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this peeler right here is the greatest peeler in human existence

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this is my favorite pan ever.

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is this the most important cooking tool in the kitchen I sure think it is my favorite tool of all time it is the chef knife

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because certain materials will ruin and dull your knives such as bamboo please dear God do not useing bamboo cutting boards stop

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this is the Holy Grail of stock Pots

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there's no machine that will make a smoothie as good as this

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this is the world's most versatile yet underappreciated tool period

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obviously if you're going to make pizza this will be the best pizza you ever make in your life period

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next up on that is my fermentation station you guys already know how i feel about this thing too i love this thing it's great for making bread and fermentation it is the perfect fermentation chamber

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alright so number one on this list is the coveted kitchenaid stand mixer one of my most favorite tools in my kitchen it does a million billion things other than just making dough it does everything i'm not even going to try and sell you on this it's too good

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now if you've known me long enough you know that i'm a big fan of jars these are like the storage love of my life you know not only they're great for storage but they're good for fermentation pickling you know you can put sauces in them oils they're just they're they're too good and they look so nice i'm all about…

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now lots of people have a grater but the one that i would really recommend is a microplane which is really the best grater on the planet if you want those nice delicate threads

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The power of the motor in this thing can literally cook the food that's in here.

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This blender is very expensive, but it's so worth the price.

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This is probably, if you were to get anything on the expensive [music] nice-to-have list, this is the number one item to get, hands down.

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possibly the biggest, best bang for your buck upgrade I can possibly think of [music] is a microplane.

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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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You need kitchen towels. This is a non-negotiable.

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using a glass cutting board is almost like next level you're you're to piss me off. No glass cutting boards, no bamboo cutting boards.

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God I love these things these do everything

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just like the stand mixer these things last forever

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but there's absolutely no way you spend money on this and you don't use it over over and over and over and over and over and over and over again

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this eliminates the necessity to have great technique in sauce making because this will just make a good sauce

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out of any machine that I use in the kitchen aside from like the basics like a stove I use this machine probably more than anything I own

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but they're really sharp and they peel perfectly

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to me this is like a non-negotiable you absolutely need one of these

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you can use it for mixing anything Doe's cookies batters Etc right you're whipping egg whites you're making marshmallow fluff whatever the Whisk attachment will do it you have all the other hands for DS and batters but the biggest reason why it's so useful is this thing right here this little hole this machine has so…

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if you cook a lot or bake a lot this machine will change your life

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but it is the easiest way for hyper precise cooking something like the juiciest chicken rest of your life will probably come from this machine right here

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if you want to make perfect pancakes these for some reason tend to make the best pancakes I don't know why they just do

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these are going to revolutionize your life

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and they're practically going to last you forever

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anyone who's worked in a restaurant knows how beautiful I mean just perfect this pot is

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this is an all-around amazing pot

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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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alright so number one on this list is the coveted kitchenaid stand mixer one of my most favorite tools in my kitchen it does a million billion things other than just making dough it does everything i'm not even going to try and sell you on this it's too good

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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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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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now lots of people have a grater but the one that i would really recommend is a microplane which is really the best grater on the planet if you want those nice delicate threads

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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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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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you can make the smoothest purees ever, the best smoothies you've ever had, beautiful emulsions, mayonnaises, sauces, peanut butter.

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Because it does everything from searing to braising to making stock, making sauces. It does every possible thing. If you get the 5-quart size, it's a very versatile pan that's somehow both in between a pot and in between a skillet. It does what a pot can do, it does what a skillet can do in one.

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it does so many things. It's not just a dough mixer. I mean, there's like a billion attachments to this thing where you can make pasta. There's an ice cream churner. There's a meat grinder. I mean, this is like a billion tools in one.

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but more importantly, [music] it's accurate. Scales work incredibly for measuring things accurately, period, end of story.

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Deli containers I think are my preferred method of choice because [music] you can put liquids, solids, et cetera in them, and they're extremely cheap and you get like a thousand of them.

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You don't need the set of 20, just get these [music] four and you can handle most tasks for meals between two and four people. And that is a 10-in nonstick skillet, a 12-in stainless [music] steel skillet.

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it does not matter how much money you spend on your knife. It's fine. Get the cheapest 10-in knife you can get. You don't need a multiple knives, you need one 10-in chef's knife. That's it.

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Do yourself a favor, start with a 10-in chef's knife and any cutting board that is made [music] of maple or some sort of decent wood. You can also use a rubber cutting board, that's fine, too.

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I hate this thing. I understand that there may be people out there that find this useful or helpful in their life and that is okay. But for me personally, if you're just the average home cook, this is a waste of money. You're only using it for one thing, it only gets one job done, it also is extremely ugly to look at,…

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not only that this knife will replace some of the tools that we explained to you today it will replace the purpose of a food processor it will replace the purpose of a peeler it will replace the purpose of a mandolin

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this should last your whole lifetime if you choose a good one

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I highly recommend you get a set of at least one small one medium and one large

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but this is a necessity because it solves the majority of issues

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this does everything that a 10-in frying pan can do but with more space guess what you don't have to fill the entire surface if you don't want to there will be times where you pull out that 10-in pan and it's not big enough that won't happen with this

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I'm a big advocate for wood cutting boards

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if you're making chicken stock obviously if you're making a soup obviously if you're making a brace obviously or cooking a typical size batch of pasta you're going to need a pot like this

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you can use it to organize the measured out ingredients of a recipe on a half sheet tray or a quarter sheet tray or whatever plastic wrap it and leave it in the fridge and then the next day you just pull it out and use your stuff take it a step further if you have cooked proteins or something you're frying you can…

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the point I'm trying to make is not just you need to have a peeler you need to have this peeler

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because they last so God dang long

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not only are they ridiculously cheap

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we use it to keep ourselves from getting stains on our clothes in our pants but it does more than that it protects you you are less likely to burn yourself and get an injury it protects you from fire if something catches on fire and it shoots Flames at you this will add an extra protective layer

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I use this for almost everything I use it as a little Turner for flipping small things or delicate things like fish I use it to pick things up and move them from one pan to a sheet tray I use this to pick brownies up out of a brownie pan spreading butter on toast you can use it for spreading peanut butter on a pancake…

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they're super heat safe you can use them in a pot if you're making caramel or you're reducing a sauce

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but it's also the Ideal tool for zesting citrus and really grading anything finally even something hard like a chunk of Bonito like a chunk of katso Bushi batara cured egg yolks this does it all

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this grates the most beautiful threads of cheese for visual and textur appeal

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these last so long I've had this stand mixer for probably 6 years and it's not even close to crapping out and I beat the out of this thing

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this is my favorite way to store raw ingredients or to marinate things or to Quick pickle things if you put for example cucumbers and a flavorful liquid in a bag and you vacuum seal that bag that liquid will then be forced into the pores of the sliced cucumber and you essentially have instant pickles or instantly…

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the ones with feet are ideal for well cooling stuff on it you got a roast that you want to rest cool put this down rest the roast on this it'll allow air to circulate around it but the same thing applies to cookies pies Tarts anything you want to cool you can use these for but it's also great for if you're going to be…

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I really think everyone should have one of these

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but this increases the speed in which things cook using pressure you want to make a braze in half the time you want to make rice in like 10 minutes you want to make ramen broth in literally a fraction of the time it's really just a Time Sab

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this is a great multi-purpose tool I don't even know why we put it in level two maybe it should be even higher

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this will make precise Cuts more quickly than just about anything else out there

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this is one of my most utilized tools in the entire kitchen

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great for brazes it is arguably the best for baking bread or deep frying stuff like french fries this is a multi-purpose tool

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but the benefit of an ice cream maker is the mechanical arm that's constantly moving you get small ice crystals your ice cream will be smooth and creamy like the commercial ice cream that you love any other method will not be the same

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by the way the pizza's cook in like literally 60 seconds

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another one would be a sous-vide circulator these things are super useful there's a couple different ones on the market but there are two dominating brands that i really like and i'll have them linked below it turns literally anything into a sous-vide bath so how can you complain about that

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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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i'm a big fan of pans that you can put in the oven because they're multi-purpose and you can roast small amounts of stuff in them or finish a steak in the oven if they're heat safe on the handle

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a Cuisinart or KitchenAid is like the two brands that I would recommend.

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a Cuisinart or KitchenAid is like the two brands that I would recommend.

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It also automates the process. It's [music] cleaner, faster, easier.

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I used to think rice cookers were but rice cookers cook rice better than we ever could.

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I recommend getting at least a medium-sized one.

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This is not in my top five, but it is something that I think every home cook that likes cooking a lot of different meats will greatly benefit from.

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A microplane is not just a type of device. A microplane is a company. That's how essential this became.

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The microplane makes beautiful shavings. It's perfect for Parmigiano Reggiano or when you're grating cheese on top of something, but it's also great for grating huge spices like nutmeg.

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It's ultra-fine mesh, but the point is you need a metal mesh strainer. Super important because it's heat resistant.

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OXO makes really good ones.

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It does soups, stews, braises, everything that a big pot can do, this can do. You can also deep fry in it.

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Deli containers I think are my preferred method of choice because [music] you can put liquids, solids, et cetera in them, and they're extremely cheap and you get like a thousand of them.

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you always want to have measuring tools in your kitchen.

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Why wire rack? First of all, this isn't just for your baking sheet. This is for draining fried foods on. This is for cooling things off like cookies. This is for seasoning a steak ahead of time and letting it chill in the fridge while it has airflow. It is so many [music] things.

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It's not just for peeling things. You can make shavings of cheese, like Parmigiano-Reggiano. Every peeler has like a little attachment on it that's made to pull off eyes off of a potato or bruises on a piece of fruit. So, it's not just a peeler, it's a cleaner. It does so many things. You can also shave chocolate with…

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This is the one that everybody forgets until you need it. Until you pull up a can and you go sh- and you can't have dinner that night. You got to go all the way to the store. Just get the can opener now.

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Again, the cheap restaurant style ones. You don't need the expensive fancy Williams-Sonoma. You don't need the Surlatable branded blah blah blah. I love those stores, don't get me wrong, but all you need is just a cheap restaurant style spatula.

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Ideally, I would recommend going with the cheap metal aluminum or stainless steel restaurant style tongs. Do not get the silicone ones, because these metal ones will last you a lifetime, almost. Silicone ones fall apart. The plastic ones [music] melt, etc., etc., etc.

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Ideally, I would recommend going with the cheap metal aluminum or stainless steel restaurant style tongs. Do not get the silicone ones, because these metal ones will last you a lifetime, almost. Silicone ones fall apart. The plastic ones [music] melt, etc., etc., etc.

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Ideally, I would recommend going with the cheap metal aluminum or stainless steel restaurant style tongs. Do not get the silicone ones, because these metal ones will last you a lifetime, almost. Silicone ones fall apart. The plastic ones [music] melt, etc., etc., etc.

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Ideally, I would recommend going with the cheap metal aluminum or stainless steel restaurant style tongs. Do not get the silicone ones, because these metal ones will last you a lifetime, almost. Silicone ones fall apart. The plastic ones [music] melt, etc., etc., etc.

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A whisk can do something that nothing else can.

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You cannot do that with a metal spatula. You can't. >> [music] >> Because, guess what? In a nonstick, you throw a metal spatula in there, yeah. Sayonara to your health and your pan.

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The reason why I suggest silicone is because you can flip anything in any kind of pan with a silicone spatula, just about.

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I would try to avoid plastic for two reasons. Number one, they retain odors. Number two, they stain very easily. And number three, and this is more of a health, it's up to you, I don't give a but they do have microplastics in them, so if you're trying to avoid that.

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the reason why you need this set is because you need different sizes. You need a giant bowl for things like mixing salads, [music] things like tossing large quantities of vegetables or potatoes or chopped up meat, whatever. Point is, you need a large one for that. You need one slightly smaller than that for multiple…

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this next one is the only time I will recommend you get a set, just because it's economical, and they're pretty basic. And that is stainless [music] steel bowls.

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You don't need to buy oven mitts. In fact, I have oven mitts, and I almost never use them, because guess what's always readily available? My towels.

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I really like these sort of like, some people call them oshies, restaurant style kitchen towels. They're a little bit ugly, I'll give you that, but the beauty of them is they're super absorbent and they're nice.

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you have two pot options. The 2-qt sauce pot and the four or six quart sauce pot. These are my two most used pots by far for sauces, boiling things quickly, etc., etc.

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You don't need the set of 20, just get these [music] four and you can handle most tasks for meals between two and four people. And that is a 10-in nonstick skillet, a 12-in stainless [music] steel skillet.

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Do yourself a favor, start with a 10-in chef's knife and any cutting board that is made [music] of maple or some sort of decent wood. You can also use a rubber cutting board, that's fine, too.

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These two items can do so much by themselves. This feels like the caveman invention that invented a million other things. What a food processor can do, this can do. Much slower and less efficiently, but it can [music] do. What a mandolin can do, these two things can do. What a mortar and pestle can do, technically…

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These two items can do so much by themselves. This feels like the caveman invention that invented a million other things. What a food processor can do, this can do. Much slower and less efficiently, but it can [music] do. What a mandolin can do, these two things can do. What a mortar and pestle can do, technically…

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I've already said to not use bamboo cutting boards

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Now, I know what you're thinking, Josh, I love my garlic press. Okay, fine. Some people think it makes it easier, but the reality is this is just not something you need. If you have the free cash flow to just throw at a garlic press, then fine. But there are tools that will handle other things you can spend money once…

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I hate this thing. I understand that there may be people out there that find this useful or helpful in their life and that is okay. But for me personally, if you're just the average home cook, this is a waste of money. You're only using it for one thing, it only gets one job done, it also is extremely ugly to look at,…

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there's a reason why I feel like most people need a non-stick pan primarily for things like scrambled eggs or an omelette so on and so forth 10 in is the ideal size for something like an omelette when you make an omelette the easiest and best way to make it is in a pan you're going to use the full surface area so if…

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you don't just have to use them for mixing you can use them for storing stuff if you finish making a really nice chicken stock you put your mesh strainer over this strain your chicken stock through it throw your bones away and you got chicken stock in here to cool down which you can then store

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whisking your scrambled eggs it also is great for making soft scrambled eggs where you need to constant stirring you can use the spatula but this will break up the curd as you stir making pancake batter making any batter for that matter making an ideal rout these things do everything you can also make mayo

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in my opinion it's the most cost effective for searing your proteins

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there will be moments that you are going to need to make a small batch of sauce that you're going to need to melt butter that you're going to need to make a quick r or a small batch of cheese sauce this will serve its purpose it also works for frying a really small item like maybe if you're frying some herbs that you…

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obviously use it to peel potatoes peel vegetables do shavings of chocolate do shavings of cheese

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but of course this main purpose is to keep your baked goods from sticking to your sheet tray or at the bottom of your brownie pan or at the bottom of your cake pan

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but aside from baking you can use it for a number of other things if you need to bundle up a bunch of fresh herbs you can put them in parchment paper you can also use it to gift wrap a nice loaf of bread or use it the oldfashioned way as the French would and make a cou to have a more efficient cooking process in your…

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but I would recommend it for everyone

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if you plan on cooking you should just go and put this in your kitchen now

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it stirs they're super heat safe

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it's good to have a silicone one specifically just because if you're working with a nonstick you don't want to take a metal spat and delicate flipping

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but not only that you get better diffusion of the flavor so if you're using parmesano or you need to get lemon zest

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this is not just a grater I'm tired when people are like oh yeah can I use your grer this is not a grater this is a microplane big difference you're going to get an artisanal grading from this

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more specifically the industry standard kitchen aid

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anything you need to pull out of liquid very easily and quickly this will do a very basic example is if you have a jar of chili crisp maybe you don't want the oil maybe you just want the solids you could just scoop it out and you're going to get only solids because of the holes in the bottom if you got holes in your…

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if you cook and you don't have one of these please just get one and keep it in your kitchen

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if all you want is to say make cookie dough or whip egg whites or make really quick whipped cream you don't want to be whisking all day long then this is your best friend

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the biggest benefit is storing and freezing Meats if you have a lot of expensive proteins that you bought don't you want to like store them free of air and for long periods of time so they don't go bad as quickly this investment will save you money over the long term

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you can cook batch things really easily using a suved you can cook batch chicken breast batch steaks meal prep so on and so forth

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the benefit of these is that they don't generate too much heat like a blender does so it is a little bit lighter

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you can make mayos in them you can blend things together like you would have blend blender it won't get as fine but like making a pesto for example is really fast inside of this you can blend solids with solids for example like a compound butter if you want to whip a bunch of herbs into butter you put them all in here…

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but these are also great for cooking large portions of bacon it's also just nice to have if you have a big stove it's also an ideal cooking apparatus if you're making a ton of Smash Burgers because let's be honest do you want to use two or three pans or do you want to just have one big cooking surface this is the only…

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anytime you want to remove solids from a liquid these will do it you pour the liquid through this boom done because it's so fine you can smooth out sauces so anything you want to smooth out anything you want to remove solids from you pour it through this guy you can rinse rice in this you can sift cocoa powder through…

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you can cut anything with this even if for some reason your chef knife is dirty or whatever you probably just whip this out and you can cut vegetables open packaging trust me you're going to find a use for this you can even use this for Butchery if you have raw meat and you want to separate it from the bone you don't…

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the other thing is most things will never stick to this so it is very useful to have

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they're heat proof you can pour boiling liquid in them

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you could drink out of them you can use them for storage you can use them to make pickles

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this is obviously a necessity if you're going to ever make lasagna it's great if you're making a big batch of Brownies

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I love to have it

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but for some reason you want specifically very thin or specifically very precise cuts on any type of vegetable or maybe even a frozen meat this will do the job for you very useful

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they're not that expensive and they're so worth it

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again surface area faster cook time better Sears

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this has the surface area of a large pot but it's not super super super deep so that means it's great for searing a lot of meat it's great for making brazes it's also just IDE deal if you have a large batch of sauce that you want to reduce quickly

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despite the actual purpose like baking cutting dough shaping dough or scooping dough out of a the bowl it does far more than that you can use this for many many many things one of my favorite uses is cleaning my work surface as I go you can scrape off debris really quickly and then wipe it down you can also use it to…

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do I think everyone can benefit from it yes

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this is the cheapest and single-handedly the best alternative to a pizza oven if you don't have one

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it's not just for pizza though it helps keep your oven warmer better heat retention because this is holding heat and distributing it

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I actually think anybody who wants to get into cooking should have one of these on hand you can live without it but if you want to bake bread or make pizza at any point in time that's at least halfway decent you're probably going to end up using one of these

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it does everything a stove can do

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but it's not just for pizza you can use this as a hearth oven you can use it for making bread flatbreads Charming vegetables for salsa roasting vegetables this is a multi-purpose tool

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to me if you cook a lot and you have budget this will always be a good purchase and they make more affordable models now

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it works great for smoking cocktails sashimig grade fish butter oil anything you want Smoky flavored without cooking this will do

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and the last thing which is also a follow-up to the sous-vide circulator is a vac machine and vac bags these are obviously going to be used for the suv you vacuum seal your meats and then you sous vide them but this can be used for so many things beyond that not just food storage but you can use it to ferment things i…

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and the last thing which is also a follow-up to the sous-vide circulator is a vac machine and vac bags these are obviously going to be used for the suv you vacuum seal your meats and then you sous vide them but this can be used for so many things beyond that not just food storage but you can use it to ferment things i…

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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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next up on that is my fermentation station you guys already know how i feel about this thing too i love this thing it's great for making bread and fermentation it is the perfect fermentation chamber

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i don't like to use metal stirring spoons i much prefer to use something like a wooden stirring spoon or a silicone spatula which are also great for scraping stuff out

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i don't like to use metal stirring spoons i much prefer to use something like a wooden stirring spoon or a silicone spatula which are also great for scraping stuff out

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i don't like to use metal stirring spoons i much prefer to use something like a wooden stirring spoon or a silicone spatula which are also great for scraping stuff out

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now if you've known me long enough you know that i'm a big fan of jars these are like the storage love of my life you know not only they're great for storage but they're good for fermentation pickling you know you can put sauces in them oils they're just they're they're too good and they look so nice i'm all about…

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now if you've known me long enough you know that i'm a big fan of jars these are like the storage love of my life you know not only they're great for storage but they're good for fermentation pickling you know you can put sauces in them oils they're just they're they're too good and they look so nice i'm all about…

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sure everybody has measuring spoons but why not kitchen scales i'm putting this on the necessity side because i want you to do my recipes and grams

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next thing is a personal favorite of mine which is a pair of nice kitchen shears these come in handy way more than you would think small tasks like removing tough stalks from stuff without damaging your knife cutting through small bones and like chicken and fish use something that you can get down and dirty with

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If you don't have a blender and you want to spend less money, get a food processor instead of a blender.

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it is not quite a blender and it is not quite a chopper. It's like both. It's soft enough that it does things that a blender can't, but it's vigorous enough that it also does something a blender can. It can make mayo. You can make hummus. You can blend sauces together in it.

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It does not have to be a Robocoup. This just happens to be the most ridiculous version of a food processor. If you have the budget for this, definitely suggest this.

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No more guessing if your steak is medium-rare or if your chicken is fully cooked.

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They can get pricey. You could go cheaper and get a dial-type pocket thermometer, but generally instant-read is, well, just better and faster.

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The greater does pretty much everything the microplane can do, but just not as well.

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this is probably the cheapest on the list, a bench scraper.

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Sure, it is in a lot of cases. You use it for baking. You use it for picking doughs up. Use it for dividing biscuit dough. You can use it for picking a load of vegetables up. You can use it to clear your work board off. It does so many things.

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You can strain potatoes in it. You can wash rice in it. You can strain sauces through it to make them finer and more lush and nice.

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I prefer using a chinois. This is basically the most expensive type of a strainer you can get.

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This is the place to shell out a little bit of cash cuz if you spend a little bit more, you'll have one that lasts you a long time

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try to buy like a reputable brand.

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I use this all the time, multiple times a week.

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Plastic wrap also can keep [music] things from drying out. Plastic wrap wraps doughs. Plastic wrap can be used for marinating things, plastic wrap can be used to make pickles.

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Deli containers I think are my preferred method of choice because [music] you can put liquids, solids, et cetera in them, and they're extremely cheap and you get like a thousand of them.

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But these are sort of the most primitive, cheapest versions you can get, which is this.

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ultimately, you want a stainless steel thick sheet tray. One is nice, two is perfect.

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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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I'm talking about for cooking, for stirring, for mixing, for picking things up, for moving things from pot to pot.

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A ladle is kind of a nice to have, but there will be times you need it. When you're serving soup, when you want to pour gravy onto something, when you're transferring hot liquid to another thing, whatever. You're serving something, there's really no replacement for a ladle, in my opinion.

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This is not a spatula, this is a flipper. I mean, it is a spatula, but it's specifically made for flipping things over such as pancakes, eggs, literally whatever the hell you want to flip, right?

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let's start things off obvious, a box cheese grater. You don't need to spend a lot of money on this. Don't buy the expensive one, buy the cheapest one you can get.

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Glass is a good choice, too, but if you're going to get glass, make sure it's thick, heat-resistant glass like a Pyrex.

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I would try to avoid plastic for two reasons. Number one, they retain odors. Number two, they stain very easily. And number three, and this is more of a health, it's up to you, I don't give a but they do have microplastics in them, so if you're trying to avoid that.

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And also cheap, so that you can throw them away and buy more.

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You need something to clean up with, you need something to wash your face with, something to dry your hands with.

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So, anything that needs to boil to cook goes in here, and then sauces that need to be made, or things that need to be melted, go in here.

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You don't want to get cast iron? Get like aluminum. That's fine. Aluminum is like the cheapest option.

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This doesn't have to be tri-ply, it doesn't have to be super expensive.

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