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Kitchen Gadgets That Earn Their Drawer Space
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items My rule is simple. If a thing only does one job it has to do that job brilliantly and I have to use it weekly. Everything that failed the test went to the charity shop years ago. This is the surviving drawer. Mostly cheap, mostly boring, all of it us...
I have replaced knives, boards and pans over the years. I have never replaced this. It stays sharp for years, it does not slip when your hands are wet, and it takes the skin off a butternut squash without turning into a fight. Costs roughly the same ...
OXO Good Grips Swivel Peeler
Parmesan, garlic, ginger, lemon zest, nutmeg. It is the only grater I reach for and it is genuinely sharper than the supermarket versions, which is the whole difference. Wash it straight away though, it clogs with garlic and you will be annoyed at yo...
Premium Classic Series Lemon Zester
Terrifying and irreplaceable. It does in thirty seconds what takes me ten minutes with a knife, and far more evenly than I could manage. Use the guard. I say this as someone who once did not use the guard and now always uses the guard.
Benriner Japanese Mandoline Slicer – Vegetable ...
Baking stopped going wrong the week I stopped measuring flour in cups. The display pulls out from under the platform so you can still read it beneath a wide bowl, which is the exact thing that quietly infuriates you about cheap scales. The tare butto...
OXO Good Grips 11-Pound Digital Kitchen Food Scale
The single reason my chicken stopped being either dry or slightly worrying. It reads in about a second so you are not standing there with the oven door open bleeding heat. Absurd money for a thermometer, and it has paid for itself in meat I did not r...
ThermoWorks Thermapen® ONE
The knife professional kitchens actually use, at a fraction of what the pretty ones cost. Comfortable when your hands are wet, and you will not cry if it gets scratched.
Victorinox Fibrox Pro 8" Chef's Knife Black
One piece of silicone, so nothing gets trapped in a seam and goes strange. Heat resistant enough to stir a hot pan and flexible enough to scrape a bowl clean.
GIR: Get It Right Silicone Kitchen Spatula
The reason I eat more salad. Wet leaves refuse to hold dressing, and this is a one handed pump rather than a crank you need a spare hand for.
OXO Good Grips Salad & Lettuce Spinner
It ejects the skin itself, which removes the genuinely annoying part. Self cleaning too, so it does not sit in the sink for two days like the last one did.
Dreamfarm Garject Garlic Press
The Y shaped one, which handles wide flat things the swivel peeler struggles with. Buy the three pack, they are cheap and they end up all over the kitchen.
Kuhn Rikon Original Swiss Peeler
It moves chopped vegetables from board to pan without the slow sliding disaster off the side of the knife. It also cleans the board in one pass.
OXO Good Grips Bench Scraper
Lock closed so they take almost no drawer space, and the silicone ends will not scratch a nonstick pan. Unremarkable and used daily.
OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Locking Tongs
I use these more than a knife some weeks. They separate for cleaning, which is the one feature that decides whether kitchen scissors stay hygienic or become alarming.
Victorinox Swiss Classic Come Apart Shear
Cheap, heavy, and it will outlive everything else in your kitchen including possibly you. Comes pre seasoned so you can cook in it the day it arrives.
Lodge Cast Iron Skillet 10.25 Inch
The pan that makes roasted vegetables work. It does not warp and buckle in a hot oven the way thin supermarket trays do, which is why yours steam instead of browning.
Naturals® Baker's Half Sheet Pan
Stainless, tight wires, and it does not bend out of shape in a thick batter. One of those things you only notice when the cheap one fails mid mix.
Rosle Balloon Whisk
Gets nearly twice the juice out of a lime with the same effort. Not a gadget I expected to defend and I use it several times a week.
FreshForce Citrus Juicer
Removable rings set the thickness, so pastry comes out even rather than thick at one end. Useful if you bake occasionally and do not have the muscle memory.
Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin