Cooking for Yourself: What You Need to Know

By Aylin Erman in Food & Nutrition
Posted Jun 15 2012 - 2:00pm
Tagged With: cooking

Kitchen Essentials

Chef’s Knife

  • The knife takes the lead in this play. Cooking involves a lot of chopping, dicing, and cutting, and having a good knife makes a world of difference. Slicing with the suaveness of Wolfgang Puck is half skill, half fancy-schmancy knife. Yours doesn’t have to break the bank to be good though! You can buy online for as low as $20.

Chef's knife cooking utensil kitchen

Cutting Board 

  • Respect the surface! You can pick one up for as low as $5-15. 

brown small cutting board vegetables

Blender

  • Just imagine all the smoothies you can make for breakfast, the shakes you can make for lunch, and the ice cream you can make for dessert. Check this out for some creative, delicious recipes.

blender smoothies shakes


Pots and Pans

  • Pasta, rice, and soups. Can’t do them without these guys.

sauce pan black gray

Cutlery

  • We aren’t cavemen.

colored cutlery green fork blue knife red spoon yellow

Tupperware

  • Store food you make in plastic containers to take with you to work for lunch or to save leftovers. Go to your local pharmacy and pick up reusable Tupperware.

tupperware food storage

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