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Next, oh, one of the most useful tools inside of the kitchen, a good microplane zestester.
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Every chef needs one of these.
Ah, one of the most useful blades in the kitchen. I did a whole video on this
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So, highly, highly recommend.
But for cooking, for like pulling things out of the fryer, these are 10 on 10.
Highly, highly, highly recommended.
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While the build quality is absolutely excellent, and you can tell that this machine is built to last in industrial kitchens, there may be some drawbacks for the average cook.
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Next, while the container is super hardwearing and made of very high quality, heatresistant plastic, after many years of use, it does start to get cloudy in appearance and does show signs of wear.
This thing is this thing is bulletproof, but that may be the blender that you want to go for if this is a little bit too expensive.
And the only thing that I've had to replace was was actually this lid because I lost it like 2 weeks ago. Somewhere in between me shooting my pee video and this video, I misplaced the lid. So, I bought a new one. The old lid was absolutely perfect. Everything over here is still doing amazingly well.
I have used this for 8 years extensively. I have beaten the crap out of it.
Um, all of the connections, these things are metal.
And as it blends, it creates a vortex to ensure that everything blends really evenly.
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Now, a simple task like the soup is a great exhibition of the full power of this blender.
And as you can see here, the results are a velvety smooth, perfect pureed soup.
Now, this is a good time to talk about the self-clean function, which a lot of blender companies market as a feature, and all it means is that you can add soapy water to a blender and run it, and it does a pretty good job of cleaning it.
And despite this mixture getting incredibly thick and lava hot, it created the smoothest puree and the whole garlic which I added in the beginning completely disappeared.
I've made plenty of nut milk in the past and the Vitamix does exceptionally well.
I use about 500 g of roast peanuts and at low speeds once the nuts become hot enough and broken down enough they eventually become this beautiful crunchy peanut butter which turned out absolutely amazing.
The Vitamix 5200, however, is not like most other burgers. As long as you start on a low speed to break down all of those chunky bits and slowly turn things up to high and let it spin for about a minute, you are left with the creamiest smoothie or protein shake of your life with the bare minimum or even no bits at all…
Now, I've made blended frozen drinks with this in the past, like a margarita, and it handled it with ease.
But blending a lot of ice in this tall chamber seemed like a bit of a difficult task. For the most part, the ice at the bottom crushes perfectly. But the ice at the top remains chunky and very hard to blend, even with the temper.
And lastly, having a two horsepower blender is an incredible amount of power. But at max power, it's also incredibly noisy, especially with some thicker substances.
And this honestly does majority of tasks better in my humble opinion, but that's just me.
So, hydration tablet, super super useful. Cannot recommend enough.
Um, and one of the most useful things. Literally, most chefs would have one of these in their back pocket. That is just how useful a good pastry cord is.
and they are very very valuable.
Super, super versatile. Cannot recommend enough.
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Love this guy. Highly recommend.
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Super super useful. I love these little guys.
Definitely need a Sharpie.
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The best the best tool for like scooping these things.
These are super super valuable.
This is just how valuable they are.
But no, seriously, this is super super useful.
most valuable blades inside my knife roll.
Definitely get yourself a timer.
any sort of probe thermometer is going to be super super valuable.
I will get it eventually but yes the best cooking spoons
always have one of these with me.
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but this is a very like rust resistant carbon steel. It also has this beautiful like uh dark layer on it, which is completely rust proof.
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Now, this is perhaps my most used knife.
Amazing amazing bon knife.
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This thing gets razor sharp.
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but it's still actually fairly easy to sharpen, even for like a very hard stainless steel blade.
It is incredibly sharp. It does not need to be sharpened super super often.
if I have forgotten all other knives that day, if I just need to leave home with like one thing and I'll probably be okay if the kitchen has like some equipment, I would take this knife.
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I've used the Theromix extensively inside of restaurant kitchens. It is amazing.
This right here is the Vitamix 5200 and it is the gold standard blender for pretty much the entire restaurant industry, especially the fancier restaurants.
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Great for garnishing, great for plating, great for like pulling out little toss, great for pulling little bones out of stuff.
They're very very good for like detail work. You can like move things quite well.
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big plus cuz if you drop them in your food, you can see blue.
So, bare minimum, you need plasters.
grating ginger and garlic with this thing. Really nice sharp blades.
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Very, very versatile.
Uh, excellent as a peeler,
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This does so so much work. Super super precise.
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but having something with like simple buttons and a magnetizable back that I can like stick to stuff is just too
I'd recommend getting a theropen or a thermop. Those are kind of what I've used in the past.
Amazing. Super comfortable in the hand.
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These are great spoons.
So, on the subject of spatulas, this is like a tiny little mini offset spatula. Very, very useful.
And I think I've had this thing for 10 plus years and still looks great.
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It's like super super thin. Very good for like scooping under things.
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because it's like curved like this, you can scoop make very good like contact on the protein you're trying to scoop.
Uh, fishbones and stuff like that do a very, very good job. But even just like general scissors, nice and sharp, very good quality.
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Very high quality, good quality silicon
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It is a very cheap knife. It is good.
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It is excellent for peeling things especially things like garlic.
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This is great for small tasks like cutting mushrooms, cutting tomatoes.
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Yeah, I probably use this more than my chef's knife. So, that tells you just how versatile this is.
this beautiful uh Japanese handle. Uh super super comfortable.
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Great knife, great quality.
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This is what I do use for most of my butchering, whether that's fish butchery, meat butchery.
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Um, I've really started making this my like butchery filleting workhorse.
But yeah, this is one of my favorite knives and potentially one of my most used knives.
but they are very comfortable. They are very very wellmade.
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It has a really nice thin blade made of a really good stainless steel.
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This is a lot more versatile.
Now, what I like about this compared to other bread knives is it has a very, very thin blade. It has a nice serration, but it is flat on one side. So, it's a very, very sharp blade.
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it has three different zippers where I can store tools and knives and stuff like that. And it has a ton of extra storage in the front.
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This stores it much better. It organizes it much better.
There are not a lot of points of failure on this machine.
And the best part is because it's so extensively used inside of the restaurant industry, replacement parts are super easy to find. So, if you wanted to get a new blender top, you will definitely be able to find this online for sure, but maybe even close by to in a restaurant supply store.
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Um, even if you do burn out the motor, there's a little reset switch on the bottom.
Now, sauces like a pesto or a mayonnaise are absolutely child's play for this machine.
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This narrow long design does make it excellent at small batches of ingredients as well as much larger batches of preparations.
Uh, but yes, ruler very good.
So having a ruler that I can wash that's like a little bit heat safe just in case I'm stupid and leave it somewhere. Yeah, it's really great.
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So, this very very useful.
You highlight instead of crossing it out so that if someone
would recommend the Pilot G2, but that's that's probably for another video.
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Writing labels, super super useful.
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Really good for scooping the inside of blenders, for scooping around like little pots, just really great for scooping and manipulating.
This is great for grating chocolate, for removing lemon zest.
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It's really great for scooping stuff up your board, whether you're like scraping off or like
Uh really good for cleaning. Imagine I scrubbed this whole table and you just want to scrape stuff off.
And on the subject of amazing and cheap and wonderful, these are pastry cards.
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They're really cheap and I always have multiple of these around.
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So, if you're making sausages and you have sausage casings, you need to pop out air bubbles. This is perfect.
Just like stab a couple of them and depending on the amount of resistance that you feel, it's a great way of checking if something is cooked.
but super sharp, very reasonable.
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metal bits that you like scrape away scales with. Very useful.
the fact that it's this like hardy, sturdy, like amazing blade and looks
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But this definitely made life much much easier and better.
14 plus years and I found it inside my nightm
is possibly the oldest electronic device I own that is still working
but it has like a low top temperature.
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It's very, very precise.
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would never use them for plating fancy things. They look absolutely ridiculous.
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They have like a little grippy grip on the ends of it, which make it very good at like pinching
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This is great for basting. It's great for taking portions out of a pan.
spreading stuff in general. Super useful, super cheap.
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It is great for smaller proteins.
if I'm pulling something out of a pan and I want the drippings to kind of like juice on down, this is what I would use.
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Not super expensive. I think these were like under $25. Very high quality stainless steel.
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when I was buying my kitchen set, it was co and those things were like $85 for one spatula.
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Like, it's a really great, beautiful little knife.
Very comfortable to hold. I like that it has a longer handle cuz I can really grip it up top if I'm trying to
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This is a knife that I can like use and abuse a little bit more.
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But yeah, this is a bit more of just like a workhorse knife.
It's also way way cheaper.
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yourself a really good chef's knife.
They are very very wellmade.
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Uh it's a very very good brand.
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but it's great for portioning things.
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this is my slicer now. Possibly one of the most used knives in my kit.
So, firstly, if you were even considering the more expensive Vitamix models in this that have the smoothie button and the soup button, you don't need them. You just need to know how to use the knobs and the dials. It is really not that hard.
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The controls, being the two switches and the dial, are incredibly simple to use, but they do require a little bit of technique to use to the best of their abilities.
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Now, a big downside to the system is accidentally starting the machine when you've forgotten your switch on high power turned on or you've left the dial on 10. A lot of splattering will happen if you do not have a lid on.
You have a super inconveniently You have a super inconveniently placed plug.
Now, certain parts remain completely untouched, so you do need to wash the lip separately, but in general, the container as well as the base of the blender are quite easy to clean.
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Wow, this thing is insane. I could blend something from the other side of the kitchen.
Now, as far as controls, it has a simple dial with 10 number settings, but for when you want something really ultra super smooth, you can kick things into high gear and unlock the full two horsepower that this machine is capable of, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a blender.
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And this is where the temper that comes with the Vitamix comes in handy here as it helps you to push your ingredients down into that vortex of blending and destruction.
The blade is inside of the blender top. It just pops on really super easily.
It is big and powerful, but it is not too big and too heavy and too clunky that it prevents me from using it.
I always liked having a little pouch of instant coffee.
you end up with a massive ink stain. So blessing and a curse.
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So this one has like a bit more of a dip inside. I could make like a quinel or a rasher with this.
Also, it's just like this hardy thing.
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So, it's good for like putting inside the oyster and chucking it.
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So, these are not necessary, but very useful.
This is not my favorite thermometer.
Uh poached eggs this is really good for I basically exclusively pulled this out for eggs and like
This has come in use in every stage of my cooking career.
If I was breaking through, let's say, chicken backs and stuff like that, I would use something like this.
Uh, I never brought this to a kitchen. This has mostly been a gag gift.
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It's very big, but very overkill.
Um, I quite like the I think they're Matt. I'm not sure the brand, but I'll link it where they have like a red handle and a white top.
Like you can beat it up a little bit.
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so even if I'm like cutting lemons or like a bunch of like acidic stuff, this is going to be just fine.
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It looks nice. It cuts really well. I love this guy.
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that kind of like shave off a little bit too much of your knife for my liking
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There's some ceramic ones which are excellent, but they
So trade off, this is like the more durable.
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But this is a really good chef's knife.
I had like a really nice Mac one that I really enjoyed, but I lost it somewhere along cooking around the world.
Cut bread with it and things with like tough crust, maybe like the top of a pork belly or something.
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Um, and it also had like a nice little like shoulder strap, but it can also hold it like little briefcase.
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If you are the type kind of person who does not need your soup or your smoothie or your whatever to be ultra smooth, ultra fine, and you don't really care about the more strenuous tasks like nut butter or crushing ice or stuff like that, go for something cheaper. I think Ninja make a really good blender that will…
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So, this is where the Ninja blenders I recommend if you want something cheaper, may start to fail you.
If I had the budget, I would also get one for a number of like fun little tasks. It's good with custard and stuff like that.