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Kitchen Items Must-Haves

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These are our kitchen must haves. Basically our ride or die, we use all of these on a daily basis, whether oits for family meals or baking and cooking for our food blogs!
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What we use on the daily!

Working as food bloggers and creator, but also cooking most of dishes from scracth, we use these on the daily!

 
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We use this on a daily basis and not even trying to exaggerate! When you always struggle to put dinner on the table or have any ideas, you just pop it in here and you have so many options to make it. It's like the new kid in the family!
Multicookers | Electric Pressure Cookers – Ninja® Foodi®
 
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We had this for years, it traveled back and forth from the UK and honestly it works like a dream! We named him Viktor and there's never been a Christmas present that topped this for Simona!
Stand Mixers - KitchenAid
 
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We have been on the market for a good food processor for years and nothing ever made the cut. This finally gave us a piece of equipment that worked for three. We use it for anything from making milkshakes to smoothies, cutting herbs or making pastry....
Food Processors, Mixers & Kitchen Systems - Ninja®
 
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hands down a must have if you get a ninja creami, because as soon as you start making ice cream or sorbet at home, you will ditch supermarket stuff straight away!
4-Piece Ninja Creami 24oz Tubs & Lids Set
 
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hands down the best investment we could make! Cast iron casseroles are for life and this was so worth it! Love to use it to make casseroles, soups and currys. Easy to clean and amazing for dishes that needs both stove and oven cooking
STAUB Cast Iron Roaster Round 6.7L Black
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Had one of these for the last ten years and it was even second hand, so this literally works for ages like it just came out of the box
NutriBullet Original 600W Blender & Chopper
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This has been one of the best hand mixer we had, its strong, quick and honestly really a bargain for the price
Aigostar Adela 400W Handmixer mit 5 Geschw.
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Had this set for now more than 12 years and its still brand new
Joseph Joseph Nest 9 Plus 9-Piece Prep Set Sage
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Does its job, durable and a kitchen must have
OXO Good Grips Little Resin Salad Spinner
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Such a great grip and easy to use
OXO Good Grips Y-Peeler
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Sliding your kitchen aid instead of trapping a finger under while moving it on the counter is what you need!
Sliding Mats for KitchenAid 4.5-5 Qt Mixer
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If you love ice cream, sorbet, smoothie bowls and anything in between, this is the piece of equipment you will need! Just freeze the ingredients and then you have the best ice cream in minutes! Any flavour, whatever you can think of, you can do!
Ninja® CREAMi® 7-in-1 Ice Cream Maker
 
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This has become a ride or die for us, used and abused on the daily!
Ninja Luxe™ Café Pro Espresso Machine

Pasta Making

We might not make fresh pasta on the daily, but these are must haves if you want to start a little trip to Italy without taking a plane!

 
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Best pasta machine on the market! We have our mom's 30 years old one from this brand and still works so so well!
MARCATO Atlas 150 Manual Pasta Maker, Chrome
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One of the best electric pasta machines, plenty of shapes and extruding you can do!
Philips 7000 Pasta Machine ProExtrude HR2665/93
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Set of bench scrapers, you can use these for basically anything from making the pasta dough to cooking
Vicloon 3 Pcs Stainless Steel Dough Scraper Set
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A must wooden board to make some of our favourites pasta shapes like malloreddus!
ELETTRO Ridged Gnocchi Board & Pasta Rod
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Easy pasta cutters for plenty of filled pasta shapes
Navaris Ravioli Stamp Set - 3 Shape Cutters
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You do need a big rolling pin for pasta, you can thank me later! There's nothing wrse than trying to use the smallest rolling pin and the ache
Beech Wood Rolling Pin, 100 cm
 
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Best pasta dryer for any long shaped ones like spaghetti, tagliatelle and more
Foldable Wooden Pasta Drying Rack with 12 Rods