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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What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation
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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.
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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Love this guy. Highly recommend.
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Cut bread with it and things with like tough crust, maybe like the top of a pork belly or something.
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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.
It has a really nice thin blade made of a really good stainless steel.
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This is a lot more versatile.
They are very very wellmade.
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but they are very comfortable. They are very very wellmade.
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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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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.
yourself a really good chef's knife.
It actually cuts bread well if the crust isn't too tough.
But yeah, this is one of my favorite knives and potentially one of my most used knives.
You do not need anything this expensive again.
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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.
They sharpen well.
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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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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 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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It's also way way cheaper.
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It looks nice. It cuts really well. I love this guy.
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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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The tip is a little chipped. I believe it's been like heated up as well.
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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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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.
One of my least used knives mostly for like peeling or for detail work or for anything like really specific
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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Like you can beat it up a little bit.
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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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always have one of these with me.
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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.
Very high quality, good quality silicon
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Super, super versatile. Cannot recommend enough.
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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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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.
If I was breaking through, let's say, chicken backs and stuff like that, I would use something like this.
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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Not super expensive. I think these were like under $25. Very high quality stainless steel.
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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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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.
Highly, highly, highly recommended.
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This has come in use in every stage of my cooking career.
It is great for smaller proteins.
And I think I've had this thing for 10 plus years and still looks great.
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So, on the subject of spatulas, this is like a tiny little mini offset spatula. Very, very useful.
These are great spoons.
I like the wooden handle versions cuz I think they look kind of cute and romantic.
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spreading stuff in general. Super useful, super cheap.
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Uh poached eggs this is really good for I basically exclusively pulled this out for eggs and like
This is great for basting. It's great for taking portions out of a pan.
Amazing. Super comfortable in the hand.
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I will get it eventually but yes the best cooking spoons
would never use them for plating fancy things. They look absolutely ridiculous.
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But for cooking, for like pulling things out of the fryer, these are 10 on 10.
They have like a little grippy grip on the ends of it, which make it very good at like pinching
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I'd recommend getting a theropen or a thermop. Those are kind of what I've used in the past.
but it has like a low top temperature.
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It's very, very precise.
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This is not my favorite thermometer.
any sort of probe thermometer is going to be super super valuable.
but having something with like simple buttons and a magnetizable back that I can like stick to stuff is just too
14 plus years and I found it inside my nightm
is possibly the oldest electronic device I own that is still working
But no, seriously, this is super super useful.
most valuable blades inside my knife roll.
Definitely get yourself a timer.
But this definitely made life much much easier and better.
This does so so much work. Super super precise.
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So, these are not necessary, but very useful.
the fact that it's this like hardy, sturdy, like amazing blade and looks
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So, it's good for like putting inside the oyster and chucking it.
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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.
Also, it's just like this hardy thing.
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metal bits that you like scrape away scales with. Very useful.
carbon steel blade, so you need to like keep it clean and dry and whatever
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but super sharp, very reasonable.
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Uh, excellent as a peeler,
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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.
They're really cheap and I always have multiple of these around.
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They require a little bit of skill to use.
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These are super super valuable.
This is just how valuable they are.
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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This is great for grating chocolate, for removing lemon zest.
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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.
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.
grating ginger and garlic with this thing. Really nice sharp blades.
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Very, very versatile.
Really good for scooping the inside of blenders, for scooping around like little pots, just really great for scooping and manipulating.
So this one has like a bit more of a dip inside. I could make like a quinel or a rasher with this.
The best the best tool for like scooping these things.
you end up with a massive ink stain. So blessing and a curse.
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Writing labels, super super useful.
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Definitely need a Sharpie.
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You highlight instead of crossing it out so that if someone
permanent marker, which is not the best.
would recommend the Pilot G2, but that's that's probably for another video.
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So, this very very useful.
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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Uh, but yes, ruler very good.
So, bare minimum, you need plasters.
big plus cuz if you drop them in your food, you can see blue.
I always liked having a little pouch of instant coffee.
So, hydration tablet, super super useful. Cannot recommend enough.
Great for garnishing, great for plating, great for like pulling out little toss, great for pulling little bones out of stuff.
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