19 Tools To Make Cooking Easier

I'm getting tired of pitching gadget culture 95% of that stuff is totally useless that's a made-up number by the way it's about time that we start talking about only the stuff that you need or what well what I think you need some tea let me just start this off by saying you don't need to drop a whole paycheck on tools to be a good cook that's just that's just a fact now a good cook knows how to use tools let you know having good tools does does help quite a bit so for that reason I'll be splitting this video into two different sort of segments I've been getting a lot of DMS on Instagram which by the way if you don't follow me the link is in the description you won't be disappointed anyway people have been DMing me and sort of commenting a lot about wanting to see me talk about my favorite tool so I thought instead of just talking about my favorite tools I'm gonna talk about tools that I actually think are absolutely essential and hugely useful to me and I feel like we'll be to a lot of other people so with all that said let's do this shall we so like I said I'm gonna break this into two different categories let's start with the absolute necessities first thing is super obvious I'm sorry but a knife and a cutting board are king you're not starting with this then you are in trouble this combo alone solves way more kitchen tasks than you would think other than just cutting stuff and it's super economical if you don't want to buy a bunch of mechanical things like a food processor next thing is a personal favorite of mine which is a pair of nice kitchen shears these come in handy way more than you would think small tasks like removing tough stocks from stuff without damaging your knife cutting through small bones and like chicken and fish use something that you can get down and dirty with also in conjunction with that painters tape and a sharpie really great for labeling so you can keep track of all your stuff now lots of people have a grater but the one that I would really recommend is a microplane which is really the best grater on the planet do you want those nice delicate threads you know I'm bougie as for pots and pans you know people really like to over complicate this just think about what you like to cook a lot or the things that you might be cooking and get the appropriate size I have you know a small medium and large of every style of pot and pan because that's how I be I would just recommend having different kinds of services have some better nonstick have some that are cast-iron I'm a big fan of pans that you can put in the oven because they're multi-purpose and you can roast small amounts of stuff in them or finish a steak in the oven if they're heat safe on the handle let's talk about spoons you need different sized spoons a because you can make more spooning puns and be for multiple uses in cooking some will need will be for basting some will be for saw stirring you know efficient cereal eating just you know the little things count sure everybody has measuring spoons but why not kitchen skills I'm putting this on a necessity side because I want you to do my recipes in grams not shelf not self Wow not selfish at all baking trays and wire racks are the multi-purpose king of any kitchen you can roast tons of things on them use them for baking cookies the wire racks can be used to drizzle chocolate over stuff or to ice doughnuts or whatever so that it falls beneath and is easy to clean up you know they're just there's just so many uses now if you've known me long enough you know that I'm a big fan of jars these are like the storage love of my life you know not only they great for storage but they're good for a fermentation pickling you know you can put sauces in them oils they're just they're too good and they look so nice I'm all about that jar aesthetic you know I'm saying now last but not least on the essential side would be stirring spoons I don't like to use metal stirring spoons I much prefer to use something like a wooden stirring spoon or a silicone spatula which are also great for scraping stuff out the thing the reason why I prefer wood is just you can use them for pretty much any surface because they don't scratch it on stick and they just look a whole lot nicer okay so next piece is stuff that I prefer to have but it's not a requirement for warning this is the stuff that's more expensive so if anyone's like oh my gosh it's too expensive these are not a necessity you don't need to have a Lamborghini but it's nice to have a Lamborghini alright so number one on this list is the coveted KitchenAid stand mixer one of my most favorite tools in my kitchen it does I'm a million billion things other than just making dough it does everything I'm not even gonna try and sell you on this it's too good next up on that is my fermentation station you guys already know how I feel about this thing too I love this thing it's great for making bread and fermentation it is the perfect fermentation chamber by the way guys just a reminder all the links for this stuff is gonna be in the description if you want to see it or check it out read about it whatever next up is gonna be a Vitamix blender now I know these things are expensive but this is an industry standard for a reason you can blend and make anything so smell very smooth from nut butters to sauces to purees it's just it's I use mine all the time oh yeah my bad I almost forgot haha nut butter another one would be a sous-vide circulator these things are super useful there's a couple different ones on the market but there are two dominating brands that I really like and I'll have them linked below it turns literally anything into a sous-vide bath so how can you complain about that and the last thing which is also a follow up to this sous-vide circulator is a vac machine and back bags these are obviously going to be used for the sous-vide you vacuum seal your meats and then you sous-vide them this can be used for so many things beyond that not just food storage but you can use it to ferment things I love to ferment berries with this I'm fermenting some blueberries here and it just makes storage super duper efficient in your fridge or dry goods or whatever but these are just some basic things I'm trying to avoid making this video too cumbersome and I put what I think is most essential but do you want to know what else is most essential b-roll [Music] alright guys and that is it so we're gonna be talked about whoa hi there was a lot of directions I was about to go with that we talked about a lot of different tools today there are many many many more tools out there that are great that I use but I wanted to keep this as simple as possible down to like really just bare essentials more importantly the multitude of uses for each individual tool because the thing is with these really simple tools a lot of people only see them for one basic thing because they are so basic but the reality is a lot of these really simple tools like a knife actually in my opinion are oftentimes better to just use that tool you know it's always gonna be your choice whatever tools that you like to use everybody's different we're trying to spread the good word you know and make make homies we're homies I hope that you feel the same way and if you're a true homie then you should be following me on instagram and twitter which is in the link below that was that was next-level shameless if you enjoyed this video or you learned something leave a like subscribe and I will see you next time yeah you're out of the cabinet now huh I don't know what I'm doing right now so I'm gonna turn the camera off now [Music]

Channel: Joshua Weissman

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Length: 6min 34sec (394 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 17 2019