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Kitchen Essentials You Need To Elevate Your Cooking

amomentwithfranca · 27 October 2022 · 15 Comments

Whether you love cooking and are looking to upgrade your kitchen utensils, or you’re at the start of your cooking journey and want to improve your cooking skills, here’s a list of all the necessary tools you will need to take your cooking to the next level.

Kitchen Essentials You Need To Elevate Your Cooking

Pots and Pans

The right pots and pans won’t just make it easier to cook your favourite dishes but will also improve the taste and quality of the things you’re cooking up. As you would think, depending on what you are looking to cook, there are different pots and pans that will work better and make it easier for you to cook your meal. If you can, here are some of the most useful pots and pans you should have in your kitchen:

saucepans hanging from a rack in a traditional style kitchen

 

Stock pans

Stock pans are deep, wide-base pans that are a need for making soups, stews, and pasta — essential kitchenware for the approaching winter!

Frying pans

Frying pans are perfect for cooking meat, chicken, or even sautéing some vegetables because they have a large diameter. The greatest frying pan will help you prepare an outstanding breakfast because these are also recommended for cooking eggs, flipping omelettes, and making pancakes.

Saucepans

Saucepans cannot be overlooked! Saucepans are a fundamental piece of cooking equipment, that will make it simple to boil pasta, mash potatoes, and steam vegetables. When meal planning, they are the ideal kitchen tool because they let you prepare rice, quinoa, and so much more!

A good cookbook

Recipe book and bouquet of flowers on cooking table at kitchen — Photo

A decent cookbook will help you decide exactly the dishes you want to learn how to prepare as well as how to make the best use of your pots and pans.

Remember to focus your search while selecting a cookbook by identifying your priorities. Are you interested in discovering more about a certain cuisine? Or perhaps you just want to concentrate on one dish and learn how to make the perfect pasta. There is undoubtedly a cookbook to suit your needs, whatever you choose to concentrate on!

Prep is Key

Professional cook frying fresh sliced vegetables in a nonstick pan hands close up, food ingredients and kitchenware on background, top view

When you look closely at that recipe, you’ll be shocked by how much dicing, chopping, and mixing it can require. The best cooking investment you’ve ever made will be in the tools you need to help you prepare your ingredients.

Food processor

Food processors are a frequently ignored (though obvious) option that can help you finish time-consuming food preparation activities faster. Dicing, chopping, and emulsifying are all handled promptly with this.

Kitchen utensils (cooking tools) on black chalkboard background. Kitchenware collection captured from above (top view, flat lay).

Stand and Hand Mixers

Long gone are tired arms with hand mixers and stand mixers. Suddenly you won’t mind beating whipped cream for dessert, and you’ll be able to mix up fresh pizza dough without even breaking a sweat!

Spiralizer

Want to try the highly regarded courgette alternative since you’re sick of spaghetti? If so, then the spiralizer is just the tool you need.

Rice cooker

Just like the humble food processor, rice cookers are one of the most underrated appliances. Not only will they help you make the perfect batch of rice every time (which is no easy feat), but you can buy rice cookers with steam basket attachments—meaning you can also steam vegetables at the same time!

You’re sure to improve your cooking in no time with the correct cookware, a helpful cookbook, and a few cool gadgets.

What are your kitchen essentials?

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Comments

  1. Laura Johnson says

    12 November 2022 at

    My kitchen essential is a pasta bake dish. I’m not much of a cook but I can manage a pasta bake!

    Reply
    • Lisa Armstrong says

      29 November 2022 at

      I love my food processor. Its multi use and so easy to use.

      Reply
  2. ashleigh says

    12 November 2022 at

    So true – a good cook book is essential!

    Reply
  3. Kathleen Marsden says

    12 November 2022 at

    I always rely on my Be Ro cook book and all my children have one too

    Reply
  4. Rachel Walsh says

    12 November 2022 at

    A good set of knives!! Love a posh fancy knife set!

    Reply
  5. Darren Bourne says

    12 November 2022 at

    My kitchen essentials are good saucepans and wooden spoons (so I dont scratch the pans). The right equipment certainly helps.

    Reply
  6. Magsd says

    13 November 2022 at

    The best kitchen essential I own is my ninja grill it is so versatile and cooks food quickly

    Reply
  7. claire woods says

    13 November 2022 at

    I’ve not got all of these in my kitchen!

    Reply
  8. Rosalind Sargent says

    13 November 2022 at

    I am not the best cook so I am always in need of a good cook book

    Reply
  9. Chris Andrews says

    13 November 2022 at

    my dad who was a chef always said you can’t beat a good cook book

    Reply
  10. PAULINE HILL says

    13 November 2022 at

    i always rellie on mams reicipies

    Reply
  11. Emma Walters says

    13 November 2022 at

    ive got a fab veg chopper which saves me lots of time

    Reply
  12. Tracy Newton says

    14 November 2022 at

    I always bake from my late mothers or Grandmothers Bero Cook Book. Family classics, that although many would now feel were old fashioned, they never let me down.

    Reply
  13. alison Fisher says

    14 November 2022 at

    my garlic press! i dont even peel just wack it in and squeeze

    Reply
  14. MD. SHAHAB UDDIN says

    14 June 2023 at

    thanks for this nice post
    , its great
    https://www.home-kitchangadgets.com/

    Reply

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