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Cooking Tools Everyone Needs

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1:00 objects Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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1:30 objects Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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2:30 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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2:30 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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3:00 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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I really am a big believer in stainless steel.
You don't want to spend money on stainless steel? Get cast iron.
3:30 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
You don't want to get cast iron? Get like aluminum. That's fine. Aluminum is like the cheapest option.

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4:00 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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5:01 objects Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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5:31 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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6:01 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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6:31 objects Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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7:01 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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7:01 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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7:31 objects Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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8:02 objectssupports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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8:32 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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8:32 objectssupports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
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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9:32 supports Joshua Weissman speaking on Joshua Weissman Recipes Chef
Spoons are not expensive, grab the cheapest ones you can get, but get big ones because everybody's going to always have like little spoons for eating, assuming you're stocking a kitchen.

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