Time to play What Would You Take with You on a Deserted Island? The essential kitchen tools edition. We asked 13 chefs what kitchen equipment they couldn't live without to find both surprising and expected answers.
The tools that chefs use to create their food dictates to a certain extent the type of cuisine that they create: whether it's exact and detailed food that's made by chef Tony Conte using a pressure cooker or a more home-grown and comforting type of food made by chefs like Gabrielle Hamilton who prefers her two hands before anything else. The choices that the following chefs made indicate to some level their approach and attitude toward cooking. It also shows which chefs are up on their social media efforts.
Let us know what tools you couldn't live without. Me? My mortar and pestle, for sure.
In the same vein, we recently posted an article about the 50 Most Important Inventions (and Discoveries) in Food and Drink that includes many of the tools listed below. For kicks and giggles, make sure to check out our list of inventions we just didn't need.
Below, the Chefs' 5 Favorite Kitchen Tools Gallery.
- Yasmin Fahr, The Daily Meal
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Good terry cloth towels.
An automobile orbital buffer.
2. I would agree about microplane...
3. a good ricer
4. all sizes and meshes of strainers
5. stainless steel mixing bowls of various sizes
6. plastic squeeze bottles
Imagination
2. Panini/griddle press
3. Stainless steel mixing bowls with lids for leftovers
4. A good knife, tongs and soup ladle
5. Multiple cutting boards
2) my rada paring knife
3) a great vegetable peeler
4) my ancient T-fal roast pan (roast potatoes come out perfect every time)
5) tongs
You may now touch my steel. Wait, that sounded wrong.
If none of those, then just beer.
My list:
1. My very sharp 6in chef's knife (my hands are very small!)
2. Silpat
3. Kitchen Aid stand mixer
4. cooling racks
5. multiple, clean, heavy towels
And seriously.... an ice cream maker?? An electric blender?!! Are you sure this island is deserted, come on?!! What "deserted island" happens to naturally have electrical outlets and a power generator?
2)mandolin (makes work much faster and well gaufrette cuts are impossible without)
3)8 inch tongs
4)clean dry rags
5) should be first but my sous-chef