Here’s a quick list of TOP 12 Kitchen Essentials: The Basics. From cooking utensils to pots and pans, to prep stuff and measuring tools, these staples will be used in every day cooking.
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The Basics:
1. Nonstick cookware set
A great basic set. The skillets can be used for sauteing meats and veggies, pan-frying meats and seafood and cooking eggs. You’ll end up using these a lot. The pots are good for making sauces and gravies and the 5 quart is wonderful for cooking pastas, soups and making pasta sauce.
2. Instant Pot
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3. Knife Sets
This Knife Set is perfect for cooking newbie. It’s great for almost everything: slicing, dicing, cutting, chopping and can be used about 99% of the time a knife is called for.
4. Measuring spoons
A must in the kitchen to get exact measurements of seasonings and herbs. Your set should have 1 tablespoon, 1/2 tablespoon, 1 teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon, 1/4 teaspoon and 1/8 teaspoon. While measurements in cooking are a little forgiving, it’s always good practice to follow the original recipe’s measurements exactly and season it to taste from there.
5. Measuring cups
Another essential for dry stuff like flour, sugar, cheeses, bread crumbs and liquids like milk, heavy cream, water, broth and stock. Your set should have 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 3/4 cup and 1/4 cup.
6. Colander
This is handy for draining cooked pasta. A 5-quart colander can hold up to 1 pound of cooked pasta for those big meals.
7. Mixing bowls
Used for just about everything in prepping meals. Use the large ones for making meatballs, the medium ones for prepping chopped vegetables like potatoes, celery and carrots or mixing batters and the small one for whisking eggs and sauces.
8. Cutting boards
It’s always good practice to separate your raw foods. Use the big one for meats and the medium and small one for vegetables and herbs to reduce the risk of food contamination.
9. Wooden spoons
These spoons are great for stirring sauces, sauteeing and general cooking purposes. Use them on your non-stick cookware so you don’t damage the finish.
10. Silicone spatulas
These are great for cooking with too, especially for getting every morsel of food from your mixing bowls or pots and pans. They bend in such a way that they can scrape off every little thing from every little corner. Waste not!
11. Metal utensil set
A nice basic set for ladling soups, mashing potatoes, frying food and cooking. The metal turners are particularly handy for sliding neatly under meats and seafood to turn them over with minimum fuss and splatter and they’re also great for stir-fries.
12. Whisks
Use them for whisking eggs, sauces, gravies, batters. It’s always handy to have multiple sizes. The small one for eggs, medium-sized for sauces and gravies and big ones for batters.
That’s it for the basics of what I think every basic kitchen should have. To summarize, here’s a quick list of everything you’ll need.
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