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Home Chef Essentials 👨🍳🥕🧅
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items Gadgets for the beginner cook, to home chef, all in one place! Ask me any questions you may have!!👨🍳🌮🍔🥞
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Blending Tools
Specific Task Tools
Cutting Boards
Knife Maintenance
Spices
Blending Tools
For soups, sauces, prep
Immersion Blenders are one of my favorite tools. These are very useful for blending soups to achieve a silky smooth mouthfeel.
The best thing about immersion blenders however, is being able to make sauces like Mayonnaise, chimichurri, hollandaise, ...
Immersion Blender List: Beginner-Home Chef
If you want to take your seasoning game to another level, or your into having some fresh ground coffee, a spice grinder is what you need to get.
Pre ground spices are great and convenient, but if you want a trick to pull out for date night or a fami...
Serious Eats: Spice Grinders
In a home kitchen, efficiency is key. And I know that some people do not like cutting onions 😭
But with a food processor, all it takes is peeling the outer layer, quarter it up and throw it in for some diced/minced onion fast.
This helps to make ...
Food processor: Make your life easier
Specific Task Tools
For the finer details
A microplane is such a great tool for when you need a punch of garlic or ginger, or if you want to make a light snow of Parmesan for your Caesar salad or chicken Alfredo!
It is an extremely useful tool when you find a recipe calling for the zest of...
Microplane: get the most out of your cheese 🧀 + aromatics 🧄
A mandoline is a tool that helps to make perfectly symmetrical cuts. If you want to make some potato chips, pickles, an Asian cucumber salad, or if you just want to cut up some vegetables like zucchini, carrot and onion for a stir fry dish.
I would ...
Basic Mandoline with Guard
Cutting Boards
For your meats, vegetables, fruits and cheeses
This is a great list to find a board that suits you!
The higher quality boards are pricey, but if you do get one just make sure that you get a cutting board oil which I will link in this section.
I would also recommend that you use wooden boards f...
I Tested 18 Wooden Cutting Boards—6 Emerged (Nearly) Unscathed
Any of these cutting board sets will work just fine, some you may need to hand wash, but for the most part any of these can go in the dishwasher after giving it a good scrub.
I like to get the sets because you don’t need a giant board to cut a piec...
Plastic Cutting Board
Knife Maintenance
A dull knife is a chefs greatest enemy! 👹
Sharpening knives is an important first step to take if you want to up your chef game. Sharpening stones take some time to learn how to use, but once you start using a whetstone you will never go back to another sharpener.
I love to use mine, it is...
Whetstone Knife Sharpener Set 4-Side 8000|3000|1000|400
This is an easier sharpener for those who are not wanting to take the time to practice using the wet stone.
This is what you would find in most kitchens, due to how efficient it is to use. It does get a decent sharpness as well, especially if you m...
3 step electric knife sharpener
Spices
Whole + Pre ground
I would highly recommend grabbing some whole peppercorns, cinnamon, cumin, or whatever suits your kitchen and pallet.
You can pick what you like to use, and if you have any questions about what spices you should get for a particular dish, I am happ...
Whole spices to fill out your kitchen
A wide array of spices is always a good thing, and for the home cook ground is the way to go for convenience.
I always have ground garlic, onion, smoked paprika, Italian herbs, Mediterranean herbs, etc.
These spices work great for me, and there a...
Ground spices to fill out your kitchen