Golden Rabbit set of three enamelware nesting bowls. Bee's Wrap reusable beeswax food wrap. Beau Rush Cry Baby serving platter. Brooklyn Slate cheese boards. Farmhouse Pottery Classic Baker's pie dish. West Elm Kaloh spoon rest. East Fork horn salt and pepper shakers. Viva by Vietri Baroque glass cake stand. We've said many times that rimmed sheet trays and wire cooling racks belong in every kitchen.
Of course, you can use a sheet tray for baking chocolate chip cookies or roasting vegetables , but they're also helpful for saving your oven from an overflowing pie, or when paired with a wire cooling rack for brining, roasting, and resting meats.
While a half-sheet tray is the standard size for home ovens, quarter- and even eighth-sheet trays are good to have on hand for smaller projects. Buy a few, and, as with quite a lot of these cooking tools, nest them away when they're not in use.
About the size of an eighth-sheet tray, but rounded, sizzle platters are used for cooking one or two portions of vegetables or meat in the oven. As Daniel says in his love letter to sizzle platters , you'll often see these stacked at every station in restaurant kitchens. The best part? They're pretty handsome-looking, too, so you can take them straight from the oven to the table.
Just be sure to bring a little trivet with you, because these things get hot. You'll find a Vitamix blender in nearly every restaurant kitchen—they're simply better and more powerful than most other blenders.
Read more about the benefits of this machine in our review of high-powered blenders. Daniel has long had the goal of introducing carbon steel pans into the mainstream. Carbon steel is much like cast iron in that it gets very hot and stays hot, so it's perfect for searing meats, and, with enough seasoning, it can become nearly nonstick.
But carbon steel pans have sloped sides, making them ideal for pulling off that professional toss, and it's often lighter than cast iron. As someone who tires of hauling my inch cast iron pan around, this is very, very appealing.
Our culinary team calls this "the best cleaning product for stainless steel by far. It's really like magic. I love parchment paper, but I hate trying to tear it from a roll using one of those serrated box edges—it's nearly impossible to get an even edge. What a relief when I learned from the culinary team that precut parchment paper exists. These individual sheets will fit neatly in a half-sheet pan and won't curl up on you.
Store a bunch in a sheet pan above the fridge, and grab a precut sheet whenever you need one, saving you lots of time and frustration. If you have space in your kitchen for them, these big boxes of plastic wrap and heavy-duty foil will save you plenty of headaches. Heavy-duty foil is exactly what it sounds like—it tears less easily and holds up better to use. And if plastic wrap gives you anxiety it's not just me, is it? In a restaurant kitchen, Sharpie permanent markers and painter's tape are just about as heavily used as a good chef's knife.
That's because labeling is essential to staying organized. If you're putting something in the fridge or taking something out of the fridge, it had better be labeled. Writing directly on your containers with Sharpie will stain them, so, instead, cut a piece of painter's tape and write up an identifying label with the description, date, and time, if need be. When it's time to wash and reuse the container, peel off the tape and start again.
Dry-erase boards are a great way to remind yourself what groceries you need to buy at the store or for writing down a dinner-party menu. If you want to also leave cute notes for your roommate or partner, go for it. Since you don't live in a restaurant kitchen, no one will be able to make fun of you. Professional cooks are always on the hunt for new recipe inspiration, and where does it go? Into a nice little notebook like this one. Carry one with you when you're out to dinner, or at the grocery store to take note of what you see and like.
You can use any old notebook for this purpose, but a classic Moleskine recipe journal will give you extra style points. Cotton kitchen towels are the universal sign of a restaurant kitchen. They're cheap, they're useful both for cleaning and as potholders, and they can be tossed in the wash when they get dirty. Keep a stack of these at home, and everyone who comes by will know that you've got the inside scoop on how professional cooks get things done.
Go 8" if your forearms aren't Hulk status; go 10" if you lift. The Test Kitchen shows no mercy to its cutting boards, and the one they continue to rely on is made by Boos, but it's pricey. What you really need is any cutting board made of hard wood think: walnut, hickory, oak that's around 2" thick so it won't warp if you get it wet.
Martinez strongly discourages using plastic or glass cutting boards, no matter how dishwasher-friendly they are. They can wreck your knives and get dangerously slippery. Martinez's only exception might be purchasing a plastic cutting board intended for meats only, because it's so easy to wash. If you remember one thing, remember that your optimal heavy-bottomed pot—a. Clad pots which are often triple-ply like this distribute heat through one continuous piece of metal layers—stainless steel on the outsides and aluminum or copper sandwiched between those sheets.
Use this for everything: stirring, scooping, serving. Pretty self-explanatory. Every Test Kitchen editor has his or her preference for measuring spoons. If your friend has excellent cooking skills, then they most likely know their way around all sorts of recipes and cuisines. This award-winning French recipe book can offer a new perspective and learning opportunities for even the most talented cooks.
Part of the fun of showing off your cooking skills is being able to entertain and bring people together. If you have people in your life who love to cook for their friends and family, they may enjoy a gift that takes their hosting skills to the next level. Your loved one can show off their hosting skills with an old fashioned, a Moscow mule, or a spicy margarita.
Most of us are familiar with meal subscriptions, but have you ever tried a cocktail subscription? Cocktail Courier sends you the right amount of ingredients and an easy-to-follow recipe so you can entertain with delicious drinks without all the added effort and money. If you have a cook in your life, you know they love having the best tools. This rose gold bartending set will be the perfect addition to any at-home bar cart and can help your loved one feel prepared to entertain at any time.
The whiskey-loving cooks in your life will never have to worry about watered-down whiskey again. These stones can chill any drink without melting, and their rounded edges won't damage the glass. Your loved one who impresses people with their cooking skills can now impress them with their at-home cocktails as well.
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