cites safety

2:31 supports Adam Byatt Buy It For Life Enthusiasts
I really believe that when you're carving meats and proteins and fish after they're cooked, it is that carve that really gives you that finish on the plate that is taking your food to another level.

use-case fit uses it professionally, daily 35 Years of cooking equipment - What I use everyday

2:31 supports Adam Byatt Buy It For Life Enthusiasts
Always have a really nice uh non serrated carving knife. This is a Japanese knife that was made for me in Kyoto in Japan. So it's a bit special, but um ultimately it's not serrated, so you get that really clean finish.

performance uses it professionally, daily 35 Years of cooking equipment - What I use everyday

Cites shape and form

2:31 supports Chef Matt Chef
I love cooking with gas because well it is just immediate there is so much Precision you can dial it down or turn it up as much as you need and you know exactly how much heat is being output because well it's highly visible you never need to worry about leg time or latency issues with gas stoves because well when you…

performance owns and uses it daily Why I Won't Buy An Induction Range: Should You?

Cites heat control, heating speed

17:35 supports Joshua Weissman Chef
The power of the motor in this thing can literally cook the food that's in here.

performance Cooking Tools Everyone Needs

Cites power and output

Guys, this thing does everything a food processor can do, but if you injected it with human growth hormone and steroids back-to-back every day for 5 years and it was on like an Arnold [music] Schwarzenegger training program.
11:03 supports Joshua Weissman Chef
This is the one item, no matter how much you cook, you need [music] to have one of these. And that is a baking sheet. And ideally, one wire rack that fits your baking sheet perfectly.

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  • recommendation
  • recommendation

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2:30 supports Joshua Weissman Chef
baking trays and wire racks are the multi-purpose king of any kitchen you can roast tons of things on them you use them for baking cookies the wire racks can be used to drizzle chocolate over stuff or to ice doughnuts or whatever so that it falls beneath and it's easy to clean up you know there's just there's just so…

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1:00 supports Joshua Weissman Chef
first thing is super obvious i'm sorry but a knife and a cutting board are king if you're not starting with this then you are in trouble this combo alone solves way more kitchen tests than you would think other than just cutting stuff and it's super economical if you don't want to buy a bunch of mechanical things like…

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i would just recommend having different kinds of services have some that are non-stick have some that are cast iron