Food and Cooking
All things culinary and cooking related. Share food! Share recipes! Share stuff about food, etc.
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Our Instapots are lifesavers, love them so much
My Vitamix blender. (Same one Starbucks uses)
I use it for so many different things but the most popular item is my homemade milkshakes. Kids love them and it’s perfect for them.
Every morning, we rotate between a Bialetti moka pot + an Espro P3 french press for coffee depending on what level of expression/mouthfeel we're craving out of our beans that day.
For cooking uses, my most used gadgets are:
- a Ninja digital air fryer to toast/crisp things on the fly.
- a Instant Pot to pressure cook beans or meat when meal prepping.
- a Zojirushi for plain or zhushed up rices for meal prep also.
- a FoodSaver sealer is also used on the reg every time we restock on meat in the freezer or need to store leftovers.
Also coffee related now that I'm thinking on it...
- an OXO water kettle to heat water for coffee either way we make it.
- a microwave to heat up milk for coffee every morning + to reheat meals throughout the day.
- a Baratza Encore to flipflop between diff grind sizes.
Holy Jesus, I will be shit out of luck during the next power outage that happens.
My carbon steel wok. I've been cooking on it daily for the past 5-6 years, and it's wonderful.
My cast iron pan. I use it for everything that doesn't need to be done in a pot. Even things I probably shouldn't do in a cast iron like stir fry I do anyways because it's just already there and convenient.
And they are so much easier to take care of than all the cast-iron fori/subs/articles yammer on about. I “neglect” my ancient cast iron terribly, and it’s doing just fine.
I just scrub it, rinse it out then cook the empty pan to get rid of any moisture. it's easier than cleaning anything else I own and will probably be around long after I'm dead.
All 3 of my cutting boards. They get so beat up and I hardly ever maintain them.
5 mini silicone spatulas. It was cheaper to buy 5 than 1 on Amazon and at first I was like I don't need this many mini spatulas, but they're super helpful and great at scraping and I don't have to worry about washing them between jobs since I have several I can swap between. I find them more versatile than having one big spatula.
Cast iron skillet is favourite/most used kitchen item. In lieu of a toaster I use it to brown bread slices.
My favorite is the rice maker. I’ve had only perfect rice since I got it. But the most used are the gooseneck kettle and the hand grinder for coffee.
What hand grinder do you have? I’m looking for a decent one, hopefully simple and sturdy like my grandma had and used for decades.
It's the Hario Skeleton Pro. Not exactly grandma-tier -- it's got plastic parts on it, including the little dial for setting how coarse/fine -- but gets the job done. Hario also makes some wood/ceramic/steel ones that would probably be more durable (and definitely have that grandma's kitchen look).